Webcomic / First Contact

Space. To some, the final frontier. But to others, it's just the beginning.

"In which six teens discover some unknowns should be left that way."

—Description of First Contact

First Contact is an ongoing MS Paint Fanventure created by Pavizi on January 3, 2017. The story follows six teenagers, complete strangers to each other, who find themselves on an alien planet far from home for reasons unknown. What awaits them in the vast unknowns of space, and what powers could've brought them to this situation?

The link to First Contact can be found here. The story accepts commands from the comments or the creator's Tumblr.

Not to be confused with the trope of the same name.

This page contains some heavy marked spoilers. You have been warned.

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This webcomic contains examples of:

• The '90s: Word of God states that the story takes place in 1999, near the Turn of the Millennium. This is shown in subtle ways, such as Uriel's and Isaiah's phones, but otherwise, this detail wouldn't be obvious while they're all in space.

• All There in the Manual: The creator has a tag for First Contact-related art not included in the comic on their Tumblr.
• Ambiguous Gender: Sisera has been described as genderfluid.
• Art Evolution: Even in the span of just one year, the comic's art improves greatly—you can easily see the improvement from the first few panels to the most recent ones.
• Authority Equals Asskicking: The deer king is not being subtle about the teens' antics.

• Brick Joke: Falling downstairs Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff style was suggested here and finally appears over a hundred strips later
• Cast of Snowflakes: Any background alien in the comic that is close enough to have their features discerned has a unique design and associated color.
• Color-Coded Characters: The space teens, as well as the background aliens, are given colors in their designs and dialogue. This also plays into the teens' thematic associations.
• Color-Coded Elements:Each teen has an elemental association shown through their colors, and said elements reflect their personalities, appearances, and the teen that they are paired with thematically.
  • Uriel (orange) represents Fire.
  • Morgan (blue) represents Water.
  • Adam (green) represents Nature/Earth.
  • Isaiah (yellow) represents Storms/Electricity.
  • Sisera (pink) represents Sunshine/Light.
  • Lucas (gray) represents Moonlight/Shadows.
• Deliberately Monochrome: The comic's art is done entirely this way, the exceptions being the characters' colors on their designs and the various banners, flags, and tapestries hung by the alien deer.
• Didn't Think This Through: Uriel and Sisera figure out that since they are not on Earth, they can do whatever they want. A few strips later this ends up with them being arrested.
  It turns out that your actions do, in fact, have repercussions.
• Exposed Extraterrestrials: Some of the deer alien designs have no pants or, in at least one case, no clothes whatsoever—the aliens are nudist hippies.
• Fearless Fool: Sisera throws themselves out a window and breaks their nose with a can of spraypaint after being told to smash the window for light. They don't care, though; the pain's worth it.
• First Contact
• Flat "What":
  • Being an Interactive Comic can lead to weird situations like this
    SISERA: So, Uriel, what brings you here to this lovely little offworld paradise?
    URIEL: oh y'know just wanted to check out the sites, lick an alien or two, get my mack on.
    SISERA: what
  • Also here, when Uriel notices Adam's lack of shirt and starts showing off his body too.
    ADAM: this was totally worth getting my favorite shirt eaten by a giant bug.
    URIEL: what
• Friend to Bugs: All of the deer aliens' wildlife are shown as gigantic bugs.
  • After Isaiah knocks out one of said aliens who tried to attack Adam, she takes the alien's centipede with them.
  • Adam later calls on the same centipede in battle.

• Horse of a Different Color: The deer aliens ride on giant centipedes.
• Hypocritical Humor: Lucas criticizes a vomiting buglike alien coming out of a giant vehicle for a lack of manners. However, after he takes a ride himself, he throws up the same way the bug did.
• In Harmony with Nature: Adam, in addition to being a Nature Lover, is shown to be able to control the centipede soon after meeting it by whistling.
• Intelligent Gerbil: The first alien race is based off earthly deer, goats, sheep, and similar such animals.

• Ontological Mystery: It's not explained why the space teens are in space or how they got here, and they don't seem to know, either.
• Rewatch Bonus: After Lucas is knocked out, we see the aliens talking about something before he passes out. When he accidentally gets Translator Microbes in his ear, we can decipher that they were talking about bringing him to the king.
• Rotating Arcs: The perspective switches from one teenager (or several) to another multiple times before they all end up grouping together.

• Single-Biome Planet: The deer aliens' entire planet consists of massive trees — the aliens themselves make treehouses near the canopies because of how dark and ominous the ground level is, with the trees' leaves shielding the bottom from sunlight.
• Space Elves: The first alien race shown in the story are pacifistic, nature-loving, sometimes gender-ambiguous flower children that resemble goats and deer living in a Tree Top Town.
• Take That, Audience!: Sisera and furry memes just don't mix
• Tap on the Head: Lucas is knocked out by a surprised deer wielding a chair, and wakes up some minutes later in front of Morgan.
  These trees, though, put redwoods to shame. It's actually kind of hard to see the top of them.
• The Speechless: Isaiah is completely mute. She has been shown to gesture, but otherwise, she hasn't said anything to the other teens.
• The Unintelligible: All of the deer aliens speak in a language that can't be understood by reader or teenager alike. Uriel tries to imitate one of them, but the outcome is implicitly pretty offensive.
• Translator Microbes: One of the alien races manufactures these.
• Theme Naming: All of the space teens are named after biblical references with their names having some significance to their associations, such as Uriel being named after the archangel with a flaming sword, Morgan's name meaning "sea warrior" and named after the Morgan Bible, etc.

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