When I first saw Luc Besson’s film Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets five years ago, I enjoyed it enough to delve into the comics that inspired it. Valerian and Laureline written by Pierre Christin and illustrated by Jean-Claude Mézières started in 1967 with a story about temporal agent Valerian who travels from his home on 28th century Earth to 12th century France, chasing a rogue scientist. While on the mission he meets a peasant girl, Laureline. Mindful of temporal paradoxes, Valeri...