Why are the extraterrestrials that live among us so reluctant to reveal themselves? Do they consider us a hostile species? Clearly they have observed how we treat different types of people or groups we do not understand.
A major part of our resistance to welcoming alien visitors to Earth will come from suspicion of their motives. But we need to realize that the human race has fallen prey to manipulation from the beginning, and the only way we can grow into streetwise galactic citizens is by learning through interaction and experience.
In Subhuman Sanctum: First Civilian Contact, a graphic novel I wrote (with manga-influenced art by P.R. Dedelis), former teen gang leader Bobby Boon Lo has to rely on all his street smarts when he meets students from a school for alien human hybrids. They want to be his friend… but can he really trust them?