![]() Generally though, Step Aside, Pops was tremendously enjoyable and genuinely hilarious. As was the extended strip of Nasty Boys from an old Janet Jackson video - quirky but kinda dull. A lot of the historical strips are ok at best and don’t produce belly laughs - Juarez and Maximilian, the Rum Rebellion, and the Last Days of Georges Danton were all meh. I haven’t read the classic Japanese novel Kokoro so the parody wasn’t as fun as Wuthering Heights for me. So much greatness in this book: the velocipedestrienne (she’s on the cover), snippets from old mag Idler, spooky postcards, Nancy/Gorey covers - fantastic pieces all. Fan favourites from the first book like Napoleon, Peasant Comics and Nemesis return - love those - and the Femme Fatale parody was brilliant too. Lady’s Favor, about a knight who chops off a woman’s hair to wear on his, is ridiculously good. Some of Beaton’s best stuff is just random mashups like Pride and Prejudice where all the men are Fox Mulder and Liz is Scully. ![]() Straw Feminists in the Closet is a great satirical piece too. I’m not going to say anything more on them, just read it and cry laughter like I did. The funniest strip was Strong Female Characters with their catchphrase “Sexism is over”. Marvel/DC, you seriously need to hire Beaton to write for you! My goddamned way.” Brown Recluse Spider-Man is also my favourite version of the character. Lois tries to do her job despite Clark continually butting in to ask her if she wants to know Superman’s secret identity and then she loses her rag. Ben Franklin is so awesome, I loved his silly one-liners - “I can dig it” - and how he's written like a hipster.īeaton’s pissed off Wonder Woman remains the undisputed greatest version of the character but I also loved her Lois Lane, Reporter, strips. Her version of Wuthering Heights is hysterical with permanently scowling lunatic Heathcliff and dim Cathy playing out their demented romance in Northern England - if only the actual book had been this entertaining! The Black Prince is a great strip where the teen terror talks like a yoof of today, and the US Founding Fathers go to a mall and an amusement park to hang out. Kate Beaton returns with a second collection of strips from her brilliant website, Hark! A Vagrant!, in Step Aside, Pops, and it’s as funny and inspired as the first collection was!īeaton’s strips range from historical and literary references to superhero comics parodies, to random bits of comedy and riffs on old book/magazine covers, posters and postcards.
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