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The City of Shifting Waters (1968)

by Jean-Claude Mézières (Illustrator), Pierre Christin (Author)

Other authors: Evelyn Tran-Lé (Colourist)

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Series: Valerian and Laureline (1)

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Comic and Graphic Books. Fiction. 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, Xombulexcept 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.… (more)
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Primeiro volume das aventuras atrapalhadas dos detetives espaço-temporais Valérian e Laureline. Divertido e icônico, mas cheio de furos, escapadas mirabolantes e desenvolvimentos improvisados e por vezes inconsequentes. A cidade das águas moventes os colaca numa terra inundada logo antes da catástrofe misteriosa que acometeu a Terra. ( )
  henrique_iwao | Aug 30, 2022 |
3.5 This wasn't bad at all. It all the cool science fiction elements were there. Time-travel, apocalyptic 1980s, shrinking people and villains from the future. The art work was decent too. I liked how some pages were loaded with text, almost more text than image, and others had few to none. I never got board of reading too much or too little.

The story was a bit slow in the beginning, but once it got going it was much better. I would have liked to see more if the futuristic planets and how they function and stuff, but there's the rest of the series for that. ( )
1 vote afrozenbookparadise | Apr 22, 2021 |
The story and the characters are bland. The artwork is not the best.

I have heard that the later comics get better. It worth giving the next few comics a chance. ( )
  KSnapdragon | Dec 23, 2020 |
Pretty entertaining story for the time it took me to read (my lunch break) - some casual sexism (was there really any reason for Laureline's body to de-shrink faster than her clothing?) and nothing too thoughtful in terms of sci fi concepts but it was pretty fun. I hope the movie is more entertaining. ( )
  katebrarian | Jul 28, 2020 |
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Author nameRoleType of authorWork?Status
Mézières, Jean-ClaudeIllustratorprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Christin, PierreAuthormain authorall editionsconfirmed
Tran-Lé, EvelynColouristsecondary authorall editionsconfirmed
Besson, WiebkeTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Kaukoranta, SoileTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Saincantin, JeromeTranslatorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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Comic and Graphic Books. Fiction. 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, Xombulexcept 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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Galaxity, capital do Império Terráqueo no século 28. Valerian e Laureline são agentes que protegem a humanidade de viajantes do tempo desonestos. Agora eles são enviados para Nova York em 1986 para interceptar o pior megalomaníaco da Galaxity, Xombul - exceto que em 1986, o mundo está em ruínas e Nova York está prestes a ser engolida pelo oceano. Os dois agentes devem navegar nas águas inconstantes do passado para garantir que o futuro exista.
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