I just flipped through “Alien Next Door” by Joey Spiotto, and it’s mildly amusing.

It’s just a book of single page, mostly single panel, illustrations of the xenomorph from the Alien movie series, doing various human domestic sorts of things. Some panels include various other characters, human, feline, and mechanical, from the movies.

There are a few references to others, like “Promethe-O’s” cereal in one panel.

If you’ve followed the movies, there’s some chuckles in the book.

The book itself has no story in it, no plot, no sequential progression of the illustrations that means anything.

While most of the single-page illustrations are kind of funny, as a whole book, I don’t think they really support a full book of them. Mostly they would be better fitting as additional supplements in other media, one or two at a time. ( )

Just so you know there's no story here its just a picture book, no words. Not even a story using pictures just a series of visual Puns i guess i'd call them. But it made me smile. ( )

Adorable book for lovers of Xenomorphs ( )

Ahh-hahahahahahahahaha - *huge intake of breath* - hahahahahahaha!

What if the Xenomorph was not an implacable killing machine but rather an average Joe alien with everyday problems? Find out from this book full of visual and verbal puns playing on the Alien film series.
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When I saw the cover art for Alien Next Door by Joey Spiotto I was intrigued. When I read the blurb on the back I knew that I needed to get my hands on it immediately. Luckily, I am happy to report that it exceeded all expectations. This book explores what the alien from Alien does when not terrorizing the crew of the Nostromo. IT IS BRILLIANT. Basically, it's a series of images of this terrifying creature just going about it's normal routine. There's a picture of it going to the dentist (complete with mini alien head sticking from its mouth), one of it putting together a replica of the Nostromo a la Star Wars vibes, and so much more. It's a quick, fun little book with really creative imagery of a character that had appeared one-dimensional as an entity without anything except bloodlust and propagation of its species on its mind. Now we know that it has a cat named Jonesy, enjoys celebrating holidays with its eggs, and that it takes domestic responsibilities seriously. 10/10 ( )