30 days of Scans meme Day 12: Comic location you'd most like to visit

[nezchan]

Think of it. The ships of a thousand world, and perhaps thousands more, setting forth together in a flotilla the likes has never been seen. Not motivated by Galactica-like fear, but curiosity, the search for riches and the call of adventure. A fleet not so ragtag but endlessly varied, endlessly peopled, a cosmopolitan polyglot of so many races their total population exceeds those of most planets.

Not a paradise, to be sure. Intrigue, danger, personal vendettas and politics most foul exist the same as it does anywhere, but against the backdrop of such wonder that surely even such darkness must take pause to appreciate its majesty. The wide universe calls, and the noble and the low must both answer in their way.

The brainchild of Jean-David Morvan, brought to life by Philippe Bouchet, I bring you...

THE WAKE

Comments

[harpers_child]

oooooh. tell me more. i am intrigued.

[nezchan]

I should do a post with volume 2 of the series sometime soon. I did volume 1 a while back, if you want some of the backstory.

The basic setup is as I said, a huge fleet of ships, in search of adventure and fortune. A young woman, Navis, is picked up by the fleet who is not only intelligent and highly capable physically, she's also the first sentient they've ever seen who's invisible to psychics, and has no psychic potential of her own. She takes a job with the fleet's special forces, taking on missions that would make James Bond step back and go "dude, that's hardcore." The art's terrific, and I'm a big fan of the spinoff series, Navis, a much lighter set of adventure stories about the character's childhood.

[harpers_child]

i had completely missed it. thanks for pointing it out.

[meatwhichdreams]

HMMMMMM that does sound really intriguing! Count me in too.

[arilou_skiff]

Oooh, that reminds me, if not for the fact that I only read them at the library and so can't find them, I should have done a Valerian post. There's some fantastic milieu's there.