La Spirale du temps (comic)
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La Spirale du temps is the eleventh book from Yoko Tsuno
comic book
series written by Roger Leloup
and published in 1981. (ISBN 2-8001-0744-8)
, Yoko witnesses a young girl arriving from the far future in a time machine
. As one of the men who set up the time machine's beacon shoots the girl, Yoko interferes and uses her aikido
to throw him on the ground. To her great surprise, the man then disintegrates.
Yoko tends to the girl, who tells her that her name is Monya and that she has been sent to this epoch to find and kill a certain Stephen Webbs. Webbs' research on antimatter
led to the development of a weapon that destroyed the entire Earth in 3872. The time machine was an invention of her father; along with his daughter, his assistant and the man who shot Monya (a convicted murderer), he spent his days as one of the last surviving humans aboard a scientific space station. The assistant and the criminal had been sent back first in order to prevent Webb's discovery, while Monya was to follow them when she was 20 years old; however, the convict apparently caused the death of the assistant in order to use Webb's discovery for his own gain. Additionally, with her father's premature death by radiation poisoning, Monya couldn't remain until the appointed time and thus travelled back into the past immediately, where she encountered Yoko.
Yoko and Monya travel to Sulawesi
and meet Webbs in his research center on top of Dragon Mountain. To her surprise, they find evidence that the Japanese had already experimented with antimatter and matter compaction in World War II
, and that her great-uncle Toshiro Ishida, who was an army officer in Sulawesi during the Japanese occupation, seems to have been involved. Using the time machine, called translator, Yoko travels back to 1943 to find out more about the strange 'creature' hiding in Dragon Mountain, and after a rough start manages to convince her great-uncle of her sincerity. But as Yoko learns more, the creature becomes aggressive, killing several people both in the past and present, including Webbs. Before he dies, however, Webbs manages to effect an anti-matter reaction inside the creature, but the resulting chain reaction destroys the mountain lab.
After some investigation, Monya finds out that with the death of Webbs and the destruction of his research, they have created an alternative future to which she cannot return. So she decides to stay in Borneo as Izumi's adopted daughter.
Yoko Tsuno
Yoko Tsuno is a comic book series created by the Belgian writer Roger Leloup published by Dupuis and in Spirou since its debut in 1970. Through twenty-five volumes, the series tell the adventures of Yoko Tsuno, a female electrical engineer of Japanese origin surrounded by her close friends, Vic...
comic book
Comic book
A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
series written by Roger Leloup
Roger Leloup
Roger Leloup is a Belgian comic strip artist, novelist, and a former collaborator of Hergé. He is most famous for the Yoko Tsuno comic series.- Biography :...
and published in 1981. (ISBN 2-8001-0744-8)
Story
One night, in a ruined temple near the plantation of her cousin Izumi in BorneoBorneo
Borneo is the third largest island in the world and is located north of Java Island, Indonesia, at the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia....
, Yoko witnesses a young girl arriving from the far future in a time machine
Time travel
Time travel is the concept of moving between different points in time in a manner analogous to moving between different points in space. Time travel could hypothetically involve moving backward in time to a moment earlier than the starting point, or forward to the future of that point without the...
. As one of the men who set up the time machine's beacon shoots the girl, Yoko interferes and uses her aikido
Aikido
is a Japanese martial art developed by Morihei Ueshiba as a synthesis of his martial studies, philosophy, and religious beliefs. Aikido is often translated as "the Way of unifying life energy" or as "the Way of harmonious spirit." Ueshiba's goal was to create an art that practitioners could use to...
to throw him on the ground. To her great surprise, the man then disintegrates.
Yoko tends to the girl, who tells her that her name is Monya and that she has been sent to this epoch to find and kill a certain Stephen Webbs. Webbs' research on antimatter
Antimatter
In particle physics, antimatter is the extension of the concept of the antiparticle to matter, where antimatter is composed of antiparticles in the same way that normal matter is composed of particles...
led to the development of a weapon that destroyed the entire Earth in 3872. The time machine was an invention of her father; along with his daughter, his assistant and the man who shot Monya (a convicted murderer), he spent his days as one of the last surviving humans aboard a scientific space station. The assistant and the criminal had been sent back first in order to prevent Webb's discovery, while Monya was to follow them when she was 20 years old; however, the convict apparently caused the death of the assistant in order to use Webb's discovery for his own gain. Additionally, with her father's premature death by radiation poisoning, Monya couldn't remain until the appointed time and thus travelled back into the past immediately, where she encountered Yoko.
Yoko and Monya travel to Sulawesi
Sulawesi
Sulawesi is one of the four larger Sunda Islands of Indonesia and is situated between Borneo and the Maluku Islands. In Indonesia, only Sumatra, Borneo, and Papua are larger in territory, and only Java and Sumatra have larger Indonesian populations.- Etymology :The Portuguese were the first to...
and meet Webbs in his research center on top of Dragon Mountain. To her surprise, they find evidence that the Japanese had already experimented with antimatter and matter compaction in World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
, and that her great-uncle Toshiro Ishida, who was an army officer in Sulawesi during the Japanese occupation, seems to have been involved. Using the time machine, called translator, Yoko travels back to 1943 to find out more about the strange 'creature' hiding in Dragon Mountain, and after a rough start manages to convince her great-uncle of her sincerity. But as Yoko learns more, the creature becomes aggressive, killing several people both in the past and present, including Webbs. Before he dies, however, Webbs manages to effect an anti-matter reaction inside the creature, but the resulting chain reaction destroys the mountain lab.
After some investigation, Monya finds out that with the death of Webbs and the destruction of his research, they have created an alternative future to which she cannot return. So she decides to stay in Borneo as Izumi's adopted daughter.