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Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT The Far Side's humor often came from making the familiar seem alien – and many times throughout the strip's run, it used actual aliens to achieve this effect. Frequently, extraterrestrials were depicted in Far Side panels as being engaged in the same hapless behaviors as everyday humans. Other times, they represented the vast, terrifying forces of the unknown universe, looming over the people of Earth.
14 Gary Larson Tweaks The Familiar To Induce The Strange First Published: September 25, 1980 Even when jokes were corny, the accompanying image justified it, working not only to make the reader laugh, even in spite of themselves, but to make the joke uniquely Gary Larson's own. 11 The Greatest Defense Against Alien Invasion Isn't Germ Warfare – It's Bee Warfare First Published: August 11, 1981 Gary Larson frequently depicted UFO crashes in The Far Side, almost always as a result of mundane, Earth-bound reasons. In this instance, the perennial fear held by most drivers – of a bee getting into their car and causing them to crash – takes down an alien spacecraft, leaving its two occupants shaken and stranded on an unfamiliar planet.
Gary Larson used aliens frequently in 1982, as that year contributes seven of the most outstanding extraterrestrial Far Side installments, as cataloged by this list. This included the first appearance of the purple aliens who would become his most frequent visitors from the starts, featured in this panel.
This is one of the most gloriously rendered alien illustrations from The Far Side, elevating what is a very simple joke at its core. Two carefree aliens "buzz" a city street full of terrified humans, taking a joyride in their flying saucer through an Earth metropolis, turning an otherwise ordinary, cloudy-looking day into the day the earth stood still.
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