where-are-the-aliens
Explanation
The Joke
A man greets an alien: "Hello, woman!" The alien screams "AAAAH! An alien!!" The man says "Have you come to breed with our women?" The alien responds "What? Are you crazy?" The man explains that expecting aliens to want to have sex with humans is absurd: "That'd be like if you went to another planet and found a species of sapient alien goats, then decided to have sex with them to see if you'd get hybrid alien-goat human babies." The alien replies: "Take me to the alien sexgoats." In the final panel, set in a pastoral scene, someone asks "How come aliens never visit?" and the answer is "Maybe they have and we just don't know it" — implying aliens have been visiting Earth's goats all along.
The Humor
The comic starts by skewering the classic science fiction trope of aliens visiting Earth specifically to "breed with our women" — pointing out how absurdly anthropocentric and biologically nonsensical this idea is. But then it immediately undercuts its own rational argument by having the alien become enthusiastically interested in "alien sexgoats," revealing that the alien is just as irrationally lustful as the humans it was criticizing. The final panel ties it all together with a joke about why aliens "never visit" — they do, but they are only interested in goats, which is why we never notice. This also plays on the Fermi Paradox ("where are the aliens?"), offering a deliberately absurd resolution.
References
- Fermi Paradox: The apparent contradiction between the high probability of extraterrestrial civilizations existing and the lack of evidence for them. The comic's title directly references this.
- Alien breeding tropes: A staple of B-movie science fiction from the 1950s onward, where aliens abduct humans (typically women) for reproductive purposes.
- Interspecies hybridization: The comic points out the biological impossibility of cross-species reproduction between organisms from entirely different planets.