This is another adventure of Blake & Mortimer, characters created by Herge's collaborator, EP Jacobs. This was published in Belgium in 2001 and translated into english in 2008. It is much easier to read than The Yellow M and I think the artwork is better also with cleaner lines. It is similar in size to the Tintin adventures, with 64 pages, but not as much seems to happen. Even The Castifore Emerald seems pacier than this book. It shows the skill of Herge's storytelling that he can communicate so much with simplier pictures and fewer words. The Strange Encounter was written by Jean Van Hamme and illustrated by Ted Benoit with color done by Madeleine De Mille. Although written around 2001, he story is set in the mid-1950s and it is enjoyable looking at the details in the illustrations. It is quite a fun story and I enjoyed involving myself in the science and science fiction of the 1950's.
I highly recommend this book to fans of Tintin
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