{"id":34266,"date":"2025-11-14T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T09:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=34266"},"modified":"2025-11-13T17:53:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T17:53:37","slug":"i-hate-fairyland-volume-1-madly-ever-after-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2025\/11\/14\/i-hate-fairyland-volume-1-madly-ever-after-2\/","title":{"rendered":"I Hate Fairyland volume 1: Madly Ever After"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Skottie Young<\/strong>, Jean-Francois Beaulieu<\/strong>, Blambot\u00ae\u2019s Nate Piekos <\/strong>& various (Image Comics)
\nISBN: 978-1-63215-685-3 (TPB\/Figital edition)<\/p>\n

This book contains Discriminatory Content<\/strong> included for comedic effect.<\/em><\/p>\n

Win\u2019s Christmas Gift Recommendation: Sugar & Spice & Everything Nicely Reimagined… 10\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n

It feels like we haven\u2019t had a good laugh in ages. Oh wait, here\u2019s one now…<\/p>\n

We grow up with fairytales all around us. They\u2019re part of the fabric of our lives. Some people generally outgrow them whilst others take them to heart and make them an intrinsic aspect of their lives…<\/p>\n

Have you met Skottie Young?<\/p>\n

He\u2019s a guy with feet firmly planted in both camps and well able to alternatively embrace the enchantment of imagination and give it a hilariously cynical mean-spirited drubbing at the same time. Hopefully you\u2019ll have seen his glorious, multi-award-winning interpretation of Baum\u2019s Oz<\/strong> books produced by Marvel and his spectacular run on Rocket Raccoon<\/strong> (and Groot!<\/strong>); or perhaps just his gut-bustingly funny baby superhero covers. Maybe you\u2019re aware of his collaboration with Neal Gaiman on Fortunately the Milk<\/strong>?<\/p>\n

If not, there\u2019s so much more in store for you after enjoying this particular slice of vintage mirthful mayhem…<\/p>\n

I Hate Fairyland<\/strong> is a truly cathartic little gem: a mind-buggering romp of deliciously wicked simplicity and one I heartily recommend as a palate-cleanser for anyone overdosing on cotton candy, wands and glitter, or spandex and slicked-back pecs.
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\nOnce upon a time little Gertrude<\/em> wished she could visit the wonderful world of magic and joyous laughter. Her wish was inexplicably granted and she met happy shiny people: fairies, elves, giants, talking animals and animated trees, rocks, stars, suns and moons; Gert just loved them all…<\/p>\n

Resplendent Queen Cloudia<\/em> made her an Official Guest of Fairyland<\/em> and invited her to play a game. When she wanted to go back to her own world the bedazzled six-year-old simply had to find a magic key and open the door to the realm of reality. The fabulous Fairy Queen even gave Gertrude a quaintly talking bug as guide and helpmeet, plus a magic map of all the Known Lands…<\/p>\n

That was 27 years ago and although Gert\u2019s body has not aged a day her mind certainly has. It\u2019s also gotten pretty pissed-off at the interminable insufferable task and just wants it all to end.<\/p>\n

Of course, as an Official Guest of Fairyland Gert can\u2019t die and has taken to expressing her monumental frustration in acts of staggering violence and brutal excess as she continues hunting for that fluffer-hugging key…<\/p>\n

With no other choice, Gert and dissolute bug Larrigon Wentsworth III<\/em> toil ever onward in search of the way home, regularly enduring horrific – but non-fatal – injuries and taking out their spleen (and often other peoples\u2019) on whoever gets in her way.<\/p>\n

After all this time, however, Even Queen Cloudia has had enough. Sadly, she can\u2019t do anything about it whilst Gert is \u201cOFG\u201d (Official Guest of Fairyland, keep up!): a privilege that simply cannot<\/strong> be revoked.<\/p>\n

Subtle hints of vast rewards to barbarians and assassins and evil witches all prove worthless too. Between the protection spell and Gert\u2019s own propensity for spectacular bloodletting, there\u2019s nothing in the incredible kingdoms to stop her.
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\n… And then someone has a really amazing idea. Why not invite another<\/em> sweet little girl to Fairyland and offer her the same deal? When she finds the key, wins the game and goes back, Gert will lose her OFG status and they can be rid of her at last!<\/p>\n

Of course, that all goes swimmingly, just like Cloudia hoped and everybody but Gert lives happily ever after.
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\nNo, it really, really doesn\u2019t work out like that…<\/p>\n

To Be Continued…<\/p>\n

Collecting the first five issues of the Image Comic series from October 2015 – February 2016 by Young, colourist Jean-Francois Beaulieu and letterer Nate Piekos of Blambot\u00ae, this sublimely outrageous treat offers hilariously over-the-top cartoon violence and the most imaginative and inspired use of faux-profanity ever seen in comics.<\/p>\n

This is an unmissable wakeup call for everybody whose kids want to be little princesses and proves once and for all that sweet little girls (and probably comics artists) are evil to the core if you push them too far…
\n\u00a9 2016 Skottie Young. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n

Today in 1911, cartoonist Clarence Gray<\/strong> was born. Sadly, there isn\u2019t much of his wonderful Brick Bradford<\/strong> strip around to review. Far more readily represented is Alberto Giolitti<\/strong> whose art can be seen on loads of licensed features books we\u2019ve covered like Star Trek: Gold Key Archives volume 1<\/a><\/strong>, and who would be 102 today if he still lived…<\/p>\n

In 1941 French star fantasist Caza<\/strong> was born, whilst Superman<\/strong> scribe Elliot S! Maggin<\/strong> joined us in 1950 and FF artist Carlos Pacheco<\/strong> was born in the same year they were: 1961…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Skottie Young, Jean-Francois Beaulieu, Blambot\u00ae\u2019s Nate Piekos & various (Image Comics) ISBN: 978-1-63215-685-3 (TPB\/Figital edition) This book contains Discriminatory Content included for comedic effect. Win\u2019s Christmas Gift Recommendation: Sugar & Spice & Everything Nicely Reimagined… 10\/10 It feels like we haven\u2019t had a good laugh in ages. Oh wait, here\u2019s one now… We grow … <\/p>\n

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