DAYTRIPPER #5 (OF 10)

Review by: akamuu

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Size: 32 pages
Price: 2.99

We are not so much creatures of habits, as habits of creatures.  We live in daily, weekly, monthly, yearly cycles.  We choose our sleep by the moon.  We pick our job based on how much time we are willing to sacrifice to achieve our goals.  Our diets become routines of flavor.  We dress a pattern of expectations.  Trite writers will say this makes us machines, but the truth is that routine is as much a human convention as diversion.

I picked up this issue because I’ve picked up all the previous issues of Daytripper.  I loved the first two, but felt the formula for this title has become a little more forced with each issue.  The language more melodramatic.  The nuance faded.  On page one of the last issue I knew how the main character would die.

Despite being less enthusiastic about each issue, I do like that a comic that is so centered around death, is more often a celebration of life.  And this issue was the best by far.

Whereas I enjoyed issue two because I didn’t expect the death at the end, I loved this issue because I kept waiting for it to happen.  As the issue went on, I kept thinking, where is the rattlesnake bite coming?  Where does he fall into the well?  When will the roof collapse on him?  And by the end, I got to thinking maybe it won’t happen.  Maybe this time Bras lives.  And that’s what this comic seems to really be about.  We assume death is inevitable.  That when our story is over, we die.  But, wow is it fun to forget impending death, and just enjoy each day as a story.  That’s the heart of this whole series, and it’s encapsulated better in this issue than in any I’ve read so far.

Story: 5 - Excellent
Art: 5 - Excellent

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