#Emerald City of Oz

[joemerl]

Ozma, when an army of evil magical creatures are invading Oz:

Nick Chopper, whenever his team is threatened:

[showamagicalgirls]

Another thing I watched on the plane ride for this work trip I'm on were two random episodes of The Wizard of Oz (オズの魔法使い) from 1986.

I have tended not to think of isekai (異世界) stories as a part of this project, but, let me tell you, watching episode 44 from the portion of the series based on L. Frank Baum's sixth Oz novel, The Emerald City of Oz, truly thrilled me, so now I may be rethinking that to some extent.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

We're off to see the Wizard. This is so cute, but I would put it inside. Looks like a combo of bottles and decorative glass.

[jryno]

WICKED (2024) dir. Jon M. Chu

[poppies-from-oz]

LAND OF OZ MASTERPOST

Now seems as good a time as any to remind everyone that all of the original fifteen Oz books are public domain and up for free online.

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz 

The Marvelous Land of Oz

Ozma of Oz

Dorothy & The Wizard in Oz

The Road to Oz

The Emerald City of Oz

The Patchwork Girl of Oz

Little Wizard Stories of Oz

Tik-Tok of Oz

The Scarecrow of Oz

Rinkitink in Oz

The Lost Princess of Oz

The Tin Woodman of Oz

The Magic of Oz

Glinda of Oz

Happy reading! 

[stone-cold-groove]

The Emerald City.

[kodamos-bucket]

Luke, wake up, Luke, we've got the wrong neverland

[yellowbrickramble]

This chapter includes a musical number called "The Yellow Brick Ramble" because after all, where would Oz be without musical numbers?

Many people believe that because comics is an entirely visual medium, musical numbers don't belong in comics. Then there's me, who wrote a comic which not only had musical numbers, but a recurring theme song.

ANYWAY! The title illustration is, of course, an homage to one of the versions of the cover of The Emerald City of Oz. I don't like doing homage covers too often as they're a little overdone, but it's still fun to indulge once in a while.

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[nevertoomanyspiders]

well, trying to figure out how to draw Strasheela (the 2017-2019 one from the CGI animated features), I like using a monowidth brush to help simplify shapes, lol.

I also started watching the 1974 stop motion animated adaptation of The Wizard of the Emerald City and, while there's no subtitles on the youtube upload beyond auto translate, what I'm seeing is charming enough. when I initially saw that particular version of Strasheela, I thought he looked like a clown, and watching this series, it seems it's a deliberate design choice. he's very cute. if there's better reference images for the puppet other than working from stills, that'd be rad!

[themousefromfantasyland]

I watched Return to Oz again yesterday, and despite the darker tone, it still has the most welcoming and joyful depictions of the Emerald City I've seen.

I think it's because the Emerald City feels less like a homogeneous society where everyone dress the same like in the other versions.

It feels more like a natural combination of all the weird and colorful characters that fill the Land of Oz.

Fun fact: Several obscure Oz characters appear in the joyful celebration, like the Frogman and the Patchwork Girl

Even Santa Claus himself appears in the crowd.

@ariel-seagull-wings @thealmightyemprex @the-blue-fairie @witchesoz

[watcher-in-the-woods]

He said is this the return to Oz? The grass is dead The gold is brown And the sky has claws

Return to Oz (1985)

Directed by Walter Murch Written by Gill Dennis and Walter Murch

Based on The Marvelous Land of Oz and Ozma of Oz, both written by L. Frank Baum

[ndemon93]

An old picture

[showamagicalgirls]

As part of my birthday viewing, I made my husband watch The Emerald City of Oz, the fourth English dub film recut of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (オズの魔法使い) TV anime from 1986.

I didn't enjoy it quite as much as Ozma of Oz but it was still very cute. Three specific things I want to mention: 1.) Ozma is so adorable; 2.) the Chinese-coded gnome adversary is questionable; and 3.) seeing Dorothy fly around on the origami paper crane is everything.

[buttercup-barf]

Finally I can post this.

I participated in another artist telephone event in the Russian Wizard Of Oz/Emerald City community, and, well, here's my piece! I liked improvising the designs, that was fun.

[adaptations-polls]

Which version of this do you prefer?

Note: This is a part 2 poll, mostly meant to feature looser adaptations/reinterpretations of the Oz books. You can find the first part here

Further notes:

The stage version of The Wiz looks like it is currently only licensable for school productions; but the script itself also appears to be separately available, and I believe there is currently a revival running on Broadway

Wicked is apparently licensable in Australia(?) and not elsewhere, but it is still running on Broadway, too

All the movies/shows are available on DVD or streaming

There's also a direct Wizard of Oz stage musical, but there's actually like *four* of them and some of them seem to build off each other to a degree? And multiple versions are licensable. I didn't want to include all four versions (this polls is at the max amount of things I want to include even without any of them) and I am not entirely sure which version is the one that is most commonly revived/considered the main version, so I've just opted to leave it off the poll for now.

[stanford-photography]

The Tin Woodman Tells His Story By Jeff Stanford, 2024 Buy prints at: https://jeff-stanford.pixels.com/