Alien: Cocoon (work 393) (1978) by HR Giger for Alien references panel showing a group of people caught in a cheese fondu from Asterix in Switzerland (originally published in Pilote in 1970) written by Goscinny and drawn by Uderzo?

 

 

 Leading from 

H R Giger's Art

and

Asterix and Alien

 

a) Cocoon (work 393)(1978, for Alien) by HR Giger

 

 

 

 

b) Panel showing a group of people caught in a cheese fondu from p21 Asterix in Switzerland (originally published in Pilote in 1970) written by Goscinny and drawn by Uderzo

 

 

c) One above the other 

 

d)  The central human who has no lower body but propels himself around in a tub on wheels is caught in the web of cheese fondu appears to resemble the human victims cocooned by the alien as food for the alien young growing inside them to form what we see as the Alien Egg.