A Baby Blues Collection #21

The twenty-first Baby Blues Scrapbook from Rick Kirkman and Jerry Scott delivers another heaping helping of the chaotic warmth that makes this strip such a joy. The cover says it all: a wide-eyed, teeth-clenched mom looks on in barely contained horror as three chocolate-smeared kids — a toddler, an older redhead, and a crawling baby — charge gleefully in her direction, leaving a trail of chocolatey evidence behind them. It's the kind of perfectly observed parenting moment that'll have readers laughing in recognition before they've even opened the first page.