DirkJan #23

Mark Retera's long-running Dutch humor strip reaches its 23rd collection, and the cover sets a wonderfully atmospheric tone: Dirkjan and his rotund, white-bearded companion pick their way through a skull-lined stone catacomb, the old man holding up a green lantern to light the eerie passage. It's a charmingly absurd sight — these two very ordinary-looking fellows surrounded by walls stacked high with bones and grinning skulls — which captures exactly the deadpan comic spirit that has kept this series going strong into 2017.