Some of my favorites include Sherlock Holmes and his Watsons, pirate nemeses, and the various French Revolution figures. There are the occasional themed strips - such as her exercise in guessing the plots of novels with covers drawn by Edward Gorey or Nancy Drew novels based solely on the jacket art - and certain characters will reappear, depending on their popularity with readers. (Case in point, when Tycho Brache responds to Johannes Kepler's suggestion of the earth orbiting the sun with ' What if your wife orbits my dick.') Beaton expects her audience to be educated and to pick up on her clues as she's not about to waste time and valuable comic-space explaining subtleties to you. The subject of her comics usually find their origins in literature or history, even if the interactions shown here may not have actually happened.

I first came to know Kate Beaton's work after discovering her ' Dude Watchin' with the Brontes' strip, where Emily and Charlotte ogle assholes and when Anne identifies them as such, her sisters respond 'No wonder nobody buys your books.' This might be her most famous strip and it kicks off the collection, but all of her work is like this - smart, funny, and rather irreverent. Go rectify the situation immediately and while you're at it, go buy Kate Beaton's first book Hark! A Vagrant, a compilation of comics from the site with some book-exclusive comics tossed in to the mix. If you have not yet been exposed to then I can only surmise that all the time you've spent on the internet to date has been wasted.

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