I love Shanower's Oz adaptations a little more with each one I read. By now, I've fallen fully in love with Skottie Young's vision of Oz. No, it isn't John R. Neill, but what is? Shanower does an excellent job of adapting the books into comic form, and it's very obvious that he has a great love for the Land of Oz. There are so many little details that will make an Oz fan happy. On a nerdy side note, this was the first of the Oz books that I ever read, and it made me feel absurdly happy to see th...

I've already read this book and loved it. I mostly get these comics for the awesome art and to see how they do the characters. Love how this book had the lesser known characters from other books by Baum like his Santa Claus book and John Dough. Really like how they drew Polychrome in this too. Highly recommend these to Oz fans!

Maybe I'm just getting tired, or maybe Baum was - but this book seemed a lot like the last one, which itself was the weakest in the series to that point. Basically, Dorothy and friends pop up at Point A (i.e., somewhere in the Oz-verse) and then go on a long walk to Point B (Oz) before having a party and being sent back to Point C (their respective homes). And that's it, for both books.And yes, there is another entire menagerie of new critters to enjoy - the Shabby Man, the Fox King, Scoodlers,

There's always been a lot to like about the Oz sequels, but I always felt their charms got buried in Baum's sometimes repetitive, often dull prose style. What the comics remind me of is how utterly strange, whimsical, and at times downright funny his dialogue could actually be. When a magical builder pops up, builds a ship almost instantaneously, and says, "I could paint it in a minute, but it would take an hour to dry, and I don't have that kind of time!" I can't help but love the weirdness of

In this book, Dorothy simply walks to Oz. Ozma enchants the road that Dorothy & her friend the Shaggy Man are walking upon so they find themselves in fairyland. They again meet a variety of bizarre characters as they try to make their way to the Emerald City. On their journey, they gain some additional companions; Button-Bright, a young boy whose only answer to any question is "Don't know" and Polychrome, the daughter of the rainbow. They enter the city of foxes, the city of donkeys, and must es...

Dorothy meets the Shaggy man. He is asking for directions and Dorothy shows him how to go, only somehow Dorothy ends up someplace new and finds herself back in Oz. She meets people from the Fox world and the Donkey world. She finds out Ozma is having a birthday party and so she heads to Oz for the celebrations. She meets many wonderful people, but that's about all of the plot. I don't think a whole lot more happens. There are a few more characters around that are pretty cool, like polychrome, a

Based on one of the weakest volumes of the Oz series, this graphic novel adaptation couldn't be worse than the original. And it's not, but it's not much better. It's a slimmer volume than any of the previous, and Shanower doesn't do anything to enhance Baum's original, or smooth out the awkwardnesses that saturate Baum's story. Shanower defends the original in his introduction, but one can't help feeling that he's as glad as we are that this one is out of the way.

Not my favorite one, but still amazing. Brilliant artwork, clever writing. Just a fantastic adaptation all around.

Not much of a story to this one. As other reviews on here state, that's Baum's fault, not Shanower's & Young's, so the rating's difficult to assign. Is it a faithful adaptation? Yes. Is it beautifully illustrated? Yes. Is it interesting to read? No, not all that much, but it's hard for me to ever regret time spent in Oz, so I'm happy to have this version on my shelf.We do meet a few important characters: the Shaggy Man; Button-Bright; and the best of the bunch, Polychrome, the daughter of the ra...

A fair adaptation from a pointless book Creative Team:Writer: Eric Shanower (based on the original works by L. Frank Baum)Illustrator: Scottie Young NOT SO EASY TO RATE My rating to this particular graphic novel is an average between the great presentation by Eric Shanower (writer) and Scottie Young (artist) and the original source material by L. Frank Baum. If I think on the graphic novel per se, easily I could give it easily a full 5 stars rating, but the story that it's an adaptation of

So there wasn't anything monumental in this Oz book, but the author chose a word to describe this particular story and I feel it is appropriate. The word is picaresque which hear means of or relating to an episodic style of fiction dealing with the adventures of a rough and dishonest but appealing hero.The hero is question is called the shaggy man, but mostly this story is just a re-introducing and in some cases, an introduction, of all sorts of characters Frank L. Baum has created. This include...

As Shanower states in his forward, this is the weakest of Baum's Oz novels. There's not much to it other than Dorothy and Toto along with 2 new friends go on a walking road trip to Oz. They, of course, meet some new characters but outside the Scoodlers there's no suspense or danger. There is some cross promotion as Baum brings in characters from 5 of his non-Oz books as guests at Ozma's birthday including Santa Claus. Skottie Young's art still brings the world of Oz to life brilliantly.

60th book read in 2017.Number 600 out of 624 on my all time book list.

A quieter journey than in past volumes, but full of memorable characters nonetheless. Dorothy offers to help the Shaggy Man find his way and is unwittingly pulled into a journey that takes her far from her Kansas home and back to Oz. Later, Dorothy finds that this journey was a trick of Ozma's so that she could ensure Dorothy's attendance at her birthday party.Similarly to the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Dorothy makes friends along her journey and in one way or another they find themselves in need e...

I have loved this series by Shanower and the art by Skottie Young is the main selling point (IMO). But, this is the first one where I got to the end and thought "what was the point"? Shanower, who adapts it from Baum's book, does warn us that it is considered the weakest of the Oz books and he is correct. It is also the first adaptation in the series to only go 6 comics instead of 8 and I can see why. Not much story to tell. But even with no story it feels rushed and not enough time is given to

This is difficult to rate. The story itself isn't very good, but that's on L. Frank Baum. Young and Shanower did a great job making a dull story fun. But, I still didn't think it was a good story. When I was a kid I started reading the Oz books but didn't make it past this book, and now I get why.

Oz introduces far too much content that fails to add relevant to an already captivating story resulting in a drawn narrative.

While trying to help the Shaggy Man find the right road near her home in Kansas, Dorothy soon finds their path is not in Kansas any more. She, the Shaggy Man and Toto meet all sorts of interesting characters along their path, some friendly and some a bit hostile. They pick up two more members to their party when they come across a little lost boy called Button Bright (who really isn't all that bright) and the inadvertently abandoned daughter of the Rainbow, Polychrome. Eventually Dorothy and gan...

Of the five graphic novel of the Oz series, this one was one of my favorite, a close second would be the first Oz book. I enjoyed most of the characters that we met in this book, except for Shaggy Man. He really just irritates me, mostly because he’s a con-man and I had him pinned from the first few panels of the book. But it was a great read, Dorothy and her band of friends travel through various countries to reach Oz. We get a more expansive elaborate view of the Oz world.Skottie Young’s art i...

This is the fifth book in Marvel’s reboot of the Oz series. There are six books total in this series. There isn’t much plot here, just lots of crazy characters. It wasn’t the best of the Oz books, but still fun to read. Dorothy travels down the road to Oz with the Shaggy Man and meets Polychrome (a daughter of the rainbow) and Button Bright (a not so bright young boy) along the way. They go through a kingdom of foxes and a kingdom of donkeys and sail a sand ship across the deadly desert all in t...