From the book - "LIFE ON ANOTHER PLANET is a work of science fiction in the best sense of the term...By fusing the full resources of the comics medium with his puissant dark-humorist's sensibility, Eisner has wrought a kind of science fictional BONFIRE OF THE VANITIES, a large-scale, baroque comedy about the absurd circus that human life has become in the second half of this century...Like the great satirists before him, Eisner does not feel entirely at home in this world. A stranger in his own land, he steps back from contemporary civilization--from quotidian preoccupations obscure. In the final analysis, we are the 'other planet' of Eisner's title, we are the aliens, and, like Orwell and company, he is warning us to change course before our follies and foibles wreak irredeemable havoc. -from the introduction by James Morrow, Nebula and World Fantasy Award-winning author of ONLY BEGOTTEN DAUGHTER, CITY OF TRUTH and BLAMELESS IN ABADDON"