Land of Oz - Manga (Baum)

Land of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, illustrated by David Hutchison (2009)

(Not a review, just some notes to help me remember the things I've read. But written this way because it's the Internet, and some people will stumble across this page.)

The first time I read the story of The Land of Oz was the Marvel Treasury of Oz treasury edition comic. It followed the joint DC/Marvel edition of The Wizard of Oz, which told the sotry of the movie, not the original novel.

At some point after that, I'm sure I read the book itself. I know we had a copy in the house. Oddly, despite having a copy of The Wizard of Oz on our bookcase, I never read it. Not until I bought my first Palm Pilot and it was one of the books included. (At the time, people made fun of me for reading on something that small.) And there was the Disney movie Return to Oz with Dorothy, instead of the main character Tip, which covered a lot of the same material and featured quite a few of the same characters.

This version of The Land of Oz is similar to, but inferior to my memory of, the Marvel edition. There's really nothing "manga" about it. The Scarecrow is drawn oddly, and the Tin Woodsman is definitely a manga-type image, but other than that, nothing.

Worse, even though the pages read from the back, the individual pages are read left to right, as usual. And then there are the "splash" pages. the ones that cross two pages in an actual printed book. In these cases, you swipe to go to the next page on the left to see an image that you know should be on the right. This was confusing. Of course, splash pages of this type would be confusing in ebook form regardless.

I'm not summarizing the story because I do that to remember things. There's nothing here I'm likely to forget.

There were 8 or 9 issues and I read them quickly over a few nights. I didn't look to see if Ozma of Oz was available as a comic. I'd probably prefer to read that as a novel first.

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