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![]() ![]() Jomny the alien encounters a variety of characters throughout the book, each one dealing with their own problems. This is not a new idea in any sense, but it’s conveyed here without the heavy handedness that often comes with that territory. ![]() The most important idea presented in Everyone’s a aliebn is that all the people we meet are fighting a harder battle. It takes talent and a degree of restraint that few artists have to express so much through such spare drawings. The illustrations are simple to the point of being childlike, which makes them somehow more impressive at second glance. Some pages have only one or two words on them. One, it is a graphic novel which gives author Jomny Sun nearly unlimited freedom. This is a “novel” in the loosest sense of the word. ![]() ![]() Within ten pages I was absolutely enthralled with this tale of a lonely alien who is trying to learn his place among things. While on Earth, Jomny meets many new friends, and learns a few important lessons about life, loneliness, and nothing at all.ĭue to the deliberately bad spelling and grammar, my inner English teacher was in a mild state of apoplexy when I began this book. He is left alone on Earth in order to research the strange creatures known as humabns. None of his fellow aliebns seem to think or act like him. ![]()
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