I'm not a big Wizard of Oz fan. We never had the books growing up, so my only exposure to it in those years was the movie, and as cool and scary as the flying monkeys are, I was never really captivated by it. I mean, I liked it then, but it didn't stick. I get bored watching it now.One of the things I'm really looking forward to with my son David is when he'll be old enough to enjoy children's fantasy stories like The Chronicles of Narnia and The Wizard of Oz. He's already showing an appreciation for Little Nemo in Slumberland, but that's another post. I can't wait to be able to read these classic series and enjoy them as they're meant to be enjoyed: through the imagination of a child. Reading them with David will help me do that.
In the meantime though, Earthling Publications has come out with a version of Wizard of Oz that I can enjoy now. Bloodstained Oz is a novella by James A. Moore and comics writer/horror novelist Christopher Golden with illustrations by Glenn Chadbourne. I've read Golden's original Hellboy novel The Lost Army and found it good, so I have hopes that this could be good as well. Earthling's description of it is promising:
"Dying faith will be tested, because that isn't rain wetting the crops; it's blood. Those aren't trinkets and toys that are lying hidden in the fields; they're nightmares wrapped in false promises. And while the darkest storms bring the brightest rainbows, that isn't a pot of gold waiting at the far end; it's an emerald that gleams and flickers with its own infernal light."
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