diff --git a/extra/xkcd/xkcd.factor b/extra/xkcd/xkcd.factor
index 0c55bfb119..e6c356daae 100644
--- a/extra/xkcd/xkcd.factor
+++ b/extra/xkcd/xkcd.factor
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 ! Copyright (C) 2011 John Benediktsson
 ! See http://factorcode.org/license.txt for BSD license
 
-USING: accessors formatting html.parser html.parser.analyzer
-html.parser.printer http.client images.http images.viewer
-images.viewer.prettyprint io io.streams.string kernel parser
-prettyprint.custom prettyprint.sections regexp sequences strings
-ui wrap.strings ;
+USING: accessors formatting html.entities html.parser
+html.parser.analyzer html.parser.printer http.client images.http
+images.viewer images.viewer.prettyprint io io.streams.string
+kernel parser prettyprint.custom prettyprint.sections regexp
+sequences strings ui wrap.strings ;
 
 IN: xkcd
 
@@ -22,7 +22,8 @@ IN: xkcd
 : comic-text ( url -- string )
     http-get nip parse-html
     "transcript" find-by-id-between
-    [ html-text. ] with-string-writer ;
+    [ html-text. ] with-string-writer
+    html-unescape ;
 
 : comic-text. ( url -- )
     comic-text 80 wrap-string print ;