A couple of Ozzy reruns in the funnies today:
My Man in Japan, Michael-sensei, found yesterday's edition of the Ripley's Believe It or Not comic and the Oz reference in it. (I think this may be a partial "not", as I believe they just used the same dye used in Jell-O, not the whole product. But I need to do some more digging before I say that definitively.)
As often happens, we can sometimes go for weeks without any Oz comics, then suddenly we get a whore bunch of them. This is one of those times. Although today's edition of Close to Home is a few days too late to tie into this year's Winter Olympics.
Can you believe who showes up in Hagar the Horrible today? No, me neither. But there he is!
This has always been my favorite bit of dialogue from The Movie:
DOROTHY: Well, how can you talk if you don't have a brain?I bring this up today because they seem to remember this in today's installment of Shoe.
SCARECROW: I don't know. But some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't they?
The Wizard of Oz and a few other stories get all mixed together in today's edition of Luann Againn, the comic strip that look back to see what the regular Luann comic was doing twenty-eight years ago.
Do you think this old edition of The Far Side takes place in the Illumi Nation from Kabumpo in Oz? I mean, why not?
Over in Heart of the City, it's a snow day in Philadelphia. Here's what everyone is doing. I think Heart has the right idea! (This is one of the few drawbacks to my current job as an online teacher: No snow days! We did lose a day of classes when Amozon Web Services went out in October, but I could do other things, so at least from my point of view, that doesn't exactly count.)
Well here's a new way one can get to Oz, as discussed in today's edition of Frazz. (The blizzard of Oz, so to speak.)
Bill Bramhall posted this cartoon about the current state of Ukraine in the New Your Daily News the other day, and then my local paper reprinted it. So now I'm passing it along to you.
What is now available on home video as Dorothy in the Land of Oz first aired on television in 1980 as a Thanksgiving special called, appropriately enough, Thanksgiving in the Land of Oz. The most overt references to the holiday, however, were removed or replaced for howe video, however. But someone just uploaded the original television edition to YouTube. This includes Dorothy and jack talking about Pilgrims, not pioneers, and every commercial! This is a real time capsule, folks. And here it is! Enjoy.
I thought we'd seen the last of Jack Pumpkinhead and his family on Halloween. But today's Six Chix appears to prove me wrong.
In today's One Big Happy, it seems Ruthie may have a little bit of Ozzish in her background.
They're still coming! Today in Rhymes with orange, we see a different ending to The Wizard of Oz that could definitely cause some problems for one character.
What? Jack Pumpkinhead is supposed to be done with appearing in the comics until next October. But there he is in today's installment of Cow Town. Oh, well.
Holy flaming cow, five comics to repart on today, with variable degrees of Ozziness:
Yes, it was a doubleheader today!
Yes, two more Oz comics today—well, one deliberately Ozzy and one tangentially Ozzy. But surprisingly, neither is Halloween based.
With only five more days until Halloween, of course the comics have lots of costumed characters. Some should look very familiar.
Good grief, more???
