Collection 16/22 #54

In "Le Flumgluff de l'amitié," Valérian arrives just in time to witness his colleague's death at the hands of a monstrous plant, launching a desperate journey through time, one step at a time, to rewrite the moment that changed everything.

When Valérian is ambushed by a strange jellyfish on a seemingly empty asteroid, Laureline rushes in to save him—only to find themselves trapped inside a planet where an enormous creature has its eyes on them.

In the swirling chaos of the asteroid Uxgloa, where warlords clash with armies of their own past and future selves, Valérian finds himself stranded in a labyrinth of time and war. With Uxgloa’s crumbling technology his only hope, he must unravel its mysteries before the cycle consumes him.

Stranded on a war-ravaged world, Valérian must navigate its ruins to find a way off and aid the few survivors still clinging to hope. This haunting, 16-page adventure from 1979 blends stark sci-fi imagery with quiet humanity, as Valérian’s mission becomes as much about understanding the past as it is about survival.

Valérian lands on a remote world to negotiate a peaceful tech installation, expecting little more than a routine show of Earth's wonders. But the so-called "primitives" aren't quite as simple as they seem—sharp-witted, quick with a joke, and unimpressed by flashy gadgets, they turn the mission into something far more unpredictable.