Strange Planet (Strange Planet Series)

by Nathan W. Pyle

Hardcover, 2019

Status

Available

Call number

741.5973

Series

Strange Planet (Cartoon collection 1)

Genres

Graphic Novels and Comics

Comics

Graphic Novels

Publication

Morrow Gift (2019), Edition: Illustrated, 144 pages

Description

Straight from the mind of New York Times bestselling author Nathan W. Pyle, Strange Planet is an adorable and profound universe in pink, blue, green, and purple, based on the phenomenally popular Instagram of the same name! Strange Planet covers a full life cycle of the planet's inhabitants, including milestones such as: The Emergence Day, Being Gains a Sibling, the Being Family Attains a Beast... With dozens of never-before-seen illustrations in addition to old favorites, this book offers a sweet and hilarious look at a distant world not all that unlike our own.

User reviews

LibraryThing member villemezbrown

Simple concept, huge laughs. Pyle has aliens re-enact/experience everyday human activities to expose the hilarious craziness of things we accept as perfectly normal.

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LibraryThing member anxovert

Superb!

If you've never read Nathan W. Pyle's "Strange Planet" strip you should look it up online today.

If you've seen it you know what you'll be getting. This book is nicely bound, printed in colour and features some new and revised content.

Highly recommended.

LibraryThing member MickyFine

A collection of Nathan W. Pyle's charming comics of aliens experiencing life on Earth. I find constant delight in how the alien's phrase their observations and highly recommend checking out his stuff if you haven't before.

LibraryThing member foggidawn

Odd blue beings with a distinctive speech pattern live on a planet eerily similar to ours. Their observations of everyday life and customs highlight the humor and absurdity of our human existence.

If you've never encountered these beings, or if you've seen a few comics here and there, but would like

to see more, this book is an excellent c o m p e n d i u m (as the beings' creator might say). If you've a big fan (as I am), the book is fun to have, but there's not a huge amount of new content, and none of the new comics was an immediate favorite for me. The book is worth getting, just know that much of it is content that is already available online.

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LibraryThing member HenriMoreaux

Strange Planet is a comic based around a simple concept, the retelling of everyday events on a strangle planet. Yet, despite being such a simple concept it's the execution that makes it hilarious. The wording combined with the little alien facial expressions when relaying ordinary events such as

when the parent alien is sitting at the dining table with the child alien and there is salad left on the dinner plates and the parent alien tells the child alien to 'ingest your leaves' the child replies 'I do not desire leaves' to which the parent replies 'put the leaves in your mouth' to which the child replies 'it is an unpleasant sensation'. The parent then states 'life will be full of unpleasant sensations, you need to experience a wide range so you can properly gauge which ones are worst' and ends with the child alien banging his head on the dining table. Vastly better with the illustrations, trust me.

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LibraryThing member Daniel.Estes

I first saw this comic on Reddit, and I was hooked even before I understood the gimmick. I won't go into what that means if you don't know. Better to be surprised.

LibraryThing member Hamburgerclan

This ones a collection of cartoons featuring the grey aliens. The schtick is that the aliens are living typical American lives and talking about them with descriptive phrases instead of the typical words. For example, the Sun is referred to as "the Star" and people are routinely called "beings".

The strips are amusing and the art is cute. I don't know why I like them so much--maybe it's a break from more cynical or sarcastic humor. Whatever the reason, it's on my shelf.
--J.

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LibraryThing member bookwyrmm

Wonderful dry humor.

LibraryThing member arubabookwoman

I loved these comics, which show how absurd, when you stop to think about it, some of our practices and customs are. It does this mostly by giving things names which are perhaps more descriptive of their reality. Some examples: "tanning"= star damage; "sunglasses"= personal star dimmers;

"coffee"=jitter liquid; "cut flowers"=dying plants; "vase"=death cylinder for dying plants; "necktie"=seriousness cloth.
And so on. Lots of sorely needed chuckles here.

3 stars

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LibraryThing member scoutmomskf

Straight from the mind of New York Times bestselling author Nathan W. Pyle comes an adorable and profound universe in pink, blue, green, and purple. Based on the phenomenally popular Instagram of the same name, Strange Planet covers a full life cycle of the planet’s inhabitants.

This is a fun look

at everyday life through the eyes of a family of aliens. I love the super-literal language the beings in this book use, from mouthstones for teeth to lifegiver for parent to two-wheeled foot pusher for bicycle. The humor is layered from basic to an underlying cynicism. There is also an undeniable kindness in these aliens. I have become addicted to them.

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LibraryThing member LVStrongPuff

I loved this book. I love the idea of someone else trying to explain things that we do everyday. It really made me laugh out loud. I could read one aloud to a co-worker and he/she will totally know what I am talking about without even seeing the pictures. This really is a fun read.

LibraryThing member terran

This is definitely my kind of humor. I read it in the voices of the Coneheads on SNL.

LibraryThing member Salsabrarian

My introduction to the Strange Planet comics and I loved it! Interpreting the formal alien dialogue was half the fun: "Imagine pleasant nonsense" for "sweet dreams"; "may we initiate obscure and pursue" for "can we play hide and seek?"; "sustenance preserver" for "refrigerator; 'mouthpush" for

"kiss." Outrageous and hilarious!

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LibraryThing member Pferdina

Many of these little comics make me smile.

LibraryThing member GlennBell

This is a short book of ironic humor. The author provides a common sense point of view of common experiences. The terminology and explanations provide insight into some of our illogical activities. Moderately humorous.

LibraryThing member Awfki

2023-12-05: Not much to be said. Funny cartoons that often cast an interesting light on human actions.

LibraryThing member Daumari

If you've seen the webcomics, you get the idea- but now in dead tree form!

LibraryThing member Linyarai

I read this for the "A Comic Book" part of my 2020 reading challenge. I knew I loved his comics from what I had seen online, but having them all in one collection made them so much better. Some of these were familiar, but a bunch were new to me and all were really clever and funny. I'm really

excited he's doing a second collection.

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LibraryThing member Dorothy2012

Delightful!!

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