When I discovered first an album of Yoko Tsuno, I was something like 11 years old, it was in France, in a supermarket, while my parents were buying foods and so on, I stayed at the comics place, reading as many as possible and I read half of Vulcan's forge and Message for eternity (I'm not sure about the english title) and at the end, my parents allowed me to buy the 3 suns of Vina (a surprise, they did not like comics, I still don't know why this day it was possible).
At that time, these comics were new but it was written on the back cover : next available "On the border of life"... So it was far, far away in the past !!! #ve#
In one minute I was fond of Yoko Tsuno but the reasons were the drawing and because they were SciFi comics and this was my favourite theme.
After a long time (15-20 years) one day I bought another one, The spiral of the time, because it was a special price (may be 1.5 €)... this was a good commercial idea from Dupuis because a few weeks later, the virus was awoken and I bought the other... 18 titles at the same time !

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