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O Human Star
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Page 10. Story time.
I’ll be streaming this week! Join me on Wednesday 1/18 at 7 pm CST on my Picarto channel as I work on Thursday’s page and maybe a few other things!
I always loved The Land of Oz as a kid. Took me a while to realize why, though.
This is so sweet. If we can assume by the arrival of Gimel that this is 2011 we’re looking at, then proto-Sulla is being very much a typical six-year-old in several ways. Really drives home the point that yes, Brendan does have a lot of reasons to think of Sulla as his kid.
For those who aren’t familiar with the extended Oz series, Ozma of Oz is a princess who had been enchanted by a witch and turned her into a boy. The scene that Brendan is reading is when she is turned back and claims her birth-right. Personally, this is one of my favourite books in the series.
that’s so clever! what a great detail
Thanks so much for pointing this out; I had literally no idea.
You’re welcome! I would absolutely recommend reading at least the second book – The Marvelous Land of Oz – which is the one with Tip the boy/Ozma of Oz. There are so many other wonderful characters too – Jack Pumpkinhead and the Sawhorse and oh! The Woggle-Bug! Hell, I might have to pull it out for my bedtime reading tonight… :-)
Have you seen the paper book comic on the OZ series done by Scotty Young? Awesome!
And after that sugary mountain, he went on to do a very funny, very profane, comic called “I Hate Fairyland”. (Alternate title “F*ck Fairyland”.
I fell in love with them both.
I just read “Bits of Burlesque” after spotting some familiar looking artwork. Your art really pulled the story together. What other side projects are there?
I’ve illustrated several comics for War Is Boring, of which “Bits of Burlesque” was one of them. There’s a list of where you can find them all on my website here: http://www.bluedelliquanti.com/comics/war-is-boring
I love the implication that baby-Sulla can talk, but chooses not to. Voluntarily non-verbal, and maybe stimming with making things even as Brendan reads? Hm.
I always figured it wasn’t exactly magic; Tip was raised alone and had no idea about genitalia. Until someone took her in the next room and actually looked, she just assumed she was a boy. I remember being amazed by how neatly it worked out. Oh BTW you already rescued the princess too.
No, it’s clearly magic. Mombi the witch transformed her as a baby. The character grew up as Tip, an actual boy.
Brendan: “And what do you want me to do with that?”
Sulla: *shoves the book against his face*
LOL she’s adorable
Oh fuck. Oh fuck. Tip becoming Ozma was my first ever encounter with a trans narrative, when I was 7 – and now I’m 57 and transitioned at last, and… oh fuck thank you for including this <3
Hey, I’m reading the collected first five Oz books and I’m on the second one right now! Guess I’ve just been spoilered but I’m more happy about it than anything