Status Updates From Les Mauvais Rêves (Valérian...

Wow, this second story about the two being in a big market on an alien planet with lots of species, searching for the "dead planet" and their contact, after long searching, dissappearing and the two only having a name as a lead, was pretty surprising. Good suspense, good writing, good art, all more sober and mysterious. Makes me wonder why it is so different though.

Apart from the fact that I wonder why people from the 28th century are afraid of medieval monsters (they know aliens after all), the whole story is so weird and considered how fickle and weak these people are (they need calming bubbles), I am confused: Is this a comedy?
Maybe it was sounding more scary in thought.

Veronique can read minds as a unicorn? Why do they give the unicorns all sorts of powers except the ones they actually have? Is a woman with superstrength too much for them? Well, probably yes, but the mind reading is probably just so there is an excuse that Veronique can come to the future. However, why not keep the spell if being a unicorn is so awesome?

Considered that Kombul did not even know how his spells work and that unicorns can talk in this universe it is not surprising that he is so stupid to Veronique (who escapes) with him, not that she actually frees Valerian of course, even though a unicorn probably would be strong enough for that.... yeah, the writing is pretty mediocre in my eyes.

While Veronique so far had more to do than in issue 1, she is still this damsel in distress so far and it focuses on Valerian. Also apparently magic exists here and Kombul can transform humans into magical creatures and Veronique becomes a uniocorn because pure souls cannot be transformed into monsters... so all these other people transformed here were assholes? And he doesn't transform Valerian.... why?