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harukoreads's review
4.0
I remember really loving this series as a kid, so I was excited to pick this volume up over ten years later. I honestly can't remember if this was one of the volumes I've read before or not, but the stories felt new, and they were something of a mixed bag without nostalgia to soften the weirder moments. This anthology has always felt like an experimental playground for the cartoonists who participate, but this volume in particular has a lot of stories that feel underdeveloped or half-formed.
That said, there are of course standouts - Michel Gagné's ongoing magical fox-creature's adventure is always captivating, and I also enjoyed Thomas Herpich, Israel Sanchez, Vera Brogsol, Kazu Kibuishi, Scott C., Jon Klassen, and Graham Annable. It was also fun to see earlier works from now extremely successful creators, like Pascal Campion, Clio Chiang, and Raina Telgemeier. In a collection of 26 short stories, enjoying 11 enough to want to revisit them feels like a win. I wish more creative collections like this were still being published today.
That said, there are of course standouts - Michel Gagné's ongoing magical fox-creature's adventure is always captivating, and I also enjoyed Thomas Herpich, Israel Sanchez, Vera Brogsol, Kazu Kibuishi, Scott C., Jon Klassen, and Graham Annable. It was also fun to see earlier works from now extremely successful creators, like Pascal Campion, Clio Chiang, and Raina Telgemeier. In a collection of 26 short stories, enjoying 11 enough to want to revisit them feels like a win. I wish more creative collections like this were still being published today.
rdyourbookcase's review
4.0
I was worried I wouldn’t like this book after Volume 3, but 4 was fantastic. I loved it. There were so many great stories in this volume. Loved it!
gimchi's review
4.0
absolutely gorgeous illustrations and stories. most were not bad, a few were really stellar and some were just crap. i loved how my preconceived notions about the stories, highly dependent on illustration style, would be changed by the end of the vignette.
whimpulse's review
2.0
Finally I got to the bit I wanted to see, originally. It was a long journey, and thus the couple of pages from J. P. Ahonen didn't really make a big enough reward. Still, I was happy I'd read all these stories - it was nice to see such vastly different approaches to making comics.
superfamoustia's review
4.0
These "Flight" collections are indeed close to paradise for me. The art is just breathtaking. The stories run the gamut (personal tales to folklore to sci-fi fantasy to steampunk), and my favorites often don't involve words at all. These are the kind of books that can remind you what you love about books--why, handy as the Internet may be, you would still rather read printed words, enjoy printed art. To curl up with a bound book in your hands, loving the turn of each page for the wonder it brings...almost paradise.
rouver's review
4.0
A few more of the 'strange & harder to understand' stories in this volume, but still lots to enjoy.
crowyhead's review
5.0
The Flight series is a great showcase for some of the weirdest and most beautiful comic art out there. The book itself is very high-quality with glossy pages, and the colors practically leap off the pages. Overall, the tendency is for the stories to be slanted more toward art than story, but there are glimpses of things rich and strange. I would recommend this for all public libraries, and definitely high school libraries as well. It is my sense that it would fit well with a middle school collection, too.
mferber's review
2.0
Guess this is why I don't read graphic novels. A couple of the pieces were really interesting (and in one case terribly disturbing) but most of them just left me cold or annoyed. The illustration is uniformly excellent, but... well, as I said, I guess this is why I don't read graphic novels.
phoenicality's review
3.0
I feel like this volume of Flight has fewer good stories in it than volumes 2 (my favorite) or 3, but the art is as beautiful as ever.
bookishlybecca's review against another edition
4.0
I took the copy of this that I read back to the library before I could review it... *face palm* So I can't name the specific stories I liked the best, but I did enjoy a fair few of them in this volume. Though, as per usual, there were still just as many that I didn't enjoy or found a little too weird/confusing/unsatisfying. That appears to be how I'm always going to feel about this graphic novel anthology series. I wouldn't say that's necessarily a bad thing though. :3