Valerian and Laureline #2 - The Empire of a Thousand Planets

(July 2011)

The Empire of a Thousand Planets (Table of Contents: 1)

Valerian and Laureline / comic story / 45 pages (report information)

Script

Pierre Christin; Jérôme Saincantin (credited) (Translator)

Pencils

Jean-Claude Mézières

Inks

Jean-Claude Mézières

Colors

Évelyne Tranlé (credited as E. Tranlé) (Colour Work)

Letters

Imadjinn (credited) (Lettering and text layout)

First Line of Dialogue or Text

Dark, infinite expanse of the universe...

Genre

science fiction

Synopsis

Sent to investigate a distant interstellar empire, Valerian and Laureline find that it is being dominated behind the throne by a small cadre of earthlings, ruling for their own benefit and planning to attack the earth. Valerian and Laureline form an alliance with space traders, who are trying to get business back to normal. After being defeated, the remaining earthlings ("the Enlightends") seeing that their goals have become impossible, commit suicide.

Reprints

• from Valérian (Dargaud, 1970 series) #[2] - L'empire des mille planètes (janvier 1971)
which is reprinted
• from Pilote (Dargaud, 1960 series) #520, #541

Keywords

empire; space opera; suicide