Les Pétanqueurs #2

The sun-soaked beach setting says it all — Les Pétanqueurs is back for a second round of pétanque-fueled comedy from Cazenove and Curd Ridel. The cover puts three wonderfully expressive characters front and center: a heavyset fellow mid-throw with gleeful abandon, flanked by a lanky companion reeling in dizzy stars and a bespectacled friend clutching a boule with wide-eyed wariness. Published by Bamboo Édition in 2006, this second volume — subtitled Oh, peuchère ! — promises the kind of sun-drenched, slapstick Southern French humor that makes the series such a cheerful read.