Djedi

Found this at McKay's yesterday for 50 cents. Thinking about collecting shark covers now.

Garfield Vacation Time Blues #1 Despite the cover showing a campfire in the woods, the comic features two beach stories. In the first one Garfield and Odie play a game of pretending they are stranded in the desert. Meanwhile Jon meets an attractive woman at the beach and Liz talks to the muscular lifeguard. The comic is better than it might sound. I liked the friendship between Odie and Garfield. Second story has the return of the Lasagna Monster. Garfield uses a robot suit to battle him and his new accomplice. For me, the first story was better, but the second adds some variety.

It's fun that people can come up with such highly specific comic theme subsets. I do like the uniqueness of it.

I wasn't exactly sure how to word this, but I mean things like Christmas, Halloween, angels, demons, witches, vampires, mummies, gods/myths, etc. These are just examples. It can be something specific such as covers that have a photorealism art style or something broader like covers that make you laugh.

Grimm Fairy Tales Presents Oz 3-6 The Lion is probably the most developed character in the series other than Dorothy. He grew on me more and more as it progressed. The "cowardly lion" aspect does play into things at a certain point. I do wish the Munchkins were more colorful like the movie, but other characters bring a lot of color, so it's still a vibrant series. In the book the Tin Man was going to marry a young woman. She lived with an old woman who didn't want her to leave because she did all the work, so she had the Tin Man cursed by the Witch. In this adaptation the Witch's servant, Thora, is one of the woman in the Tin Man's story, not sure which lol. I think it was a clever way to add another witch. Overall I enjoyed this Oz series and would read more. It's adventurous and has serious moments but it retains that Oz optimism and brightness that I was hoping to see.

Hi CGC! I chose Djedi as a username because of Star Wars and also the Egyptian connection. Djedi was a fictional Egyptian magician. Learning about ancient cultures is one of my interests. Some of the first comics I read were Watchmen and Mike Carey's Lucifer run. Only recently have I really gotten into physical collecting. Most of what I have is Zenescope/Grimm Fairy Tales. I like that they do a lot of self-contained or anthology stories.

Grimm Fairy Tales Presents Oz 1-2 In the book and movie, the death of the Wicked Witch of the East is very sudden. She still dies early in this version but there is enough time to get a sense of her character, so her death has some substance. Having Dorothy use magic to fight her fits into the book where Glinda called her a sorceress. I think the change of Toto from being a small dog to a wolf was a smart choice to set this Dorothy apart. It's too early to decide how I feel about the other differences, like the Lion and Munchkins being warriors.