One brilliant Saturday, I went to pick up a package from the post office. I read the contents of said package in about one hour, just staring at the wonderful images and taking in the moody, tasty, lovely stories. I had wanted to read one of those three stories ("What is Left") for a long time, and I was impatient for the other two as well. And then...
I loved this book so much I almost can't find suitable adjectives to express my glee. So let's try: each of those stories is a wonderful jewel, polished to perfection, with gorgeous and impressively elaborate drawings which border on Art-Nouveau illustrations at times, other times going the way of a game of panel geometry which serves the storytelling so well it makes you squee! The muted, subdued but eye-candy colour range corresponds perfectly to the narration: a walk on tricky ground with heavy, complex lava flows churning under the surface. There is also the business of rhythm: this book imposes its own movements on you (and it helps that the Kickstarter extra - the making-of zine - comes with a soundtrack for each of those stories), and each word balloon, each panel, each page lands like a precise beat in a piece of music. If, at the end of the book, you don't find yourself dancing in an undulating way, you ... probably don't dance much, I guess? Sorry, I am getting carried away.
Now that I have thrown all pretense of objectivity out of the window, I can say that this is a fabulous book, from the cover to the content and the page grain, and I love it so, so much! I didn't expect those stories to leave me in a hopeful mood, but they did, and I love them even more for that!