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Daisy Finch McGuire reboots Land of Oz. Mirrored from: yellowbrickramble.com Patreon: patreon.com/daisyfm
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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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Do you know how hard drawing Venetian blinds is? Unfortunately, they existed in 1904, so I didn't have an excuse not to draw them.

Fans of the books might think I'm completely off track of the original plot at this point, but this is the point in Marvelous Land of Oz where Ozma, Jack, Scarecrow, & The Sawhorse flee Emerald City together. Everything's going according to keikaku.

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Scarecrow is singing Fancy Girl, the opening credits theme song of Ozu no Mahōtsukai, the Wizard of Oz anime series. I'm pretty sure I've mentioned it in the news posts before, but I'm not going to go back and check.

It adapted the first 3 books and also the 6th book. The only official translation is a dub which butchered the first few episodes and only covered the first two storylines, so I'd recommend finding a fan sub if you can.

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The suits on the cards are stars, hearts, swords (which look like spades), and emeralds representing wisdom, love, courage, and hope. In some decks, trees (which look like clubs) are switched out for the wisdom suit. Playing cards are a recent fad in Oz, first introduced by The Wizard, who brought a deck from his homeland. He may have taught Ozma some card tricks on one of the three visits he made to Mombi's house.

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This chapter was named after chapter 9 in Marvelous Land of Oz: "The Scarecrow Plans an Escape." While this adaptation has taken a bit of a departure from the original book at this point, we're still on roughly the same path as Ozma, Jack, Logan, and the Scarecrow all leave Emerald City for Winkieland. If you're wondering why Mombi still hasn't arrived, it's because chapters 5-9 took place on the same day and Ozma had a 3-day head start on her. Also, she's probably not taking the same shortcut through the woods that our heroes took. As far as how accurate the title page is, I guess you'll have to read this chapter to find out!

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