DirkJan #21

Mark Retera's long-running Dutch strip reaches its 21st collection, and the cover sets the tone perfectly: a hulking, scowling bruiser lands a haymaker square on an unfortunate soul in a striped shirt, sending teeth and spit flying, while a shaggy-haired tough and a squat, sneering figure look on inside what appears to be the decidedly unglamorous "Sleeze Tequi[la]" bar. It's the kind of cheerfully anarchic, cartoonishly exaggerated mayhem that has kept DirkJan a beloved fixture of Dutch comics for years. If you enjoy humor with a rough-and-tumble edge, this 2015 volume delivers it in spades.