Alien: Cutaway of the Alien egg with face hugger inside by HR Giger references vase from "Asterix and the Roman Agent", (Originally published: 4 June 1970). written by Author René Goscinny, illustrated by Albert Uderzo?

 

Alien: The Spores

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Asterix and Alien

a) The story has a character Tortuous Convolvulus who is a prisoner and has the ability to make people believe his lies, setting off arguments and fights.

Julius Caesar sends him on a mission to create trouble for the Gauls to earn his freedom and riches. 

Convolvulus uses a vase as a gift to give to the Gaul chieftain that comes from Felix Platypus' spoils from one of his campaigns.

While it appears that Convolvulus was trying to mimic the Gaul's creation of the strength potion in a cauldron as if little Tortuous Convolvulus with his ability to cause confusion by making anyone believe anything he says. has perhaps become a sort of a symbol of a weaponised version of the facehugger.

It comes to a point where he tells his fellow Romans that he himself is the potion.

 

 

 

Tortuous Convolvulus

 

 

b.i)  The vase from the spoils of one of Felix Platypus' campaigns

b.ii) Alternative view of the vase from the spoils of one of Felix Platypus' campaigns

 

 

c) The full page from "Asterix and the Roman Agent", (Originally published: 4 June 1970)
written by René Goscinny, Illustrated by Albert Uderzo.

 

d) Cross section through the alien egg (VI) Work 363i  / Dan O'Bannon's Alien C1 (1977) for Alien by HR Giger

 

d.ii)  Here it seems that Giger has used the vase with its swan decorations as the basis for his cutaway view of the egg with the flying feathers on the wings of the swans as the facehugger's fingers .

e) Alien Egg version III (work 381) for Alien by HR Giger

 

 

e.ii)  Again here it seems that Giger has used the vase with its swan decorations as the basis for his cutaway view of the egg with the flying feathers on the wings of the swans as the facehugger's fingers.