Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too was recommended by a friend, who knows I like comfort reading. With the library closing its local branch for a year of renovations, I knew I had to grab a copy while I could. What I found inside didn't quite live up to the personal hype.

Jomny is an adorable alien who has never fit in with his fellows. When he is tasked to investigate Earth, Jomny eagerly engages with and befriends various Earthlings--tree, corpse, birds, egg, frog, beaver, otter, hedgehog, turtle, bear, owl, the grass, and others. The plot is various conversations Jomny has over his investigation. He talks out his own and everyone else's anxieties.

The drawing style both compliments the simple messages and nicely counterpoints the heavy tone of the conversations. The fat, soft lines remind of hugs and pillows. The general philosophy is that of positive nihilism: the idea that everything sucks and everyone dies, so one might as well be kind and enjoy the beauty of life. It's a needed message in this dark time, but for some reason a lot of the conversations didn't stick around in my mind. Maybe it's because I've encountered the philosophy before, or because the story struggled between being strict allegory and strictly literal. The biggest impact was Jomny's insistence that there is happiness in sadness. Sadness connects us with others, because they, too, feel it. Sadness makes us human. That's a lovely thought.

Overall, I wouldn't say Everyone's a Aliebn When Ur a Aliebn Too is for everyone, but many people might enjoy it. If you can't convince yourself that there's hope, this book may remind you that there's beauty and peace in hopelessness, as well as an opportunity to spread love.