Gaston #20

Gaston Lagaffe is in peak chaotic form on this light-blue cover, balancing improbably on a racing bicycle while jumping rope — the satisfying TCHOING TCHOING of the skipping rope filling the air as a group of bewildered onlookers watches on in disbelief. Volume 20 of Carlsen Comics' German-language edition collects more of the lovable office slacker's gloriously ill-fated adventures under the fitting title Sportskanone ("sports ace"). If you've ever suspected that athleticism and disaster belong in the same sentence, Franquin's endlessly charming creation is here to prove you absolutely right.