The Ghosts of Inverloch (Valerian & Laureline)

I really like the Valerian and Laureline stories. They're good, kid-safe fun, adventurous with a range of characters, and squeaky-clean heroics without super-stuff. (I've had my fill of Super Hero In Tights - the S-H-I-nevermind kind.) They're hard-working civil servants (well James Bond was too, but don't read too much into that), making it from one tough job to the next. And the jobs are always just a bit weird.They're safe and fun, the art style calls back to  Asterix , and itself dates back at least forty years. It lacks in all the advances of character, style, and art that we've had since then. So, it's fun - retro, and not what today's grownups might look for, but fun.-- wiredweird

Good read.

Series keeps getting better the more that you read it. Can't wait to see the movie.

Great to finally see these classic French comics translated into English.

Love the art & the stories! Great adult/older teen comics.

Arrived promptly and as described.

Great series!

This mid-'80s adventure is the third of a four-album story arc in which author Pierre Christin writes his way out of a continuity problem he created back in 1970 when he predicated an advanced future society on a mid-'80s nuclear catastrophe. Now that the series has outlived that future, Christin comes up with the explanation as to why.In the previous two-part adventure ( Brooklyn Line, Terminus Cosmos (Valerian)  and  Châtelet Station, Destination Cassiopeia (Valerian) ) alien technology and fantastic phenomena were cropping up on contemporary (1986) Earth, and Valerian and Laureline, time/space agents of future earth, together with local time/space agent-in-place M. Albert, discovered a corporate conspiracy directed by an unknown agency.In this episode Valerian and Laureline are introduced to a group of investigators bent on unravelling the conspiracy - a group that includes the English aristocracy, a rogue alien - and a familiar ghost. Reunited on the storm-wracked Scottish coast, Valerian and Laureline are having trouble tracking a mysterious force that threatens the Earth with global apocalypse. However the Shingouz, mercenary informers of Point Central, have a lead - to a source that is itself mysterious. The arc concludes in  Valerian & Laureline (The Wrath of Hypsis) .This is a fairly entertaining adventure, but is only a stage in a larger cycle. Christin's mood is far from the light-hearted satirical adventures of the earlier series, but there's still a sense of fun and wit. Mezieres art is mature and effective.

Once again beautifully illustrated and some great moments, but not one of the classic Valerian books.

Excellent

di fantascienza d'oltralpe recentemente rivitalizzata da un fantasmagorico film che non ha avuto il successo sperato. Qui abbiamo la versione britannica (se non leggete il francese) in formato kindle (le tavole si apprezzano meglio su un tablet grande e si possono zoomare) preso in offerta a meno di 2 euro. Se il genere vi piace, un affare.