Les Gendarmes #8

The eighth volume of this beloved French comedy series delivers another round of slapstick chaos with the title Permis cuit à point ! — a punny promise of driving-test mayhem right from the start. The cover sets the tone perfectly: a battered yellow car has crashed into a fire hydrant, its hapless driver clutching a booklet behind the wheel, while one gendarme looks on in weary exasperation and another goes flying through the air amid a shower of debris. Published by Bamboo Édition in 2005, this is lighthearted Franco-Belgian humor at its most gleefully anarchic.