I feel super bad about this review. Kate Beaton deserves my best words, because she is a wonderful, smart, creative genius who produces such sassy and perfect art.
But I super read this in the middle of the night during a Read-a-thon, and other than remembering that I laughed frequently, loudly, and obnoxiously, I remember NOTHING about this book. I mean, the entirety of my oh so helpful Goodreads review after reading was, “This book wasn’t long enough.” THANKS A BUNCH, ASHLEY.
If you aren’t familiar with Hark! A Vagrant, what are you even doing with your life. Check out this book, or her previous collection (which was just called Hark! A Vagrant), or just drop by her site and peruse any old comic at all. It’s a great mix of silly nonsense, historical sassiness, and poking fun at literature.
Anyway here are some fun comics:
I love “House Full of Mulders”. Much as I love Kate Beaton (and I do, because I’m not CRAZY) I actually liked her first book better. Some of the stuff in this just didn’t work that well for me.
I would ask you which ones didn’t work, but I fear I wouldn’t remember them anyway!
While I loved her Jane Eyre and Hamlet comics in the last book, the Wuthering Heights one in this one didn’t do much for me. Also the Founding Fathers doing stuff, less fun than they could have been.
I remember the Wuthering Heights one! I quite liked it. I love it when she makes fun of Heathcliff.