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Galaxity, capital of the Terran Empire in the 28th century. Valerian and Laureline are agents who protect mankind from rogue time travellers. Now they are sent to New York in 1986 to intercept Galaxity's worst megalomaniac, Xombul - except that in 1986 the world is in ruins and New York is about to be swallowed by the ocean. The two agents must navigate the shifting waters of the past to make sure that the future will exist.
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Jean-Claude Mezieres and Pierre Christin created ValerianA" in 1967 after working in the USA together, one as a cowboy, the other a teacher. While A"ValerianA" is Mezieres' only comic series, he's worked as an illustrator in many other areas, including designs and sets for The Fifth Element,A" and he was awarded the Grand Prix du festival d'Angouleme in 1984. Christin also works in collaboration with other artists such as Tardi and Bilal and writes novels and film scenarios.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Valerian is an excellent French sci-fi series, and I'm happy that someone has started publishing these in English again (there was a previous edition many years ago but this album was not part of that). This is the book which really kicks off the whole series; there is one book before it but it is very different. Here we get time travel, the interspace agency which Valerian and Laureline works for, and nice drawings by Mézières (one of the main designers for Besson's movie "The Fifth Element", and in later books it is easy to see the similarities in style). Some of it is a bit rough, but it is a good and entertaining comic for all ages. Some of the later books, like my favorites Train to Cassiopeia / Train from Brooklyn (or whatever the English titles will be) are definitely intended for adults; not for nudity, but rather for the seriousness of the script.
I haven't read this edition (I've been reading Valerian in Swedish) but I sincerely hope Cinebook will continue publishing the later volumes, which have not been translated into Swedish.
I haven't read this edition (I've been reading Valerian in Swedish) but I sincerely hope Cinebook will continue publishing the later volumes, which have not been translated into Swedish.
Format:Paperback
The plot: time travel special agent Valerian takes on mad scientist bent on taking over the World - this time most of the action takes place in late 20th century USA, including memorable scenes in flooded New York.
Definitely an early Valerian - one of my favourite comics. A good story, good drawings, brilliant coloring. The drawing (by Mezieres) is still slightly in its early stages, it is in the next (empire of 10,000 planets) that he begins to hit his real stride, but there are already some of those stay-in-your mind scenes! Little hints to jazz (Sun Ra) and French movies, too, plus the delectable Laureline.
These Valerian books are very very good. We need more translated- they have just started to come out in an integral series in French (including the rare first story!) but I'm sure I am missing some of the story, trying to read them in French - though the lettering in the originals is very nice.
Definitely an early Valerian - one of my favourite comics. A good story, good drawings, brilliant coloring. The drawing (by Mezieres) is still slightly in its early stages, it is in the next (empire of 10,000 planets) that he begins to hit his real stride, but there are already some of those stay-in-your mind scenes! Little hints to jazz (Sun Ra) and French movies, too, plus the delectable Laureline.
These Valerian books are very very good. We need more translated- they have just started to come out in an integral series in French (including the rare first story!) but I'm sure I am missing some of the story, trying to read them in French - though the lettering in the originals is very nice.
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First of this classic franco-belgium sf series
29 Oct 2011
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This volume is the first of the "Valerian" series (here called "Valerian and Laureline"), a classic and long running franco-belgium science fiction series. This series is credits with influencing several prominent science fiction movies.
Valerian and Laureline are spatio-temporal agents for the future earth empire Galaxity. They can travel in space and time from the 28th century. Valerian is an agent from that time, whereas Laureline is actually a peasant girl from the 14th century who joined him. In this story, they must travel back in time to 1986 New York in pursuit of a criminal from their time. Earth at that time was devastated by a nuclear war (the album was originally published in 1970, so this was the "future" for them). V&L know that Earth will rebuild, so they avoid messing with the past, but are successful with their mission.
Cinebooks plans on reprinted the whole series, many for the first time in English, like this album, at a rate of about 2 per year. I look forward to them, as I've only gotten the prior 8 of the albums that have been reprinted in the US. I wish they would also reprint the actual first album, "Bad Dreams" that comes before this one, that shows how Laureline joins Valerian.
Valerian and Laureline are spatio-temporal agents for the future earth empire Galaxity. They can travel in space and time from the 28th century. Valerian is an agent from that time, whereas Laureline is actually a peasant girl from the 14th century who joined him. In this story, they must travel back in time to 1986 New York in pursuit of a criminal from their time. Earth at that time was devastated by a nuclear war (the album was originally published in 1970, so this was the "future" for them). V&L know that Earth will rebuild, so they avoid messing with the past, but are successful with their mission.
Cinebooks plans on reprinted the whole series, many for the first time in English, like this album, at a rate of about 2 per year. I look forward to them, as I've only gotten the prior 8 of the albums that have been reprinted in the US. I wish they would also reprint the actual first album, "Bad Dreams" that comes before this one, that shows how Laureline joins Valerian.
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