Hiya everyone.
Welcome to the Valerian and Laureline 01 - The City of Shifting Waters - Extended Edition!

This require a little explanation. How can you make an extended version of a comic, without just adding manatees to the pages or something similar?


There is actually a pretty good explanation. When this Valerian originally came out, it was in the magazine Pilote, a french comic magazine, and it was split in two parts, La Cité des Eaux Mouvantes (The City of Shifting Waters) and Terre en Flammes (Earth In Flames). In the magazine format, and was 5 pages longer than the version you have (hopefully) read before.
I am not clear on why the pages were dropped in the book version, but I assume it was due to printing cost (since the book would be 5 pages longer than a standard comic at the time), and thus the last panel of page 37 was changed to Valerian, Laureline, and Schroeder finding an abandoned military base, instead of a ranch. 
They then removed the following 5 pages, and added a small text box on page 38 describing how the trio found equipment in the military base. Really a simple way to cut away a few pages not essential to the story.
The fun part is that to the best of my knowledge (and several french friends knowledge), these pages was not printed in any regular books since, not even after the series became a success, so most people don't have a clue that the story had some pages cut.

The pages I have here are taken from the (again, to the best of my knowledge) first printing of these pages since the Pilote version, which were the Valérian et Laureline (l'intégrale), a nice hardcover version, with lots of extras.
I have taken these pages and scanlated them so you can enjoy the full story. I have NOT done any big colour correction to make up for the Integrale version's different colour scheme.

As another extra, I have also added a small bonus at the back of the book, taken from the Integrale. As some of you might have noticed, there are certain similarities between Valerian and Star Wars, despite Valerian being a lot older. I have taken this from the wiki to explain:

"Mézières' response upon seeing Star Wars was that he was "dazzled, jealous... and furious!". As a riposte, Mézières produced an illustration for Pilote magazine in 1983 depicting the Star Wars characters Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa meeting Valérian and Laureline in a bar surrounded by a bestiary of alien creatures typical of that seen in both series. "Fancy meeting you here!" says Leia. "Oh, we've been hanging around here for a long time!" retorts Laureline. Mézières has since been informed that Doug Chiang, design director on The Phantom Menace, kept a set of Valérian albums in his library."


So enjoy this extended version of Valerian and Laureline 01 - The City of Shifting Waters, something you can sadly not buy in english anywhere. And then go buy the regular version to support Cinebook :)

The Man-Arrr-Tee