Part of the narrative takes place in the present, and it's a joy to see Mézières artwork depicting modern day Paris, London and New York. Many old characters, stories and locations converge in this volume, and a couple of dear new characters are introduced - I particularly liked Albert. It started with a plot to explain why the devastation of Earth seen in "The City of Shifting Waters" never occurred in real-life 1986, but to do so it ended up creating an alternate timeline that completely changes the dynamic of the story and the destiny of the protagonists for the remaining albums. The whole story arc collected in this book represents a major breaking point in the saga.
The first story comprises "Métro Châtelet, Direction Cassiopeia" and "Brooklyn Station, Terminus Cosmos", whereas the second one encompasses "The Ghosts of Inverloch" and "The Wrath of Hypsis". This is the longest volume so far in the series, it collects two main stories spread across two albums each. If I had been religious, they might have gotten a rise out of me, but I'm not, so it was just boring. There's also an alien called Ralph, who looks very similar to the Hanars from the Mass Effect games, giving me even more reason to think that the game creators are fans of this series.īasically everything is going fine, right until the end, which is a) pretty incomprehensible and b) tries to be funny with some light-hearted blasphemy and falls flat. Or is it? There are some stiff-upper-lip Brits and some of my favourite aliens from an earlier album makes an appearance. Second story also starts out on Earth, right before humanity is almost destroyed by a nuclear winter. Some minor flaws here and there, like Valentin cheating on Linda and her being mad at him,but no mad enough for the whole thing to not be completely pointless. We get some fascinating glimpses of the universe and the creatures in it, but the parts on Earth are also great, not least thank to some fun side-characters.
Valentin is on Earth, trying to fight them, while Linda is travelling the universe looking for clues as to where the monsters came from. In the first story, four monsters based on the four elements are attacking earth back in the 80ies (which would have been the present day back when the stories came out). So this is a collection of four albums, but it's really two stories, so I'm just gonna review them as such.
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