A review by claudiadcd
Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too by Jomny Sun

5.0

I picked this up for a fun, lighthearted fun thing to run thru. Drawn like a children's book with images huge on each page, not a lot of words, quick poke fun at feeling like an outsider at most and looking at earth through a different lens at least. Nope, this broke me! I have pictures on my phone of pages like favorite lines I want hung up on my walls. I cried! Not a sobfest but still, an oh no, aw, poor everyone! It hit when I wasn't even expecting it to hit. It is counsel for grown ups, for those not embraced by our society and those embraced too much. For those understood or trying and struggling and not quite knowing who you are but at least moving towards what you like to do.

Honestly, if the author came in heavy-handedly with: these are all the life lessons I impart to you, it wouldn't have worked so well. Only by halfway thru my first choked up tear did I read the back and Lin Manuel's glowing review of the resonance these comics had. It's just an aliebn trying to study earth, that's all, no big things here. Just enjoy the trip for me.