The Gods from Outer Space (German: Die Götter aus dem All, Polish: Bogowie z kosmosu; also Według Ericha von Dänikena) is a science fiction comic book series, published in the years 1978–1982 by German publishing house Bastei Verlag [de], written and drawn by Polish artists.
Górny collaborated on the scripts with another Polish writer and a fellow enthusiast of Däniken's theories, Arnold Mostowicz [pl], and for the illustrator they chose Bogusław Polch.
Ais and her crew face many other challenges, most notably internal problems, caused first by the rebellion of one of the deputies, and then by open warfare led by the non-Delosiani Dr. Satham, a scrupulous scientist[10] and his henchmen.
[2][4][5][7][11] While the uplift experiment seems to progress, eventually the Great Brain, the highest authority on Des (Delos), decides to stop and destroy the work of Ais and her colleagues.
Later volumes chronicle the intervention of Aistar and Satham into early human civilisations, such as Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, with figures such as Marduk, Nimrod, Rama and Enoch being portrayed as extraterrestrials or their collaborators.
He noted that re-reading the series in his 40s, he still considered it an enjoyable science-fiction adventure tale, well grounded in "Däniken's lore", but found a number of plots and characters rather immature.
[4] Reviewing this volume for Esensja [pl], Paweł Ciołkiewicz wrote that the series has a mostly cohesive plot, although sometimes it tries too forcefully to "educate" about Däniken's theories, to the detriment of the overall story.
He praises the "gallery of interesting characters", most notably the "beautiful, brave and extremely intelligent Ais", and several other protagonists, although he criticized the antagonists like Satham, who according to the reviewer have "unrealized potential" but in the end, are too stereotypical to be taken seriously.
[14] Patryk Wolski, reviewing this for Głos Kultury, was more critical, summarizing the plot as acceptable but not deep, noting that the work was targeting young adults, and that mature readers who are looking for something more than a mix of action with Däniken's theories will likely be unsatisfied.
[3] Balint Lengyel in a review for polter.pl praised Polch's quality artwork, as well as the story for its epic character and successful integration of a number of science and religious ideas, creating an original universe for the adventures that follows; however, Lengyel criticized the characters as mostly one-dimensional, "good versus evil", and argued that the volume would benefit from additional supplementary content.
He praised the artwork, calling Polch a "great artist", and concluded that the series is still worth reading today, not just due to its historical or sentimental value, but just as a piece of solid, if imperfect, literature – occasionally naïve, but almost always engaging and enjoyable.