Galaxy Express 999 #1

This first volume of Dargaud's 2004 edition of Galaxy Express 999 launches Leiji Matsumoto's classic space opera, following the orphaned Tetsuro Hoshino as he boards the titular train to seek a free mechanical body on the planet Andromeda. The collection adapts the early chapters of the original manga, introducing the mysterious Maetel and the themes of mortality and technology that define the series.