The first four were illustrated by Andrew Murphy, inked by Daniel Schaffer, and published by Brave New Words, which also later reprinted the first two issues with alternative covers.
[citation needed] The series adapts the mythology that Baum had created in the original children's books and updates it with the intention of appealing to a more adult audience.
[citation needed] Later issues featured an assault on the hideout of Rebecca Eastwitch (the Wicked Witch of the East) at Castle Munchausen, and a series of time travel adventures in which the Scarecrow met Leonardo da Vinci and Joan of Arc, Dorothy found herself in the American Old West, and Nick met himself while still a human.
Pittsburg State University English professor Steven J. Teller reviewed it for The Baum Bugle and considered it worthless and disgusting.
[3] When the series was reprinted, the Bugle was much kinder to it, and referred to Teller's review, suggesting that with the Oz books so recently having fallen into the public domain, there was little else like it, but post-Wicked, it seems groundbreaking and not nearly as outrageous as it did at the time.