Review of
I Hate Fairyland #2,
by Skottie Young and Jean-Francois Beaulieu, comic
Five out of five stars
After reading
the first issue of the series, I went on a search for issue number 2 and found
it. Although I am not generally a fan of the blood and gore genre of any material
in print, this story was one I liked. It is a demented take off on the Alice in
Wonderland, Dorothy in Oz sweet little girl story. Gertrude is a bard-bitten
(literally and figuratively) girl with the body of a child but with over 20 years’
experience in her particular environment of fantasy.
In the opening
segment, Gertrude is drinking heavily and conversing with a severed and desiccated
head. She is screaming at everyone and gets turned into a puffed up wart bag as
a consequence. Her life is about to get worse when a witch is recruited to kill
her. Appears to be a case of “takes one to do one.”
The blood flows
in streams as Gertrude continues to search for the key that will return her to
her previous existence. Other heroines of adventure stories never engaged in
actions such as these. So much gore will not doubt turn some readers off, but
no one can argue that it truly drives home the point of parody of the innocent adventuress.
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