TIN MAN - 2007
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Winged robot monkey with razor-blade teeth, a shape-shifting dog, a cyber-punk sorceress, three-eyed dwarves, and killer crickets. Welcome to a land you never heard of once in a lullaby...
The once-beautiful Outer Zone has been zapped into a frigid and decaying wasteland. Here, in O.Z., one of its subjects, known only as Lavender Eyes, has been imprisoned. Her stunningly evil captor in black leather is Sorceress Azkadellia. The Woman is just part of the sorceress’s nefarious plot—to suck the souls out of her minions and harness the energy to jump the gap between her world and the “other side”—a place called Earth. But Azkadellia’s prescient wolverine servant, Lylo, warns his mistress of a vile presence that embodies goodness, an alarming glimmer of light and hope that could be her undoing. She is DG, a rebellious young woman from Omaha, imbued with wanderlust and visited upon in her dreams by none other than Lavender Eyes and the fellow slaves whose pleas of “save us” urge DG to follow her destiny.
DG does just that, right over a cliff into a swirling storm, face first in a debris-strewn land of double suns. Enlisting the help of three new friends—the zipper-headed half-brain Glitch, a tin cop named Cain, and the gentle manimal Raw—DG embarks on a journey of deliverance along a crumbling old road. Where it leads is into the decadence of the Twister Cabaret, the flamboyant shocks of the Realm of the Unwanted, the fetid horrors of the Black Swamp, and deep into the darkening heart of O.Z. and the mind of the Mystery Man who knows all. Here, DG will discover her role in the fate of a city, her startling connection to Lavender Eyes and to Azkadellia herself, who brings a gleefully sadistic, soul-sucking new meaning to the term “sibling rivalry.”
Spiked with the kind of off-the-wall creatures, voluptuous villains, acid twists, and hair-raising turns that Dorothy’s dreams never allowed before, this knockout update of The Wizard of Oz doesn’t just go over the rainbow. It goes way beyond.