The Scumbag #1

A scruffy, cigarette-dangling antihero fills the frame in this French-language collection from Urban Comics, his aviator sunglasses reflecting twin mushroom clouds that hint at the world-ending stakes somehow resting on his thoroughly unqualified shoulders. Rick Remender, Lewis LaRosa, Andrew Robinson, Roland Boschi, and Wes Craig bring readers The Scumbag: Tome 1 — Cocaïnefinger, a gleefully irreverent spy series that finds comedy and chaos in the most unlikely of heroes. It's the kind of premise that shouldn't work — and yet the sheer audacity of it makes this 2022 release hard to put down.