Daytripper - A day in a man's death

Each comic I read for this class seems so vastly different from the last. Each week we group comics together in attempt to find a pattern within genrés, but after sampling several foreign comics such as the Nikopol Trilogy (Enki Bilal), Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi), and Daytripper (Gabriel Bá / Fábio Moon), I'm fairly convinced that any comic, any story, depends on the individual that writes it.

I've made this point due to the uniqueness of storytelling I found in Daytripper. As the reader looks into the life Bras, we get to know him day by day, scene by scene if you will, each which ends tragically in Bras death. His death at the end of each chapter does not affect his life's story: that is to say, each chapter reveals more about his life's story, even though he should already be dead chronologically speaking. The story resets at the start of every chapter, as if he did not die.

What is the point of this odd repeated dying of the main character if it does not actually affect the story? I believe it accomplishes two things. The protagonist's life is not incredibly exciting; it's rather ordinary and relate-able, like reading a biography. His death brings a sudden and odd end to each  section, and the reader can't help but wonder, "How will he die next time?" and continues reading the comic. However, I believe Bá and Moon's main purpose in killing Bras at different stages in his life is to make us think. By having a story so easy to relate too, we can easily compare Bras trials, tribulations, and thoughts to times in our own lives. Having said that, what if we died at 32? 21? 28? Would I be content at that time in my life? Would I be in a bad place? Did I chase my dream--should I be brave and chase my dream before settling into a boring casual existence...?

Questions like these begin to circulate in the reader's head. I believe the point of Daytripper is to give the reader appreciation for every day they are alive, and to live doing things we love.