More of a 3.5.Great art. LOVE the concept. The lack of gravity was noticeably inconsistent (float into space from one wrong step, but you can bounce jump like the Hulk?). The story was intended for a teen audience and my preteen enjoyed it. Overall, worth the read.

This is really well done overall with a few forgivable hiccups. Gorgeous art, witty writing that made me laugh, and a hopeful arc filled with great representation. So glad I got the fancy omnibus as I will definitely come back to this story and proudly display it on my shelf.

Humanity learns to adapt to their new reality of low-gravity. Willa can jump and fly to her destination. Edison no longer requires a wheelchair to get around. Guns are obsolete. Rainstorms are beautiful but terrifying bodies of water that float in the air. Yet there are some people who fear this reality. Corporations feed off of that fear with mag shoes that allow people to walk on the ground as if nothing has happened to the world. There is fear in drifting skyward to death, but there is also t...

Outstanding concept, underwhelming execution

80-85%. Loved the "Earth suddenly loses gravity" premise/concept and all the world-building details/ramifications, fun adventures, and unexpected twists leading up to an ending that felt a little rushed/square/saccharine. Very easy/fast read. Paced like a TV show. Too short—world has so much potential.

This has a great concept, but unfortunately a bland story and characters. The story is further ruined by some late plot twists that make earlier events make no sense. At the start of the story, Willa’s mom is caught outside when gravity stops working. We assume she dies. Plot twist #1: she’s alive. But why didn’t she return to Willa and Willa’s father right away? There was nothing preventing her from returning home. If I were Willa, I’d be pissed. The whole thing messed her dad up. At another ea...

I bought this complete collection of Skyward based on its amazing reviews, and there's a lot to like - it's a fun adventure with surprising twists and a very endearing heroine. But the science fiction world of Skyward makes no sense, which frustrated me and kept me from ever becoming immersed in the adventure.

So many things about this story make no sense. For example, it’s made pretty clear that young people have no concept of what life was like before low gravity. It’s as if no pictures, videos, or documents survived from 20 years earlier. The low-G is also conveniently inconsistent (sometimes people can float in place, other times they lift into space). The artwork is great and the concept is cool. There is a lot to like but also a LOT to nitpick. Just depends on how you want to approach this fun l...

This was good, but it made my head spin for some reason, maybe as the characters are constantly just falling and jumping around in low gravity... I don't know. It's a sci-fi about this post-apocalyptic style world where suddenly there's low gravity and people, things, and water just float away. Interesting premise, though it's far from scientific accuracy, I mean most comics are anyways, lol. Willa is a fearless and confident character, has this scary cat dad who predicted this will happen as he...

Skyward is an amazing graphic novel about Willa, a young woman in a world where gravity has gone. Or at least there is still some low gravity. The world has adapted to this and the world-building is wonderfully explored through the issues. Willa is fearless but her father is afraid of going outside. I loved Willa and Edison. They were great characters and there was some great dialogue about what gravity would mean for a person with a disability. Willa's father was also an interesting character.O...

2.5The art is stunning, Willa is likable (when she's not infuriating) but the writing is so-so and character development is lacking. Worth a shot for the art and cool world-building, not necessarily for the clever plot.

5 well-deserved stars for the drawings and the idea. The final battle was too short, almost anticlimactic. Overall, an enjoyable reading and a great occasion for staring at the pictures for hours (again, they are gorgeous).

Cool concept, awesome artwork, average story-telling. Read for Popsugar 2021 prompt #35: format you don’t normally read (graphic novel).

I just finished this and I have no words! I fell in love with the story, the characters, the relationship, just everything!! And the whole concept is so interesting!! Such a beautiful story. I'm glad it exists!!

This is a review of the entire series.One day, a tragic incident known as G-Day causes gravity on Earth to become a fraction of what it once was. Without warning, millions of people are sucked into the sky and die from lack of oxygen. Destroyed property, carcasses and absurd weather phenomenon float hauntingly throughout the atmosphere. Spheres of debris and natural disaster suck in anyone that get too close. At first, the aftermath is absolutely horrific. After twenty years of adjusting to the

Skyward was a really great series :) I enjoyed the art and the storyline. I did have to ignore some of the incorrect science but meh it's a comic book. (view spoiler)[I learned in school that insects were huge about 300 million years ago because there was an overabundance of oxygen ;) (hide spoiler)]

I started reading this as floppies years ago. To finally get it collected in one solid book is awesome. The story is fast paced, light hearted, but also has just enough emotional weight to save it from boring. Loved this story from beginning to end.

Terrific, imaginative, beautiful. Also terrifying and sometimes sad.The concept of a very low gravity earth is incredibly appealing...and also a concept that an actual book would have to work pretty hard to live up to. Skyward definitely does that. The character building, intricate plotting (for a graphic novel), and the artwork all live to the idea.Enjoyed that it was effortlessly diverse and LGBTQ-friendly.TBH, the book is heavy enough to kill a person with and would probably read better in an...

The sky is falling! Well, actually it isn't, this isn't Chicken Little. Quite the opposite indeed: the Earth has lost its gravity and there is a struggle between those who profited from this fact and those who want to restore the planet as it once was.This comic series lacks a bit of character development, and for some things it's quite predictable, but generally speaking it's an interesting reading on a topic that I think it was never explored before.WARNINGS: violence, death, freaking big inse...

I liked it well enough. The concept is killer and they did a really great job creating the low gravity world, illustrating what it would mean, and theorizing how humanity might cope. I was going to say that Willa’s skin color felt tacked on, but I realized that none of these characters is particularly fleshed out. People do things, things happen, but nothing has any emotional heft behind it. So Willa’s race, Edison’s disability, the queer characters - they almost never carry any real weight. And...