A few months ago, Egmont released Resident Alien - the first volume of adventures of a lonely alien on Earth, and some time later a series with the same title became available on streaming platforms.
Accidents begin when the alien from outer space has a failure of his ship and crashes on our globe. For UFOnauts, it is probably a story of how many, simply, their vehicle crashes on a foreign planet ... But this is a story for and about the inhabitants of a blue planet. Even if one of them is slightly different.
The stranger tries to organize quickly, acquires clothes, money, and other useful items, and then sews them up in a small Patience in Colorado. To avoid publicity, thanks to his developed parapsychological abilities, he takes the form of Dr. Harry Vanderspeigle, lives on the sidelines and tries to stay as far away from the nearby community as possible. However, an event of fate causes the local doctor to die and our hero is asked for a replacement, which will be extended over time. The alien begins a fascinating study of the culture of other intelligent beings and begins to enter into various interactions and relationships with them. In the meantime, he is interested in criminal riddles, unaware that a shadow of the secret service is beginning to stretch over his future.
Is a comic different from a series based on it? I would definitely say yes. The first thing that catches your eye is the comedy aspect of the television production. The graphic novel by Peter Hogan and Steve Parkhouse is rather serious and in places in muted colors (especially in flashbacks), which causes the reader to enter the fluid intended by the authors of the work. The series is rocking, from sometimes very coarse humor to darker fragments (although still somewhat in the spirit of black comedy). In the series, for example, the protagonist kills the medic he is playing, and for several episodes he wonders how to eliminate (and make attempts) a child who sees his true physiognomy. The theme that drives the alien in the book and in the TV series is also completely different. In the former, he is to find and neutralize the damaged probe, and in the latter, he is to find and activate the device for the extermination of humanity, lost during the crash.
In the comic, our doctor from another heavenly body is a kind and helpful person for the indigenous people who reads old crime novels and plays detective at the same time, while in films he is forced to constantly plot to keep his origin a secret, and at the same time learn more and more temptations and pleasures that our species lives up to. In the paper edition, the alien is worked out by a typical group of government men in black, while in the TV series it is mainly a pair of misfit agents led by a military renegade obsessed with the demons of the past. Over time, the Resident Alien tracks are spreading more and more in both media. For fans, however, it will be interesting to learn about both versions.
An interesting fact is that on the pages of the work you can see that the protagonist uses something like a sonic screwdriver (e.g. he is repairing a dilapidated pickup truck with it), which was used by Doctor Who. Perhaps a bit of light is shed by the fact that Parkhouse previously drew for a magazine about this Gallifrey time and space traveler, popular not only in Great Britain.
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