Enjoy These Heartwarming Alien Comics That Will Make You Feel Good To Be A Human

Today has been a tough day at the end of a particularly tough week. Which means perhaps today is a good day to dive into the Strange Planet comic strip series by artist Nathan Pyle. 

If you're not already familiar with Strange Planet that's okay. The four-panel strip's rise to popularity has not only been meteoric, it's also been really recent. Pyle, a former cartoonist for BuzzFeed, posted the first strip of the series to his own Instagram page at the start of February. Three weeks later, Pyle's comic was the lead anecdote for a Wired story about why the four-panel comic format is so ubiquitous online.

While that story is a little more complicated, the popularity of Pyle's strip is simple, I think. Seeing cute aliens overexplain banal human things is oddly heartwarming. 

And Pyle's observations about his own species are fairly prescient. Like the way we react when we see a friend with a new suntan.

Or the whole "going to bed" ordeal:

Consoling a crying friend is weird.

Turns out humans do a lot of weird stuff, actually.

Very weird. Anyway, follow Pyle on Instagram here, follow the Strange Planet series here, and read Peter Rubin's story in Wired about both right here. 

Be good, human <3