RadonGOG: And you are right! But are you able to nail down WHY exactly that answer is true?
(aka telling the others why each of the clues do apply)
jkiiskinen: I'll try:
1st: Artists of this stuff did also made movies... Artist Jean-Claude Mézières has been involved in several film and tv projects (some of which were never finished, similarly to Jodorowsky's Dune), the best known being Luc Besson's The Fifth Element. Writer Pierre Christin has also written screenplays for some lesser known movies.
2nd: ...and the art design is brilliant! (well, at least in my eyes...) Indeed.
3rd: Huge world!!! The world of Valerian is the vast Terran Galactic Empire, as well as it's history through time travel.
4th: These guys do number their stuff like if they were into informatics... The early stories were originally published in serialized form in Pilote magazine, and when it came time to publish them in graphic novel album format, they left out the first story Les Mauvais Rêves (Bad Dreams) (which is more cartoonish in style than the subsequent volumes), and started with the second story La Cité des Eaux Mouvantes (The City of Shifting Waters) and called it number 1 in the series. When Bad Dreams was eventually published as an album in 1983, rather than renumber the entire series, they called it number 0.
5th: Influenced many movies that aren´t on GOG Valerian comics were a major influence on Star Wars, there are many direct references, such as the shady
character in Mos Eisley that is very much like [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val%C3%A9rian_and_Laureline#The_Shingouz]the Shingouz in Valerian. Other movies showing Valerian influence include The Fifth Element and Avatar.
6th: Not on metacritic. No comics on Metacritic.
7th: It´s not a game No games based on Valerian have ever been made.
8th: It might remind you of cel-shading... (Hint, Hint, Hint!!!) I guess the art style slightly resembles cel-shading.
9th: It´s SciFi. This is fairly obvious.
10th: It´s official availble to buy right now (you can order it from famous shops and the creators do benefit from these sales) The series has been translated into several languages, and is finally being published in English by
Cinebook, so it should be widely available. Presumably, Mézières and Christin (both of whom are still alive), get their royalties from these sales.
11th: Features Blasters... Yep.
12th: ...but isn´t that much combat-focused after all! Despite occasional
and [url=http://www.noosfere.org/mezieres/images/planches/val06p02.jpg]mayhem, emphasis in the series is on
non-violent problem solving.
RadonGOG: Don´t you get it?!
jkiiskinen: Yes, sorry, took some time to compose my dissertation above.
BTW: Post #38 was just addressing the other users, normally these threads get spammed with "Congrats!" right after they´ve been solved!
