Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba's Daytripper has been one of the most fascinating comics of the past year. It's more of a reflection on the time we have in this world, rather than a unified and complete story. After reading the last issue, I immediately jotted down my thoughts on it and the series for Popdose.
After nine issues of this, I guess I hoped that in the final issue Moon and Bá would give us an explanation to the apparent many lives of Brás, to give us some idea what was actually happening, how we we seeing these separate but connected versions of his life and these many deaths occurring at various points in his life. This last issue, instead of ending with Brás death, begins with his birth seventy six years ago but quickly jumps to the current day, with Brás getting some news from the doctor. In this final issue, Moon and Bá twist the conventions of this series that they set up beginning with the origins of life. It begins with birth. Throughout this series, Bá and Moon have never been morbid or brooding. For a book that has concluded each issue with the death of the main character, Daytripper has never been about death. Moon and Bá have been showing us all of the possibilities that exist for one person and all of the opportunities, both good an bad, that we face. Each issue has been about reminding us to live because life is finite and you never know when it will end.
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I think someday I want to do a whole post just looking at the cover images for this series.