An amusing piece in Mother Jones is about the journalistic chops of Tintin, the boy reporter in Belgian comic books who is now immortalized in a movie.

Writes Dave Gilson: “If Tintin’s supposed to be a reporter, why don’t we see him writing up his big story at the end of the movie? For that matter, why don’t we see him ever doing anything vaguely resembling journalism?”

The full piece can be read here.