Big Questions (2011)

The collected edition (Drawn & Quarterly, 2011) A 658-page fable that took Anders Nilsen ten years to complete. A group of small birds comes upon a downed plane, takes its unexploded bomb for a giant egg and starts arguing about what it all means, while the stranded pilot becomes their obsession. It sounds slight and turns out to be one of the most thoughtful books here, funny and unsettling about faith and death. The spare drawings leave plenty of white space, so it moves faster than the page count suggests and reads well on a tablet.