Best Tintin albums

Tintin in Tibet wins 61% of its duels and tops the Tintin ranking ahead of The Calculus Affair.

The 49 ELO points separating Tintin in Tibet from The Calculus Affair mark the widest gap in the entire ranking. Hergé's most introspective album, praised for its emotional depth and stripped-down narrative, edges ahead of the espionage thriller that follows. The Calculus Affair holds 1342 points over 224 duels, just 5 points above Prisoners of the Sun at third place. The Secret of the Unicorn rounds out the top 5 with 1312 points. At the opposite end, Tintin and Alph-Art sits at rank 25 with 691 points and a 12% win rate over 136 duels, reflecting the community's reservations about the unfinished posthumous release. The black and white version of Tintin in the Land of the Soviets fares slightly better than its colorized counterpart, though both remain in the bottom three.

This ranking draws from 2703 duels cast by 30 players across 25 contenders, updated on 12 October 2026. The vote remains open: head to the Tintin TopList to pit your own favorites against each other and reshape the rankings. Each duel adjusts the ELO scores and shifts the hierarchy, turning personal preferences into a collective map of the series. Whether you champion the early adventures or the mature works, your vote counts.

Updated on October 12, 2026

How this ranking is computed

Every duel won lifts a contender and every loss drops them, by an amount that depends on the opponent's strength: beating the leader is worth more than beating the last. It is an ELO, the same principle as in chess. Duels are not drawn at random — an adaptive entropy sort puts the least predictable match-ups first, which settles the ranking far faster than a full round robin. A worldwide ranking is only published past 30 completed plays. Known limit: a contender who has faced few opponents keeps an approximate score, and the bottom of the table moves more than the podium.

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