A gorgeous comic, an amazing story into strange worlds illustrated by Moebius, something magical about this book.

Not for kids... ( )

Moebius ens transporta amb els seus magnífics dibuixos a les aventures d'una parella de mecànic i pilot espacials, en principi asexuats, Stel i Atan/Atana, que es desenvolupen sobretot el paradisíac món d'Edena on el real i l'oníric s'entrellacen. Un regal per a la vista.
Moebius va desenvolupant la línia argumental en què dona via lliure a la seua desbordant imaginació. Això fa que l'inici de cada part es relacione amb la història anterior, però després avança de manera independent sense seguir estrictament el fil de l'anterior. Finalment tracta de donar una coherència al conjunt, donat que les diferents parts que componen l'obra es van crear i publicar en moments diferents. ( )

eh, Moebius just doesn't do it for me, I guess.

His anti-technology, anti-bureacracy, pro-nature scenarios could be construed as satire if he wasn't constantly confusing the very subjects of his drawing - features, coloring, and even relative scale of characters change between panels. Charitably, this could be referred to as a dreamlike qualities, but when this occurs in a film we call it continuity error. This lack of cohesion means that while Moebius' drawings are nice to look at, his storytelling comes across as the ramblings of someone confused by the modern world, and unwilling to come to terms with how it operates. ( )

it's Moebius ( )

It’s hard to recommend this for the story, but fortunately the art is so good that it doesn’t matter. It’s funny, because while the story seems to wander and not know what’s happening, the art never suffers from that problem. Each page has a clear depiction of something that flows logically from the page before. There are jumps to new milieus sometimes, and (at least toward the end) these are attributed (inexpertly, IMO) to dreams. There are some fantastic elements, but this is most accurately read as science fiction, even with the dream stuff. (Lots of drawings of heads with wires coming out of them.)

One of the few graphic novels that lives up to the novel part of the name (at least in scope), this felt long, and at least for the first half or so, kept up a steady pace of interesting new developments.

Highly recommended if you are at all a fan of science fiction comics. ( )