Avec une finesse qui ne ressemble en rien au banal décalage des "Visiteurs", les créateurs de "Valerian, agent spatio-temporel" ont inventé un héros qui se balade à travers diverses époques. Il affronte à chaque fois un tas de gens qui lui veulent du mal, au fin fond de sombres caves moyenâgeuses ou d'immenses châteaux où l'on se bat à l'ancienne. Les planètes n'ont pas toujours de nom, l'avenir se mélange au futur, mais le super-héros résiste vaillamment, grâce à un scénario précis et des dessins variant les styles avec habileté

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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Technorog is a planet essential to the economy of the Terran empire. For 200 years, it has been a centre of industry, research and agriculture. Suddenly, the indigenous population—believed long extinct—comes back to the planet they know as Alflolol. Earth’s laws are strict: They must be allowed back on their ancestral grounds. But when Valerian and Laureline are assigned to facilitate their “reinsertion,” they see the difference between the letter of the law and its spirit...

LES OISEAUX DU MAITRE. DARGAUD

Dans cet album qui plaide en faveur de l'auto-détermination des peuples, le lecteur émerveillé par l'imaginaire de Christin et Mézières découvre tout à la fois Point Central, formidable construction artificielle qui sert de port d'attache aux populations de l'univers, les délicieux Shingouz et l'adorable (quoique grognon) Transmuteur de Bluxte.

Valerian, shot to death in an Indian fortress. Valerian, dead in 19th century London. Valerian, gunned down in San Francisco’s Chinatown… And Laureline, paired up with an unpleasantly arrogant historian from Galaxity, forced to witness every demise of the man she loves on a succession of re-enacted pieces of human history. A very strange case that will take the two spatio-temporal agents to the limits of their endurance as they hunt down the mysterious architect of the false Earths…

Valérian, tome 8 : Les Héros de l'équinoxe,

Unusual book

Valérian, le plus grand space-opéra publié par des auteurs français, nous entraîne dans un monde et un futur lointains. Le duo est constitué d'agents spatio-temporels : Valérian et Laureline. C'est à bord d'un vaisseau affrété par Galaxity, capitale de l'Empire Terrien, qu'ils se déplacent pour vivre des aventures hautes en couleur. Les scénarios font d'habiles clins d'oeil à notre époque, mettant en scène tyrans et dictateurs, souvent bien proches de ceux de notre 20ème siècle. Le dessin est classique mais doué d'une fantaisie qui donne une saveur rarement égalée aux créatures monstrueuses ou sympathiques que croise Valérian. Grâce à des histoires formidablement inventives, les auteurs de Valérian ont su séduire le public le plus large possible depuis 1967, année de création de cette série pour l'hebdomadaire PILOTE. L'album Les Habitants du Ciel constitue une étonnante "encyclopédie loufoque" détaillant chacune des créatures qui apparaissent dans les 13 albums. Collects: \- Metro chatelet direction Cassiopee (1980) (Pilote Mensuel 70-73)

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Galaxity’s orders are rather bizarre, lately. Laureline has been left on stand-by in a Scottish castle. Valerian, haunted by recurrent nightmares, has been sent to capture a sentient being as if it were a wild animal – an unsavoury task, to say the least. And on Earth in the 1980s, members of the military and political elites are descending into madness one by one. What future does our planet still have ... and who’s so bent of changing it?

The head of Galaxity s Spatio-Temporal Service himself has joined Valerian and Laureline at Inverloch Castle. There, among various human and alien allies, he explains to them the threat that looms over Earth: all of the recent incidents, all those important people gone mad and threatening to bring about the apocalypse... All of that is due to the malicious influence of the mysterious planet Hypsis. But Hypsis is a world that moves from system to system it ll need to be pinpointed first..."

Pour le 20e anniversaire de cette série, un roman en super scope.

Valerian and Laureline, no longer members of any organisation, are down to doing space deliveries. With Galaxity gone and money getting scarce, their aging spaceship is becoming a hazard, which is pushing Valerian into accepting questionable cargo. After a somewhat rough landing, our two ex-agents, on their way to deliver their goods, meet some individuals with very surprising gifts who claim to be itinerant artists. But is that really all they are?

Broke, without a job, their ship almost a scrap heap, Valerian and Laureline are stuck on Rubanis, unable to pay for repairs. So when a trio of old acquaintances introduces them to the head of the local police, who is looking for independent agents for a risky – but well-paid – mission, they accept readily enough. But Rubanis is the most corrupt planet in the entire galaxy. How are they to find out who really holds the reins of power there?

Valerian and Laureline take a break from adventuring and go on a cruise, but Valerian feels uncomfortable among the idle and the powerful. He’s not bored for long, though, because when a quartet of mercenaries board the cruise ship to kidnap the son of the Caliph of Iksaladam, they end up taking Laureline as well. With the almighty Caliph offering a massive reward for his son’s return, Valerian’s quest to rescue his girl is suddenly hindered by every bounty hunter in the galaxy…

Running away with the unhappy heir to the galaxy’s biggest fortune, even if it’s because he wants it, is bound to cause some problems. On the lam with the Caliphette of Iksaladam, Valerian and Laureline are relentlessly pursued by the Quatuor Mortis, who are still after the enormous reward offered for the child’s safe return. Stranded among the Asteroids of Shimballil, they must evade the hunters, recover their ship, dodge profiteers and traitors … and decide what to do with the little brat!

The (false?) gods of Hypsis are once again interfering with Human history. Tired of their lower status among their peers, the trinity in charge of planet Earth opens communications with megacorporation Vivaxis at the end of the 20th century – an occurrence Valerian and Laureline's allies report to the two ex-agents. But to what end did the Hypsians initiate such a contact? And who is the mysterious Sat who, from the depths of Point Central, also endeavours to meddle with Human affairs?

Somewhere at the edge of known space is the Great Void. That inscrutable, shapeless, ever-changing place is where the expanding universe springs forth, where new planets and new life forms are created. It’s also, according to the gods of Hypsis, the place where Galaxity’s Earth was sent and is being kept prisoner. Valerian and Laureline begin a discreet investigation, but it doesn’t take long before they start finding obstacles in their path, placed by the rulers of Rubanis – and their mysterious master...

Este volume inclui as histórias: "Nas Imediações do Grande Nada" e "O AbreTempo". This volumes includes "Au bord du Grand Rien" (#19) and "L'OuvreTemps" (#21).

The expedition into the heart of the Great Void is launched, and Valerian and Laureline are on it. But in no time they’re already facing the mysterious force that threatens the entire galaxy: the Wolochs, gigantic sentient monoliths dead set on destroying any civilisation that might stand in the way of their domination. Our two Human agents can’t hope to stop the Order of the Stones by themselves, but fortunately, they still have allies...

The evil hordes of the Wolochs are rampaging through space, and everywhere death and destruction follow. But despite the despair of some and the betrayal of others, Valerian, Laureline and a few other brave souls are resisting. They’re hoping to use a mysterious artefact, the Time Opener, to banish the stones and bring back Earth. But what price must they pay to do so? And what sort of Earth will they get back if they succeed?

Memories From the Futures, 22nd volume of the series ‘Valerian and Laureline,' is a superb homage to a saga that has turned upside-down both our vision of the future and the role of women in comics. The saga had come to a close in the previous volume with a temporal loop to which only the authors hold the key. In this new volume, authors Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières play the role of intergalactic tourists, revisiting some of their heroes' most remarkable adventures. In addition to adding a few sublime pages to Alflolol, they return to Central Point, as well as taking us back to a time when Laureline, a wild young woman, had yet to be seduced by spatio-temporal agent Valerian. Back to the future in comics' first space opera!

" Le bi-prince Lininil a été kidnappé alors qu'il arrivait sur Point Central pour participer aux travaux du ConSec !" Un désastre pour l'équilibre de l'univers... mais une aubaine pour Valérian et Lauréline ! Car la belle rousse et l'ex-agent spatio-temporel erraient fauchés, et voilà que se présente une alléchante mission : retrouver le mystérieux bi-prince, sans lequel le Conseil des élus du cosmos ne peut ouvrir sa session. Des couloirs de Point Central, sorte d'ONU de l'avenir, jusqu'à Paradizac, la cité interdite des nantis, au fil de rencontres avec des créatures aussi retorses que les espions shingouz, Valérian et Laureline devront dénouer le complot !

Des centaines de milliers de lecteurs ont depuis plus de vingt ans plébiscité Jean-Claude Mézières pour les inventions et la maîtrise graphique des aventures de Valérian agent spatio-temporel. Hors de ces albums, cet ouvrage recense les multiples collaborations qu'il a effectuées dans les domaines de la presse, de la publicité, du cinéma ou du dessin animé au travers de documents inédits et époustouflants. Un véritable «livre-document» qui dévoile les différentes facettes d'un auteur prolifique et sincère.

Cela fait longtemps que le cinéma américain puise gentiment son inspiration graphique dans le vivier de notre bande dessinée française. Luc Besson lui, a toujours parlé de son penchant. Il a, depuis tout jeune, eu Jean-Claude Mézières comme référence. Son univers, son trait, sa faculté d'imaginer les situations nouvelles, les mondes, les autres galaxies... Alors en pensant à son Cinquième Elément il a pensé aussi au dessinateur de Valérian. Jean-Claude Mézières raconte dans ce livre avec tact et précision son " Cinquième Elément à lui ". Son aventure, qui l'a amené à concevoir, inventer les temps forts des décors de ce qui allait être un des plus grands succès mondial du cinéma français, est méticuleusement reconstituée dans ce tome 2 des " Extras de Mézières ". Un livre document, et des croquis époustouflants. Lorsque le cinéma appelle la bande dessinée - à ce niveau de qualité - c'est l'accord parfait.

À l'occasion des 50 ans de la création de cette BD culte et de son adaptation au cinéma par Luc Besson (sortie en juillet 2017), une nouvelle édition des Habitants du ciel, l'atlas cosmique de Valérian et Laureline – la précédente était épuisée – verra le jour à la fin de l'année. Ce beau livre de 96 pages comporte de très nombreuses nouvelles illustrations de Jean-Claude Mézières, un dessin de Mathieu Lauffray et de nouveaux textes de Pierre Christin. Plusieurs pages de BD entrecouperont les différents chapitres. Un ouvrage de référence !

Cet album parodie le mythe de la bande dessinée de science-fiction.

This first volume of the collection contains books 1 and 2 of the series: The City of Shifting Waters – in its original two parts, 9 pages longer format – and The Empire of a Thousand Planets. It also includes book 0, Bad Dreams, translated into English for the first time: the very first adventures of our two heroes, published after City and retroactively numbered. Finally, linking the volumes of this collection together, a long, exclusive interview with the authors and director Luc Besson is illustrated with new art as well as numerous sketches, studies and photographs from the latter's upcoming big-screen adaptation.