Oz Squad
comics based on the Wizard of Oz
Oz Squad is a comic book series using characters and setting from L. Frank Baum's Land of Oz series, "updated for a more adult audience". It was created and written by Steve Ahlquist.
Publication
The original series ran for ten issues from 1991 to 1996. The first four were illustrated by Andrew Murphy, inked by Daniel Schaffer, and published by Brave New Words, which also later reprinted the first two issues with alternative covers. Millennium Publications then produced a 48-page Oz Squad Special. Finally, Ahlquist and some friends created Patchwork Press to carry on publishing the book. Terry Loh drew the last six issues, and Mike Sagara illustrated a Little Oz Squad special.
Ahlquist published a new Oz Squad novel in 2011, Oz Squad: March of the Tin Soldiers.
Plot
The series adapts the mythology that Baum had created in the original children's books and updates it with the intention of appealing to a more adult audience.
Oz Squad's first issue featured Tik-Tok's becoming insane and violent after his "internal clockwork morality spring" runs down during a visit to Earth (it would run down more rarely in Oz, where decisions are more "black and white").
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