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product_id: 13550138
title: "The City of Shifting Waters (Valerian & Laureline)"
brand: "christin pierrejean-claude mezieres"
price: "$30.05"
currency: USD
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reviews_count: 13
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# The City of Shifting Waters (Valerian & Laureline)

**Brand:** christin pierrejean-claude mezieres
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- **What is this?** The City of Shifting Waters (Valerian & Laureline) by christin pierrejean-claude mezieres
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The City of Shifting Waters (Valerian & Laureline)

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Brilliant graphic novel
  

*by J***C on Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2017*

As the uncredited source material for Star Wars, this graphic novel series deserves to be read by high science fiction fans everywhere. The characters and plot are surprisingly deep, with dimensional time travel, political economic evolution, and futuristic technology usually found in the company of Clarke and Asimov.If you wonder ever wondered how something as brilliant as the Star Wars trilogy lead to Jar Jar Binks, I submit it is easily explained by Lucas attempting to invent characters from his own imagination instead of cribbing from a better source.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Very nice read - Kindle format is a problem.
  

*by M***T on Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2018*

The Kindle edition of this struggles a bit.It is possible to zoom in on the page, but the whole comicbook format isn't well supported, at least for legacy comics.It leaves the reader with having to scroll around the zoomed page to follow the frames in the correct order.I'm not sure there IS a solution short of possibly having a setting to rotate the image 90 degrees (which would allow for SOME zoom and then scrolling only along one axis to read it).The story itself is a well-rendered translation of the original French that I bought to remind myself that the movie really does blow goats as badly as I thought it did. The original Valerian was a mouth-breathing muscle-head, not a genius wimp. Not sure why the change for the film was necessary as the comic in its original form sold quite well and would play into the current "all men are garbage" mindset.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    First published story but not first in storyline
  

*by K***E on Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2013*

Like many European kids I grew up with French and Belgian cartoons and adventures or boneheaded but loveable Valerian and his fiery and smart partner Laureline were always my favorite. Even i never managed to find all translated versions i still loved to watch wonderfully detailed but same time sketchy images by Jean-Claude Mézières which built totally new space empires in my imagination and continued to feed love of fantasy and sci-fi throughout years.As a story The City of Shifting Waters is still quite plain and does not include so much wildly imaginative ideas as later stories - it is however a good beginning even though it would be nice to get also Bad Dreams translated/published again to understand how Laureline appeared to the story first time. In these first stories Laureline is still not very visible character, which also partially makes stories less interesting but I am happy to see this fantastic series published again and I hope wider English-speaking audiences could also discover its' magic.

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