I've already read this book and loved it. I mostly get these comics for the awesome art and to see how they do the characters. Love how this book had the lesser known characters from other books by Baum like his Santa Claus book and John Dough. Really like how they drew Polychrome in this too. Highly recommend these to Oz fans! ( )

Although Skottie Young’s work is as amazing as ever, this Oz book is honestly kinda dull....but maybe it’s just my modern sensibilities finding old works too archaic? With the fresh modern art, the story felt dated and slow.... ( )

Sometimes an adaptation reveals hidden depths in the source material. At other times, it reveals just how thin the source material really was. Road to Oz does the latter to Baum's The Road to Oz: this is the dullest of journey narratives, completely lacking the sense of urgency and darkness that propelled Dorothy and the Wizard. In Road, Dorothy and company (she is joined by the Shaggy Man, Button-Bright, Polychrome, and Toto) simply shuffle from place to place... and the places just aren't that interesting. I mean, Skottie Young draws nice fox people, and I absolutely love his reinterpretations of Button-Bright and Polychrome, but there's no there there, and it feels like half the book is set beyond the danger anyway, with the characters just partying in Oz. I don't remember the original book being this bad, but to be honest, I didn't remember anything about it at all except for the guy with the sandboat, which was probably a bad sign.

This is the fifth book in Marvel’s reboot of the Oz series. There are six books total in this series. There isn’t much plot here, just lots of crazy characters. It wasn’t the best of the Oz books, but still fun to read.

Dorothy travels down the road to Oz with the Shaggy Man and meets Polychrome (a daughter of the rainbow) and Button Bright (a not so bright young boy) along the way. They go through a kingdom of foxes and a kingdom of donkeys and sail a sand ship across the deadly desert all in time to make it to Ozma’s birthday celebration.

There isn’t much plot in this book at all. This story is all about the crazy quirky characters Dorothy meets along the road to the Emerald City.

The illustration continues to be stunning. I loved both how the Shaggy Man and Polychrome are portrayed. I did enjoy that Toto was back in the story as well (but I missed Eureka). This story is basically a homecoming of all the wonderful characters we have meet in this series so far.

I have really enjoyed the forewords in these books by Shanower. He does an excellent job of explaining the original Oz story, the changes they made in the Marvel version, and even goes into the history of the Oz series a bit. Every graphic novel in this series has had this and it adds a lot to the story.

Overall this was a well done installment in this series, even if it is one of the weakest stories of the series. This is a graphic novel series that is great for all ages. I really have enjoyed it and look forward to reading the final book in this graphic novel series. ( )