Oz Squad
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Oz Squad is a comic book updating of L. Frank Baum's Land of Oz series.
Its premise is that Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion are now part of "Gale Force", a Mission Impossible type organization working to protect Oz from all manner of bizarre threats. Created and written by Steve Ahlquist, the series is complex and clever, playing with the mythology that Baum had created in the original children's books and updating it for a more adult audience.
The original series ran for ten issues from 1991-1996. Andrew Murphy illustrated the first four issues, Terry Loh the last six, and Mike Sagara illustrated the Little Oz Squad special. Current episodes of the series are being written by Ahlquist and illustrated by David Lee Ingersoll.
The first three issues were published by Brave New Words. The first two issues were reprinted with different covers. Publication then went to Patchwork Press.
The series provoked a strong negative response from many fans of Baum's Oz. Pittsburg State University English professor Steven J. Teller reviewed it for The Baum Bugle and considered it worthless and disgusting.[1]
The series began with Tik-Tok's "internal clockwork morality spring" breaking, leading to him making lewd remarks to a flight attendant and eventually becoming violent and Nick Chopper sleeping with Rebecca Eastwitch, a glamourous version of The Wicked Witch of the East, in order to get closer to his true love, Nimmie Amee, her slave. The series ended with Dorothy Gale telling Princess Ozma that she is pregnant, with some implication that it was by Pastoria, Ozma's own father.
When the series was reprinted, the Bugle was much kinder to it, and referred to Teller's review, suggesting that with the Oz books so recently having fallen into the public domain, there was little else like it, but post-Wicked, it seems groundbreaking and not nearly as outrageous as it did at the time.[citation needed]
[edit] References
- ^ Steven J. Teller. "Oz Squad review." The Baum Bugle.
[edit] See also
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