For over four decades, the intergalactic adventures of jet-setting spacetime agents Valérian and Laureline were one of the biggest things in comics, managing to infiltrate almost every corner of modern pop culture, in their native France and beyond—but they never quite cracked the U.S. market. With a flashy new film adaptation from director Luc Besson hitting […]
Space opera is a bit like pornography (bear with me here)…As the old legal formulation goes, you can’t exactly define it, but you know it when you see it. True, there’s perhaps no other genre that inspires quite as much passionate disagreement among fans about what exactly makes a space opera a space opera, but…but you know it […]
Summer might mean vacation to you, or it might mean wistfully staring out the window and watching others enjoy the sunshine. Either way, it’s a pretty great time to check out some brand-new comics. The hottest season is almost upon us, and there are some pretty cool graphic novels on the way—at least one, in […]
“There are quite a few illustrators in the science-fiction and science-fantasy modes I like very much. I like them because their designs and imaginations are so vivid […] Druillet and Moebius are quite sophisticated in their style.” – George Lucas, 1979