i Hate Fairyland Volume 3 Review

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sit back and enjoy this week's Hello and welcome

to The Pull Bag. This is episode 307. I'm of

course TFJ and Mike and joining me is uh... We're

both in the Comic Concierge. Hello, sir. Hello.

Hello. How are you? I'm doing well. Excited to

talk some more. I hate Fairyland. Yeah, it's

been a little over a year since we last talked

about this series. Like, I forgot. Like... everything

that's happened. I had to actually go back and

reread issue 10 to figure out where the hell

we are in this story. Luckily I feel it's a comic

that you can pretty much pick up any issue for

the most part and get it. Yeah, obviously. i

screen capped the back of the trade here because

we are covering this in trade folks the volume

three which covers issues eleven to fifteen i'll

look at the end of the show to see if they've

got a new trade out yet are coming soon for whatever

the next run is going to be whenever scotty does

the next run uh... get the fluff out of fairyland

ignoring the lessons of her future Battles self

Gert geeks out gets geeked on and gets got and

goes good while she explores the convention world

Makes her ass generalizations about other cultures

and definitely navigates the consequences of

her own actions her trusty if not mouthy questing

guide Larry pulls and it's a wonderful life and

realizes he actually might like and miss Gert

as Her last -ditch effort to get out of fairyland

once and for all doesn't go exactly as planned.

Oh Boy, well that description of Gert is like

hmm Somebody call Roseanne, please anyway Not

really it's all over the news, but anyway, oh

So yeah, we Have you been reading this all along

since the last record? Have you been reading

it issue by issue? Because I haven't. This is

the first time I've read these. I've been keeping

up with it pretty regularly. I don't read it

every month, but I usually have a couple. We

have reread most of these. I am ahead of where

this last trade ends up, so I do know where this

story goes. But yeah, I've been keeping current

with it pretty regularly. Cool, cool. I have

not I I just don't have the time and that's one

of the reasons why I waited for us to do this

in trade because I I can't do I mean there's

certain comics I can do single issues on for

reviewing on the show but others not so much

and I think this is probably a better comic anyways

to review via trade because it's you know that

the issues are good But no, it's it's not designed

to be this hugely well -developed story even

though it is but by looking at it in this trade,

I think you kind of seeing where the story is

developing and especially within in this volume

where you know, I know this is the I think Scottie

Young Announced its end point. So it's only got

a volume or two left after this and Here you're

seeing I know a lot of development with with

Gertrude. She's like turning the corner or trying

to become become good. You know, one of the first

things we talked about when we first talked about

the series was that I didn't know if this was

a joke that could go on past like five issues.

And here we are. This is the third volume of

it. And I think Scotty Young has been a really

done a really good job of just developing it

and finding new ways to approach it. And in this,

you know, it's probably the most growth Gertrude

has had within a volume. mm -hmm yeah it really

is like it's not just about the jokes anymore

the jokes are there and they're great especially

with the setting that this volume at least the

first part of this volume takes place in but

it's not just about you know like basically the

name of the trade is good girl you know Some

of the the subtitles for the stories like when

we did issues like seven and eight and nine and

ten Seven and eight was how to drain your dragon

and nine and ten was splat in the hat well We

kind of have that here, but we also don't have

that here It's like like you said Scotty is apparently

said that there is going to be an endpoint for

the series, and that's great. That's if you can

kick off Make your series as popular as it has

become. Continue on giving the fans that love

it a great, you know, run. You know, not all

comics have to reach 800 issues or a thousand

issues or whatever. Or be renumbered to be able

to reach those numbers, because guess what? Reboots

are everywhere. Yes, it's... DC and Marvel poking

fun time here folks. Alright, so we start with

chapter 11 They're at the fairyland version of

comic -con Yeah, it's weird because it's like

the first time we're seeing Gertrude actually

be Legitimately happier being a fan of someone

at this this extent So that was kind of interesting

seeing her actually, you know fan, you know fangirl

out as they say to this Barbarian lady, but you

know I wasn't sure first like where this is exactly

going and then we see it flipped on its head

by the end of the issue But uh, it was fun, you

know, it's again Scottie Young's been finding

ways to kind of Poke fun at nerd culture or parody

it like comic books in general and you know,

of course Why not have some sort of take on?

Your classic comic -con or you know where you

would get all your swag or in this case quag

Yeah I love when she goes to get the food and

it ends up exploding and she goes I didn't know

the thing would make the other thing do that

thing It's funny it's not many people who could

get away with a joke like that, but it it works

in this context. Yeah So like you said basically

Gert's going to see gwag the barbarian and Yeah,

it's a barbarian looking chick. It's basically

Conan with tits And no folks, I don't mean the

TBS toast because that would just be disgusting

Yeah, it's like a bread Sonia type of character

and But she eventually runs into someone who's

a huge fan of her and of course It's kind of

freaked out by it by the end of it. And you know,

however, you know it this is gonna spurs off

the What this overall story arc was gonna be

about as you see you're trying to come to terms

and seeing our reflection of herself and How

it actually does impact her hair and she's like,

okay She's got a kind of do something because

it's been the one thing that's actually kind

of Shooken her to the point where she's like,

well, I'm an awful person and That leads us into

like really where the story is going for this

next few issues Yeah, it really does and it's

one of those things where Like I said, I didn't

remember what... I could have sworn at the end

of issue 10 we left off on some sort of cliffhanger

type thing. I didn't remember, so I had to go

back and read it and then I read this and I'm

like, oh, okay, I get it. So we spend a few panels,

pages, whatever of this issue going into, like

you said, the whole fan thing. I love the beginning

of the trade, I don't know if you have this in

trade or single issue. In the beginning of the

trade there's a quote from the girl that's portraying

Gert, like the comic -con girl that's dressed

up as her, and then it comes back in these final

pages here where Gert basically just kills her

and runs off into the sunset. And that's kind

of how Eleven ends. I like Eleven. I think it's

fun. I think it's funny. I think it's interesting

to see where it's gonna go. I still love Scotty's

style. I still love... What I love about a lot

of creators now is when they do their own stuff.

Like, sure, when I say anybody, I don't mean

anybody, but most comic creators can get a job

at Marvel. Obviously if they're lucky enough

to do that and write you know classic characters,

but for me right now Seeing people like Scottie

Young like Tom Zoller like whomever Patch and

writing like create our own stuff is really fun

and cool because it's introducing us to Something

new something interesting something different

something that's not your standard superhero

fare Yeah, I mean it's funny because you say

that as Scottie Young is about to start writing

on Deadpool He's taking over duties there, which

I'm actually quite excited for but certainly

with this this does feel like the perfect meshing

of what makes him such a great writer and artist

you know him having a complete freedom and maybe

able to do what he what he wants like this is

Taking the cartoony style that many people know

I'm from but able to also put his Humor in it

as well and I tend to like Scottie Young the

most when he's writing and drawing his own stuff

Because I feel like no one really can get his

sense of humor Artistically well as he can and

which is I think why this has been as successful

as it has been absolutely issue 12 basically

focuses on Gert and her new quest of trying to

be good and all of that and has a beautiful beautiful

shot like the second page in of her doing her

ninja actually samurai moves in the sky next

to the moon or the Sun or whatever and I'll give

Scotty props for this volume this entire volume

No sun, no moon was hurt in the making of these

comics. Not this time, anyway. There was a callback

to it, but... Yeah, there was. I was really impressed

with Scott Young in this issue because we've

seen a lot of the action in this, which has been

kind of your cartoony action, but in here, the

way he apes the classic martial art style is...

Fantastic. There was that issue way back when

where it's the one of the few issues He didn't

draw which was drawn by someone else here. Like

it was kind of cool just seeing like it's almost

like Frank Frank Miller ask in a way with with

the way he Especially like the page that you

mentioned of Gert like jumping through with with

the moon in the background But I was I was really

impressed with the way, you know, he had a lot

of the classic martial arts look with the Horizontal

lines Right across the screen to like the one

huge flash page between Gert and the dialogue

page between her and one of the mushroom leaders

Yeah, I thought like wow, this is him kind of

diving deep into the style and it was really

effective Showing that he can kind of stretch

his even in this book stretch stretch himself

a little bit Yeah, exactly. So Gert is in the

village of Shiitake Took me a moment to realize

that it's gonna be all mushroom people and my

first thought was Where's Mario? Where's Luigi?

Where's princess Toadstool? Oh well But yeah,

basically she fights a bunch of shiitake ninja

mushrooms and wow, this is just fun Yeah, it

was good it was well done yeah that style you're

talking about where she's having the conversation

back and forth with the one of the head mushrooms

I again I will all on this podcast I don't care

they don't actually do anything for me but I

don't care I'm still gonna promote them Comixology

guided view Comixology .com and their guided

view those panels where it's one character per

panel for like the two or three pages that that

is super awesome to look at the guided view for

that because going panel by panel is just so

cool so Gert kills all the mushrooms except for

the big muscle bound mushroom I guess you could

say he's the Dwayne the Rock Johnson of the Shiitake

village and um yeah that didn't last long she

kills him too Yeah, yeah, he was again that's

classic martial arts trope where you fight all

these guys They're kind of all you know get rid

of them, but then that one gigantic huge much

little dude shows up and of course she does what

she does, but I thought the ending was really

effective too because if she's doing all this

to try to save this baby or that's what she thinks

she's doing trying to bring into and it's almost

I mean With it being in this setting, saving

a child, you think of something like Wolverine

because it was very much his his mantra being,

you know, with that influence. But. Of course,

this is I hate fairyland. So at the end that

baby cheese she saves she finds out that it because

it was for a snack and And what's interesting

is like if you go back to the previous Gertrude

That would kind of set her off and have her go

back to her always thinking. Okay, she just gives

up she failed She can't do that. Right, but the

fact that she's still kind of stays course again

shows that yet Even though this is kind of a

we get ridiculous over the top You know candy

sugar coated Adventure story. He you know, he's

finding Scottie Young is finding some room to

Add a little bit of actual development into all

this. Yeah Yeah, exactly. And it's just yeah,

I was like, oh that's super twisted like I wish

Gert would have Actually asked the village people

like instead of having to fight them like if

you're on a quest of good and she kind of Realizes

this later about it all about the no killing

thing you know batman's rule and all that uh...

i wish that she would have uh... you know tried

to tie actually talk to them not just think that

you know they are uh... evil kind of a thing

uh... which is to say that like she can't do

she won't do harm until the harm is done to her

They are very quick quick to do that. So again,

she's not all the way there, but she's at least

Adjusting to her, you know, just kill and ask

questions later. So she's you know, she's you

know, she's improving but she's a work in progress

Oh, yeah very much work in progress so after

that we have issue 13 which is basically turns

into the Larry story I think yeah cuz they pull

a it's a wonderful life and yeah we get a little

bit kind of the idea of what his life would be

like if he wasn't with Gertrude thinking that

at first Seeming like it would actually be better

and he would be some more celebrated and not

nearly as a drunkard as he is but actually finding

out that he would actually he is as much to blame

for it for himself as as Gertrude and he's he's

not Mm -hmm. He's got some problems that are

bigger than the fact that he's teamed up with

you know, devil incarnate, basically Yeah Well,

that's the reveal at the end of the trade. Yeah,

Happy is most definitely the devil incarnate.

I like this one. It's interesting to see a different

side of Larry. Larry with a different person

other than Gert. I don't know, there wasn't like...

There wasn't as many I mean there are a lot of

jokes in here But it wasn't as as many as I would

like or I don't know maybe I just read the issue

too fast I think the funniest thing in this because

I just don't Care for the show is the fact that

Scotty basically makes fun of Ellen and calls

her Elfen With the Ellen show that that Yeah

Larry ends up on yeah, this is a little bit more

depressing Yeah with what with occurs, but I

think part of it too is the way it's designed

where you know It's trying to start or show you

what his life would be like. So at first it's

like He you don't have Gertrude. So she's always

the big part of that humor. So yeah, I don't

think it's probably as Per se, but it's probably

a little less of the jokes or at least, you know

It's not as over with with the comedy since it's

kind of showing you what this book would be like

if he was worth like normal everyday girls, so

they're not gonna be as you know, oh crazy as

she is but But in the end we kind of see where

it leads to so and again, it's more of a humor

of like all that It's just twisted where you

know some of the other type of the humor we've

gotten with the book was it's twisted but with

a little bit more fun this one doesn't have as

much fun but I think it's again it's this volume

seems to be like okay we've ran some of these

jokes into the ground what more can we do and

he's finding new room to to like approach some

of these characters yeah did you feel it okay

so I read the trade for this I read it digitally

on Comixology It's 124 pages for issues 11 to

15. We're already on, about to be talking about

issue 14. Now I know we haven't gone panel by

panel, dissecting every little thing, but with

this series, we really can't. Like, this isn't

like IDW's Transformers or... uh... saga or whatever

hadrian's wall this isn't like that this is basically

a comedy series this is okay yes it's a dark

comedy series it's also having depressing moments

like we just said issue thirteen kind of dark

and depressing when it comes to the whole larry's

uh... it's a wonderful life moment uh... but

i don't know i feel like this this whole tree

when i read it only took me really trades that

are 100 pages or more mostly usually take me

two or three hours this maybe took me 45 minutes

to read because how I normally read digital comics

is I read for the story and I will go back and

I will appreciate the art afterwards unless it's

a full -on splash page which we do have some

of those in here but I pretty much read for the

bubbles the first time around and this read really

fast Yeah, I always thought that's always been

the case with this book though, it's I think

It would be out of the norm if this was you would

suddenly get like a nine panel grid with a lot

of heavy dialogue I think for it because ultimately

this is supposed to be a Takeoff of what would

be a fairy tale child story So it's still I think

need to exist in that realm of when it comes

to Just the pacing of it and in the style. So

if it were to be A slower reader or be a little

bit more Plot heavy. I think it would kind of

remove itself from the thing. It's parodying.

It's like if you watch Naked gun and suddenly

it's like wow, they're actually Taking time to

really hammer home the procedural elements of

this crime drama It's like that's not really

what we go to see naked gun for right? So I so

I think it yeah, it's a fast read, but I kind

of appreciate it as well It is a very I mean

a lot of this is you know, it's a visual medium

of course, but it being a Humor book and a lot

of that humor coming from the visual gags. It's

it's not it's uh, I think Book where it's not

necessarily always the words on the page that

are telling the story. It's very much the Because

this is an artist in writing the same book he

can he can trust himself and know where and when

that He can just let his art tell the story or

where he could need to punch it up a little bit

But yeah, it's not it's not a verse verbose story

by any means. Yeah So Chapter 14, I love the

cover of this, or issue 14 I should say, I love

the cover of this, the Labyrinth cover with kind

of like, made out of Gert's face in the middle.

I love that, that's so cool. So they're on their

way to look for the Labyrinth and they find it

and they meet, um, Loveth Love Lord. Oh boy.

Yeah, I can see David Spade playing him in the

movie. I don't know. David Spade or David Duchovny?

David Spade. All I can think of is Joe Dirk with

the mullet, except this guy has a reverse mullet.

So yeah, she meets this guy and she gets totally

freaked out about him and everything else and

they go to make a deal. They start now. This

is really where the jokes kind of caught me is

in this issue like the balls of redemption and

You know, she's like really couldn't have named

them something else less dirty old mannish. Oh

Boy, yeah Anyway, she's got a lowbrow type of

joke, but again, it's even it's self -aware in

that Aspect of it as well. So which is kind of

like, you know, having your cake any it's who

would you like? I'm gonna tell this joke, but

also make my fun make fun of myself for telling

this jokes, but maybe it's a cheat but Yeah,

this I mean, this is probably to me maybe the

weakest issue out of it all I thought it was

good, but I just it didn't have as much as the

previous I did like the running joke of everyone

trying to marry her now, especially because he

said that's often like the case with a lot of

like classic Tales or things of that nature where

it's like, you know you when you're when you

save the queen the princess you you get the marrier

for whatever reason and realizing how that's

kind of an odd thing to do but I Did I did find

you know where it ended up? Well done And as

you mentioned, I did like the cover as well.

It has like almost like an Aztec look to it.

Yeah. Yeah so Love is the love lord asks, you

know part of the they they make a deal he's gonna

give her his balls because that's another part

of the joke and if if she succeeds and if she

doesn't succeed then He'll marry her and like

you just said all these characters You know that

she passes along kind of like Dorothy and Oz

End up getting killed by this guy because he's

actually standing outside the maze like on like

Like a basically like a board game almost and

he's Using various weapons to kill these people

that like the first little guy gets hit by a

mace The second one who's on fire? I have no

idea how that relationship would have worked.

He puts him on you know he puts him out with

water There's a snail That ends up salted Sadly,

with this one, all I can think of is, uh... There's

too much salt in the margaritas. I'll take my

traveler's checks to a competing resort! Burn

this place to the ground. Good ol' Milton Waddums

from Office Space. We get to a point in this

issue where they don't even show full scenes

of how... uh... loveth uh... destroys these people

they just show the mary me mary me mary me because

it's like beating it into the ground here yeah

and uh... yeah there's like a million of them

and they kind of they finally do get to the center

of the maze but you know as always you know no

quote unquote villain is gonna you know keep

his word And they're gonna bring in a dragoon

Turns out to be Duncan who we've met before Yeah,

I didn't realize he was actually a really a dragon

for whatever reason but he's not well he isn't

he wasn't at first Yeah, he was the kid in the

dragon costume. That was I think the last last

couple of issues Yeah, yeah, it was issues seven

and eight how to drain your dragon. That's when

we met him And he was just a kid trapped in Fairyland

in a dragon costume. But apparently now he has

dragon powers. It's a grip horn with the ability

to fly. I thought that was the case. I'm like,

maybe I missed something because it seems like

he can actually breathe fire now, which is kind

of cool. But yeah, and then of course it ends

up with where we get the name of this volume.

Good Gert. So Gert is now good. This is gonna

be freaky. Okay, so between 14 and 15, at the

end of 14 she becomes good Gert. Let's just think

of 37, 38 years. Since we started reading this

series and talking about it on the show here,

They've told us it's been 37 or whatever many

years that Gert has been trapped in Fairyland

for some odd reason she can't find a key or the

key or the way out back to her own world. And

now she goes good and within like the first five

or six pages of issue 15 she finds the key and

is ready to go home but there's some other big

bad around. Okay, I don't mind the fact that

if this was going obviously the series is continuing.

I know right now I looked a moment ago We're

gonna at least have issues 16 to 20 I don't know

if we'll have anything past 20 But I assume because

comics ology didn't tell me a this is the final

issue or anything like that so There might be

two arcs left in this. I don't know volume four

and five usually When comic companies like Image

or like IDW do volumes, it's usually one through

five most of the time, even if the series ends.

But yeah, like you said earlier, Gert has come

a long way. And now the fact that she's good

and she can actually complete the I Hate Fairyland

quest. Wow. Yeah, but you think about back to

the second arc, I think, where, you know, or

forget first or second arc, where She had that

in a competition of what her name was happy.

I believe the person that like yep, just realizing

that it seems the thing that was always getting

in the way of Kurt was her herself because suddenly

now the fact that she's not a Horrible person.

She's able to get a lot of these things and ask

for help where before Method was just brute force

but still seeing that no one Really feels like

she's you know, she's still elicits fear out

of everyone and where the word that's coming

from But and then of course just because of the

way things are it She in thinking of everything

that might kill her what it ends up doing it

was rather, you know It's like the the guy who

is you know about this score touchdown and no

one stop him But suddenly he tripped over his

own two feet or he fumbles up before the goal

line. This is kind of what What happens to her?

Yeah, it does She gets you know within inches

and one of those stupid manning people take it

away from her Anyway So yeah, we start at the

castle and The guards, you know are like so no

somebody's approaching. Oh, no, it's the end

of the world wake the king up King runs naked

to the to the place and ends up getting dressed

and come to find out it's good Gert with a giant

sword Hello, mr. King. It's very nice to see

you and your very brave looking army today I

just love that so basically she trades him the

sword for the recipe for soup So it basically

becomes a trade -off like she eventually wants

something somehow some way obviously It's the

trade -off to it. She's now on the quest for

the key So she basically, you know, oh, you know

It's kind of like going to a flea market and

saying to somebody, oh, I want this, but I only

have this amount of money. And the person's like,

well, I'll give it to you for that price if you

can go find me this. And then you go to the next

person. Well, I'll trade you this if you'll get

me that, you know, that kind of thing. So that's

where we are here with this on this quest. And

it's interesting to see her go on the traditional

fairyland quest now, finally. Actually see her

almost succeed Yeah, and this also leads to you

know the fact that you have this in the background

or you have the Gathering of all people like

thinking, you know This is an opportunity to

finally take her out because she's not this psychopath

that seems to be unstoppable and there's like

actually some type of stakes there because you're

wondering like okay like how exactly is she gonna

get out of this because clearly she's oblivious

to anything you know she's all gumdrops and fairy

tales but of course as look have has it you think

okay well she's safe and then scotty young's

like no she's not and let me show you in the

most graphic way possible just just how not she

Is I just thought that you know the image of

what actually happened was like wow he He did

not hold back when it came to that moment. It

felt like that was the panels He's been waiting

to draw since he began this book. Yeah Absolutely

What I want to know is who the hell is the witch

talking to that's what I want to know Because

she contacts someone through her crystal ball

Oh, yeah. Oh, I don't want to as I said, I'm

I've read ahead so I don't want to yeah Right,

but like that's my burning question at this point

is You know who the heck is that person? It's

kind of it kind of reveals it at the end of this

issue or you get an idea of who it might be based

upon who? When she goes to hell and who she sees.

Oh Yeah, okay, so uh... i wasn't sure if it was

going to be happy or not before i read this obviously

as i was reading it i was like she talking to

and obviously it's the end of course it is happy

so basically the which in all the evil people

that dirt is kind of defeated before the ones

that she hasn't killed uh... basically all of

the team up and they'll all get paid as long

as there is dead yet support Mm -hmm is it just

mirrors did I just now notice that the king has

an ice cream cone on his head I Don't know if

you just noticed that but I trust you has it

been there the whole time is my question like

I just now I'm seeing this thinking I Believe

so I couldn't There's so many brightly colored

candy themed things it's hard to keep track Oh

man, can you imagine if Gert met up with Vanellope?

It's a sugar rush! Oh god, Gert and Vanellope

with Larry and Ralph, that would be hilarious.

Crossover! So somebody threw her a lollipop and

she ends up tripping because they all throw their

weapons at her trying to kill her. the lollipop

is what kills her because she ends up tripping

and yeah she goes splat and it and it stays consistent

because Gert's been this person that seems like

she just can't get out of her own way and even

when even in this case she legitimately can't

get out of her own way to the point where uh

you know she has a lollipop like do the chuck

norris move that goes right through her skull

and her brain pops out so So, Gert ends up in

this dank, dark, hot place and until she actually

was able to wake up, she doesn't know where she

is. And, welcome to hell. Population of happy.

Wow. Um, I kind of wasn't expecting this when

I first read it. Yeah, I didn't think he'd actually

like legitimately, you know kill her obviously,

you know, it's definitely a weird thing here

because it's clearly continuing But yeah, the

the way that he went about it was like I said,

it was like wow, that's man. I thought that was

great Yeah, it was absolutely so fun Just like

the first two arcs of this series. I absolutely

love it. I'm very sad that this is coming to

an end at some point Have we Received any news

as to when it's ending like is there a specific

as he said or his image said there's a specific

issue that Is the final issue? I don't remember

to be honest with you. It's been hard to keep

track of every So I just remember him saying

that it's probably coming to an end soon and

it feels like it's getting to that point Where

the story currently is so but you know it could

be issue 50 i i don't know i um just from what

i remember him saying um and he had a desired

end point which makes sense because like i said

i i think this story can keep going but i don't

think it's one that you would really i'd rather

see it end before it gets too tiresome and now

that he's you know working he's been working

for marvel for some time but if he's going to

be taking over Deadpool full time Right, and

if that is successful, we could probably write

more for Marvel. He's not drawing it though So

that I don't know if I'll do more creator on

books after this he's talked about having some

other ideas in the play I've listened to a few

of his interviews and I think that might be where

he goes next. But um, but yeah, so it's It's

not been officially announced. I don't believe

so because I know like kill be killed for example

is ending in issue 20 but Hopefully find out

soon Overall for the for all five issues the

entire arc. What would you give it zero to five?

I? Do think it's a it's a solid floor You know

it's this is where it's it's basically as good

as it can be if that makes sense like it's it's

enjoyable It's fun as we mentioned. It's it's

a light enjoyable read but it's And like I said,

I did feel like this one had a little bit more

development than even some of the previous issues.

I did have the one issue which I wasn't a huge

fan of. I just thought the joke ran into the

ground a little bit. And it's trying to have

it both ways. But it's everything you want. I

feel like it's still one of the most consistent

books. If you enjoyed the first issue, you're

gonna pretty much love every issue of the series.

Absolutely. Absolutely. I'm gonna give it a four

and a half. I kind of enjoyed the Larry issue,

but you're right, it kind of went on a little

too long. But the rest of it was just absolutely

great. Interesting character development for

Gert. The fact that she's turned good and she

actually was able to succeed even though her

plans were foiled by Happy. And all of that,

but I love seeing all the various characters

as I said before At least no, you know harm came

to any Sun or moon this time around Yeah, I can't

wait to see what Scotty does next for create

a room when he comes up with next is this series

has been really fun Alright folks, I think that's

gonna do it for us. What have you got coming

up on comic concierge? I have a few things coming

up speaking of image a Few image books will be

talking about revival with Matt Stewart from

simplistic revolt views we also we've been continuing

the look at Howard County for from Dark Horse

and With JD ran. I'll be talking about the series

where else city volume 2 Coming up as well. So

So Lily, you recently put out your top 50 comics

for April. That was a read and a half. Yeah,

and I'm currently working on one now for May,

because as we're recording this, we're the last

Wednesday of May, which is a five Wednesday month,

which I feel like every month this year has been

a five Wednesday month. I don't know. It's been

weird. It is not. Trust me, I would know. No,

I don't. But yeah, that'll be up soon. So yeah,

I've been trying to do a countdown each month.

And then at the end of June, I'll be doing just

my... favorite comics of the year so far including

graphic novels so we can look for that at the

end of uh end of june absolutely um i don't know

if you've read or if you plan on reading but

definitely for may something that needs to make

the list i i don't know where you'll put it obviously

because you you're almost reading more than i

am at this point um but nightwing the new order

oh my god It's I did I read that included my

in my Okay, that's the 2017 but that that what

the trade came out, right? Yeah, the trade the

trade came out this month Yeah, so it wouldn't

count for the for me for maybe get to come out

in single -issue this it's only single issues

Yeah, no the no, I didn't even know like Was

a little busy last year, so I didn't even know

I didn't even know the six -issue miniseries

was coming and then I saw the trade get released

and I'm like When did this happen? This is Kyle

Higgins. It's it's Kyle Higgins and Trevor McCarthy

and I'm like damn I need this I really mean I'm

like Wow It was in my top 100 comics of 2017.

I don't forget where but it was I did like that

a lot It was quite good. It was it was like Nightwing's

version of Dark Knight returns, but with it being

Nightwing It's not nearly as dark and gloomy

as Frank Miller and but it's a lot of fun. I

really enjoyed that series Yep, absolutely Okay

I need to double check something. I'm going to

close it out in a second, but I hope there's

nothing wrong. Because I just opened the recorder

and it shows something. I recorded it in my end

as well. Okay, that's good. Yeah, damn it. It's

showing me zero. Well, maybe it's because we're

still recording. Let me close it out and I'll

get your... I'll have you go through where people

can reach you and things like that. So yeah,

folks, Nightwing New Order, I Hate Fairyland

Vol. 3, obviously very, very cool. Check out

Dan's show, Comic Concierge. It's very fun and

a new and interesting way to look at comics here

on the GCRN. I Hate Fairyland Vol. 3, very, very

good. Looking forward to the next trade as well.

Where can people find you online, sir? I am on

Twitter and movie revolt and you can find me

on Instagram at comic con sears Absolutely. I

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