De Kiekeboes #127

Volume 127 of the beloved Belgian series De Kiekeboes arrives with a typically lively cover: two uniformed soldiers on a motorcycle with sidecar come barreling along, stars and sparks flying as they're apparently just clipped by — or chasing — a rattling vintage automobile in the background. The album's title, De Pepermunten ("The Peppermints"), promises that Merko has cooked up another delightfully absurd caper for the Kiekeboe family. Published by Standaard Uitgeverij in 2011, this is the kind of energetic, warm-hearted Flemish comics entertainment that has kept readers coming back to this long-running series for decades.