Hark, a Vagrant! The Return of the Watsons

[espanolbot]

In honour of Stephen Moffat and Mark Gatiss' excellent Sherlock Holmes mini series ending last Sunday, and hopefully returning for a second season, here's this.

The sequel to Kate Beaton's previous Sherlock strip,


Also this one, 'cause I think it's funny,

Comments

[glprime]

Canadian All Literature EVER.

KTHXBAI

[darkblade]

No you can tell it's Canadian due to the mentions of snow and prairies.

[jlroberson]

And the drinking and that it's a metaphor for their marriage.

You can actually find a lot of these tropes in CEREBUS, though more toward the end(GOING HOME on). I remember the Journal had an article a while back placing CEREBUS in the context of Canadian literature. Imagine my shock. Though aware of Canadian writers, I wasn't aware there was a set of tropes that characterized CanLit specifically.

Although learning those tropes absolutely did not interest me in exploring CanLit. To be honest? Sounded dreary.

[colonel_green]

That strip seems very Alice Munro in terms of the authors being referenced.

Of the big names I'm familiar with, most of those don't really fit - Davies (my favourite), Richler, Atwood.

[colonel_green]

Well, Davies wrote a whole trilogy around the consequences of a thrown snowball, but other than that (which was, incidentally, terrific).

[sunaya]

Hagar's creepy stare will forever haunt my nightmares.

[autumn_lily]

I was thinking that expression would be great for a 'what the fresh hell is this' icon. Or maybe something vaguely threatening and ominous.

[althechi]

I think this works for the former.

Like this?

[autumn_lily]

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[althechi]

Maybe this? Shorter and more to the point.

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[autumn_lily]

I like that too.

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[yaseen101]

Oohm may I steal it?

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[autumn_lily]

If you wish.

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[yaseen101]

Thanks.

[yvonmukluk]

That comic reminds me of the illustrations for the How to Train your Dragon books, only it's terrifying to small children. And teenagers. And adults. And-well, anyone with a soul.

[blackruzsa]

Gay Watson.
What a mystery XD

[shadowpsykie]

no mystery at all, some of that shit was pretty blatant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkp9pPuN2gQ
it actually has its own trope page :)
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/HoYay/SherlockHolmes

[caeliluminar]

I must print the Watson comics out and put them on my cupboard door. Sherlock's expression in the gay Watson painting cracks me up.

[neuhallidae]

I wonder, is Jam Watson's expression when he looks at that painting just an example of how puppylike he is, or does he have just enough brain to wish that was him in the painting instead of yet another Watson? ::flees::

[glprime]

I know Original Watson's expression in the fourth panel is "...and why are you always going out in country clothes? We're in the middle of a heat wave in LONDON."

[psychopathicus_rex]

I'm guessing it's an example of 'hey, look! Holmes! Look, smart Watson, I found Holmes! Want jam now."

[halloweenjack]

I vote for puppylike. Jam Watson's expression there is the woobiest thing I've seen in ages.

[psychopathicus_rex]

An indefinite amount, Smart Watson. An indefinite amount. You'll never meet them all.

[cainofdreaming]

Wow. Canadian literature is so much like Finnish literature. Only less prairie and more endless forests and lakes. And less vast emptiness and more filled with angry wolves, bears and moose who want to eat us.

Yes, even the moose.

[insectposse]

her Atlantic Canadian literature comic is pretty funny, too.

http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff28/beatonna/eastcoastlitsm.png

[tacobob]

I just love how the letters magically appear on heir chests..Just like the original book! :D

[meatwhichdreams]

Goddammit, Kate Beaton AND Sherlock Holmes AND the gay, it's just not fair, this is too unbelievably awesome.

Did anybody catch her comics in the New Yorker lately? I don't think she's mentioned them in her blog, but there they are! Good for her, getting paid with real money.

[kingrockwell]

She'd mentioned them on Twitter, at least.

[meatwhichdreams]

Oh, that sneaky Beaton. :D

[dejadrew]

Oh, lord. Flashbacks to my Canadian Theatre History course. So much of this.

My school put on two of Gwen Pharis Ringwood's plays. There was the one where it's winter on the prairie and there's a blizzard and it's a metaphor for the coldness between the farmer and his unmarried sister and she lets her brother and sister-in-law go out into the storm without enough lamp oil so they'll get lost and freeze to death and then the howling winds are a metaphor for her MADNESS.

It was followed up by the one where it's spring on the prairie and the farmer's wife nearly leaves him for his city brother but she doesn't because the spring flowers breaking through the dead frozen earth are a metaphor for how there's still hope for their cold lifeless marriage.

We are a deeply depressing people.

[empyrean]

That comic never fails to make me smile - 'GAY WATSON!'

'and hopefully returning for a second season' YES PLEASE. I want more stalker-y Mycroft and more camp-yet-creepy Moriarty.

That canadian literature strip reminds me of my welsh literature one - mostly MINES and HARD WINTER and BASTARD ENGLISH.