Another volume in the wildly entertaining, historically accurate Flashman series, this one set in Queen Ranavalona's Madagascar. After fighting pirates, fending off the Queen, chasing women and taking charge of the Malagasy army, our cowardly rogue escapes to safety with his not-so-adventurous (and obviously deluded) wife. Fraser's real-life characters include James Brooks, pirate-hunter of the South Seas.  (MAD34, $16.00)