The City of Shifting Waters

Valerian and his assistant Laureline, as spatio-time agents, “patrol both history and the universe to safeguard Earth and its empire” from the city Galaxity in the 24th century. They go back to 1986 New York City to recapture an evil escaped scientist. The three couldn’t have picked a worst time, for (as we seem to have forgotten) that was just after the polar ice cap got nuked and the ensuing flooding replaced civilization with a dark age. Our heroes have adventures in the Manhattan Waterworld, then follow the villain to a secret lab atop Yellowstone. They find an ally, a captive scientist who looks like Jerry Lewis in “The Nutty Professor,” and of course save the day after more adventures.
I cursed myself as I started to read show more as I realized how corny and adolescent the story and characters were. I eventually chilled and enjoyed, thanks to the colorful and charming art and the sly humor built into the characterizations and the plot. (Jerry Lewis, heh.) I don’t think I will read more, but I might buy it for the library. show less

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.

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.

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.

Amusing story, reasonably well displayed on an iPad kindle app, but printing is much too small to be seen on a cell phone. For any readability on a phone, it needs to be viewed one cell at a time rather than one page.

I'd forgotten how silly comics can be. Previewed this for appropriateness for a ten-year old girl. It's okay, potentially might hold her interest. Reading level about right for a fifth grader, maybe rather easy. Unfortunately, this issue focuses on Valerian rather than Laureline.

Timetravel in a time when major parts of the planet is flooded... More of a SF/villain tale than political pamphlet this is maybe more fun than he others in this series.

An enjoyable re-read in the translation and e-book adaptation of this classic by Cinebook. Very clean work making it easy to enjoy the panels on the Kindle Android App I loaded the comic on.