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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by cannedtuna@lemmy.world to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

Wilq | Facebook

The image shared above is a translation

Original Image

TranscriptFrom the series: Influences of Extraterrestrial Civilizations

2 little aliens, with antenna on their heads, a nose like a trumpet, and 4 legs, struggle to assist 2 Egyptians push a large stone block while another Egyptian watches. In the background a pile of large stone blocks can be seen along with some wooden scaffolding.

Aliens help build the Egyptian Pyramids

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[-] ceenote@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago

Having to help a primitive civilization build something without sharing any futuristic technology with them sounds like the plot of a star trek episode.

[-] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

If it goes like the only "building something by hand without advanced technology" episode I can think of, the pyramid gets built and then Kira blows it up a minute later. Which, frankly, is a very Kira thing to do.

[-] DomeGuy@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Wasn't it a bajoran building a farm on a to-be-flooded valley (or metaphor thereof?)

Star Trek humans seems to have internalized angst from post-first-contact jerkiness, and effectively have three levels of interaction :

  1. Intervene wherever necessary to stop genocide
  2. If your history includes FTL all bets are off.
  3. Otherwise go low to no contact.
[-] Jesus_666@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

A kiln. The Bajorans wanted to use a moon as a power plant but people lived there. And apparently they had spent so much time living there (since the end of the occupation) that some old guy didn't want to leave.

He also refused to do anything until he has finished building a kiln. So Kira helped him build it and spent some time getting to know him. Then when it was done she nuked it with a phaser and he finally left.

[-] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago

Sharing this random comic because it’s got a Far Side kind of look to it. I wasn’t able to locate who the original artist for this one was as looking up “Influences of Extraterrestrial Civilizations” brings up alien articles. I was able to locate the original Polish version shared across a number of sites, but that’s about it.

[-] fysyszykytypy@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago

Looks like the style of wilq (they used to publish on www[.]wilq[.]pl, sadly the domain hosts something else now). Here I found a blog post with some more examples of this artist https://maaagdalenka.blogspot.com/2010/07/wilq-1-z-cyklu.html

[-] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks. I think I did see that website come up, but it was a dead site so I didn’t realize that was the persons name.

[-] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

Found the original creator. I just googled the top text, not sure why you weren't able to locate them.

https://www.facebook.com/share/1BUkn74C3c/

[-] cannedtuna@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

Ah thanks.

I ignored Facebook because I thought it would just be people sharing it. I guess I was assuming it would be on a personal website, Instagram, twitter, or tumblr, or the like since that’s what most comic artists use.

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