I Hate Fairyland, Vol. 5: Gert's Inferno

I Hate Fairyland

by Skottie Young, Brett Bean (Artist)

Eisner Award-winning writer SKOTTIE YOUNG (MIDDLEWEST, TWIG, THE ME YOU LOVE IN THE DARK) and artist BRETT BEAN (Marvel’s Rocket and Groot) bring back the hit comic I HATE FAIRYLAND! Everyone’s favorite green-haired, axe-wielding, crazed maniac returns in this Deadpool-meets-Alice-in-Wonderland-style adventure! Gert is all grown up and living in the real world.



Times are tough and the only job she’s qualified for has her trying to find her way back to the place she hates the most…Fairyland.



Collects I HATE FAIRYLAND Issues 1-5

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics, Fantasy, Humor, Fiction, Adult, Graphic Novels Comics

128 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 27, 2023

About the author

Skottie Young has been an illustrator and cartoonist for over ten years working for entertainment and publishing companies such Marvel, Warner Bros., Image, Upper Deck, Mattel, and many more.

He is currently illustrating the New York Times Best Selling and Eisner Award Nominated adaptions of L. Frank Baum's OZ novels with writer Eric Shanower. The series has gained acclaim from both fans and critics.

Skottie currently lives in Illinois with his family, Casey, Baxter and their Saint Bernard, Emma.

Reviews

[Drew Canole · Rating 3 out of 5]

A pretty good revival of this series, certainly not unwelcome.

Brett Bean does a great job of making you forget that Skottie Young isn't illustrating this. The colors are fantastic as usual - by Jean-Francois Beaulieu - who also did the color for Skottie's book Twig (that also has fantastic artwork).

So it looks great!

So this picks up after volume 4 which was like a decade ago IRL... actually just 5 years but it feels like a lifetime ago. That volume was a pretty definitive end to the series, Gert got out of Fairyland.

Now she's finally an adult, but struggling with adult stuff like trying to not get drunk every night and holding down a job. She gets hired by a billionaire to go back to Fairyland so he can turn it into a world-sized theme park and make trillions! So adult Gert is back to Fairyland for another round of adventures including getting lost for years on her way into Fairyland and taking a bath in a monster infested lake.

The fifth issue is pretty cool, it's a mostly silent issue and includes a link to a song to go with the issue. It's a clever idea and a good use of a QR code - something I associate mostly with bringing up a restaurant menu.

The book feels pretty unnecessary but it's funny, well-drawn and makes for an entertaining read so I'm down to continue reading this series.

[Urbon Adamsson · Rating 5 out of 5]

EN After reading the Brazilian editions from Hypervision, I couldn’t wait years for the next volumes — especially with no confirmation from the publisher that they would continue the series — so I ended up getting the American version. I must admit, many of the jokes lose their impact in English; they just don’t have the same flavour as they did in Portuguese… but it is what it is.

In the previous volume, Gertrude finally managed to escape Fairyland and return to the real world. In this one, we follow her (disastrous) attempt to adjust to a normal life. But of course, that doesn’t last long: soon enough, she receives an offer to return to Fairyland — something she ends up accepting, though somewhat hesitantly.

First, however, she has to go through Hell. And that’s where the entire adventure of this volume takes place.

Super fun, as always. Loved it!

--

PT Depois de ler as edições brasileiras da Hypervision, não consegui esperar anos pelos próximos volumes — especialmente por não haver confirmação por parte da editora que o iriam fazer — acabei por comprar a versão americana. Confesso que muitas das piadas perdem impacto em inglês, não têm o mesmo sabor que tinham em português… mas é o que há.

No volume anterior, a Gertrudes conseguiu finalmente escapar de Fairyland e regressar ao mundo real. Neste, vemos a sua tentativa (desastrosa) de se adaptar à vida normal. Mas claro, isso não dura muito: não tarda recebe uma proposta para voltar a Fairyland — algo que acaba por aceitar, ainda que com alguma hesitação.

Antes disso, no entanto, tem de passar pelo Inferno. E é aí que se desenrola toda a aventura deste volume.

Super divertido, como sempre. Adorei!

[Jamie Watkins · Rating 5 out of 5]

So good 💚💖 There was music to go along on the last chapter 🎶

[Shannon · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm not really sure this needed to be continued ... Some parts are humorous but this is honestly his weakest series.

Individual issue reviews: #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5

Total review score: 2.55

[Ellyn → Allonsythornraxx · Rating 4 out of 5]

26/06/2023
4 ⭐️
OH YEAH MUFFIN FLUFFERS SHE’S BACK!

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[Matthew Ward · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars. This was a fun revival to the series and though the art has changed, it felt like I was right back in this universe following Gert around. Looking forward to enjoying more of this ridiculousness.

[Madi · Rating 4 out of 5]

so flipping excited to be back with gert again

[Ashley (gotbookcitement) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Source: Borrowed from the Library
BOOKCITEMENT LEVEL 4/5



THE RETURN OF GERT!!! I don't think I realized that this comic was continuing on until I saw this Volume 5 on the library shelves. I thought Gert's story was over. She had escaped Fairyland. Her quest was completed. I was wrong. I was glad to see Gert though.
Gert is now a full grown lady who is back in the real world. She's not having too much fun in the real world. She can't seem to keep a job, and she's an alcoholic. She is approached by a person of vast resources with a new job that involves going back into FAIRYLAND!
This was a fun volume. I don't know if Gert's decision to go back to Fairyland is a good or bad thing. Considering all the hassle it took to get out of Fairyland in the first place, why go back? But then the real world is not kind to Gert either. It was definitely fun watching her trials to get back to Fairyland. All I'll say is that it's not easy peasy lemon squeezy.
The artist has changed in this volume, I think, but they stayed true to the original Fairyland. It's just as colorful, just as violent.
This is a good time.

[FantasyBookNerd · Rating 3 out of 5]

Or it might be 3.5, I’m not sure.

I Hate Fairyland vol 5 is the revival of the original series and sees Gert all growed up and back on earth. However, she is having trouble adjusting to the real world (or maybe more to the point, the real world is having trouble adjusting to Gert!)

As Gert moves from dead end job to dead end job she finds herself employed by billionaire tech tycoon Mr Wiggins’s who employs her to go and save his son and return him from Fairyland. Except things are different this time as Gert is not a guest of Fairyland and has to go in through the back door via the Inferno.

Whilst not as good as the first series, this is quite fun as Gert is her usual anarchic self, slaughtering and drinking her way to her goal.

[Penny Geard · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gert is back to ruining everyone’s lives, including her own. I loved the bright colours, complex art, and endless violence 😈🌈 the plot wasn’t too much, so this was more just a fun time than anything too deep.

[C. Chambers · Rating 3 out of 5]

Like a Ren and Stimpy episode so grotesque it got pulled off air and ended the careers of everybody involved.

This was like a humorous Extreme-horror novel, but with better art and less incest.

3/5 stars

[Brylliams · Rating 4 out of 5]

B+/85 (Good/Respectable) 3.5 Stars rounded up

[Jesse A · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting return to Fairyland. We'll see where it all goes.

[Lesley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Gert is a hapless adult now. Certainly as entertaining as ever.

[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

Still fluffing fun.

[Diana-christie Biancardi · Rating 5 out of 5]

I LOVED THIS!! SO FUNNY!!!

[Alejandro · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gert is back!!!


This is the fifth volume of “I Hate Fairyland” comic book series. This TPB edition collects “I Hate Fairyland” (second series) #1-5. This is a continuation of the original run, but “rebooting” the numbering of the comic book issues.


Creative Team

Crreator & Writer: Skottie Young

Illustrator: Brett Bean

Colors: Jean-Francois Beaulieu

Lettering & Design: Nate Piekos


GROWING PAINS

Gertrude (Gert for friends) finally was able to escape from Fairyland and her body got old according to her mind state and the years passed in real life…

…so everything was okay for (now) good ol’ Gert, right?

Wrong!

Gert passed 27 years of her life battling monsters and slaughtering almost anything alive in her sight (including the moon!), therefore, she didn’t develop the proper skills to live as an adult life in the (too normal) real world, she is losing job after job, where her only relief is imagining being able of slaying all the annoying normal people around her (Gert and normal people don’t mix).

Until she is kidnapped by the millionaire, William Wiggins, offering the only job that Gert is qualified to do…

…returning to Fairyland to find Wiggins’ son and getting him back to real world (of course, Wiggins also is planning to set a stable way to travel to Fairyland and selling entrance tickets).

Gert isn’t that thrilled to return to Fairyland but she asked for a good part of the money income about the theme park concept and since she isn’t able to do anything else in real world, she accepts the deal…

…but Wiggins assigned Rotwald (a talking rat, with one eye, originally from Fairyland, that he got by mistake, in his attempts to get his son back) to serve as chaperon and making sure that Gert would honor the deal.

Since Gert was a “guest” once in Fairyland, that making her able to get back there, however, past guests didn’t get to arrive directly to Fairyland…

…but having to go through…

…INFERNO!!!

A hostile region that it’s not hell (we already knew their version of hell in previous volumes) but still quite awful to live there, but luckily she got a guide!

ENTER: VIRGIL

Virgil is a faun and his mission is to guide Gert (with Rotwald along) through Inferno and reaching the gate to Fairyland, and everything could go smoothly, but…

…Gert had the “brilliant” idea of eating the map (maps and Gert don’t mix) and a journey of a couple of days…

…becoming years in Inferno!!!

But I don’t tell you more, to avoid spoiling you the fun of reading this awesome follow-up of the original run of I Hate Fairyland, that I was kinda concerned since while Scottie Young was still the writer, now the drawing art was by someone else, but definitely Brett Bean was the right choice for passing the torch in the illustration part of this new project, keeping the same feeling in the visual department (even in the issue #5 there is a cool situation where you can read a QR code to hear the song “The World” by Jack the Radio serving as musical backgroung to cover a big part of that fifth chapter of the TPB without dialogue).

[Sam Quixote · Rating 2 out of 5]

It’s been a spell since Gert escaped Fairyland and, lacking an edumacation, employable skills, or an understanding of the world, yeah… life’s not quite so peachy keen as she thought it’d be sans Fairyland. Basically she’s managed to look like a Face of Meth without doing meth.

Fortuitously, a billionaire’s son has been whisked away to Fairyland and the only ones able to get into Fairyland are past “guests” - the one thing Gert’s qualified for. Now she’s on a potentially very lucrative search and rescue mission to Fairyland - via Hell, because… er. Just when she thought she was out, they pull her back in - it’s Volume 5 of I Hate Fairyland!

Skottie Young returns to his most successful series for an unheralded fifth book, Gert’s Inferno (because of the whole travelling-through-Hell thang). And I’m fine with that - I do like the series and reading about what Gert done next and a return to her nightmare as an adult is an intriguing premise - except it’s not really a return to Fairyland. She does get there of course but this book is a lot of pointless preamble before Gert actually does do that and then the book ends - right where it should’ve started much earlier.

Why did we need to see an entire issue of “Gertlins” or her getting swallowed by a mutant whale or just a whole bunch of walking to a middling song by a band called Jack the Radio? We didn’t - it’s all needless filler. (The song part is a clever idea though - there’s a QR code to listen to a song specially-written for issue #5 as you read it.)

The opening issue isn’t bad - it’s amusing to see how bad Gert’s life is and how disappointing her happily-ever-after turned out to be. The book does occasionally throw out similarly slightly humorous moments as well, pulled off successfully in large part thanks to Brett Bean’s outstanding Ren and Stimpy-style OTT art. Bean’s immensely skilful art is a fine fit for the series, looking very similarly to Young’s style - it’s easily the best part of this book. Previous series colourist Jean-Francois Beaulieu also returns to colour the book as beautifully as he did in the preceding volumes.

I’m all in for seeing Gert revisit Fairyland as an adult and, as pretty and imaginative as it was to see, I just wish we’d bypassed the completely irrelevant side journey through hell entirely and gotten to that story here. As it stands, I Hate Fairyland, Volume 5: Gert’s Inferno is an underwhelming return and the weakest book in the series to date.

[Pi]

Oprzeć się tej okładce nie sposób. Główna bohaterka GERT jest po prostu czystym uosobieniem uroku i kobiecego wdzięku... taaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak. NIENAWIDZĘ BAŚNIOWA, to komiks, który łamie konwenanse i ustawia wszystko - na opak. I fajnie! Oczywiście wiem, wiem, wiem... że zaczęłam od TOM 5, ale spokojnie, tutaj akurat trafiłam w sam raz, bo ten tom jest niejako początkiem nowego rozdziału w życiu głównej bohaterki i choć nie wiem, co działo się w BAŚNIOWIE, gdy GERT była małą dziewczynką, to zaczynanie tej opowieści od GERT W PIEKLE nie jest takim złym pomysłem - choć biorąc pod uwagę oryginalność i estetykę tego komiksu, polecam brać WSZYSTKO!
To, co mnie z miejsca kupiło, to sama GERT. Ta postać jest genialnie skonstruowana. Jest zarazem odpychająca i przyciągająca i faktycznie roztacza wokół siebie urok - specyficzny, ale nie do pominięcia i nie do zapomnienia. GERT jest wystrzałową dziewczyną, której życie się raczej nie ułożyło. Ma problemy z alkoholem, z pracą, ze wszystkim... ciąży na niej klątwa BAŚNIOWA i ta kraina, w której spędziło długie lata utkwiona w ciele dziecka, kładzie się na jej egzystencji długim cieniem. Cóż... GERT jest straumatyzowana.
W tych oto słabych okolicznościach życiowych nasza zielonowłosa "piękność" musi powrócić do BAŚNIOWA - przez PIEKŁO - z misją. GERT W PIEKLE jest opowieścią o tej drodze do BAŚNIOWA, o drodze przez PIEKŁO... do, jak się zdaje, jeszcze większego piekła. Komiks ze specyficznym poczuciem humoru, raczej nie dla każdego, jaskrawe dialogi i brutalność na miarę piekielnych czeluści.
Zdecydowanie komiks spektakularnie wykonany pod względem artystycznym. Absolutnie doskonałe ilustracje i kolory, a dialogi mają w sobie szaleństwo amerykańskiego humoru. Napis na koszulce GERT jest odzwierciedleniem jej pokręconej osobowości IDŹ W FUJ! powinno stać się moim mottem... i może się i stało... hihi. Polecam! Nie mogę się doczekać kontynuacji....

Idź w fuj!
tom 5
NIENAWIDZĘ BAŚNIOWA
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[Alex Sarll]

Skottie Young's exhumation of his hit series serves mainly to remind us that it isn't just big corporations who can get stuck in a rut of reworking IP that went down well last time. The original run was entertaining in a very specific sort of way, an ultraviolent portal fantasy piss-take with young Gert whisked away to a magical land, then getting increasingly furious with it as she failed to find her way home and her mind aged but her body never did. Apart from anything else, it was the perfect match with Young's cute/grotesque art...so of course, he's not drawing it this time. Fair play, replacement Brett Bean does have a very fairytale name, but the artwork is best described as 'Skottie Young, only less so'. As for the story: we start in the real world, depicted so cartoonishly as to lose much distinction with Fairyland, a now-adult Gert doing no better at playing by the rules here than there. Next issue, a hybrid Wayward Children/Ready Player One plot sends her back over. Except, twist, for no very good reason she ends up in a version of Hell instead. And so on. It was always a series happy to fling things at the wall, and mostly that worked, but what used to feel like manic inventiveness now plays more as exhausted desperation. And, at the risk of sounding like that outraged man from Brass Eye, I wondered if it might be leaning a bit heavily on the fact that a character most familiar in a child's body now has an adult one and can be put into sexual situations (although, to be fair, they still tend to be played for gross-out laughs more than titillation, and key areas are still obscured or pixilated just as Gert's swearing remains altered in a similar fashion to The Good Place). I've mostly enjoyed the Untold Tales on Young's Substack, set around and sometimes after the original stories, but judging from this an outright sequel was a bad idea - artistically, at any rate.

[Renato · Rating 5 out of 5]

The original run of I Hate Fairyland (Volumes 1-4) had a lot of territory that it had explores, as Fairyland's borders seemed infinite, and there was always a new corner, a new hegemonry, for Gert to explore and ensue chaos. And despite this limitless space, Young was able to tie off Gert's story that felt just right.

So if there was going to be a 'reboot' series, it would need to find a new way (beyond adding new lands/villains) to justify itself - and the Reboot certainly does!

Phase 2 begins with a now adult Gert slumming it in the real world, with her adventures in Fairyland agreed to be a psychological delusion. Think Dorothy after returning to boring Kansas after returning from magical Oz, but much more depressing. Gert can hardly keep a job, and her outlook on life has soured even more (if that is possible).

Enter STANDARD BILLIONARE TECH MOGUL, who recruits Gert to save his son lost in Fairyland, but to also infiltrate it so that he can turn it into a tourist destination to rival Disneyland.

This 1st reboot volume finds Gert navigating the Underworld, as that is the only way she can breach Fairyland once again. I will not go into further detail as Gert becomes a foul-mouthed Dante Alighieri, as it will spoil the shape of this newer series, but I will drop two things here that I loved in it:

We find out that someone has been actively redacting Gert's language this entire time (Censor Wizards - CENZARDS!)


And the GERTLINS arc (the image says all)

[Robert Jones · Rating 4 out of 5]

So, Gert's a grown-ass psycho in a grown-ass psycho body. Having nothing but a bad run back in the Real World, she ends up on her way back to Fairyland under somewhat convoluted pretenses.

It's quite a fun new chapter to one of my favorite recent-ish book series. If Skottie Young isn't the one drawing it, Brett Bean is absolutely the guy who should be drawing it. Bean really doesn't skip a beat as far as achieving the IHF vibe, and the digital ink-n-paint Jean-Francois Beaulieu really adds to the frenetic energy on each page. The comedy of Gert's ultraviolence is somewhat tempered now, compared to when she was stuck as a child, but the tradeoff is that her life as an unhinged perpetual loser hits home a bit stronger now that she's "grown". We don't have to feel as bad about Gert getting beaten to a pulp, since now it's clear she's doing this damage to herself.

I wish the Inferno felt more like the Inferno, and less like Fairyland with more orange hues. As it is, we didn't get a long visit in Hell, so I guess it didn't need to be all that fleshed-out. I will say, at this point Gert is absolutely one of the best and most iconic barbarian characters ever written -- right up there with Conan, Sonja, Kull, and Groo. Also, Gert growing a full, luscious, curly, green beard to show the passage of time is a gag that always works for me.

Anyway, good fun. I'm glad Gert's found her way back to Fairyland.

[Adam Stone · Rating 4 out of 5]

I felt like the original series lost its way after a while becoming a kind of desolate slog instead of a fun little satirical take on Wizard Of Oz/Alice In Wonderland/Labyrinth and all those other young girls go to magical realms tales. This, however, was a fun update to the story with Gert back in the real world becoming an unemployable drunk. I wondered how they were going to bring her back into Fairyland without making it feel really forced and desperate but they provided an intriguing path AND let you know that there weren't going to be the expected twists by having Gert figure out the twists before they happened. It was a fun trope aversion.

I laughed a couple of times during the read. There was nothing hysterical but I felt it captured a different level of desperate whimsy and satire than the previous parts, and that was a welcome change.

If you liked the original series, I'd suggest picking up this revival. Also, if Return To Oz is your favorite kids movie, this might be right up your alley, too, sicko.

[Lau · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fluff yeah!

Cuando terminé el volumen 4 dije que esperaba que haya una segunda parte algún día, y unos años después acá está. Y es aún peor que lo anterior, porque ahora Gert es... ADULTA. En cuerpo, al menos.

Aparte del entusiasmo de la vuelta, me gustó el chiste con el título en inglés de La Divina Comedia (Dante's Inferno) además de que su guía sea Virgil, y quizás sea porque este año leí muchas historias dramáticas, pero me divertí mucho leyendo éste. Había olvidado lo buenas que son las ilustraciones y lo tiernamente colorido que es todo el gore.

Había que darle pie a Gert a querer volver a Fairyland, y qué mejor que una verdad universalmente aceptada: la realidad apesta es difícil de navegar.
¿Y soy yo, o cierto millonario se parece a cierto otro millonario creador de redes sociales?

Me gustó mucho el capítulo que te hace poner música de fondo, nunca lo había visto fuera de un webtoon y realmente me hizo subirle medio puntito más por originalidad.

[Josh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gert is back and worse than ever. After finding the real world also not to her liking and down on her luck in endless search of a job--a quick rescue mission in fairyland and an evil plot on the side might be just what she needs to take care of her current adult troubles. But this is Gert we're talking about--nothing she does ever goes to plan. And with Gert once again unleashed on a magical realm, unfortunate friends and vengeful enemies will heave to weather the storm.

With Skottie Young writing and Brett Bean taking the reigns on art, I Hate Fairyland remains as colorful, absurd, humorous, and over-the-top as ever as blood flows, other bodily secretions get in the way, and a host of comic misadventures reshape numerous realms in Gert's wake--now with an original soundtrack to elevate your reading experience.

[Cale · Rating 3 out of 5]

Because why let a final volume actually end the story?
Skottie Young brings Gert back, now an addled adult with no skills trying to survive the real world and failing miserably. When an opportunity arises to go back to Fairyland, she eventually gets pulled back in, although this volume is about the journey, as the destination isn't readily reached.
This manages to be as over-the-top and borderline offensive without truly going over to the dark side, but isn't quite as funny. Gert's disillusionment with reality has dulled some of her memories of Fairyland, and this volume makes sure to pump the cynicism gas hard, making pretty much every character horrible (but in fun ways). I don't know if it really justifies going back to the web in this first volume, but there's definitely more to the story which may provide that later.

[Bekka · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loved being back with Gert again, after so long away - I do wish we had gotten back to Fairyland a little quicker, and it did feel a bit like Skottie Young was warming back up to the series again after so many years away, but it was still a damn good time.
Adult Gert is just as fun as young Gert, and the commentary on CEO's (and the Stranger Things reference) were all great fun!
The artwork also held up pretty well - I thought I'd miss Skottie's art and it wouldn't feel the same, but Brett Bean did a really good job and lived up to expectations, making this feel like previous volumes.
TW for violence, death, blood, murder, heavy gore, hell imagery, nakedness, hints at sex, missing child, hints at deaths of children.

[Samuel Edme · Rating 4 out of 5]

Review originally posted in my weekly comic newsletter: https://samsstudios.substack.com/p/we...

After four long years, Scottie Youg’s darkly-comic series returns for a revival full of gory, colorful mayhem fun for the whole family.* Collecting #1-#5, we follow the now directionless crank Gertie who, after decades stuck in the titular location, is back on Earth jumping around from job to job because she keeps screwing up and has no practical skills to show for it. This all changes, however, when she receives a promising offer to return to Fairyland.

*If your family are mature readers that is.

Despite being a continuation of the original comic book, the new one stands alone perfectly on its own for readers who want to jump right in even though I strongly suggest reading the first series for a better context of the references made throughout. Speaking of which, while Scottie Young steps back in his artist role, his replacement Brett Bean makes the transition seamless keeping in with I Hate Fairyland’s signature cute and colorfulnees tossed in with grotesque expressions and vividly-illustrated gore.

IHF’s writing remains sharp with Young hitting all the comedic beats while the new cast dynamics are as entertaining to read as ever. Virgil, the goat-like Inferno custodian and voice-of-reason, along with Rotwald, Gertie’s rat guide, play off each other organically. Granted Rotwald doesn’t have the same bite as the dry snark of Gertie’s original guide Larry, but he has his moments.

My favorite parts throughout the book included Gertie’s homicidal fantasy in the beginning, the Stranger Things reference in #2, and the entire #5, a mostly pantomime issue containing a QR code for a song to accompany the visuals. I’d gush over more of my favorite parts, but it’d make for a better reading experience if you see them yourself so I’m stopping right here.

[Paige · Rating 3 out of 5]

This had some fun moments, but also some weird moments now that she's an adult in an adult body. I think some of the charm of the earlier trades was that dilemma of her being an adult stuck in a child's body. So some of it got a little weird. I do love that we are once again having her scream "I Hate Fairyland" and the absurdity of what got us to this point. It's kind of an old joke at this point, but it's still funny how she is constantly trying to get further only to continue to be too late for all of her struggles to matter. I honestly would've rated it 4 stars, but there was just too much vomiting for me to be comfortable.

[Sean · Rating 4 out of 5]

While confused, I'm happy to see Gert again. She will always be funny and Skottie Young can always write hilarious things for her to do. Grown up Gert is oddly unsettling but her trip to Inferno and attempts to re-enter Fairyland are fun adventure. She's joined by new companions who don't compare to previous ones though. The book seemed light on actual story movement but it was still very fun. Brett Bean's art was wonderful especially the scene with the whale. Overall, a mostly unnecessary but wholly entertaining read.