The Waters of DeadMoon is one of those stories in Heavy Metal that still holds a lot of influence on a lot of readers twenty five years later. I think a lot of that has to do with the amount of world-building that got inserted in the story from the artwork alone. Details that aren’t remarked upon, but there they are.

An excellent example is the bottom panel on this page. That’s very clearly one of the bridges across the Seine in Paris, clearly establishing quite a bit about the setting. It’s set in Paris and the river has dried up, which supports the importance that water has in the dialogue.

(Heavy Metal issue #126, May 1990 – Page 18 The Waters of DeadMoon by Adamov and Cothias)