Bogart Creek, Vol. 3 by Derek Evernden

There's not a whole lot I can say about this 2022 collection of Derek Evernden's Bogart Creek strip that I didn't already say about the 2019 Vol. 1 or the 2020 Vol. 2. Evernden is a Canadian cartoonist and illustrator - he grew up near the eponymous creek in Ontario, and now lives out on the rolling prairies of Alberta - and his strip is a dark (very dark) and often morbid single-panel with jokes that aren't as Canadian as you might expect. 

(For one random example, near the front of the book, that I just flipped to: Booty Call of Cthulhu. I'll let you imagine the drawing - or, better yet, get this or one of his other books. You can even buy them direct from the author.)

So what distinguishes Bogart Creek, Vol. 3 from its two predecessors is mostly that it has 132 new and different single-panel gags. Evernden doesn't have continuing characters, or even common situations all that much - Bogart Creek is fairly pure single-panel, very much in the post-Far Side mode, so every gag stands all by itself. That makes for fine reading, since Evernden is possessed of an impressively capacious imagination for mayhem and irony.

But, unless I start quoting some of my favorite gags, it doesn't leave a reviewer a lot of room. This is funny, it's very dark most of the time, and Vol. 3 is consistently as good as the previous books. If you like dark humor and single-panel cartoons, check out one of the Bogart Creek collections.