Air Books in Order

Air begins with Blythe, a flight attendant who is already uneasy with air travel's new climate of fear and suspicion. What starts as a tense, contemporary setup quickly tilts into something stranger. Blythe encounters the Etesian Front, a vigilante group obsessed with taking back the skies, and becomes entangled with a mysterious man who may be a terrorist, a visionary, or something harder to define. From there the story opens into hyperpraxis, Wilson's wonderfully odd idea for a new way of moving through the world.

This is a comic about travel, but not in the tidy vacation sense. Airplanes, routes, borders, vanished places, and impossible geographies are built into the story's bones. Blythe keeps moving through airports, secret histories, forgotten dimensions, and countries that seem to exist just outside ordinary maps. That gives the series a dreamlike feeling even when the politics are sharp and contemporary.

Blythe is not a classic action hero. She is anxious, curious, stubborn, and often out of her depth, which makes the escalating weirdness feel more human. As the series goes on, her journey becomes tied to missing people, lost aviation lore, belief, empire, and the seductive promise that technology might let us slip free of ordinary limits. Volumes like Letters from Lost Countries and Flying Machine pull you in with mystery. Pureland and A History of the Future push the idea outward until it becomes almost metaphysical.

It gets weirder on purpose.

The tone shifts between thriller, romance, fantasy, and political fable, sometimes within a few pages. Wilson is interested in how power shapes movement, who gets stopped, who gets watched, who gets to cross borders easily, and what happens when the map itself stops behaving. M.K. Perker's art helps a lot here, because the world always feels precise enough to hold the surreal turns.

If you want a comic that starts with airline security anxiety and ends up asking much bigger questions about technology, identity, and freedom, Air is a rewarding ride. It is one of Wilson's most unusual projects, and it already shows many of the things she would keep doing later: border-crossing characters, political unease, myth rubbing against modern life, and people trying to navigate worlds that are changing faster than they can fully understand.