The City of Shifting Waters
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The City of Shifting Waters (La Cité des Eaux Mouvantes) |
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| Date | 1970 |
| Series | Valérian and Laureline |
| Page count | 47 pages |
| Publisher | Dargaud |
| Creative team | |
| Writers | Pierre Christin |
| Artists | Jean-Claude Mézières |
| Colorists | Evelyn Tran-Lé |
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| Published in | Pilote |
| Issues | 455 to 468 (Part 1: La Cité des Eaux Mouvantes (The City of Shifting Waters)) and 492 to 505 (Part 2: Terre en Flammes (Earth In Flames)) |
| Date of publication | 25 July 1968 to 24 October 1968 (Part 1) and 10 April 1969 to 10 July 1969 (Part 2) |
| Language | French |
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| Publisher | Cinebook |
| Date | July 2010 |
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| Translator | Jerome Saincantin |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Bad Dreams |
| Followed by | Empire of a Thousand Planets |
The City of Shifting Waters is the first volume in the French comic book science fiction series Valérian and Laureline created by writer Pierre Christin and artist Jean-Claude Mézières.
After completing a mission on Venus, Valérian and Laureline are on leave. Laureline is beating her partner in a game of 3D chess when they are summoned by the Chief of the Spatio-Temporal Service. Valérian appears more eager than usual to respond to his call.
The Chief informs them that Xombul, the renegade technocrat of the First Circle of Galaxity, who attempted to take over Galaxity in Bad Dreams, has escaped captivity and fled into the Earth's past – the year 1986 – a time period agents have been forbidden to visit since the foundation of Galaxity. A nuclear explosion at the North Pole that year caused the polar ice cap to melt engulfing most of the Earth's cities. Valérian is ordered to pursue Xombul while Laureline is to remain at Galaxity until needed.
Valérian arrives in 1986, in New York in the Statue of Liberty just as it collapses under a wave and Valérian is thrown into the Hudson. He is rescued by a group of looters on a boat who take him to their base in Macy's department store. Left alone, Valérian is able to make his escape and heads for the top of the Empire State Building in the hope of being able to see something from the higher ground. That night, he spies a light in the top floor of the United Nations.
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