Snowpiercer
Subtitle: The explorers
By: written by Benjamin LeGrand ; art by Jean-Marc Rochette ; translated by Virginie Selavy ; lettering by Gabriela Houston
Contributors: Rochette, 1956- artist; Selavy, Virginie, translator; Houston, Gabriela, letterer
Edition: First edition.
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9781782761365
Subjects: Social stratification; Climatic changes; Social conflict; Survival; Translations into English; Railroad trains; Comic books, strips
Other titles: Snow piercer; Explorers; Snowpiercer.; Snow piercer
Work titles: Transperceneige
Notes: "Originally published in 1984 by Casterman, France as Transperceneige : L'arpenteur (1999) and as Transperceneige: La traverse (2000)."

"The graphic novel that inspired the film"--Cover.

"Coursing through an eternal winter, on an icy track wrapped around the frozen planet Earth, there travels a train that never stops. This is Snowpiercer: one thousand and one carriages long. The last bastion of human civilization. Or is it? A second train travels through the snow on the same track, its inhabitants living in constant fear of crashing into Snowpiercer. And from the second train, a small group of scavenging explorers emerges, risking their lives in the deadly cold--"--Page 4 of cover.