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Dark and Shuttered

Posted on July 6, 2022 by Nathan

This week, we’re taking a look at the 1991 Oziana. Well, what else did you expect after the 1990 issue? The cover by Chris Sterling shows the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman putting on a puppet show, with each one controlling a … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, Families, Fred Otto, Humor, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Poetry, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged a cozy castle in oz, afterlife, beach blanket babyloz, big enough mountain, charles martensen, chris sterling, christopher wayne buckley, death, earl abbe, ev, fairness, fred otto, glinda, great book of records, haiku, johnny dooit, kabumpo in oz, loxo the lucky, mission impozible, nome king, nomes, omby amby, oziana, ozma, ozma of oz, pyrzqxgl, ray bradbury, robin olderman, scarecrow, shutter town, something wicked this way comes, speedy in oz, the emerald city of oz, the forbidden cave of grapelandia, the giant horse of oz, the magic of oz, tik-tok of oz, timmy and the shutter faces in oz, tin woodman, water of oblivion, who's who in oz, woot the wanderer | 1 Comment

You’re in Luck

Posted on August 4, 2019 by Nathan

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 | 1 Comment

Lovable and Not-So-Lovable Rogues

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Nathan

I’ve now read a few of the Best of the Baum Bugle volumes I just recently purchased, and there are some interesting articles in there, including some on the Nome King and L. Frank Baum’s other villains. I’ve already covered … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Eloise Jarvis McGraw, Eric Shanower, Focus on the Foes, Humor, Jack Snow, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Oz, Oz Authors, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged abrog, baum's other villains, bell-snickle, boolooroo of the blues, bortag, bustabo, c. warren hollister, chalk, conjo, crunch, dorothy and the wizard in oz, faleero, giants, glegg, gludwig the glubrious, grampa in oz, grand gallipoot, growleywogs, guph, gwig, handy mandy in oz, judy pike, kabumpo in oz, kiki aru, king skamperoo, king strutoovious vii, king terribus of spor, loxo the lucky, lucky bucky in oz, merry go round in oz, mimics, mombi, mooj, mustafa of mudge, nome king, ozma and the little wizard, ozoplaning with the wizard of oz, pirates in oz, prince marvel, queen ann soforth, quiberon, red rogue, roundelay, singra, sir greves, sky island, slyddwyn, speedy in oz, sultan of samandra, terp the terrible, the baum bugle, the best of the baum bugle, the cowardly lion of oz, the decline and fall of the nome king, the emerald city of oz, the enchanted apples of oz, the enchanted island of yew, the giant horse of oz, the hidden valley of oz, the little wizard stories of oz, the lost king of oz, the lost princess of oz, the magic of oz, the magical mimics in oz, the purple prince of oz, the rundelstone of oz, the scalawagons of oz, the sea fairies, the shaggy man of oz, the wicked witch of oz, the wishing horse of oz, the yellow knight of oz, tik-tok of oz, ugu the shoemaker, water of oblivion, wizard of oz, wizard of wutz, zog | Leave a comment

Sizing Up and Down

Posted on January 26, 2017 by Nathan

Characters changing in size is a pretty frequent occurrence in the Oz books. It’s sort of a transformation, but not entirely, as someone exposed to such magic keeps the same shape. At least, that seems to be the case for … Continue reading →

Posted in Characters, Eric Shanower, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Magic Items, March Laumer, Melody Grandy, Oz, Oz Authors, Phyllis Ann Karr, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged baffleburg, big wigs, blinkie, bucketheads in oz, bunnybury, doorways, dwindlebury, ev, frogman, giants, glegg, glinda, growing, jack breton, jack pumpkinhead of oz, kabumpo in oz, larry breton, little dorothy and toto, little wizard stories of oz, loxo the lucky, magic muffins, mombi, nome king, ozma, peg amy, percy and the shrinking violet, percy the personality kid, polychrome, professor nowitall, professor wogglebug, rabbits, red jinn, red rogue, reddies, shrinking, skosh, snif the iffin, speedy in oz, terp the terrible, the cowardly lion of oz, the disenchanted princess of oz, the eldritch horror of oz, the emerald city of oz, the enchanted island of oz, the enchanted island of yew, the final fate of the frogman, the gardener's boy of oz, the giant garden of oz, the good witch of oz, the hidden valley of oz, the magic of oz, the marvelous land of oz, the ork in oz, the scarecrow of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the tin woodman of oz, tippetarius in oz, waddy, wag, witches, wizard of oz, zim greenleaf | 3 Comments

Before the Umbrella

Posted on February 1, 2011 by Nathan

Much of the plot of Speedy in Oz takes place on Umbrella Island, a land that flies through the air under the power of a magical umbrella. We’re told that this was not always the case, however. According to Waddy, … Continue reading →

Posted in Magic Items, Oz, Places | Tagged captain salt in oz, david perry, john r. neill, kachewka, kingdom of rinkitink, l. frank baum, loxo the lucky, nonestic ocean, ojo in oz, pansy the watch cat, pingaree, rinkitink in oz, ruth plumly thompson, speedy in oz, terrybubble, the enchanted island of oz, tik-tok of oz, umbrella birds, umbrella island, umbrella trees, waddy | 3 Comments

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