Step Aside, Pops - The Library of the Uncommons

Hardcover, 160 pages

English language

Published Nov. 7, 2015 by Drawn and Quarterly.

ISBN:: 978-1-77046-208-3

(1 review)

Ida B. Wells, the Black Prince, and Benito Juárez burst off the pages of Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! A Vagrant Collection, armed with modern-sounding quips and amusingly on-point repartee. Kate Beaton's second D+Q book brings her hysterically funny gaze to bear on these and even more historical, literary, and contemporary figures. Irreverently funny and carefully researched, no target is safe from Beaton's incisive wit in these satirical strips.

Beaton began her infectiously popular web comic, Hark! A Vagrant, in 2007 and it quickly attracted the adoration of hundreds of thousands of fans. It was an unequivocal hit with critics and fans alike, topping best-of-the-year lists from E!, Amazon, Time, and more. Now Beaton returns with a refined pen, ready to make jokes at the expense of hunks, army generals, scientists, and Canadians in equal measure. With a few carefully placed lines, she captures the over-the-top evil of the straw …

Ida B. Wells, the Black Prince, and Benito Juárez burst off the pages of Step Aside, Pops: A Hark! A Vagrant Collection, armed with modern-sounding quips and amusingly on-point repartee. Kate Beaton's second D+Q book brings her hysterically funny gaze to bear on these and even more historical, literary, and contemporary figures. Irreverently funny and carefully researched, no target is safe from Beaton's incisive wit in these satirical strips.

Beaton began her infectiously popular web comic, Hark! A Vagrant, in 2007 and it quickly attracted the adoration of hundreds of thousands of fans. It was an unequivocal hit with critics and fans alike, topping best-of-the-year lists from E!, Amazon, Time, and more. Now Beaton returns with a refined pen, ready to make jokes at the expense of hunks, army generals, scientists, and Canadians in equal measure. With a few carefully placed lines, she captures the over-the-top evil of the straw feminists in the closet, the disgruntled dismay of Heathcliff, and Wonder Woman's all-conquering ennui. Step Aside, Pops is sure to be the comedic hit of the year: sharp, insightful, and very funny.

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Literally Graphic reviewed Step Aside, Pops by Kate Beaton

Review of 'Step Aside, Pops' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

While I feel a bit silly giving both of these anthologies 4/5 stars, I do feel like Beaton continues to delivery above and beyond what I expect. Not only do we see more variety in style in this volume, we also get cool endpapers, many more interesting parts of history I had never even thought of before and more feminism!

To recap what we all already know, Kate Beaton writes a lot of really great strip comics that deal with everything from history, literature to pop culture and fairy tales. She makes far off people on pedestals feel real and hilarious. In her capable hands neither history or literature could ever be called dusty or boring. Beaton clearly has a driving passion for all of these subjects (and no doubt many more) and she ingeniously turns anyone who gives her half a chance to her cause. Her jokes are fresh …

While I feel a bit silly giving both of these anthologies 4/5 stars, I do feel like Beaton continues to delivery above and beyond what I expect. Not only do we see more variety in style in this volume, we also get cool endpapers, many more interesting parts of history I had never even thought of before and more feminism!

To recap what we all already know, Kate Beaton writes a lot of really great strip comics that deal with everything from history, literature to pop culture and fairy tales. She makes far off people on pedestals feel real and hilarious. In her capable hands neither history or literature could ever be called dusty or boring. Beaton clearly has a driving passion for all of these subjects (and no doubt many more) and she ingeniously turns anyone who gives her half a chance to her cause. Her jokes are fresh and punchy and you will come away from this having learned at least one thing you didn't already know about history.