Comics and Fiction

I read The Horse and His Boy  for this blog post, and it is volume 3 in a seven book series called The Chronicles of Narnia . It follows a young boy named Shasta in his escape from slavery in the land of Calormen, for all intensive purposes, with a horse that can talk, as they go into the beautiful land of Narnia. First, Shasta basically goes over some background information that involves his "father."  His "father" is a fisherman who lives only with Shasta and goes to nearby towns to sell at the market. Eventually a tarkan, which is a governor I think, who wants to buy Shasta. Shasta overhears this conversation and meets the governor's horse, who can talk. He is from Narnia. They decide to run off to no longer be under the servitude of another person, and go north. Along the way, they get chased by lions and meet a young girl named Aravis. It turns out, she, being royalty, was being forced to marry a horrible man, and she fled. Together, with her horse that can...

  Summary *WARNING SPOILERS* The Adventures of Tintin: Cigars of the Pharaoh written by Hergé, is an adventure fiction comic about a young reporter named Tintin, and his dog Snowy. Tintin is the main character, and he is a young man who is always trying to solve a crime. This story starts out with Tintin and Snowy being on a cruise ship which is headed to Egypt. While Tintin is on the ship, he meets a strange Egyptologist named Sophocles Sarcophagus. Sophocles has been searching for a hidden tomb for the Pharaoh in Cairo, and invites Tintin to join him on his journey. Tintin hastily agrees to go with him, but is set back when twin detectives Thompson and Thomson find drugs which were planted in his cabin. When Tintin is confronted by the detectives, he gets away and finds the location of the Pharaoh’s tomb with Sophocles. While Tintin was inside the Pharaoh’s room, he found cigars placed in a box with a unique symbol. However, before he was able to inspect it further, a mysterious ...