watchingpreacher's review
5.0
This is the last volume to a series that should've gone on for much longer. It is apparent that this is somewhat an abrupt ending, but it works, because it is what AIR always was - a well-told, well-drawn comic, made by two people who loved their story and the medium they told it in. I enjoyed this very much, but oh, how I would have LOVED to see this gone on for another 6 volumes or so.
If you're a fan of LOST, Neil Gaiman, J.J. Abrams, Science Fiction, comics, good storytelling, etc. etc. and haven't read this... Do it. It is so very worth it.
If you're a fan of LOST, Neil Gaiman, J.J. Abrams, Science Fiction, comics, good storytelling, etc. etc. and haven't read this... Do it. It is so very worth it.
rmgebhardt's review
1.0
And the series goes out in amazingly bad fashion. The finish of the story is clipped (no doubt since it thankfully got canceled), there are some seemingly forced encounters, and some "big reveals" are just whimpers. To top it all off, a lot of the mythology is still completely unexplained and murky at best, allowing the characters to do whatever they want in accordance with the "rules" of this universe that's been constructed. And then there's the standard beats that every final arc of a comic story seems to take (main character gets help from those who care about her, sacrifice of secondary character, main character overcomes that one thing holding her back, defeat of arch villain, and heading off into the sunset happily ever after). Truly, completely, mind-bendingly bad.
annieeditor's review
3.0
The conclusion to the "Air" series wraps up nicely. Blythe comes into her own and flies one last dangerous mission into conceptual space. Things had been getting a little confusing in the series, but I didn't turn the last page feeling unsatisfied.
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