Alien Nation by Sandro Bassi

This is essentially an art book with a very basic vignette of a story throughout that seems to be a commentary on our despicable dependence upon smart phone technology.
Alien from the shoulders up nation ambles around a train station staring at their personal screens. A young child reaches for an old school phone, which somehow temporarily disrupts the signal and quite literarily scrambles alien’s brains…and then it all goes back to normal. That’s it story wise. But the art is gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous. The aliens are wildly diverse and well imagined and done in striking black and white art panels, much as the cover image promises. So it’s a pleasure to peruse this book from a purely art appreciation perspective. And it only takes a few minutes to do so. Sure, the reader in me wanted more of a story, but the art lover in me unreservedly enjoyed it. Recommended.