Bloom County: The Complete Library, Volume 3 Book

Another great collection of Breathed's middle years of his initial 10-year run of Bloom County. This one covers the '84 election and plenty of other seminal moments of 1980s politics and pop culture. And as with the other collections, it's amazing (and sometimes downright frightening) how much of the social commentary is still completely relevant, even over 30 years later.

This collection actually includes the first sets of strips that I hadn't previously seen, either during their original newspaper publication or in collected editions. I found myself laughing out loud every few pages, which is about all one can ask from a comic strip. Of course, Bloom County always offered so much more, and Vol. 3 gives you the substance and heart that made the strip one of the all-time greats.