When I Hate Fairyland #1 came out in 2015 I thought “Ha ha, that’s cute, a demented psychopath stuck in a child’s body wreaks havoc in Fairyland. This should be a good mini series.”
Fast forward three years and another 16 issues and it’s still cute, still psychopathic, still beautiful. Packed with violence and gore of course, but beautiful.
Click the jump for a review of Skottie Young’s I Hate Fairyland #17.
(I avoid the major plot points of the book, but I do mention a few things that happen, so if you’d rather go read the book first and then come back here, I promise I won’t mind.)
We’re in the early stages of the fourth story arc, and as Gert’s stuck in a Groundhog Day loop in hell (reliving her Fairyland adventures from the beginning) this issue is a bit of a breather from the unrelenting violence. (…for a few pages anyway.)
This week features the return of formally-fake-dragon Duncan (slowly becoming real-dragon Duncan) and his first day as a Fairyland parcel delivery boy.
I guess it’s not spoiling things too much by saying “it doesn’t go well.” It wouldn’t be a Skottie Young book if there wasn’t any mayhem.
We’re also introduced, sort of, to a new character at the end of the book. I have my suspicions as to who it is, but I feel like I’m missing a plot point somewhere. Chime in at the comments if it was supposed to be obvious who it is.
The art, as always, is fabulous. The preview pages don’t really do it justice because the whole issue is gorgeous. It’s Skottie’s work obviously, which is always hilarious and beautifully complicated. But it’s Jean-Francois Beaulieu’s work on the colors too. Between all the details and the glowing, jewel-toned colors, there’s whole pages I’d love to have hanging on my wall.
And side note: could we please have more of the demonic receptionist Jeanie and her friend on the phone? I want more infernal gossip and underworld sass please.
