This isn't the best of Ball's Footroot Flats cartoons, but it's still a fun and likeable read. Dog is as simultaneously kind and cowardly as he ever is, and there's a heavy focus in this collection on the gleefully violent Horse, who I always enjoy - Horse the cat has been my favourite Flats character since forever. As always, though, the charm of the Dog and his friends lies in the subject and setting: rural New Zealand farm life, where the objects of importance are sheep, cows, tree-planting (the Dog is an inveterate conservationist), and trying to get one over on pampered little Prince Charles, Aunt Dolly's useless corgi.

(Re)read as part of Book Riot's 2018 Read Harder challenge: a comic that isn't published by Marvel, DC, or Image.

Eat the custard, Dog. You'll like it.