Author Archives: Nathan

Saving the World While We’re Young

Posted on August 15, 2019

I’ve seen the topic come up of how everyone tends to be young in Japanese role-playing video games, to the extent that people in their thirties are considered old. I noticed this in Final Fantasy VII, where everyone seems to … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Comics, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Gender, J.R.R. Tolkien, Magic, Prejudice, Relationships, Video Games | Tagged age, ashlynn, barret wallace, bartz klauser, borya, cecil harvey, celes chere, cid highwind, cid pollendia, coming of age, cyan garamonde, dai no daibouken, dragon quest iii, dragon quest iv, dragon quest v, dragon quest vi, dragon quest vii, erdrick, fantasy, final fantasy iv, final fantasy iv: the after years, final fantasy ix, final fantasy v, final fantasy vi, final fantasy vii, final fantasy viii, galuf halm baldesion, shadow, sir mervyn, squall leonhart, square enix, strago magus, tellah, terra branford, torneko taloon, zidane tribal | Leave a comment

We Are Family

Posted on August 14, 2019

This post on the Merry Old Land of Oz Facebook group got me thinking about how most of the kids who visit Oz tend to be only children. Okay, to be fair, it’s possible they have siblings we don’t know … Continue reading →

Posted in Atticus Gannaway, Characters, Dick Martin, Families, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged acinad, alexander volkov, allison mcbain, annie smith, aunt em, betsy bobbin, button-bright, cap'n bill, cap'n bob, christmas in oz, clarence skillet, cory in oz, donald abbott, dorothy gale, dr. pipt, ellie smith, frank joslyn baum, fumaro, general riskitt, glinda, glinda of oz, greg hunter, guardian of the gates, handy mandy, how the wizard saved oz, jack pumpkinhead, jeff freedman, jellia jamb, joe weedles, kabina, kabumpo, lucky bucky in oz, magic land, margolotte, mombi, nine tiny piglets, nome king, notta bit more, number nine, omby amby, ozma, ozmapolitan, pastoria, patchwork girl, paul dana, pinny and gig, polychrome, prince philador, queen ann soforth, robin hess, salye soforth, scarecrow, septimius septentrion, shaggy man, tales of magic land, the enchanted gnome of oz, the giant horse of oz, the goat girls of oz, the hidden valley of oz, the laughing dragon of oz, the magic dishpan of oz, the mysterious pool of oz, the other searches for the lost princess of oz, the ozampolitan of oz, the shaggy man of oz, the wizard of oz (1939), three adepts, tik-tok of oz, time-travelling in oz, tin woodman, trot griffiths, twink and tom jones, uncle henry, wicked witch of the east, wicked witch of the west, witches, wizard of oz | Leave a comment

I Have the Power!

Posted on August 10, 2019

Hell’s Super, by Mark Cain – This comedic look at the popular conception of Hell is narrated by Steve Minion, a rich guy in life who became the superintendent in Hell, conscripted to fix everything that breaks. The fact that … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Cartoons, Celebrities, History, Humor, Mythology, Oz, Religion, Star Trek, Television | Tagged andy mangels, bill cosby, captain marvel, creating the filmation generation, divine comedy, fat albert, filmation, florence nightingale, ghostbusters, he-man, hell, hell's super, henry ford, inferno, jason of star command, journey back to oz, lou scheimer, mark cain, masters of the universe, nikola tesla, orko, orson welles, ozcon international, shazam, she=ra, sid haig, skeletor, superman, the real ghostbusters, the three stooges, thomas edison | Leave a comment

Banana Slammer!

Posted on August 10, 2019

In my ongoing viewing of cartoons based on video games, I knew there was a Donkey Kong Country series, but not that much about it. Made by the Canadian animation company Nelvana, the same one that made the Care Bears … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Donkey Kong, Humor, Magic, Music, Relationships, Television, Video Games | Tagged andrew sabiston, apes, baby kong, bananas, bluster kong, candy kong, cranky kong, crystal coconut, diddy kong, dixie kong, donkey kong country, eddie the mean old yeti, funky kong, general klump, ian james corlett, john stocker, kaptain skurvy, king k. rool, klaptraps, kong fu, kremlings, kritters, krusha, len carlson, monkeys, nelvana, parrots, pirates, polly roger, swanky kong, wrinkly kong, yeti | Leave a comment

Superfueled Elasticycle

Posted on August 8, 2019

SPOILERS! Doom Asylum – Beth really liked Frankenhooker, and this was the only other film with Patty Mullen, who played the titular character and was also a Penthouse Pet. And like Frankenhooker, this is a comedic horror film. Mullen plays … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Families, Humor, Names, Relationships, Revisiting Disney, Technology, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged dashiell parr, doom asylum, elasticycle, elastigirl, evelyn deavor, frankenhooker, incredibile, incredibles 2, jack-jack parr, kristin davis, mr. incredible, patty mullen, ruth collins, screenslaver, superheroes, the incredibles, violet parr, winston deavor | 1 Comment

Glutton for Punnishness

Posted on August 7, 2019

Something I’ve looked at before is the nature of puns in the Oz series, and how they can serve different purposes. Some are purposely made by the characters, some are asides, and others are just kind of part of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Language, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged bunbury, jack pumpkinhead, ozcon international, ozlection, patchwork girl, paul dana, professor wogglebug, puns, sawhorse, scarecrow, spoolicle, the emerald city of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the royal book of oz, the runaway in oz, the woggle-bug book, the wonder city oz, utensia, wizard of oz | Leave a comment

You’re in Luck

Posted on August 4, 2019

I’d thought before about how the appellation “lucky” is applied to so many Oz characters. Well, only three that I can think of, but that’s still kind of weird. They were introduced by three different authors, however. The first is … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Authors, Characters, Comics, Discworld, Greek Mythology, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Melody Grandy, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Religion, Roman, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Terry Pratchett | Tagged atreyu, carl barks, cereal, charles lindbergh, davy jones the wooden whale, deadpool, deadpool 2, domino, donald duck, dragons, falkor, fate, fortuna, fortune, fred meyer, fred otto, fuchur, fukuryu, giants, gladstone gander, interesting times, jenny jump, lady luck, leif erikson, leprechauns, leprechauns in oz, loxo the lucky, luck, luck dragon, luck o' the irish, lucky bucky in oz, lucky bucky jones, lucky charms, lucky the leprechaun, margolotte, mark haas, michael ende, ojo, ojo in oz, oziana, prince pompadore, prince pompadore in oz, probability, psychopompus, rincewind, speedy in oz, the colour of magic, the forbidden cave of grapelandia, the lady, the last hero, the neverending story, the patchwork girl of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the wonder city of oz, tyche, x-force, zazie beetz, zim greenleaf of oz | Leave a comment

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We Are Family

I Have the Power!

Banana Slammer!

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