Reviews tagging 'Gun violence'

Daytripper by Gabriel Bá, Fábio Moon

6 reviews

bt_wannabe's review

emotional reflective fast-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Using gorgeous graphics this story will cause you to reflect on what gives your life meaning, what it means to wait for your life to begin, and the reality that death is both unpredictable and inevitable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide, Death, Gun violence, Murder, Violence, and Self harm

Moderate: Child death and Death of parent

Minor: Sexual content

chaoticnostalgia's review

reflective relaxing slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

Feeling like I will be thinking about this for a while, but can't figure out how much I liked it. I'm definitely feeling existential.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Suicide, Death of parent, Violence, Gun violence, Grief, and Murder

Moderate: Medical content, Cancer, Misogyny, and Sexual content

Minor: Pregnancy

chandlerkl's review

challenging emotional hopeful inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Self harm, Pregnancy, Grief, Car accident, Fire/Fire injury, Suicide, Death, Death of parent, Medical content, Murder, and Gun violence

mamatoca's review

emotional reflective fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

I loved how the art contributed to the story and built the world for this character's grappling with his mortality. It felt gritty and authentic.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cursing

Minor: Blood, Car accident, Terminal illness, Gun violence, Child death, Medical content, and Pregnancy

clarabooksit's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

The art is fraught with loneliness, uncertainty and desire. It’s dark and often ugly with pockets of beautiful scenery and prose. I liked the exploration of death and what it means to live, how each chapter built on the last, and the way the main character’s relationship with his father shapes much of his character as well as the story. 

 

Having said that, there was this blatantly masculine romanticism on display that was very off-putting. There are very few female characters and they’re all foils for the hero, never actualized as characters themselves. Even his eventual wife is only depicted as the vessel for his happiness and the mother of his son. All of the deep and meaningful relationships the hero has are with other men. There’s nothing necessarily wrong with that, but for a story lacking in female characters, it would’ve been nice to see one of them as an actual person. 

 

Additionally, while I initially loved the friendship between the hero and his best friend, the way it ended was awful and strange. I’m not sure how to process it. 

 

Overall, I liked the non-linear storytelling and the way it built the story. I didn’t like what I can only describe as overtly male romanticism. But I think I’d still recommend it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Car accident, Death, Grief, Gun violence, Murder, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual content

jenniferthinks's review

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

The storytelling in this graphic novel is lovely, but I gotta say, the thing that stood out to me the absolute most was the use of color. I have never been drawn to the color choices in graphic novel ever before, as much as I have in this one. It's truly art on every page. Pay attention to the sky. Notice how it changes with the mood. It's really, really well done. 

And it's the only story of its kind that I've read before. I smiled, I cried. The story really worked.

The only thing I didn't much appreciate about the story is...

how underdeveloped the non-men characters are. I understand the choice, because it's from the main character's point of view, but I feel like there could have been more done there to make it feel like the women were really people, who have depth, and aren't just mysterious or surface level characters.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gun violence, Addiction, Blood, Cancer, Death, Death of parent, Terminal illness, Self harm, Murder, Grief, and Car accident

Moderate: Child death, Medical content, and Mental illness