He Walked Among Us

[cyberghostface.insanejournal.com]

 

This story comes from Weird Science #13.

Comments

[jmacq1.insanejournal.com]

We can travel light years on a whim, but can't detect GIGANTIC FREAKING ASTEROIDS ABOUT TO ZOMG KILL US!

Seriously, that "Simultaneously an asteroid crushes his ship" panel just cracks me up.

[damar148.insanejournal.com]

Good deeds never go unpunished.

[thokstar.insanejournal.com]

Water into "Milk", huh?

[seriousfic.insanejournal.com]

Wow. The irony. It's Morissettastic!

[ar_feiniel_.insanejournal.com]

I'm disturbed by the fact that The Galactic Exploration Authority would drop someone off on a planet for 5 years without any central record keeping of the location.

[proteus_lives.insanejournal.com]

Human spacecraft are powered by irony!

[psychop_rex.insanejournal.com]

Just once, I'd like to read one of these stories that has the hero USE HIS BRAIN when confronted by the high muck-a-muck. You may be from Earth, where people are 'far more advanced', but that doesn't make you invulnerable, no matter how ridiculously tight your shirt is. Placate the high priest with a few weasel words, slip on out of there, and keep doing what you're doing. Don't just assume that you can bull your way out of there because you're (dun dun DUN) a SCIENTIST from EARTH - the guy has armed guards on either side of you! WHY ARE COMIC BOOK SCIENTISTS SO STUPID?!
And I kinda like the idea of a Christ-figure actually being a benevolent alien. Man, wouldn't THAT upset western civilization if it happened here? 'I'm sorry, Mr. Pope, sir, but we have new evidence here that blows your little organization right out of the water. Jesus was NOT the Son of God - he was the Son of ZzZZRnnNNthKcK - and he didn't die to save our souls, he died because he didn't understand the language very well, and thought the Romans were giving him an escort to a new tanning salon. He didn't resurrect, either - we know this because we just found his body, and it had this little recorder in the pocket, which has on it a detailed explanation of his mission on Earth and how it went wrong. As such, a few changes have been made - this building is now the new headquarters of the Church of ZzZZRnnNNthKcK, and we'd like you to move out by Tuesday.'

[(Anonymous)]

At the moment Kraft recognised the civilisation as like our first century AD, I knew how this would end. I was, however, wrong on how would he be killed (I expected crucifixtion) :P