Alienated #1 Review: Off To A Weird Start

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“Today marks the day that extraterrestrial aliens have made contact…”

Issue #1 of the 2025 comic-book series Alienated by Taki Soma, with art by John Broglia, starts off with a shocked family watching a live broadcast where a reporter announces that dead aliens are being found across the globe, while she stands right in front of one of the bodies. A pretty good opening that immediately sets up the basic premise.

The first chapter mainly focuses on how several dead aliens are scattered around the Earth, but one grandfather finds a live one in his closet, barely clinging to life. In true cinematic fashion, the grandpa, named TJ, presses the alien’s chest, giving him CPR and reviving him. Now, he and his grandchildren team up to keep the alien, whom they simply name ‘Alien’ (LOL), safe from the prying, dangerous eyes of the rest of the world.

The first issue is only 25 pages long, and that’s pretty much what happens in this opening chapter. It does end on an interesting cliffhanger, hinting that the alien knows about an impending danger to Earth. However, he’s still learning the human language with TJ and the kids, so he cannot communicate what’s going on. Although the fact that Alien is seemingly the only survivor of what could’ve been a mass escape from their home planet, humans should be worried about what comes next.

The artwork is colorful, bright, and slightly old-school, and the funniest part about Alienated is the alien’s character design, a very cliché human-like form, almost like E.T., with big beady eyes and a shriveled grey body.

Honestly, I’m not sure what to make of this comic-book series just yet. I’ll need to read a couple more issues to form a solid opinion. It’s planned as a six-part series, so let’s wait and watch.

Alienated is also on Kindle Unlimited.

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