Awesome / Hark! A Vagrant

• Kate Beaton managed to do a guest strip for Penny Arcade. With much Ho Yay.
  • She also brings babies back from the dead.
• Laura Secord vs. Paul Revere: Fight of the Century!
• And the wingspan of an ALBATROSS!^note  AND THE LEFT HOOK OF A HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMP!
• Chiune Sugihara: Badass.
• Katherine Sui Fun Cheung. Who is Top Gun? She is.
• The Ida B. Wells comic. The entire thing. Even more so when you find out that this is only a fraction of the awesome things this badass lady did in her life.
  • Probably best summed up in this strip:
  Ida's husband: I can't believe our friends have been murdered. I can't believe we need three coffins.
  Ida: I'm going to write about it.
  Ida's husband: I can't believe we need four coffins?
  Ida: Find a pen.
  • And of course, the first one:
  Conductor: Ma'am, you'll have to leave the white car.
  Ida: It's a lady's car and I'm a lady.
  Conductor: (struggling to physically force Ida off the train) Ma'am get off!
  Ida: You get off!
  Passenger: Well I don't know what anyone thinks they're going to prove by making a fuss about giving up seats on public transit.
  Conductor: She bit me!
• Stompin' Tom Connors vs the Music Industry. When told that his legendary country music isn't enough, and to make it more "American" (he's Canadian), he's got this to say:
  Stompin' Tom Connors: Maybe I don't want to [make music for you]! Yeah, I got six national awards right here, you can have 'em back! Everyone in this country knows my name and my songs and you want to tell me that's not enough? Go to hell!
  Text Box: What are you gonna do then, Stompin' Tom?
  Stompin' Tom Connors: Guess I'll put the country under my feet again. Least I'll stand for something when I'm on it.
• The first strip of her comic about Karl Henrich Ulrichs, about to address an assembly on striking down anti-LGBT laws... in 1867.
  Ulrich: [thinking] There is still time not to do this. You can still just not do this and be silent. Then the palpitations of your heart would cease.
  Ulrich: [out loud] Gentlemen.
• Kate decides to stop using so much Self-Deprecation. The result is truly awesome.
  [The title of the comic is KATE BEATON STOP BEING SO HARD ON YOURSELF]
  Kate: What? Oh...OK. Everything I do is magnificent. [to passing young man] Gaze upon this comic that I made. [He breaks down crying] That's right. [looks off, sees crying woman holding baby] What's wrong?
  Crying Woman: My baby! My baby has died.
  Kate: [takes the baby and cradles it in her arms for a moment, looking sad. In the next frame she hands the now laughing baby to the amazed woman ] Did it?
  [End title: SEE WHAT YOU HAVE DONE]

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