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This article explores how the first two volumes of the  bande dessinée  series,  Le Château des étoiles  (2014–2021), by Alex Alice, illustrate how notions of a “new normality” can occur in a uchronic space opera on multiple levels, as well as how the  bande dessinée  as a form of media and how  littératures de l’imaginaire  as a genre lend themselves to the disruptions that bring about such new normalities. More specifically, this article will argue that the new normalities occur on the level of the textual universe, on the narrative level, and on the visual level of these volumes, and that the disruptions that serve as the causes of each of these moments in which a new normality begins are themselves key aspects of these works. These arguments will be based on theoretical notions of the uchronia, literary analyses, and visual analyses, which combine to explore how these examples of the  bande dessinée  format exploit the multimodal capacities of this form of media to effectively communicate textually and visually.

A New Normality: The Evolution of the Uchronic Universe of the Series Le Château des étoiles by Alex Alice