Eric shanower oz books6/20/2023 ![]() ![]() The tale continuously makes astonishing nonsense look real, like the talking chicken Bill, renamed Billina, then a mechanical man called Tik-tok, and meeting a spoiled princess who changes heads for every occasion. Dorothy is off on adventure before you know it, sublimely calm, wading ashore with a sidekick talking chicken. The tale advances one simple step at a time, engaging in small talk all the while to expose the character of the characters. Writer Eric Shanower retells the children’s story with genius. ![]() The Oz books started with the famous The Wizard of Oz in 1900. This book is third in a series of six volumes published by the same team from 2005 to 2013, reproducing Frank Baum’s original Oz books, subsequently collected in a 2014 omnibus edition. ![]() ![]() Handling the collected paperback edition of OZMA OF OZ, issues 1–8, gave me this classic impression from the start. Some artifacts may have passed just so from mouth to mouth since the stone age, finding new expertise and renewed hunger along the way. SOMETIMES A CLASSIC APPEARS on first blush, as some folk songs composed in past decades that felt familiar like old clothes, and sometimes did come from an earlier era, revived by a new artist in a new generation. ![]()
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