Suspicion falls on an ex-pilot when a former client, now a thief on the run, arrives in town. The thief seeks his old friend's help escaping. But what power does a flightless bird have to free others?
Takeoff is a short comic drawn and hand-lettered with traditional ink, pen nib and watercolor. The concept was later developed into an original graphic novel, EIGHTY DAYS (also by A.C. Esguerra), an award-winning story about queer pilots in an alternate-1930s world who fall in love in the shadow of war.