Chapter by Chapter features me reading one chapter of the selected book at the time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as read-along book club.
Well, here we are. Last time we saw Pocket Vinyl complete their quest to play 50 states in less than 50 days, unofficially breaking that record. The final time: 44 Days, 13 Hours, 50 Minutes. Remember that the duo Devon Allman and Donavon Frankenreiter went for a 49 state tour in 2023 while the official record was held by Adam Brodsky. So if accurate, it means they actually win, but due to the requirements to get recorded by Guinness it’s unofficial.
However, we can’t end there. We saw them complete their tour in Hawaii, but in 45 days (rounded goal) we also saw them go through the stresses of the tour, throat issues, and the ups and downs of each venue and place to sleep. Elizabeth especially chronicled the toll it was taking on her sanity. That means we have to see how they got over what they went through so that they’re still together and still touring and performing today.
This is also the chapter where we finally get to the misprint of the “Misprint Edition”, the reason I even have a copy because the dude who ran the comic store thought I’d like it. Turns out he was right. Due to this misprint they had to redo all the copies, but because they already had a huge stack of the misprinted books they opted to give them out in the hopes of getting good reviews. In addition to my comic store they gave them to libraries and those “give one/take one” street libraries, printing out the corrected page and shoving it into the book. Was that necessary? We’ll find the answer to that as well as we look at chapter 11, the final chapter of this graphic novel.
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