I Hate Fairyland Book One

LIBRARY JOURNAL – Once upon a time, a little girlnamed Gertrude made a wish to visit Fairyland, a fantasy kingdom filled withmagic and the promise of endless adventure. Queen Cloudia, ruler of Fairyland,granted Gertrude’s wish and charged her with a quest to retrieve a key thatwould allow her to return home. Twenty-seven years later, an ageless, immortalGertrude has been driven mad by her ceaseless wanderings, which are less andless a mission and more of a bloody rampage across the kingdom. Tired of seeingher subjects disemboweled but bound by magical law against doing away withGertrude herself, Queen Cloudia plots to throw a series of obstacles in her way.Collecting the first ten issues of an ongoing series, this volume opens withGertrude killing an anthropomorphic moon via cannon and only gets more berserkfrom there. Creator Young (Rocket Raccoon) has a knack forbrutally funny dialog and presents the action in a candy-colored, supercutestyle, making fountains of blood simultaneously horrifying and a little bitcharming.Verdict Gory, endlesslyinventive, and often laugh-out-loud funny.-Tom Batten, Grafton,VA

Skottie Young got his start at Marvel on titles like Spider-Man: Legend of the Spider Clan, Human Torch, and Venom. He soon began adapting the L. Frank Baum Land of Oz novels at Marvel with Eric Shanower. He is best known for writing and drawing the hit series Rocket Raccoon, illustrating the children’s book Fortunately, The Milk by Neil Gaiman, and the Young Marvel variant covers. He’s also the cartoonist of I Hate Fairyland and writer/co-creator of Middlewest and The Me You Love in the Dark with artist/co-creator Jorge Corona, and artist/co-creator of Twig with writer Kyle Strahm.