This story went from slapstick to really serious in not very many pages. The top page has some hilarious puns – read the Saturnian words out loud phonetically. In the bottom page, the initial contact with humans has not gone well and the man who gets killed in the middle panel was getting ready to rape the Saturnian disguised as a woman. A very dark turn indeed.

(Heavy Metal issue #114, Winter 1988 – Pages 94&100 Earth vs Saturn by Libertore)

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