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arbre_rieur (arbre_rieur) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-11-11 21:36:00

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creator: bill willingham, creator: mark buckingham, publisher: vertigo, title: fables

Fables 90
Ozma takes the stage...

The witches and warlocks of the 13th floor discuss what to do in their leader Frau Totenkinder's absence.

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	xammax 2009-11-12 05:42 am UTC (link)
	So.... Ozma is gonna get smacked down so damn hard. At this point I would buy Frau taking it to a Genii. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	arbre_rieur 2009-11-13 05:20 am UTC (link)
	I suspect that the Frau might not actually mind. She said herself that it was time for a change. (Reply to this) (Parent)

Why?

roguefankc
2009-11-13 06:54 am UTC (link)

If anything, I'm impressed by Ozma's tactical mind and reasoning. She's got good logic and she's cautious, yet she knows that the Fables need to deal with the threat quickly before it escalates. She's both active and passive depending on the situation, and yet she clearly isn't going to rush into things blindly based on how she proposes recon and analyzing the magical spells.

I think Frau may have good reasons to give Ozma a chance.

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	sailorlibra 2009-11-12 05:43 am UTC (link)
	Well, this looks interesting. Maybe I'll have to start picking up Fables again. (Reply to this)

	cygna_hime 2009-11-12 01:06 pm UTC (link)
	But...Ozma has dark hair. Always has. Dorothy's the blonde one. The strangest things can put me completely off. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	rbenchley 2009-11-12 03:43 pm UTC (link)
	From the Wikipedia entry on Ozma: "In her initial appearance, she was described as a cherubic little girl with red-gold hair; however, all subsequent illustrations of the Princess show her as dark-haired, though this is never noted in the text." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	cygna_hime 2009-11-12 04:22 pm UTC (link)
	That's not red-gold either. And every single image of her I've ever seen, including of her when she was a boy, have dark hair. Blond Ozma just seems wrong (particularly since they're going with the poppies in her hair, which is from the same dark-haired pictures). (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

jaybee3
2009-11-12 06:54 pm UTC (link)

I know of only 2 versions of a blonde Ozma. One is in the 1980s Disney "Return to Oz" movie where little Ozma is blonde (in order to differentiate her from Dorothy IMO) and the other is in the original illustrations of the first time Ozma appears (after she changes from Tip) in "The Marvelous Land of Oz". After that O'Neil, the primary Oz illustrator, started to draw her as a brunette (with the flowers on the side of her ears and her "OZ" tiara) and visibly a few years older than Dorothy (especially after she and Dorothy became best pals).

Following "The Wizard of Oz" - the 1st book - in which Dorothy was a brunette (like Judy Garland), Dorothy has always been depicted as a blonde and that continues in all non-movie versions of the stories still today.

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	cygna_hime 2009-11-12 09:56 pm UTC (link)
	I didn't even see her blonde in the pictures in Marvelous Land of Oz, that I recall. (And Tip was definitely dark in all the pictures, so Ozma being fair doesn't even make sense.) And can I just take the time to say that I love O'Neil's pictures so very very much? They are gorgeous. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	freddylloyd 2009-11-13 05:40 pm UTC (link)
	You're correct about the very first illustrations of Ozma in Marvelous Land of Oz showing her as blonde, more or less as Baum described her. The artist on that book and most of its sequels was named John R. Neill. And you're correct that Neill always depicted Dorothy as blonde. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	arbre_rieur 2009-11-12 11:34 pm UTC (link)
	It's been hundreds of years; she's had plenty of time to change hair colors. Plus, this is closer to the one canonical in-text reference to her hair color that exists, in LAND OF OZ. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ghosty732 2009-11-12 11:55 pm UTC (link)
	Aside from what everyone else has said, I don't think she was intended to be Ozma when she was first introduced. Actually, Witches has done a lot for fleshing out/identifying most of the 13th Floor Witches which were only seen in a few pages way back in March Of The Wooden Soldiers and have never really had speaking lines. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	Really? roguefankc 2009-11-13 06:51 am UTC (link)
	Because the Ozma in "Return to Oz" movie (this is that same Ozma, correct? Unless there's another fabled character named Ozma not of the "Oz" folklore that I'm not aware of) is blond. And she was my first introduction to the character. If anything, I can't picture Ozma as anything but that blond girl in the end of the movie. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	cmdr_zoom 2009-11-12 03:44 pm UTC (link)
	Gosh, Gepetto talking to an ancient tree (and probably looking for a new wood source) isn't ominous at all. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	danielolsen 2009-11-12 06:19 pm UTC (link)
	Well, to make an omelette you need to scare a few Macbeth's. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	outlawpoet 2009-11-12 09:14 pm UTC (link)
	I just love Grandfather Oak calling him 'young man'. That is awesome. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	petalsinthewind 2009-11-13 02:35 am UTC (link)
	That is my favorite too. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	tacobob 2009-11-12 07:17 pm UTC (link)
	The Dark Man is pretty scary. You just need to get near him and you're bone'd. (Reply to this)