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Been a Long Time Since I Rinkitinked

Posted on January 18, 2023 by Nathan

I’ve previously reviewed the 2016 Oziana, which consists of fifteen different alternate endings for Rinktink in Oz. I thought I should say a little more about each one, however, so here we go. Susan Johnson starts out by going in a … Continue reading →

Posted in Book Reviews, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Dennis Anfuso, Eric Shanower, Food, Humor, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jared Davis, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a child's garden, aaron solomon adelman, andrew heller, baruch adelman, bilbil, christopher m. diket, dorothy gale, eggs, eleanor kennedy, ev, fix city, flattown, george van buren, gilgad, goats, high faluting city, how to be good, invisible inzi of oz, jackdaws, james bond, john w. kennedy, karen diket, king anko, king gos of regos, king rinkitink, kuik blackbab, maggie lockett, magic belt, mariah b'forre, mermaids, musicton, nikobob, nome king, nome kingdom, ouija board, oziana, ozma, ozma of oz, ozmapolitan, patchwork girl, pearls of pingaree, prince bobo of boboland, prince inga of pingaree, puns, queen aquareine, queen cor of coregos, rinkitink in oz, robin hess, roodnite, sarah hadley, scarecrow, susan johnson, the gnome king of oz, the lost princess of oz, the magic of oz, the royal book of oz, the runaway of oz, three trick caverns, toto and the cats of oz, tune town, virginia and robert wauchope, walkingbury, water of oblivion, wizard of oz, wizards, zog | 4 Comments

Coping with Immortality

Posted on April 6, 2022 by Nathan

We’re up to the 1978 Oziana, with a cover by Bill Eubank that appears to be partially based on a John R. Neill illustration from Kabumpo in Oz. Then there’s an Oz-E-Gag by Eubank, comparing The Wizard of Oz to … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, Comics, Games, History, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Magic Items, March Laumer, Melody Grandy, Music, Mythology, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Poetry, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Star Wars, Winnie-the-Pooh | Tagged atlantis, bears, bees, beyond the rainbow, bill eubank, bronson pinchot, clara jean curzon, daniel k. cox, dave billman, deadly desert, dorothy gale, emerald city, ereol, espa, fairies, forest of burzee, george lucas, george van buren, gili bar-hillel, glinda, glinda of oz, great detective, harry mongold, how ducky!, hugo ball, immigration, immortality, in other lands than oz, jay delkin, jenny jump, joe bongiorno, johanna buchner, joseph campbell, julius caesar, kabumpo in oz, latin, lau shiu fan, luke skywalker, lurline, magic belt, magic picture, menankypoo, number nine, ojo, orks, oz-e-gags, oziana, ozma, patchwork girl, paul ritz, pillars of hercules, pin-up, pixies, plato, princess leia, queen coo-ee-oh, queen zixi of ix, red jinn, sawhorse, scraps' ditty, shaggy man, sherlock holmes, talking heads, the adventure of the missing belt, the green dolphin of oz, the lost king of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the threat of civil-oz-ation, the wonderful wizard of oz, the woozy's sticky end, the woozy's tale, the woozy's tricky beginning, tippetarius in oz, tollydiggle, toto, transformation, vincent ward, water of oblivion, wizards, woozy, zim greenleaf, zimbo and the magic amulet, zimboobo | 4 Comments

Batoose, Batoose!

Posted on March 3, 2022 by Nathan

It’s on to the 1973 Oziana, and I feel like this one is somewhat lacking in unique content, as some of it was published elsewhere. That said, these publications were quite limited and I don’t have copies, so that’s not … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Characters, Edward Einhorn, Fred Otto, Humor, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Poetry | Tagged bible, bill eubank, fairies, george van buren, gospel of luke, gregory maguire, harry mongold, ix, kevin harris, latin, lulea, oziad, oziana, ozma, ozma sees herself, paradox in oz, sawhorse, tempus temporis in terra ozis, the improbable forest, the patchwork girl of oz, the sawhorse of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, time travel, tippetarius, wicked, wicked witch of the west, wizard of oz | Leave a comment

Fairyland Lost

Posted on March 22, 2017 by Nathan

Anyone who’s read the Oz books from The Emerald City of Oz on knows that residence in that fairyland grants certain magical effects, including a lack of aging unless you want to grow older, and presumably the inability to die … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Comics, Eric Shanower, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Phil Lewin, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged aging, beach blanket babyloz, bilbil, billina, christopher buckley, death, dorothy gale, ev, farmooth urbof, george van buren, glinda, glinda of oz, humpty bumpty, immortality, jeremy steadman, kabumpo, lucky bucky in oz, ozma, ozma of oz, paul dana, queen zixi of ix, queer visitors from the marvelous land of oz, rinkitink in oz, samandra, scarecrow, the emerald city of oz, the emerald ring of oz, the enchanted apples of oz, the enchanted island of oz, the lost king of oz, the magic of oz, the magic umbrella of oz, the silver princess in oz, the witch queen of oz, the yellow knight of oz, tik-tok of oz, toto, urbof effect, wizard of oz, zimbo and the magic amulet | 1 Comment

Toto Recall

Posted on March 9, 2016 by Nathan

Dorothy’s pet Toto might well be one of the most famous dogs in literature, but how much do you really know about him? L. Frank Baum never specifies a breed for him, simply describing in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Atticus Gannaway, Characters, Chris Dulabone, Gina Wickwar, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Marcus Mebes, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged billina, boston terrier, cairn terrier, cowardly lion, dingleberry, dogs, dorothy gale, eureka the pink kitten, frank kramer, george van buren, grampa in oz, nip and tuck, oziana, ozoplaning with the wizard of oz, terriers, the emerald city of oz, the lost princess of oz, the magic tapestry of oz, the magical mimics in oz, the road to oz, the scarecrow of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, tik-tok of oz, toto, toto and the truth, toto in oz, toto of oz, w. w. denslow, wicked witch of the west, wizard of oz, yorkshire terrier, zimbo and the magic amulet | 4 Comments

Lockup: Emerald City

Posted on December 17, 2014 by Nathan

My wife, who has read several books about prison and watched many episodes of Lockup on MSNBC, has mentioned to me that she doesn’t like the way the prison system in Oz is set up. Of course, thanks to an … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Comics, Jack Snow, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr | Tagged a computer wizard in oz, amazons, dc comics, emerald city, george van buren, jinjur, justice, ojo, omby amby, ozma, reform island, the magical mimics in oz, the marvelous land of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the runaway in oz, tollydiggle, transformation island, william moulton marston, wonder woman, zimbo and the magic amulet | 3 Comments

Tag Archives: george van buren

Been a Long Time Since I Rinkitinked

Coping with Immortality

Batoose, Batoose!

Fairyland Lost

Toto Recall

Lockup: Emerald City

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