First Contact / Webcomics

• The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! has Princess Voluptua musing on why she wants to avoid a big public First Contact: "Five billion primates all asking, 'How does this work?' 'How does that work?' Ugh! No thank you!" Elaborated on in the following strip, where she boredly enumerates some of the silly questions newly contacted primitives usually ask.
  • We later learn that her people's first contact with Earth's pre-human civilization of dragons went very, very badly.
• In Freefall humanity has made contact with a few alien races, though mostly aliens of the Starfish variety so relations are limited. Also many humans were wary of accidentally causing an interstellar incident when first meeting Florence or Sam (until they realized that Florence wasn't an alien and Sam was annoying). When they found Sam's species, the summary was "keep searching".
• In Tailsteak's Band the sequence of squares is employed.
• In Quentyn Quinn, Space Ranger, Quinn goes through this with the blue Federation aliens, the "hand head" alien planet, and later takes some time to address the Empire's somewhat unusual First Contact philosophy.
• In El Goonish Shive this is played for laughs when Elliot first meets Uryuoms.
• Vexxarr falls (ahem) into this situation frequently enough, so when he doesn't see natives...
  Sploorfix: Hiding?
  Vexxarr: From two unarmed alien bags of fluid gastropodding across their local gren space? We should have seen either their military or their nerds by now.
• In Loon Land the alien Lana Loon lands on Earth and has a close (failed sexual) encounter with the terrestrial loon Mike Moon [1].
  Mike: Hang on! You've got like five holes down here! Which do I poke it in?
  Lana: All of them.
• Galaxion has:
  • Jax Augustus's encounter with Myradi
  • Hiawatha crash landing — the crew was taken in by friendly natives
  • Our protagonists' failure of a First Contact and it's much, much more of a failure than we're initially given to think
• Between the human protagonists and the Starfish Aliens in Anna Galactic.
• Ellie on Planet X: Ellie is the first link between Earth and the planet's adorable aliens.
• It's the main scope of plot of the Leaving the Cradle, describing accidental first contact between humans and The Alliance.
• Outsider's plot features two distinct instances:
  • The prologue establishes that humanity's first contact with aliens was with members of a race called the Orgus, who were fleeing after the Umiak invaded and overtook their homeworld. This also alerted humanity to the war between the Umiak and the Loroi, and the impending danger of Earth being dragged into the conflict.
  • The main character, Alex Jardin, is the first human to make contact with the Loroi, as they rescue him after the scout ship whose crew he was part of is destroyed by an unknown attacker.
• The titular protagonist of Cendaran Marael is an Artificial Alien sent to research Earth as part of a first contact party.

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