Aquablue

Nao survives a space disaster and is raised among the inhabitants of Aquablue, an ocean planet. When outsiders arrive with plans for industrial development, his adopted home becomes the center of a conflict over resources and belonging.

Cailleteau and Vatine’s first album appeared in 1988; later volumes have involved other artists.

The series gives its environmental conflict a personal foundation. Nao must decide what loyalty means when his origins and his home point in different directions.

Its space adventure gains force from the clash between local life and a distant commercial project.

An alien ecology is more than scenery here: the planet’s oceans and living systems are what development threatens. The science fiction frame makes colonial extraction visible at planetary scale.

The story asks who may claim a world and who bears the cost of changing it.

Vatine’s early pages balance the movement of adventure with the open space of an aquatic setting. Character action stays readable within broad planetary vistas.

The contrast between lived-in local environments and intrusive technology gives the conflict a visual shape.