Review of
I Hate Fairyland,
comic by Skottie Young and Jean-Francois Beaulieu
Five out of five stars
In true “Alice
in Wonderland” and “Through the Looking Glass” tradition, this story opens with
young girl Gertrude dressed as a princess in her room and she is wishing to be
transported to a world filled with magic, wonder and joy. Her wish comes true,
well at least two out of three.
She falls
through a hole in the floor that is a hole in the sky in the other world and
she lands with a bloody splat in the middle of the road. She is now in
Fairyland and wants to go home. However, that is not an easy task, she is sent
on a quest that begins on an orange-colored brick road.
Unlike the
lovely soft-spoken Alice and Dorothy of Oz fame, Gertrude is not soft and
gentle. She flips off the moon before she takes a cannon and blows him into his
“body” parts. The action is gross, a bit sadistic and a spoof of other
entertainment venues. Most will recognize the parody of a major scene in Star
Wars, “Return of the Jedi.”
Although the
humor is at base extremely crude, to appreciate it fully the reader needs to
have some familiarity with the classic stories by Lewis Carroll. Which is about
an odd a combination as one could come up with.
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