I Hate Fairyland is a hilarious, adult twist on the "Alice in Wonderland" concept. 6-year-old Gert was pulled into Fairyland to complete a quest that should take a single day. However, she's really bad at it and 40 years later, she's still trapped in a kid's body. She's angry, she's violent, she's sassy. She ventures across a land, angering the Queen Claudia and discovering a wild cast of characters including Faun of the Dead, Giggle Giants, and a massive slug mob-lord. This comic is NOT for children, but it is for anyone who enjoys a kick-ass, chaotic character in a super-imaginative fantasy world. I eagerly continued reading this series after the first volume, so I definitely recommend this!

Note: I received a free copy of this book from NetGalley. I was not compensated in any other fashion for the review and the opinions reflected below are entirely my own. Special thanks to the publisher and author for providing the copy.

I Hate Fairyland Volume 1: Madly Ever After by Skottie Young

First in the I Hate Fairyland series

5 stars

This graphic novel follows Gertrude. Gertrude was once a young girl who stumbled into Fairyland, but while other kids are able find the way out and leave within a day, she has been trapped and is still six-years-old, but is forty on mentally. She’s the villain of Fairyland and she doesn’t care how many lives she has to take before she gets out of this hellhole. I love the concept so much! I first came across this book on BookTube and Elena Reads Books raved about it so much that I knew I had to pick this one up. I’m glad that I did because this is one of my all-time favorite graphic novels and if I wasn’t so broke, I would have bought all of them by now. I will one day, own them all! The humor is dark and violent, but I have a weird love for them. The art is childish, monstrous, and fantastic. It’s one of the most unique styles I’ve come across in a graphic novel series and I love it!


Art Scale: 5

Character Scale: 5

Plotastic Scale: 5

Cover Thoughts: I love this cover so much. It embodies the vibe of the story and it is awesome. I love the colors so much. It's fun and gruesome all at the same time.

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This review MAY contain spoilers. Read at your own risk.

This was so freaking awesome! I loved every minute of this. It's hard to pinpoint the feel that this gives off, but I'll try my best to explain it. I Hate Fairyland is like Rat Queens, but with a much younger (looking) protagonist, with the humor and graphic style of a rainbow bombed Ren & Stimpy, all happening in a world that would be much like Adventure Time with Fairy tale and Fantasy creatures instead of candy people. That's a lot to take in, but I assure you that this is a comic series that you will enjoy.

I loved that the writing was very fluid in this. I couldn't stop turning the pages and I had to know more. The artwork is so freaking beautiful! OMG, this is the artwork of my soul. The style is gorgeous and the content is amazing. If I were a self-centered person, I would boast that Skottie Young pulled this from the depths of my soul and brought it to life. But I'm not, so good job, Skottie!

A bit of warning though, if you do not like seeing a mad little girl killing every fairytale and fantasy creature that she comes into contact with, then this may not be for you. But if you are as fucked up as I am, then count yourself among the blessed and pick up a copy of this today!

A very funny and bizarre graphic novel that is great for teens and adults.

Read the first couple of issues and do plan to buy the collection in the future.

The cover of 'I Hate Fairyland Volume 1: Madly Ever After' by Skottie Young should be enough to clue you in to the contents. A grumpy looking little girl holding a large bloody axe is standing among a horde of colorful, but battered fairytale looking creatures. You are in for a bumpy ride if you expect sweetness and light here.

Gert has been stuck in Fairyland since she was six. The problem is she is now forty, but she still looks six. A constant barrage of sugar and sweetness and warped her personality. Witness as she shoots apart the first narrator of the story, the moon. This is a death with brains and eyeballs and viscera flying out, but this is not enough for Gert. She takes out the anthropomorphic stars as well. Gert is as sick of Fairyland as it is of her. She can leave if she finds the key to the door back to our world. The problem is that plans are afoot to try to keep her in Fairyland long enough to end her life.

It's violent, irreverent, and probably not something for most readers. I'm embarassed to admit that I found it pretty funny in places. The over the top gore is pretty cartoonish, but Gert's attitude is pretty ugly. Let's call this one R-Rated and let you proceed at your own risk.

I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Image Comics, Diamond Book Distributors, and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.

I read this because of course I had to! It's written AND illustrated by Skottie Young, whose artwork is close enough to making almost anything he illustrates a must-read for me that it's unreal! Brightly colored with innovative character designs, Skottie always manages to tell two interwoven versions of the same story pictorially and with dialogue. I really enjoyed the satire and downright sacrilegious fervor of this comic. Although, it gets a star deducted for the over-usage of the word "fluff" in place of a four letter word I use many times on a daily basis. Cutesy stuff like that always begins to annoy me after a little while. And the gore was a little outrageous for my personal tastes.

Kind of stupid, and rather adult in theme, but I like Skottie Young's art style.