The Wrath of Hypsis

This volume immediately follows on from The Ghosts of Inverloch, which was pretty much set-up… and it feels a little like there’s a middle volume missing somewhere. In the first of the two-parter, Earth and Galaxity Central (the HQ of the time-travelling intergalactic agency for which Valerian and Laureline work) was under threat from something either in the distant past or the deep future. The head of Galaxity gathered together a group of disparate characters – human and alien – at Inverloch Castle in Scotland in the 1980s… and in The Wrath of Hypsis they follow a ghost ship from Earth to the mysterious world of Hypsis… where it all goes a bit silly. The Holy Trinity – although not as they’re typically depicted in show more various works of dubious historical accuracy – are residents of Hypsis and responsible for Earth, and they’ve come to the conclusion the “experiment” is not working. It’s all a bit random and unsupported, and probably felt a bit more cutting-edge and dangerous back in 1985. Thirty years later, it reads like an incomplete premise. A shame… because this really is a superior space opera series. I suspect splitting a story over two episodes was considered pushing it for a bande dessinée that averaged 48 pages in length, but this particular story could have done with more room. show less

Rumtiden, engang
Vi følger rumtidsagenterne Linda og Valentin.
Selve chefen for rumtidstjenesten er dukket op og står i spidsen for en ekspedition til Baffinhavet. Undervejs sørger Shingouz'erne for lidt underholdning blandt andet ved at blive søsyge. De finder Hvexdet, et tremastet skoleskib som også kan springe i rumtiden, og følger det til Hypsis, hvor Faderen, Sønnen og den hellige treenighed i form af en enarmet tyveknægt venter dem.

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