A review by jesse_post
Pigs Might Fly by Nick Abadzis

4.0

What a remarkable book, with unexpected things at every step of the way. The pastoral rural scenes are gorgeous and the pre-flight historical setting is so realistic that it just winds up making sense that it also has magic and anthropomorphic pigs. Abadzis is skilled at not drawing too much attention to his cool ideas and being cute about it — he takes it seriously and just presents an episode in a lived-in fantasy world. The characters driving it could use a little more space for us to get to know them and understand what they want, but whatever shortcoming that is is more than made up for with the exciting magic aerial combat period piece story. If you like The Rocketeer, this is a good one for you.