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Abadazad (Comic Book)

 Abadazad (Comic Book)
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Abadazad (Comic Book)
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Abadazad
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You know The Wonderful Wizard of Oz?No, you don't.It turns out that due to Direct Line to the Author, Oz was... brightened up a bit for kids. Made safe. And the little girl who told the story of her adventures to the author was a little too black for that era to accept as the hero of a kids' book, so the author changed her into a little white girl.We find all this out while reading Abadazad. Okay, so it's not the real Oz, but it's a brilliant and colorful Captain Ersatz of the place.Kate was pretty young when her father abandoned her family and her mother started drinking. So she was pretty much responsible for raising her kid brother by herself. No wonder she felt so responsible over him getting kidnapped.Only, thing is, he was actually taken to Abadazad. Kate only learns this a few years later from the woman across the hall in their apartment building — an old black woman who seems to know a little too much about those kids' books that have been around forever....Oh, and this book you're reading? It's Kate's magic diary, which she gets shortly after entering the Magical Land. Sometimes it writes things for itself; things Kate shouldn't even know about.The 2004 series was written by J. M. DeMatteis and drawn by Mike Ploog. The comic was published by CrossGen, which was bought out by Disney, who published a few childrens' books based on the comic.
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Dropped link to PeterPan: Not a Feature - ITEM
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Dropped link to SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs: Not a Feature - ITEM
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Spiritual Successor
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Spiritual Successor: Imaginalis, a young adult novel written by series writer J.M. DeMatteis as a form of catharsis over the series' cancellation.
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Disappeared Dad
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Disappeared Dad: Kate's parents divorced when she and her brother were young, and they haven't heard from their dad since then.
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Missing Child
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Missing Child: Your son can be kidnapped, and finding him seems very unlikely.
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Save Both Worlds
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Save Both Worlds: According to the author's outline, this would have been the plot near the end, had the series not been cancelled.
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FishPerson
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Fish Person: The Waterlogged Warlock, one of the Elders of Abadazad.
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Clap Your Hands If You Believe
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Clap Your Hands If You Believe: War doesn't exist in Abadazad because nobody believes in it.
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The Dragon
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The Dragon: According to Word Of God, the Lanky Man has a literal example called The Burping Dragon.
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Politically Correct History
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Politically Correct History: Averted. As mentioned above, Martha was given a Race Lift in the books so she could be The Hero.
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Extra Eyes
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Extra Eyes: Queen Ija has three eyes.
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Medieval Stasis
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Medieval Stasis: In Abadazad "Time has no meaning," to the point that the calendar is hard to decipher. However, Uncle Waterlogged comments that Abadazad does rebuild itself once in a while.
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Scrapbook Story
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Scrapbook Story: The Abadazad series has been released in small graphic novels, each an enchanted diarylog in which she details her adventures to this point. The "enchanted" part comes to play when the book records things she wasn't around for, as well as turning from text to pictures and back, and bringing in full pages of the "original" Abadazad books whenever someone reads or refers to them.
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MacGuffin
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MacGuffin: The Blue Globe, whose only purpose is to get people from Earth to Abadazad.
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Mooks
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Mooks: The Rocketheads are this for the Lanky Man.
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Shout-Out
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The series as a whole can be seen as a Shout-Out to L. Frank Baum's Oz books.
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The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday
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The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday: Kate comments that the clown Mr. Balloon just seemed to come out of nowhere to offer her and her brother tickets for a ride. It's really The Lanky Man, who then kidnaps Matt while he's on the ride.
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Powered by a Forsaken Child
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Powered by a Forsaken Child: The Lanky Man has kidnapped various children in order to use their dreams to fuel his "Great Machine."
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 Abadazad (Comic Book)
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Comic Books of the 2000s / int_395b723c
 CrossGen
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Abadazad (Comic Book)
 Abadazad (Comic Book)
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Fish People / int_395b723c
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Abadazad (Comic Book)
 Abadazad (Comic Book)
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Scrapbook Story / int_395b723c