Alien Next Door by Joey Spiotto (book review).
The book cover alone should give you a clue what this is about. Cartoonist Joey Spiotto’s book ‘Alien Next Door’ has the sub-title ‘In Space, No One Can Hear You Clean’ and shows the domestic bliss of being a xenomorph. This can from looking after the cat, using your tail to play skipping with Newt and to even have a laugh with Ripley or some marines who might pop up. Bishop barely gets a mention but he never got on with the alien’s mom. You do get the occasional bliss of travelling on spacecraft for holidays, although I doubt as aliens, they would call them vacations.
Although it’s actually a very quick read, mostly because it’s all visual with little text, I suspect it will make a present-filler for this time next month. It might even entice your sprogs to watch the films when they are old enough although I suspect you’ll have to explain some of the gags because they are very film based.
Prior to his death and explained in the introduction, HR Geiger, through a private detective, to find him had approached Spiotto to do this book before his death because he liked a spot cartoon the former had done on the Net and wanted to show a lighter note to his creation.
I should point out that no humans were killed in this book and I’m sure the pizza delivery boy only had a light kiss. Now I wonder what would have happened in the first two films had Ripley approached the xenomorphs with a duster and got them to work cleaning?
GF Willmetts
November 2015
(pub: Titan Books. 80 page illustrated small square hardback. Price: £ 9.99 (UK), $14.95 (US), $19.50 (CAN). ISBN: 978-1-78565-026-0)
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