TNT Vs. Mr. Georges

**TNT vs. Mister Georges** (French: **T.N.T. contre Mister Georges**) is an alternate universe fan comic by the Bachi-Bouzouks. It was first printed in 1989 and is a sequel to The Adventures of Tintin in Hollywood set after the events of *The Blue Lotus*. This was the second Bachi-Bouzouks work to rename most of the characters with pseudonyms.

## Characters

* Tintin (as "T.N.T.")
* Milou (as "Filou")
* Mitsuhirato
* Yamato
* Mister Georges
* Clifton
* Nestor (as "Norbert")

## Story

The story begins with "TNT" and "Filou" walking down the street. TNT has just gotten a copy of a book called "Ligne Claire" by Sorge Ge, which he hopes will aid him in his investigation into the mysterious mobster "Mister Georges". Suddenly, a car pulls up near TNT, with Mitsuhirato and his lackeys inside. One of the lackeys, Yamato, knocks out TNT, and the group begins loading Tintin into the back of their car. This kidnapping attempt is thwarted when a masked gunman with two henchmen of his own forces Mitsuhirato's men to set Tintin down. Mitsuhirato retreats, and TNT attempts to ask his rescuer for a name, but the rescuer says that's "not of importance", and leaves, but not before telling TNT that "someone is always watching over [him]" and has saved him multiple times before.

TNT and Filou head home. TNT thinks again about what the stranger said to him; he remembers various perils in *Tintin in America*, *Cigars of the Pharaoh*, and *Blue Lotus* that he barely escaped from. TNT tries to set this mystery aside in his mind, sensing he'll have some answers eventually.

Meanwhile, at a grand estate in Chernevy, the mysterious man is sitting at his desk, where he is said to be the leader of the Ligne Claire secret organization. His assistant Clifton comes in to ask the man if TNT is actually his son. The man is startled by these accusations, but still asks Clifton if he's got any proof for these claims, which Clifton indeed has papers of. The man asks Clifton to come back another time to review the papers. When Clifton leaves, the man makes a phone call to the manager of "Editions Castelman" who is in the middle of printing a book called "Cigarettes of Ramses the Third", but the man urges him to change a sequence where TNT would have fatally drowned. All other traps TNT would have been harmed in have to be changed, at the man's insistence.

The man gets his butler Norbert to drive him to TNT's apartment. Upon answering the door, the masked man points a gun at TNT, but TNT quickly knocks the man over and takes his gun. This tussle also causes the man's mask to come off, and TNT recognizes the man as Mr. Georges, the mysterious man he ran into in Beverly Hills. TNT is shocked to see Mr. Georges is alive; after some convincing, TNT agrees to go with Mr. Georges to his estate in Chernevy. TNT, Filou, and Mr. Georges head up to his office, where Georges pours himself a glass of whiskey and admits he is TNT's father.

TNT is obviously shocked, and Mr. Georges explains he was the one behind many of TNT's close calls, and the Ligne Claire organization has been protecting him from a distance. He brings TNT to a storeroom full of antiques that will come up later in *The Adventures of Tintin*, such as the moon rocket, King Ottokar's sceptre, a can of crab meat, etc. Mr. Georges says this collection can all be TNT's if he agrees to become Georges's successor as Ligne Claire's leader. TNT refuses, saying he doesn't want to work for an organization, let alone one he doesn't fully understand. TNT politely excuses himself and heads home with Filou.

## Format

The pastiche was originally printed as a cloth-bound paperback booklet. Much like Bachi-Bouzouks' previous work, each page of *TNT* has a title panel, as if each page could be printed as serialized instalments in a zine or newsletter.

The cover's central image of Yamato looming behind Tintin was a separate piece of paper glued directly onto the cover. In the decades since it was first published, some copies of *TNT* have had the cover illustration fall off from the cover due to the glue deteriorating in strength.

## Availability

Physical copies of *TNT Vs. Mr. Georges* are rare, but do occasionally appear online for sale. Pirate copies began to circulate during the 1990s through early 2000s that were printed on regular white paper, including the covers. In the early 2020s, a scanned version also began to circulate online.

## References

1. ↑ Tintin pastiche : T.N.T contre mister Georges | La bande des cinés
2. ↑ Tnt contre Mister Georges - Tintin est Vivant
3. ↑ Les Aventures de Tintin Pastiches & Parodies : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive