I remember liking him as a kid, well not liking, but finding the drawings and stories kind of odd. I got some kind of reader's digest thing for kids one summer and he was a regular feature. There were these twin guys who seem gay now when I remember back. It was all very Euroweenie.
You should reread them. Tintin is superb.
You might be surprised. It got more PC as it went on to massive success worldwide, but stories such as Tintin in the Congo or Tintin in the Land f the Soviets are wonderfully entertaining.
They're hard to come by now though...The Congo was a cheerfully rascist book which featured the hero blowing up a white rhino, bamboozling the natives and cheerfully explaining to them why they should be proud to be Belgian (They were a colony). The Soviets one would be greatly to the taste of the average freeper...very cynical view of the early USSR leaders before it was fashionable.