Somehow managing to slip through the cracks of our coverage of Image Expo, it seems that everyone’s favourite variant cover artist (amirite?) is continuing to build on the momentum gained from his work on Marvel’s Rocket Raccoon with a brand new creator-owned series entitled I Hate Fairyland.

In an interview with Bleeding Cool, Skottie summed up the basic premise of the series in a way that, well, sounds pretty damn awesome.

It’s about a girl who goes to Fairyland and still can’t find her way back home after 30 years. She’s a 40 year old stuck in an 8 year old body, living in world of wonder and magic… and she hates it. A riddling Worm King might be appealing when you’re a child, but to Gerturde, at 40, it’s annoying to the point of madness. How hard is it to just ask a simple question, right?

And if that quote isn’t enough to sell you on this new series, maybe this one will…

“So I though it would be fun to see what a character was like if they got all the things we think we want. To never physically age, to eat nothing but sweets and never gain weight, and live in a carefree world of whimsy with no responsibilities. It’s not all it’s cracked up to be. Then I thought, what happens if a character as mad as that had a big ass battle axe?”

So what do we think, folks?  Is I Hate Fairyland going to make it into your buy pile when it hacks its way onto the shelves of your local comic shop this fall?

EDIT: Preview artwork added courtesy of Entertainment Weekly.

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