Les Pompiers #17

Volume 17 of Cazenove and Stédo's beloved French comedy series brings "Les preuves du feu," and the cover sets the tone perfectly — a fully geared-up firefighter stands beside a sheepish civilian in shorts, both dwarfed by a spectacular wall of orange flames consuming a hilltop villa, while a yellow water-bomber swoops in overhead and a smoldering barbecue sits at their feet. The scene says everything about the series' signature humor: catastrophic fires meeting gloriously mundane causes. Bamboo Édition's long-running hit continues to find fresh laughs in the heroic (and sometimes thankless) world of the pompiers.