LIBRARY JOURNAL -- Once upon a time, a little girl named Gertrude
made a wish to visit Fairyland, a fantasy kingdom filled with magic
and the promise of endless adventure. Queen Cloudia, ruler of
Fairyland, granted Gertrude's wish and charged her with a quest to
retrieve a key that would allow her to return home. Twenty-seven
years later, an ageless, immortal Gertrude has been driven mad by
her ceaseless wanderings, which are less and less a mission and
more of a bloody rampage across the kingdom. Tired of seeing her
subjects disemboweled but bound by magical law against doing away
with Gertrude herself, Queen Cloudia plots to throw a series of
obstacles in her way. Collecting the first ten issues of an ongoing
series, this volume opens with Gertrude killing an anthropomorphic
moon via cannon and only gets more berserk from there. Creator
Young (Rocket Raccoon) has a knack for brutally funny
dialog and presents the action in a candy-colored, supercute style,
making fountains of blood simultaneously horrifying and a little
bit charming.
Verdict Gory, endlessly inventive, and often laugh-out-loud
funny.-Tom Batten, Grafton, VA
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