Looking at the art for Tax and Salt the Earth, I feel like there's a story there, but I cant quite place it...
I'm pretty sure its the same woman, getting taxed and then salting the earth, but then why have the soldiers swapped sides?
Scene 1 (Terribly Atrocious Xenophobia)
An extraterrestrial cyborg (you can clearly see aluminium lid on his head, covering gears and wires) is a friendly diplomat from outer worlds.
He is studying human language writing new words down using his hipster laptop when local rednecks, annoyed by unusual looks of a stranger, surround him.
Their leader, cocaine abuser with unknown gender identity punches him in the face.
Soon after the picture was taken the mob brutally kills the stranger and his alien nature is soon revealed.
Scene 2 (Redemption)
While the mob leader, blinded by hate and drugs, continues to humiliate the corpse, the rest of the party feel like conscience rapidly fills their insides.
They are soon aware of irreparableness of what they done and run away in horror and shame.
After reaching their shelter two men look at each other gravely and decide to take a vow:
"We never kill a stranger again
We will fight drugs till we die
We won't hide our identity anymore
Cthulhu fhtagn Cthulhu fhtagn"
With that words being said they threw away their fake right hands covering their claws and revealed who they truly are: half-men half-crab from the deep sea!
Their lady friend is shocked by the revelation at first, but she quickly comes to herself and accepts the vow after her lobster buddies.
Shortly after that they take the bowl of cocaine belonging to their ex-leader and proudly disperse it upon the earth, thus starting their new lives.