Valerian and Laureline #4

Cinebook's 2012 edition of Welcome to Alflolol brings Mézières and Christin's beloved sci-fi series to English readers with a cover that immediately sets an intriguing scene: Valerian and Laureline ride atop a massive, alien creature through a rust-red landscape, while an industrial cityscape looms in the hazy distance. The contrast between the organic, almost prehistoric foreground — complete with a vivid crimson creature half-submerged nearby — and the cold machinery on the horizon hints at a world where two very different ways of life are on a collision course. Jean-Claude Mézières' linework is as expressive and confident as ever, making this a thoroughly inviting entry point into one of European comics' most enduring adventure series.