Guust chronologisch #18

This Dutch-language collection brings together more anarchic misadventures of Gaston Lagaffe — known here as Guust — in a handsome Dupuis hardcover. The cover, signed by Franquin, sets the tone perfectly: Guust stands grinning amid the wreckage of a thoroughly crumpled car while a flustered uniformed officer looks on in exasperation, and even the seagull gets in on the chaos with a gleeful "HIHIHAAARRHH." It's a warm reminder of why Franquin's lovably disaster-prone office slacker has charmed readers for generations.