I Hate Fairyland #3

Skottie Young's I Hate Fairyland announces itself with gleeful bad taste right on the cover of issue #3 — a close-up of Gertrude's thoroughly battered face, one eye swollen shut, the other bulging wide, bandages plastered across her forehead, and blood splattered everywhere while she grins with gap-toothed defiance beneath a crushed golden bow. Colorist Jean-François Beaulieu makes every bruise and blood droplet pop against the candy-bright palette, perfectly capturing the series' signature tension between adorable and absolutely unhinged. If you enjoy your fairy tales with a heavy dose of slapstick carnage, this 2015 Image series is exactly the warped antidote you've been looking for.