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on March 15, 2013 at 12:01 amChapter: Breakin' the Fourth Wall
Location: Alien headquarters, Danny and Joe's dorm room
This is the Head Alien’s first appearance. He’s wearing a towel tied around his neck. I can’t remember exactly what my original plans were, but I think he might have been an ascended normal alien at the time, having climbed his way up the ranks into an ultimate authority position he created. I ditched all that later, deeming Head Alien always having been the Head Alien. Consider his usual attire in the laundry or something.
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Head Alien sends his minions out to steal pizza.
Greatest evil genius ever.
Hey, you try getting pizza in the middle of the Bermuda Triangle. Just cus i’s corners are Miami, Puerto Rico and Bermuda doesn’t mean you can get pizza delivered.
God, I remember the good ol’ days when this comic was just stalking and Transformers jokes. Aliens ruin it. It’ll never last, now. Just you wait and see, it’s all downhill from here.
I know, right? Next thing you know Joyce will become a secret goverment alien hunter or something.
Forgot how early these guys showed up…
This isn’t even the first time we’ve seen them!
I vaguely remember someone saying that exact same thing…
And so, a legend is…stealing pizza. Um.
So did Joe just forget the whole the whole being captured by Alien’s thing from earlier in the school year?
I’m not sure anything inherent in “Heh. Aliens” affirms that he forgot about them.
Stealing pizza is something gag aliens would do, I guess? Seems silly in light of what happens later, but then most comics that transition from gags to storylines have that sort of thing.
Yeaaaaaah… The whole “Sound of Music” thing gets a lot less funny too.
The Aliens, on the whole, don’t really get less wacky than this, though. Kudos to Willis for not using drama as an excuse to radically derail his characters.
(except maybe Sal I guess)
Eh, we only kinda see Sal before she’s become BatSal, so you could kind of say the past characterization was mostly just there to contrast with the Sal she became later. (Granted, I say this not knowing how much of Sal’s character arc into Angst Land was planned.)
Though she does verge into “My parents are DEEEEEEEEEAD!” territory from time to time later.
Sal’s goofy period was always a facade.
Head alien! Must be some pizza for them to go through that kind of trouble. They should just order for delivery.
Clearly they get their pizza from the same place King Radical does.
So… why doesn’t he have a name?
Couldn’t he just be… Sergeant Alien, or something?
Originally posted:
April 30, 1998