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“Cut off from most of her loyal followers and exiled from the Emerald City, Dorothy is still trapped in a body that is not her own. Now on the run through increasingly forbidding lands, and with the very heart of the realm itself on the line, she must protect herself and the people who rely on her.”
Oz-Heart of Magic #1
Leave it to Zenescope to take yet another classic character and mold it into their own version. In this short series we see Dorothy, who in her last series had a run in with the legendary Wizard and was put into a body that’s not her own. She also now has a sword, something Judy Garland was definitely not toting around in the film adaptation of the story.
We also see that the Toto we know from the movie is all grown up and very wolf-like. There are also Zenescope’d versions of the Cowardly Lion, Tin Man and Scarecrow.
A very blue (the color, not sad) Dorothy and her crew have finally made it to the Underworld, not knowing what awaits them there. There’s danger lurking, of course. How could there not be? This is, after all, a comic book.
We also see some back story when Dorothy was the boss of the Emerald City, doing a ribbon cutting on some new infrastructure in the neighborhood of Greeniya.
As she cut the ribbon with Bartelby the Scarecrow by her side we hear the people chant, DO-RO-THY! DO-RO-THY! DOROTHY! The people then begin to sing, “We’re off to see the villages. The wonderful villages of Oz.”
But what about the group in the underworld? What happens to them? Well, there’s some guy named the Nome King, which simply sounds foreboding, and some other shenanigans and then we flip the page only to see the words no comic book lover ever likes to read.
“Coming next month in Oz.”
All in all, this is another great addition to the Zenescope line, which is full of classic stories reimagined and modernized.
I give Oz #1 a solid five purple goatees out of five! I recommend you drop what you’re doing, get to your local comic book shop and pick up Dorothy’s continuing journey.
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Photos courtesy Zenescope Entertainment.