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Review: Leo – Aldebaran (Graphic Novel)

I like the French. They make great food, they make great wine, and they treat their comic books right. Even in the tiniest book store, you will find an entire wall dedicated solely to comics and graphic novels. It’s not just for geeks and it’s not all SF. One of my resolutions (every year) is to read more in French. This series is also available in English and it comes highly recommended.

ALDEBARAN (5 volumes)
by LEO
(Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira)

Published by: Dargaud, 2011 (1995)
ISBN: 9782205049671
Hardcover: 48 pages each
Series: Aldebaran #1-5

My rating: 8,5/10

First sentence:La catastrophe avait été précédée de plusieurs signes avant-coureurs que malheureusement nous ne sûmes pas interpréter.

In the world of Aldebaran, readers live through the most fantastic sagas. Author Leo recounts humanity’s first attempts to colonise distant planets. Marc and his companions will come across strange creatures and face the dangers of unknown worlds on their travels. They will witness the destruction caused by mankind’s madness. In the first album, Marc and Kim, another teenager who has survive

Aldebaran: The Catastrophe

May 6, 2022

Because we all make questionable decisions sometimes, I recently grabbed a Humble Bundle of Cinebooks Euro SF comics, despite the fact I've made minimal inroads on the Humanoids Euro SF comics I've already got via the same route. Hey, at least this strand of my foolhardy retail therapy habit doesn't take up space in the flat. And the covers were very pretty... The interiors, alas, were exactly what I should have known to expect. There are some fabulously weird images scattered about – the sea suddenly turned to jelly and extruding strange structures; a vast, helium-filled life-form which travels the airways; a fish which looks uncannily reminiscent of an incel. But they're dotted sparsely around a story which does that frustrating thing of acting like SF on the page has to deal with the same constraints as on screen, so that despite the fact it's no more expensive to draw a cool alien life-form than two humans bickering in a wood, we still get an awful lot of humans bickering in woods. Or on beaches, or sometimes in small towns. And Leo's landscapes are pretty, but not so Manara pretty that they can altogether sell this mundane stuff. As fo

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By Jeremy Briggson

It is just over ten years ago that I reviewed the very first Worlds Of Aldebaran book to be published in English by Cinebook, The Catastrophe, which actually translated two of the original French books. Since then there have been three series of Aldebaran books and one series of its spin-off The Survivors totalling 21 different titles, all by Brazilian writer/artist Leo (Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira). Return To Aldebaran picks up from where the preceding books leave off and introduces the heroine of the main series, Kim Keller, to the heroine of The Survivors series, Marie Servoz, who is recruited as Kim’s bodyguard. Indeed the cover of this books is something of the Worlds Of Aldebaran equivalent of the 2000AD “Judgement Day” end page with Judge Dredd saying to Johnny Alpha, “Who the hell’s gonna mess with us?”

After the events described in the Antares series, the first official contact and working together between Humans and the Tsalterian civilisation is set for Aldebaran with Kim as the ambassador leading the human scientists working with the Tsalterian scientists to

7/10

Aldebaran (1994-1998) is a science fiction epic, a space opera, that stretches out over a series of 5 volumes that isn’t all that long. The omnibus edition reads as a single graphic novel. It’s one of the most successful SF series coming out of France in the past decades; written in the 1990s, and then spawned a couple of follow-up series – Betelgeuse, Antares and more – that continue to this day in the 2020s. All are written and drawn by Luiz Eduardo de Oliveira (drawing as Léo), a Brazilian comics artist. It’s his life’s work.

Comparisons are made with Frank Herbert’s Dune, because of the interstellar setting and the focus on ecology, but that is where the comparison ends. Aldebaran’s storytelling isn’t focused on royal families but on the travels and adventures of a group of main characters. And through these travels, Léo slowly expands his universe. So, to start: Mark Sorensen, Kim Keller and their families live in a tiny fishing village in an environment that could easily be Mediterranean or Caribbean, were it not for many strange animals around them. The sea is full of big scary alien monsters. Birds are all weird too. They live on an a

First cycle: Aldebaran The first colonists arrived on Aldebaran in 2079. They were to be the first wave of a large influx of pioneers, coming from an overcrowded Earth to live on this apparently very hospitable new world. But an unexpected problem put a halt to the process: The second ship, with thousands of people onboard, disappeared mysteriously in mid-flight. On Earth, scientists were forced to admit that they hadn’t quite mastered the incredibly complex phenomenon that allowed interstellar flights to overcome the speed-of-light barrier. So, all such travel was halted until the theoretical gaps could be filled and going to the stars could be done in complete safety. At the time, no one could have predicted that this interruption of flights would last a whole century. During that period, the first colonists on Aldebaran remained isolated on a savage planet and had to effort to ensure their survival. As might be expected, they made mistakes, went to some unfortunate extremes and the society they built reflected those: a military dictatorship mixed with an authoritarian church. The story of the Aldebaran cycle covers five years in the life of childish Kim Keller, who lives in a
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