Alien: Pilot in cockpit (work 380) (1978) by H.R Giger references "Meanwhile, tribune Noxius Vapus arrives at the prefect's palace" from Asterix and the Chieftain's Shield?

Alien: "Pilot in Cockpit" (work 380) (1978) by HR Giger 

and 

Asterix and Alien

 

 

a) Pilot in cockpit (work 380) (1978) by H.R Giger

 

 

 

b) "Meanwhile, tribune Noxius Vapus arrves at the prefect's palace" from Asterix and the Chieftain's Shield, p21, (originally published in Pilote in 1967) written by Goscinny and illustrated by Uderzo

 

 

 

 

c) Full page

 

 

 

 

d) The litter reversed above the space jockey's chair and telescope. it looks as if the broken open litter offered Giger a new perspective on designing something based upon the vehicle with its passenger inside who is usually mostly hidden

 

d) The back of the little sloping backwards becomes the back of the chair

 

 

 

e) Broken front of the litter becomes the control screen