Valerian and Laureline #1 - The City of Shifting Waters

(2010)

The City of Shifting Waters (Table of Contents: 1)

Valerian and Laureline / comic story / 47 pages (report information)

Script

Pierre Christin (signed as Linus); Jérôme Saincantin (translator)

Pencils

Jean-Claude Mézières (signed as JC Mezieres)

Inks

Jean-Claude Mézières (signed as JC Mezieres)

Colors

Évelyne Tranlé; Jean-Claude Mézières

Letters

Imadjinn

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Galaxity, metropolis of the future and capital of the Terran galactic empire.

Genre

science fiction

Characters

Valerian; Laureline; Superintendent of the Spatio-Temporal Service; Schroeder (scientist, first appearance); Sun Rae (villain, first appearance); Xombul (villain)

Synopsis

The Spatio-Temporal Service sends Valerian and Laureline to 1986 in pursuit of Xombul, who is taking advantage of an environmental catastrophe in order to seize the world's first time machine. But he selects the wrong prototype and dies, while Valerian and Laureline, with the help of a scientist and a gang lord, reach a relay from their own Service, and prepare to return home.

Reprints

• from Valérian (Dargaud, 1970 series) #1 - La Cité des eaux mouvantes (Avril 1970)
which is reprinted
• from Pilote (Dargaud, 1960 series) #456, #457, #458, #459, #460, #461, #462, #463, #464, #465, #467, #468, #492, #493, #494, #495, #496, #497, #498, #499, #500, #501, #502, #503, #504, #505, #466 (1968), #455 (15 Juillet 1968)

Keywords

Galaxity; Manhattan; New York City; post-apocalyptic; robots; time travel; United Nations