Ed's Terrestrials

by Scott Christian Sava, Diego Jourdan Pereira

Three aliens escape from their dreary life working at the Intergalactic Food Court. While being chased by Mall Security officer, Maximus Obliterus, Al, Gus, and Marcello hijack a space ship to Earth and crash land into Ed's Treehouse. Befriending the aliens, Ed agrees to help them blend in and become more human. Meanwhile, Maximus Obliterus makes a reluctant alliance with Ed's nemesis, the spoiled brat Natalie. Together they hope to capture the aliens and, of course, get Natalie lots of Shiny, Pretty things. In the end, Ed must learn to trust his new friends and have faith in himself.

Genres: Graphic Novels, Science Fiction

88 pages, Paperback

First published November 30, 2005

About the author

Scott Christian Sava is an artist, animator, illustrator, director, writer, producer, and part-time Hobbit! Over the last 30 years, Scott’s work has brought some of the world’s most beloved characters to life in film, television, comics, and games, from Casper the Friendly Ghost to the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers to Star Trek to Spider-Man. Scott’s unique talents and vision have been called upon by Marvel Comics, Disney, Universal Studios, Nickelodeon, and more.

In 2000 he founded Blue Dream Studios, which has produced work for Star Wars, X-Files, Aliens vs. Predator, Spider-Man, and other franchises, in addition to creating its own line of kids’ graphic novels. The studio’s first feature film, Animal Crackers, is on Netflix and was the summer of 2020’s #1 animated movie in the world.

Currently, you can find Scott making videos online to his over 4 million followers where he talks about art, autism, and how to be a kinder artist… and human.

Scott lives with his wife and two kids in a Hobbit Hole in Tennessee. Scott’s mission, simply put, is to “make the world a kinder, gentler place, one story at a time.”

Reviews

[Pamela]

- my copy is a hard-backed book, purchased from Lucky target comics -

The main plot is about a trio of friendly aliens who crash land in ed's tree house after trying to escape their planet where all the inhabitants are forced to work as slaves in the food service industry... unfortunately they are spotted by a spoilt rich girl who will try bully anyone to get her own way - including ed. Along the way ed helps his new found alien friends bring more aliens to earth where they can take up their dream jobs...one of which is to become an Elvis impersonator!

But the aliens are being followed...by mall security from their planet, who against his judgement teams up with the spoilt rich girl...with disastrous consequences for them both... but it does have a happy ending (without me giving too much away)

Through out the book the message is that you can be what you want to be and to follow your dreams, an important message for anyone in the age group I would recommend this book to.. 7 yrs and up! Fans of Lilo & stitch will enjoy the storyline and Invader Zim will spot a few references too (food-courtia anyone?)

The illustration style is quite bright and simple, uncluttered, and as there are no graphic images of any kind I would happily recommend it as bed time story for a younger child too!(somebody who would need help to read aloud)

I personally enjoy collecting illustrated books, so for me, this was £2 well spent.

[Erin Reilly-Sanders]

I thought this story of aliens escaping from the Intergalactic Food Court into Ed's tree house was a lot of fun. The illustrations had a nice simplicity to them and were cute but I just didn't feel like there was enough "meat" to the story of the illustrations to really satisfy me. At the same time, every time I look at the book and think about it, it seems like there's a lot about the book to appeal to kids and it certainly has some great humour in it.

[Maria]

Okay, it was cheesy and I had problems with the depiction of the girl. Overly obvious with the "moral of the story" too. But my sons both really liked it, and so I bumped it up to 3 stars. Won't be buying it for my classroom, though.

[Sherry]

What's not to like about an alien who becomes an Elvis impersonator? I have some trouble with the negatively stereotyped character of the only female in the book. But the message that you are in control of your own destiny and decide your own career will appeal to readers.

[Randy Lander]

Like Sava's other book on my kids bookshelf, Pet Robots, this one is cheesy and predictable... but my daughter loves it.

[David Grassé]

Fun drawings, cute story.

[Angela]

The aliens were pretty cool in it.

[Taylor Cayes]

Kind of a shame. Shows the writer is not very consistent and the art is nothing special.