For me as a ten year old boy in the late 1970s, this was visual dynamite, and still today, almost four decades later, the images are powerful and evocative. Christin's well written and socially relevant allegorical scripts were combined with Mézières detailed and innovative visualisations of the flora and fauna of strange new worlds, the sentient beings and their cultures and technologies. Valérian and Laureline was extremely innovative, at all levels, when it was launched in the late 1960s and has also been trend-setting in the whole science fiction genre, with clear influences to be found in both comics and films. The stories in this volume for example, uses the dichotomies of male vs.
Under the surface, though, the reader finds contradictions and tensions taken from our world and transformed into sci-fi allegories. Valérian and Laureline was (it was officially ended in 2010) on the surface a series of adventures involving two space/time agents who undertake exciting assignments and/or get involved in conflicts on various planets throughout the universe. This volume contains three albums from the early 1970s, a period when the series was on the way to reaching it's qualitative peak, combined with a number of texts that relates the series to its historical context. It's not available in English.This is the second comprehensive, chronological collection of the classic French sci-fi comic Valérian and Laureline. They also recently printed a special 50th Anniversary edition of Pilote dedicated to Valerian, with short story contributions from a variety of acclaimed French cartoonists. Titled "Across the Pathways of Space," the French-language collection feature seven short stories in the Valerian universe done in 19.
There is a 22nd album that remains untranslated either in print or digital, though. For various rights reasons, the first 14 albums are under Cinebook's name in the catalog, while Europe Comics is listed as the publisher of albums 15 - 21. If you don't want to wait for the print editions, all 21 albums in the series are available digitally today through comiXology. RELATED: Valerian’s Stunning Final Trailer Unleashes Destruction These collections also contain interviews with the creators and the movie's director, Luc Besson, along with biographical articles and short commentaries on each story. The other omnibuses collect three albums at a go, in sequential order.
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