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Category Archives: Monsters
The Anti-Chaos Committee
I’ve finished several books recently, but I was holding off on writing about them not just because I had other stuff to do, but because it seems like I don’t do much else besides book reviews these days. Oziana isn’t … Continue reading
Posted in A. Lee Martinez, Authors, Book Reviews, Christianity, Fairy Tales, German, Greek Mythology, Hinduism, History, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Magic, marissa meyer, Monsters, Mythology, Norse, october daye, Oz, Oz Authors, Philosophy, Politics, Prejudice, Relationships, Religion, seanan mcguire
Tagged abolitionism, angela davis, constance verity, constance verity destroys the universe, cotton mather, demons, dryads, elves, erlking, fairies, gilded, ibram x. kendi, jefferson davis, king kong, kiranmala and the kingdom beyond, luanne g. smith, martin luther king, pixies, planet of the apes, president thomas jefferson, racism, rakkhosh, rumplestiltskin, sayantani dasgupta, slavery, stamped from the beginning, thakurmar jhuli, the brightest fell, the chaos curse, the princess bride, the raven spell, uplift suasion, vivienne to, w.e.b. dubois, wild hunt, william lloyd garrison, winged monkeys, witches
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May the Light Shine Upon Thee
Here’s something that was interesting to me and probably isn’t to that many other people, although maybe you’re an exception. That is the novelization of the first Dragon Quest game. The author, Hideo Takayashiki, wrote adaptations of the original three … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Babylonian, Book Reviews, Comics, Dragon Quest, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Names, Persian, Video Games
Tagged alefgard, brecconary, chimera, dragon queen, dragon quest iii, dragon quest iv, dragon quest story, dragon quest v, dragon quest viii, dragon quest your story, dragonlord, dragons, dragovians, eagles, emblem of roto, erdrick, hauksness, hideo takayashiki, ishtar, mitra, mitsumi inomata, princess gwaelin, rubiss, sphere of light, the legend of rubiss, wyverns, zoma
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Lions Are a Beast’s Best King
I might as well move on with my Oziana reread to the 1982 issue, which has a rather more abstract and stylized cover than earlier ones. It has a picture of the Cowardly Lion and a mountain inside a larger … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Plays, Relationships, Ruth Plumly Thompson
Tagged a day in oz, ben p. indick, billina, blorgens, cowardly lion, david ingersoll, dorothy gale, edith ellen reuwer, fairies, glenn ingersoll, herby the medicine man, jay delkin, jenny jump, kim mcfarland, labor of love, magic fan, nelebel, nelebel's fairyland, omby amby, oziana, ozma, patchwork girl, professor wogglebug, rob roy macveigh, scarecrow, the change made by the magic turnstyle, the marvelous land of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the royal book of oz, the scarecrow's appreciation day, the wishing horse of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tin woodman, turn-style, wizard of oz
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Chrono Crosstalk
Chrono Cross was released about a month ago for the Switch, so I bought a copy. It’s digital, which I kind of don’t trust. I think you have to buy it from Asia if you want a physical copy. But … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy, Magic, Monsters, Names, Video Games
Tagged chrono cross, cid, dogs, el nido, fairies, fort dragonia, frog, frozen flame, glenn, guile, korcha, lucca ashtear, luccia, lynx, magus, pip, poshul, razzly, serge, tata, time travel
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The Call of Cthjello
It’s Oziana time! Let’s delve into the 1981 issue, which has a drawing of Glinda by Denise Brunkus on the cover. Maybe this is just me, but it seems like her dress is made to look lumpy, and it puts … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Characters, Conspiracy Theories, Dreams, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Humor, Jack Snow, Jeff Rester, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Maps, Monsters, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson
Tagged adventure on monday mountain, as the rainbow follows the rain, billina, cthjello, cthulhu, dana linker, daniel k. cox, deadly desert, death, denise brunkus, dorothy gale, emeralda ozgood, ernest johnson, glinda, grampa in oz, great book of records, h.p. lovecraft, immortality, kaliko, lurline, mermaids, monday mountain, mount munch, nome king, nome kingdom, old ones, oziana, ozma, paula cooper, polychrome, professor wogglebug, rinkitink in oz, the eldritch horror of oz, the forbidden fountain of oz, the magical mimics in oz, the rainbow's daughter of oz, the scarecrow of oz, the woggle-bug book, tik-tok of oz, trot griffiths, yog-sothoth, yug-succotash
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Tell Me About the Dragons, George
I had a few other things I wanted to write about, but since I found out Saturday was St. George’s Day, I thought he might be worth looking into. As someone who didn’t attend a church where saints were really … Continue reading
Posted in Anglicanism, Authors, Catholicism, Christianity, Chronicles of Chrestomanci, Crusades, Diana Wynne Jones, Eastern Orthodox, England, Greek Mythology, History, Holidays, Humor, Islam, J.R.R. Tolkien, L. Frank Baum, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Religion, Roman, Roman Empire, Stan Freberg, Tom Holt
Tagged dragons, edith nesbit, emperor diocletian, gordon r. dickson, hercules, kenneth grahame, king edward iii of england, medusa, order of the garter, ovid, paint your dragon, perseus, prince marvel, smaug, st. dragon and the george, st. george, st. george's day, st. patrick, st. theodore tiron, the deliverers of their country, the enchanted island of yew, the hobbit, the reluctant dragon, unicorns, witch week
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Fuzzy Pickles
I started playing EarthBound last week when I found it on the Super NES for Switch application. It probably wasn’t the best timing as the Switch version of Chrono Cross also came out that week, but I’ve been switching back … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Cults, Humor, Magic, Maps, Monsters, Music, Names, Religion, Technology, Toys, Video Games
Tagged aliens, buzz buzz, charles schulz, eagleland, earthbound, ghosts, hippies, jeff andonuts, maniac mansion, monkeys, mr. belch, ness, nintendo power, onett, robots, threed, zombies
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A Druun on Society
Raya and the Last Dragon – Beth and I had watched all of Walt Disney Animation Studios films, then last year we fell behind. We finally got around to watching this one last night. It takes place in a Southeast … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Chinese, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Revisiting Disney, VoVat Goes to the Movies
Tagged awkwafina, cultural appropriation, dragon gem, dragons, druun, namaari, raya and the last dragon, sisu, tuk tuk
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Bake Love, Not War
The Great Troll War, by Jasper Fforde – It’s been eight years since the previous book in the Chronicles of Kazam, but we finally have the conclusion to this series. Set in a version of Britain that’s made up of … Continue reading
Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Chronicles of Kazam, Food, Greek Mythology, Humor, Jasper Fforde, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Relationships
Tagged a wizard's guide to defensive baking, achilles, briseis, centaurs, chiron, circe, homer, iliad, jennifer strange, madeline miller, paris, patroclus, quarkbeast, t. kingfisher, the eye of zoltar, the great troll war, the song of achilles, thetis, trojan war, trolls, ursula vernon, war, wizards
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Jinnicky’s Body
We’re now up to the Oziana from the year I was born, 1977. The front cover shows the royal palace of Oogaboo, as drawn by Albert Chronic. The introductory page has a political cartoon by Bill Eubank that isn’t really that … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, Comics, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Melody Grandy, Monsters, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Poetry, Politics, Ruth Plumly Thompson
Tagged a map for ruth plumly thompson, albert chronic, bill eubank, boboland, button-bright, dennis anfuso, dorothy and the wizard in oz, dorothy gale, dragonettes, dragons, ev, glinda, glinda and the red jinn, hotsnaps, hyenas, jay delkin, juggins, magic umbrella, nome king, nome kingdom, oogaboo, orks, oziana, ozma of oz, polychrome, president jimmy carter, professor wogglebug, red jinn, red top mountain, rinkitink in oz, robert pattrick, ruth berman, santa claus, ski-dad'l, slavery, smith and tinker, stanley worden, the curious cruise of captain santa, the disenchanted princess of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the scalawagons of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, tippetarius, two friendships, what if they had taken the other path?, wizard of oz, yankee in oz
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