*screeches to a halt*

*reads this topic*

... I vote we go to The Crab with Golden Claws, seize all of those perfectly good tins of crab that were part of the scheme hiding the gun running, stock up RC fridges, and stake out the section because I am suddenly horribly afraid of the appeal that fangirls will find in a baby-faced young European man with a small dog.

Think about it. Think about it with the brain of a romance-slobbering badficcer.

Tintin as a character is (unfortunately) a prime, lean cut of beef and I see many crocodiles with terrible spelling and bad character concepts swarming the horizon... D:

... almost. If someone writes a good fic, say about how Tintin went from being a big game hunter to someone who respects animals and nature, and the author really shows a good grasp at the character, I think it would be unfair to slap it with an 'non-canon' charge.
On the other hand, if an author just writes a racist!Tintin and uses the old version as an excuse, it should be slapped down, fast and hard.
I don't think someone writing in a revised canon is a '10th walker' kind of thing, where you can say that it is always and definitely WRONG.

2) What IndeMaat said.

3) Also what IndeMaat said. Although if you write a Tintin OFU, you can also get the honour of naming them. :)

not much of a fan myself, though I've seen all the cartoons.

1. The author corrected canon. Therefore, the old version is not part of canon anymore.

2. Hergé didn't want anyone to continue with Tintin after his death. The Rodier version therefore cannot be considered canon. Only the unfinished version of Alph-Art might be canon.

3. The prerogative of naming minis goes to the first person to encounter them on a mission.

Mom used to read Tintin and Asterix to me. I'll be able to help if there's a badfic overflow.

1. My vote is for the new to supersede the old. If Herge disliked the original version, and wrote the new one to fix it, I'd say that makes it a Word-of-God retcon and the original effectively never happened.

2. Haven't read it, so I can't say for sure. My vote is to treat it like the Star Wars expanded-universe novels--a possibility, but a lot of people write based on the original material only.

3. As for minis, I always pictured Tintin minis as incarnated versions of Captain Haddock's swearing. In the English versions he says things like "Blistering barnacles!", "Thundering typhoons!", "Bashi-bazouks!" and all the rest, not to mention calling people jellyfish, seaweed, Neanderthals, etcetera. It could be like the incarnated swearwords in Pterri's Reaper Man. If that would be too complex, though, I vote for mini-Snowies. (Misspelled Milous? XD)

As the >3,000 fics on Transformers indicates something doesn't have to be good to be popular (at last I assume a good deal of that is from the recent movies rather than the shows they are based on).