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WCDT 4185-4189 (27th - 31st, January 2020)

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Gyrre:
Yes, I admittedly front-loaded the poll with one of my favorites. Shush.

While Namesake isn't outright an Oz story, Oz is very prominently featured in the webcomic and heavily tied to the plot. So I figured it deserved a spot. Especially considering that one of the main characters is the current Wicked Witch of the West, Warrick. Yes, I will happily argue that Skin Horse is in its own way something akin to the Oz books. I placed it down with the other three vast departures from the original books just to be fair. There's also a pretty far off JRPG called Beyond the Yellow Brick Road, and we don't talk about the March Laumer books.

Shoutout to Robert A. Heinlein's Oz in The Number of the Beast for also taking a sci-fi approach to Oz. BTW, it turns out there's a lot more animated shows featuring the Land of Oz than the one I remember airing on weekday mornings in the early 90s.

EDIT: typo fixes and some clarification.

So, who amongst the QC cast resemble Oz characters and which ones?

Gyrre:
This is just what happens when I make polls that aren't about food.

EDIT: This list isn't meant to be a ranking. The really bad ones were left off and have already gotten dishonorable mentions either in the post above or below.

My familiarity with everything listed ranges from 'passing' to 'I've been reading the webcomic for 8 years'.

cybersmurf:
I'm pretty sure Claire would like to be a Dorothy-esque character

Gyrre:

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Better Dorothy than Trot. Otherwise that'd make Martin Button-Bright. :wink:

Corpse Witch would probably be Mombi.

hakko504:
I've watched a few more than those on the list:
The 2013 Oz the great and Powerful (James Franco as the Wizard, a sort of prequel to the MGM movie)
ABCs Once Upon a Time ended up in Oz as well for a few episodes.
The muppets made a truly bad interpretation of the MGM movie. Now, I like the muppets, but the movies have been of varying quality, from Treasure Island and a Christmas Carol, which I love, to the Wiz of Oz which, as I already mentioned, is really, really bad.
But my favourite Oz is the one from 1925 with Oliver Hardy (of Laurel & Hardy fame) as the Tin Man.
Sidenote: A 1914 version also survives and is available on YT, but I haven't had time to sit down and watch that one yet.

As for the characters, Claire would be Dorothy, Marten as the Lion, Pintsize as the Tin Man, Tai as the Scarecrow (I almost chose Emily, but her problem is probably too much brain rather than the lack of one).

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