“Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”

Next: home again!

“Last night in Oz”

Yes, this banquet is very different in tone from the last one!

“Look to the future”

Kinda sounds like I’m setting up a spinoff comic, doesn’t it?

“Yeowa!”

As I enter the home stretch in this storyline, it’s time for me to put all the toys back in the toybox & restore Baum’s status quo…

“If you think it will help”

I guess we’ll find out next episode just how scrambled Jack’s perception of things is…

“Pleased to meet you”

Sounds like Jack might be a few seeds short of a pumpkin!

“A revelation”

There’s a showdown right around the corner! Literally!

“The voice of the people”

Looks like the tables are about to turn…

“Thanks for stopping by!”

Not quite the reaction the Magistrate was looking for, I guess…

“The empty city”

This week’s episode is my little tip of the hat to one of my favorite parts about epic movies (such as Ben Hur, GWTW, Dr. Zhivago): seeing what was a glamorous setting in the early acts revealed to be a deserted ruin in the final reel …

(To save you having to look it up, this is the strip where Watusi first arrived in the Emerald City. Of course, feel free to scroll back through the archive…)