My Life Among Humans
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Average rating2.8
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Ratings2
Average rating2.8
My Life Among Humans is an evocative, melancholy, and ultimately hopeful story of a solitary alien’s misguided search for connection among its human subjects. A nameless alien data compiler comes to Earth to study humans, setting up shop on the outskirts of a small desert community in North America. Working under forced labor, it must watch humans in complete secrecy while sending regular reports to its manager back home. Using spore-like technology to read the minds of his hosts, the alien quickly takes a special interest in Will, one of his early subjects. That interest proves to be a problem when the alien is accidentally revealed to Will's family and it takes desperate measures to save its own life. In doing so, it discovers a forbidden ability...it can control human minds. Now, the alien struggles to keep this secret from its manager, deal with a growing number of suspicious humans, and come to terms with its ethically questionable decisions. My Life Among Humans is a beautifully painted, evocative first graphic novel from illustrator and cartoonist Jed McGowan.
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Cute, but ultimately forgettable. Kind of a tale about how a small lie can quickly balloon into something unmanageable, but I don't think the execution was all that great. A lot of common sense reactions from the humans in the story (shock, horror, fear) were absent in favor of the underlying message of acceptance and making the lie right in the end.
The artwork was also kind of weirdly unsettling to me. Like a comic strip, but even more basic? I don't know, I just didn't connect much with the art or the layout.
Fine for a cute story, not much else.
