![]() And any extremely online Tom, Dick and Larry who’ve made being funny their personality owes a debt to Kate Beaton.īecause of Hark I think our generation has earned, to some degree, to engage with history and popular culture in a tongue-in-cheek way, and boil down complex narratives and mythologies into things we can laugh at. I’ve gotten so much serotonin from Hark’s brilliance that I’m practically in debt. I wonder what’d be going up on Hark if Kate Beaton decided to make a comic about the new Little Women movie. Or what about Beaton’s comic on Pope John Paul II? There’s a palpable glee that comes with reading a Hark! A Vagrant comic, the kind that makes you wanna read it out loud.Įverything Kate Beaton does is a comedy chef’s kiss, from her characters’ facial expressions to the way she makes people in period outfits deploy colloquial language. Or what about “What if your wife orbits my dick?”Iconic panel. ![]() Who could forget such hits as Ooh Mister Darcy? The comic is a masterwork, nailing every single stereotype about Pride and Prejudice while providing you an easy template upon which you could place your favorite ship, and let the sheer prowess of their love rip bodices off of anyone within a 20 miles radius. ![]() Even though it likely appealed most to peeps with history degrees, Hark! A Vagrant was for everybody. ![]() Most of the other webcomics were gamer-targeted content, like Awkward Zombie (still active and still high quality), Penny Arcade (meh), and Ctrl+Alt+Del, whose induction into memedom is undeniable. ![]()
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