Daytripper #6 – Review

By: Fabio Moon & Gabriel Ba (creators), Dave Stewart (colors) & Sean Konot (letters)

The Story: Has Bras lost his best friend in a plane crash?  Will Bras die again?

What’s Good: The marriage of story and art continues to be just exemplary in Daytripper.  Ba and Moon are really doing a great job of finding real events that we can all associate with: birth of a child, death of a family member, finding new romance, or…in this case, the fear that a good friend has been lost.

The basic premise for this issue is that there has been a plane crash.  Bras, who is a lowly obituary writer at the newspaper, is asked to write obituaries for the victims.  Bras really throws himself into the work, but is very concerned about his good friend who was supposed to be on the flight.  We repeatedly see Bras try to call his buddy on his cell (which is what we’d all do), and be disappointed when it just rolls to voice mail.  Haven’t we all been in that situation:  Calling a friend who you’re worried about, having their phone roll to voice mail and thinking in the back of your mind….”That’s exactly what the phone would do if ______________ happened.”  It is just amazing how well Ba and Moon are able to find these little parts of life and then use them to build drama and a story.  They are also masters of facial expression and body language.  Daytripper could almost be a silent comic in places and you would still know what is going on.