Tintin

Tintin is the name of a long-running European comic book character created by Hergé (aka. artist Georges Remi) in 1929 for the series The Adventures of Tintin. Tintin was depicted as an enthusiastic teenage boy with a distinct unkempt hairdo who kept getting into mischief. Following his "death", and his subsequent removal from duty at Torchwood 3, Dr. Owen Harper nonetheless continued to take an enthusastic interest in the team's missions. This, combined with his own somewhat unkempt appearance, led to him being compared to Tintin by Ianto Jones, and he and Owen engaged in a brief discussion of the character ((Harper being a fan) to the amusement/annoyance of the rest of the team. Later, when Harper is sent on an infiltration mission, Jack Harkness] gives Owen a t-shirt to use to insulate his hand when he disables a security system; Harper later discovers that the t-shirt features an image of Tintin on it. ([[TW: A Day in the Death)

Behind the scenes

 * Before being assigned as the new executive producer of Doctor Who, Steven Moffat wrote the script for a planned trilogy of films based upon The Adventures of Tintin, the first of which is scheduled for release in 2010 and be directed by Steven Spielberg. Several media outlets reported that Moffat turned down an opportunity for further Tintin-related work with Spielberg in favour of Doctor Who.