About Face, Beetle Bailey #5256

A boat teetering at the edge of a massive waterfall sets the perfectly absurd tone for this 1984 Berkley Books collection of Mort Walker's beloved newspaper strip. The cover captures Beetle Bailey and Sergeant Snorkel perched in their wooden vessel, completely oblivious — or perhaps resigned — to the plunge ahead, which pretty much sums up life at Camp Swampy. If the promise of roaring "with laughter at Beetle and his buddies and their crazy capers" sounds appealing, this pocket paperback delivers exactly that kind of cheerful military mayhem.