Valyrian and Laureline

Type: Book

As of November 2026, Valyrian and Laureline has been mentioned in one podcast episode on How Did This Get Made? (Nov 2025). In the episode "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets" on How Did This Get Made?, Jessica St. Clair and Doug Benson referenced the comic book series Valyrian and Laureline to discuss the quality of its source material compared to the film adaptation. They specifically noted it as "the graphic novel that it's based on," highlighting its significance in the conversation about the movie.

Valérian and Laureline, originally titled Valérian: Spatio-Temporal Agent and also commonly known as Valérian, is a French science fiction comics series, created by writer Pierre Christin and artist Jean-Claude Mézières. It was first published in Pilote magazine in 1967; the final installment was published in 2010. All of the Valérian stories have been collected in comic album format, comprising some twenty-one volumes plus a short story collection and an encyclopedia.