I see the importance, and I liked the art just as much, but this had the quickest pacing of all three volumes, and it felt like the story modeled around the messages instead of the other way around. (Lots of after school special vibes.) Not to say that this series does subtlety, but the characters had a little more substance to them in volumes 1 and 2. I did like how generational grief (and, in some cases, anger) was handled, though.