Your emails were delightful. I plan to write up notes on some of the things we talked about, particularly the full-circling on Max and Gabriel's storyline, which was amazing (edit: and also something I never would've noticed if you hadn't pointed it out), and put together a full post on it. Whatever else van Eekhout may have done or failed to do with the rest of the series, he really nailed the entire Gabriel and Max arc.