Experience the magic of Oz as you've never seen it before with this brand-new graphic novel
adaptation of Gregory Maguire's masterpiece Wicked the inspiration for the Broadway show and
major motion picture -- the first in a two-part series featuring gorgeous full-color
illustrations by Scott Hampton. Like Dorothy when she crash-landed all those years ago prepare
to be swept into a new and colorful world in this first-ever graphic novel adaptation of Wicked
. While the long-running Broadway musical and major motion picture take inspiration from this
iconic novel this is Oz as Gregory Maguire wrote it--a fantastical story with dark edges that
explores morality and ambition love and friendship and discovering one's inner power. Elphaba
was born with emerald-green skin--no easy burden in a land as mean and poor as Oz where
superstition and magic are not strong enough to explain or overcome the natural disasters of
flood and famine. Still Elphaba is smart and by the time she enters Shiz University she
becomes a member of a charmed circle of Oz's most promising young citizens. But Elphaba's Oz is
no utopia. The Wizard's secret police are everywhere. Animals--those creatures with voices
souls and minds--are threatened with exile. Young Elphaba green and wild and misunderstood
is determined to protect the Animals--even if it means combating the mysterious Wizard even if
it means risking her single chance at romance. Ever wiser in guilt and sorrow she can find
herself grateful when the world declares her a witch. And she can even make herself glad for
that young girl from Kansas.
