Middle School Misadventures #2

The second volume of Jason Platt's Middle School Misadventures arrives with a perfectly chaotic cover: a kid dangling upside-down on a rope, arms flailing, eyes wide — all in pursuit of a single tan hat resting tantalizingly on the ground below. "Operation: Hat Heist!" promises the kind of gloriously absurd school-age scheming that makes this series such a delight, and Platt's cartooning captures the slapstick energy with loose, expressive linework that's impossible not to grin at.