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Return to Oz (1985). Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, is somehow called back to Oz when a vain witch and the Nome King destroy everything that makes the magical land beautiful.

HOW has this film escaped the legacy of children's horror masterpieces like The Dark Crystal and The Witches? I had pretty low expectations going in, but it really leans into the horror of its setting and lets Dorothy grow and regress in equal measure. Plus the stop motion and puppetry and practical effects are pretty awesome. Yeah, it's flawed, but man, I think I would've been obsessed with this if I'd watched it when I was 9. 7.5/10.

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free spirit fashions, fashion dont's

The odd decision in coloring Betty’s hair – like, they just decided her dying it was just going one step too radical.

Things get weird with the title change. (Feature dropped from 2 pages to 1.). BTW: (SIC)

One of the fashions is her wearing “1986”, which to be sure does date one, surely a new “don’t”. Still a weird way of repurposing it – but I guess you do the title premise on anything old not new yet!

And Candy Baker of Wappingers Falls NY -- appears to have moved there from nearby Hopewell Junction -- is the contributor for this and a handful of other fashion drawings. I am a little bit suspicious for New York residents showing up again and again, though we are across the state from the metro area -- so it is not like Decarlo picked this up at a friendly visit with his neighbor. See if there is any throughline on her fashion design through the 1980s.