It’s been weeks on the island, alone in the endless sea. In your peripheral vision, gremlins scamper up the lone palm tree. Coconuts and crabs ridicule your ragged pants. The sand smells like cake. One morning a crate washes up on the beach. It looks real, but you’ve been fooled before. You pry at the wooden planks with your bare hands until the contents are revealed: minicomics. 40 pages of desert island gags by 19 cartoon castaways.

Continuing where the 2007 anthology of the same name left off, it’s a quarterly series of fantasy stories in all kinds of styles by indy/small-press artists, edited by François Vigneault. Issue #1 features Ben Costa, Eve Englezos, Davis Enos, Alec Longstreth, Josh Moutray, J.R. Parks, Grant Reynolds, Jane Samborski, and Dash Shaw, with a stunning cover by Sammy Harkham. Issue #2: Marek Bennett, Englezos, Dylan Horrocks, Moutray, Matthew Reidsma, Daria Tessler, Jeremy Tinder, and Vigneault, with another scrumptious cover by Tessler.

If you thought our other collections of five-minute comics were silly, they were — but these are sillier. Andrice Arp, Jesse Reklaw, Nate Beaty, and Levon Jihanian trade hasty riffs on random phrases. The results are alternately surreal, obscene, and just plain dumb, but the kind of dumb we like.