it looks suspiciously familiar

I found this on xkcd.

I think I can already hear 'Visitors from Dreams' playing in my head.

I remember reading somewhere that he drew most of the Red Spider series years ago and just reprinted them on the site when it existed, so I suspect it may predate Darwinia.

I also found this on xkcd. Weird, huh?

There's also this one in the series:

And here's the anti-spider attack force. (If only the people were green instead of black)