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Dorothy Gale: Journey to Oz, #1

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Freefall Entertainment has been puting out a new series of mini-comic books titled Dorothy Gale-Journey To Oz by Shane Kirshenblatt. Acting as a modern day retake of the original Oz books, this starts out with young orphan Dorothy Gale living on a farm in Kansas with her adopted aunt and uncle. She keeps having strange dreams of another world and keeps a journal with drawings she's taken from them. Her best friend Thomas(aka: "Toto")takes her out for a walk where they run across a peddler named Edward who tries to sell them some used items. Toto makes off with what he thinks is a towel as a birthday present for Dorothy, but it turns out to be a map, and Edward comes after the two of them for stealing it. They all end up going down into a cellar which somehow leads them to the other world of Oz. Once there, they befriend some of the rowdy Munchkins who are under attack by the an army of zombie Scarecrows that work for the evil Wizard. Edward had apparently gotten the special map that the Wizard wants, and he sends his evil cronies, the pumpkinheaded Jack and the mechanical Tik-Tok to get it. Dorothy grabs a sword and helps free some of the Munchkins from the Scarecrows, but is suprised to see one of them looks exactly like herself. After the doppleganger goes missing, Dorothy, Toto, and Edward are ambushed by giant snakes, but a giant Tin Man chops them down. The axe-wielding metal man then seems to come after them, but they are saved by the Dorothy double, who is really her twin sister, Ozma. She believes Edward made off with Dorothy to our world when she was a baby, and killed their mother. Ozma is about to lay some revenge on him, but Dorothy convinces her to stop. Elsewhere, the Tin Man tracks them down, all while the evil Wizard sends more forces out to get the stolen map. This series was originally printed as two seperate volumes(#2 is actually twice the length of #1), and then both put online along with Volume #3. Copies of the first two books are still available for sale, with future issues in the works.

I've never read or seen anything like it, a completely different take on the oz trials and tribulations. Awesome illustrations and a truly distinct storyline make this an amazing graphic novel...

it's hot!

Can't wait for the sequel

I've only just recetly become a huge fan of graphic novels and I must say this book is right up there with my favourites. The pages are immacuatly drawn and the story line is just as well thought out and interesting. I can't wait for the next book. Definately worth the $6.99, worth more really.

I have to say that Dorothy Gale: Journey to Oz is amaizing. The author took the original idea of wizard of oz and turned it into his own world. This does not follow the movie at all, this is alot darker, and Dorothy got herself some attitude. If you want to see amaizing artwork with a dark twisted storyline to match it, you will definatley love this comic. I highly recommend buying it, im just waiting for the next book to come out to see what happens next.