Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz #4 (of 8)

writer: Eric Shanower
artist: Skottie Young

I made a conscious decision early in the year to give up reading individual issues of Shanower and Young's Oz adaptations, even though I've been an ardent enthusiast in the past, simply for the fact that at some point, I'd like to own the complete collected editions (the same goes for Marvel's The Stand comics, which were left off the 2011 QB50 for that reason). Since the majority of L. Frank Baum's Oz books are out of print, these comics are my best opportunity to read them, and it quickly became apparent to me that it's a crime that they have become so scarce, since Baum's writing is so infinitely more clever than the Judy Garland movie everyone thinks about when Oz comes up in the popular imagination. All that being said, it was nice to read another issue.