This week hosts Mitchell and Coleman geek out about Ax's first official character design, how terrible the Animorphs are at watching Ax, cool ways for Yeerks to die, kangaroo battle morph, the many conveniences of the plot, how Cassie finally snapped and went too far, how Ax phoning home makes absolutely no sense when the plot jumped the shark, the many friendship speeches of this book, and our different opinions on Seerow's Kindness! All that and more in the review of Animorphs book 8, "The Alien."