Gwandanaland Comics #354

This Gwandanaland Comics treasury collects issue No. 24 of The Captain and the Kids, and the reprinted cover sets the tone perfectly — two mustachioed, sombrero-wearing kids are gleefully dodging school, declaring they have "pie rustling to do," while an authority figure gets comically flattened in the chaos near a little red schoolhouse. It's warm, slapstick fun rooted in the timeless appeal of kids outwitting grown-ups, and seeing it gathered into a treasury format makes the humor feel as fresh in 2019 as it ever did. A charming pick for fans of classic newspaper-strip comedy and early funny-animal-adjacent comics.