Eeeeh, technically Blue Lotus was done a fair few years before Dub-dub two (What with the expulsion from the League of Nations and all) but fair point.
Eeeeh, technically Blue Lotus was done a fair few years before Dub-dub two (What with the expulsion from the League of Nations and all) but fair point.
Well, that's true. I think I was thinking of wartime less in terms of Hergé's own circumstances at the time than of where the story is set: in East Asia the term could reasonably be stretched right back to the 1931 Japanese invasion of Manchuria, the aftermath of which is front and center in The Blue Lotus.