It’s a bugs life (Patreon)

New story time! 

I sometimes find first contact stories a little tedious*, in that the aliens often think exactly like we do. But surely, there are other ways of being intelligent? And what problems would that present?

That was my starting point for this comic. Of course, figuring out how my alien brains worked was the hard part - that was weeks of frustration 🤣 - until I decided to evolve the idea on from an early comic.  And after that, the story came pretty easy. 

I originally wanted to show the alien bugs swarming into a single ship, for combined thrust, and then splitting up and reforming into other shapes, depending on the task - such as aerobraking, but I didn’t have room. I also wanted to show off more of the variety of subspecies too, but needs must. 😭

Anyway, enough yabbing! I hope you enjoy. 

And as always, thank you for your support, team. You are the reason I keep doing these. 

*Honorable exceptions include Arrival and Blind Sight.