<p>Le Pastiche Tintin 2, a second flick through</p><p>Tintin pastiches and parodies and the world of Herg&eacute;.</p><p>New Zealand art historian John Stringer gathers another</p><p>222 tributes to this global comic phenomenon</p><p>(333 in vol.s 1-2).</p><p>Parodies, tributes and lampoons have mushroomed like</p><p>Shooting Star fungi since 1983 when Herg&eacute; died and the</p><p>adventures ceased. Stringer draws again on hundreds of</p><p>independent works to revisit the enduring</p><p>pastiche pathology of Europe&#39;s greatest comic</p><p>(200 million copies in 70 languages).</p><p>From Star Wars to Fukushima, spellbound with Harry</p><p>Potter, in Syria, El Salvador, on Pluto or at a zoo,</p><p>spaced out on Mars, Tintin is still Breaking Free</p><p>so the adventures and mystery might continue</p><p>&ndash;Billions of Bilious Blue Blistering Barnacles!</p>