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.
For those of you who missed last week’s reveal, you may find it odd that I’m using a graphic novel. Usually this article series features fictional prose rather than a autobiographical comic. Well, it’s a bit long for me to sit down and read all at once. The size of a usual omnibus trade collection, this was something I ended up with at Free Comic Book Day, a “misprint” edition of an account of the band Pocket Vinyl as they try to break a record by doing 50 concerts in 50 days across all 50 states. Personally I want to see how they got to Hawaii and Alaska and made the deadline.
I’ve been to their website and their music is not to my taste, though the idea that the band performs while the pianist’s wife paints live on stage sound interesting. There’s also a webcomic in the same art style (Elisabeth Jancewicz is the artist and Eric Stevenson the co-writer of the book) but you need to be on Instagram to read it, and it’s just another service I’d do little to nothing with. Scanning these pages is a bit difficult seeing that it’s bound the normal way books are, so unlike a Scanning My Collection article I probably won’t have images. I don’t want to damage the book whether I keep it post-review or not. I got it free and I wouldn’t sell it (unless the misprint edition is somehow worth a ton of money now, it just wouldn’t feel right and even that’s only because I need money right now), but either way having it in good readable condition is important. Maybe I’ll steal a scan from someone else if I have a text wall. Speaking of which, let’s break this one and review chapter 1 of 11.
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