Avni #2

From Romain Pujol and Vincent Caut comes this cheerful BD Kids volume subtitled Un super-copain! — and the cover absolutely sells that promise. Center stage, Avni — a grinning, blue, long-armed creature in a striped shirt — leaps with pure joy, arms flung wide, surrounded by a colorful crew of animal pals including a small panda, a pink cat, a turtle, a lizard, and a chameleon, all set against a bright red backdrop scattered with little fish and confetti. It's the kind of 2015 all-ages comics energy that makes you smile before you've even cracked the spine.