Webcomic / Yellow Brick Ramble

Yellow Brick Ramble is a webcomic by Daisy McGuire of Pepsiaphobia fame, as a reimagining of The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank Baum. It follows the adventures of Ozma Tryfle (formerly Tippetarius "Tip" Tryfle), a young teenager who runs away from home after her guardian, Mombi, threatens to cut her hair.

As described in the about page, Daisy was inspired by the Trans Audience Interpretation of Ozma in the original book, and wrote the webcomic with her gender dysphoria in mind.

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Yellow Brick Ramble provides examples of:

• Abusive Parents: Because of how the comic diverges from the source material, it's not yet known for sure how or even if Ozma is related to her parental figures. However, she still considers them her parents so they qualify for this trope.
  • Ozma believes that The Wizard of Oz is her dad (see Adaptation Relationship Overhaul below). And he was such an absent and neglectful father that Ozma only met him three times and he could not even remember her name or age. Ozma still bears a grudge against him for this even though, as she put it, "he's gone now."
  • Ozma's mom, Mombi, has emotionally abused her for being transgender, dismissing her desire to be a girl and trying to force her to accept her assigned gender. She's gone as far as actually burning Ozma's clothes and "girl toys", trained Ozma to suppress and dismiss her own feelings (see Men Don't Cry below), and also tried to force Ozma to have a haircut to look more boyish. That last was the final straw that convinced Ozma to run away.
• Adaptation Expansion: The comic gives Ozma, Logan and Jack more time to get to know each other before they arrive at Emerald City (which originally happens much sooner in the original Marvelous Land novel) by loosely adapting chapters from other Land of Oz works. For example, Chapter 3 is based on "The Quarrelsome Dragons" from The Tin Woodman of Oz.
• Adaptation Name Change:
  • Jack Pumpkinhead's last name is changed to Tryfle to match Ozma's last name (see Named by the Adaptation below), since he considers her to be his mom.
  • In The Marvelous Land of Oz, General Jinjur's name is just Jinjur, with no explanation of whether it's her first name or last name. In Yellow Brick Ramble, Jinjur is her first name and she has been given the hyphenated last name Amee-Riskitt. Her new last name comes from General Riskitt, a character in The Wizard of Oz (1902) stageplay; and Nimmie Amee, the Munchkin woman the Tin Woodman fell in love with before losing his heart.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
  • Rather than Mombi acting as Ozma's guardian as in the original book, Ozma and Mombi seem to treat each other as mother and child. That said, considering that The Reveal in The Marvelous Land of Oz was that Ozma is the missing princess of Oz, having been kidnapped by Mombi as an infant, it remains to be seen whether they are Related in the Adaptation or it's just a change in how she was raised.
  • The Wizard of Oz was rarely even mentioned in the original novel, other than having bribed Mombi to kidnap Ozma as a baby, a detail that was retconed in the next book. In this comic adaptation, The Wizard is mentioned far more often because Ozma believes he is her father. For example, midway through Chapter 9 she shouts at Scarecrow about how his "friend" hadn't wanted her and that she's glad he left Oz (and the Scarecrow certainly finds it plausible, getting furious at the Wizard once Ozma leaves). Ozma has said that her dad visited her three times while she was growing up, and early in chapter 11 The Rant mentions that he taught her card tricks on one of his visits. Despite that, he still clearly left a very bad impression on her because she's declared that "Old Oscar" was a humbug and a scoundrel. Exactly why Ozma believes The Wizard is her father and how she's actually related to him, if at all, has yet to be explained.
  • Ozma is much more willing to treat Jack as her son than in the book. In the comic, her issue with being called "father" is a result of being uncomfortable with masculine gendered terms moreso than being acknowledged as Jack's parent, and she immediately allows Jack to call her "mom" once the latter suggests it.
• Adaptation Species Change: Dashemoff Daily, Poet Laureate of Oz, is originally from The Wizard of Oz (1902) stageplay. In that play he was a human, but Yellow Brick Ramble has changed him into a donkey. According to The Rant under the comic where Dashemoff was introduced, this was to make it simpler for him be a love interest for Logan.
• Adaptation Title Change: The title of the original novel is The Marvelous Land of Oz. The title of this comic adaptation is Yellow Brick Ramble.
• Adaptational Context Change:
  • The entire premise of the webcomic is changing a problematic aspect of The Marvelous Land of Oz, namely that Tip had no choice but to transform back into Ozma per Glinda's order despite wanting to remain a boy. Here, it's made clear from the very first chapter that Ozma wants to be a girl and her gender transition is both voluntary and more naturally gradual.
  • In The Marvelous Land of Oz, Ozma tries to use Jack Pumpkinhead to scare Mombi, who then decides to turn Ozma into a marble statue in the morning, so she runs away to avoid this fate. In Yellow Brick Ramble, Ozma instead creates Jack as a potential farmhand, hoping that Mombi would use her powder of life on him so Ozma could become an apprentice witch instead of working the farm, and runs away because Mombi decides to cut her long hair in the morning. Also, instead of Mombi using the powder of life on Jack to test it out, Ozma uses the stolen powder on Jack so she'd have a traveling companion when running away.
  • Wogglebugs, who are only mentioned in the original Oz novels when we meet one particular Highly Magnified and Thoroughly Educated specimen, have been turned into one of Oz's main food animals in Yellow Brick Ramble. For example, Mombi made a wogglebug chowder in the first chapter, while Jinjur had a picnic basket full of wogglebug sandwiches in the fifth chapter.
• Adaptational Early Appearance:
  • The dragons from Chapter 3 and the Loons from Chapter 4 are adapted from The Tin Woodman of Oz, which is the twelfth novel in the series.
  • When Ozma is separated from Jack and Logan, the story follows her first instead of the others, so as a result General Jinjur appears a chapter before Scarecrow does. Quite a few members of Jinjur's Army of Revolt are also based on characters who appear in later books.
  • Jellia Jamb appears at the Emerald City gates and guides Jack and Logan through the city, a slightly earlier appearance than in the books, where she's introduced in the throne room.
  • Juni Jump is from Bunnybury, which in the books wasn't introduced until The Emerald City of Oz.
• Adaptational Gender Identity:
  • The About page states that Ozma is meant to be depicted as a teenager with gender dysphoria. From the start, she openly fantasizes about becoming a girl and wonders if she was born as a boy with a girl's brain, and she starts identifying as a girl for real in Chapter 6.
  • Logan, being a genderless sawhorse, has been experimenting to determine if any particular gender identity actually fits. In chapter 2, Logan decided to be a boy "on a trial basis" to see if he liked it. Later, in chapter 10, he visited an equine clothes shop and tried on feminine clothes, and later admits to Dashemoff that he isn't exactly one or the other and is still figuring it out. This is in stark contrast to the original novel, where the Sawhorse never even brought up its gender identity, let alone experimented with it.
  • Dashemoff Daily was unambiguously a boy in The Wizard of Oz (1902) stageplay, but here his gender is stated to be a secret.
• Adaptational Jerkass: Omby Amby is notably more snappish and confrontational here than in the original novel, though he still manages to be even less efficient than his book counterpart.
• Adaptational Job Change: Bal Loon was referred to as the King of Loonville in The Tin Woodman of Oz, but here he's the mayor instead, although he wears an outfit based on royalty.
• Adaptational Nice Guy:
  • Played With for Mombi. In the original story, she decides to feed Ozma a soup that would turn him into a marble statue after creating Jack Pumpkinhead. In this retelling, Mombi simply wants to give Ozma a haircut for questioning her assigned gender, but Ozma considers the forced haircut to be even worse than being turned to stone.
  • The Loons in general are much more amicable towards Ozma, Jack and Logan than they were towards Woot, Scarecrow and the Tin Woodsman in The Tin Woodman of Oz, letting them go with a warning and never tying them up. Panta is also much less vitriolic towards Mayor Bal than he was in the original work, where he insults King Bal to his face.
• Adaptational Sexuality: In the original books, General Jinjur eventually marries and settles down on a farm with a husband. Here, she doesn't care for relationships with boys at all, quickly dismissing Ozma's sob story because it's about a boy, and The Rant confirms that she's "super gay".
• Adapted Out: Mr. H.M. Woggle-Bug, T.E., a minor comic-relief character in the original novel, does not appear in the comic. The comic's Cast Page lampshades this by wryly noting the potential implications of Oz's main food animal having human-level sapience:
  "Catering Provided By Wogglebugs! Thank Lurline they can't talk, or else we'd have to feel guilty about eating them!"
• All Girls Like Ponies: Ozma becomes giddy upon finding the sawhorse and explains what horses are to Jack by listing all of their good qualities and calling them man's best friend, as a way to hint at her inner transfeminine gender identity.
  The Rant: Trans girls like horses exhibit A.
• Alt Text: Every episode of the comic has a Title Text pop-up, usually used for another The Rant style punchline or silly observation that doesn't appear in the actual rant.
• Ambiguously Brown: Played With. Most native-born Ozians in Yellow Brick Ramble are noticeably darker skinned than how Oz adaptations tend to portray them. However, they clearly aren't meant to be any particular real world race, given that some of them have unnatural skin colors (such as green or lavender) and most of them have fantasy-elf-style Pointy Ears.
• Armor-Piercing Response: Near the end of chapter 10, when Juni Jump is berating Logan for being receptive to Dashemoff's flirting rather than reconciling with Ozma, Logan retorts that he isn't her pawn and to leave him alone if she doesn't really want to be his friend. Juni Jump is literally struck speechless by that, and tones down on her behavior.
• Ascended Extra: In the novel, the Sawhorse was very much a supporting character to Tip and Jack. Here, Logan plays a much larger part, so much so that you could argue he's a co-protagonist along with Ozma.
• Call-Forward:
  • General Jinjur mentions that her army could use a witch when she finds out that Ozma had brought Jack to life with magic, referencing how later in the original novel she would recruit Mombi to her cause.
  • When Ozma tries on a dress for the first time, The Rant mentions that her monologue is meant to mirror a quote near the end of the original novel when Tip is transformed back into Ozma. She also mentions that she looks like a princess, referencing how in the books she really was the long-lost princess.
• Canon Foreigner: Dub Loon, a minor but important character in comic chapter 4, The Loons of Loonville, is a fully original character who never appeared in the Oz novels. Two members of Jinjur's Army of Revolt, Captain Elfie Bah and Juni Jump, are also original, but were broadly inspired by actual Oz characters rather than being wholly original like Dub Loon.
• Card-Carrying Villain: General Jinjur is very open about how she wants to rule Oz as a dictatorship and plans to usurp Scarecrow's "dictatorship" to put hers in power.
• City of Gold: Subverted just like in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Emerald City looks like it's made of emeralds from afar, but walking through the city streets reveals that it's just regular buildings made of bricks and stones, with the so-called emerald jewels being fake. However, the Scarecrow no longer tries to hide it, unlike his predecessor, the Wizard of Oz. This is actually a change from the original Marvelous Land novel in which, thanks to author L. Frank Baum's rather casual approach to continuity, Emerald City was no longer fake. Instead, it was bedecked with real emeralds.
• Conditioned to Accept Horror: Ozma grew up with Mombi on an isolated farm, and implicitly had little-to-no contact with other families or kids her age during that period, so she came to accept Mombi's treatment of her, like burning her "costumes" and toys for being too girly, as just things that well-meaning parents normally do, and reacts with confusion whenever her friends react with justified concern at her treatment. Even outside of that, Ozma sees nothing wrong with dropping a boulder on the escaped Scarecrow, thinking that it's "girl stuff" instead of being wicked until Jack and Logan call her out and force her to actually think it through logically.
• Delusions of Parental Love: From the very start of the comic, Mombi's treatment of Ozma has been clearly abusive, especially in regards to her gender identity, and each new revelation about things she has done to Ozma makes her look even worse than before. Despite this, Ozma and Mombi both insist that she is a good mother who cares about Ozma and wants what is best for her. In fact, Ozma is so used to the abuse that she considers it normal motherly behavior and reacts with genuine confusion when her friends express concern over it.
• Disappeared Dad: Ozma has only met her dad three times in her entire life, and one time he sent a birthday card with the wrong age and a misspelled name.
• Does Not Like Men: General Jinjur invokes this trope in two different ways.
  • Jinjur shows quite a disdain for boys and men in ways that highlight her history and motivations. At the start of both chapter 6 and chapter 8, she sneers about the "useless men" who have been ruling Oz, saying that they've all made a huge mess of things and that a young girl like her would be a better ruler. Also, at the start of chapter 8 she has some very harsh words about the students at the boys' school who mocked her for trying to raise an army at the girls' school.
  • In addition to having disdain for men in general, Jinjur also Does Not Like Men romantically. The comic artist has confirmed that Jinjur is "super gay", and the various smouldering looks she has given Ozma in chapters 6 and 8 show that Jinjur is strongly attracted to her. Also, there is some foreshadowing at the end of chapter 5 when she finds Ozma crying over Logan's apparent rejection; Jinjur's reaction is to try to comfort Ozma by insisting that boys are never worth crying over.
• Fantastic Racism: Once the characters arrive at Emerald City, we see a few signs that this version of Oz is not the egalitarian utopia L. Frank Baum originally conceived. For instance, it turns out that the shopping district of Emerald City has segregated areas for Human-oriented stores and Animal-oriented stores. There was also Logan's encounter with Dyna and Jessiva, two members of Jinjur's army, who tried to bully Logan by calling him useless and ugly and using the pronoun "it" instead of "he". And when the palace maid Jellia was guiding Logan and Jack to their first meeting with Scarecrow, she offered Logan some clothes, only to disappoint him by giving him a saddle rather than more human-style clothes. All of this strongly implies that this version of Oz has the same type of anti-Animal prejudice that was a big plot point in The Wicked Years series of novels.
• Fun with Homophones: Ozma calls Mombi "Mom-bi" because she's her mom, but it's pronounced the same. The Rant lampshades this.
  It's a private little ritual only he knows about since the two names sound identical.
• Gender-Restricted Ability: Boys can't learn witchcraft, so Ozma asks Mombi to turn her into a girl to make her eligible. The Rant clarifies that this isn't a case of Magic Is Feminine, since men can learn wizardry or sorcery instead; Ozma just wants an excuse to be turned into a girl.
• He's Got a Weapon!: Jinjur utters this when Omby Amby pulls his pistol on the Army of Revolt. Pity he forgot to load it, though.
  Jinjur: Lurline's band!! He's got a gun!
• Idea Bulb: Played Straight on Page 3 of Chapter 2, complete with the standard Idea Ding as a Written Sound Effect, when Jack has the idea of calling Ozma mom instead of dad. Though the trope is Played Straight in the comic, it's still Played With slightly in The Rant under the comic. The artist jokingly humble-brags that she did a Google image search to make sure Jack's lightbulb was period appropriate for 1904, the year when the original novel was first published.
• Idea Ding: See Idea Bulb above.
• Interspecies Romance: Ozma, an Ozian, and Logan, a sawhorse brought to life with magic, quickly develop feelings for each other.
• LGBT Awakening: Ozma is completely caught up in gender euphoria once she puts on the Army of Revolt's witch uniform, and soon after decides to fully embrace her identity as a girl.
• Meaningful Rename: At the end of Chapter 6, Jinjur realizes she never asked for Ozma's name, so Ozma uses this opportunity to rename herself and introduce herself as Ozma to fully embrace her newly-discovered identity.
• Men Don't Cry: Mombi raised Ozma to believe that it is shameful to cry or otherwise show strong emotions. According to Ozma, Mombi always told her to "man up" whenever she "lost control" of her emotions. The programming is so ingrained into her that she has gone so far as to call herself "garbage" for not being able to hold it all in, even though Logan and the Scarecrow tell her that it's fine to cry.
• Mythology Gag:
  • The Newspaper Backstory on the first page consists of clippings from a newspaper called "The Ozmapolitan," which is a reference to a 1904 ad campaign involving a mock Oz newspaper, to promote the new Oz book.
  • The surname "Tryfle" is a reference to The Wizard of Oz (1902) and the character Trixie Tryfle. The character is also referenced when Jinjur mentions that the last king of Oz is thought to have eloped with a diner waitress as the reason why he mysteriously disappeared.
  • Logan has a very strong mid-western accent, which Scarecrow admits sounds familiar. As explained by Daisy, this is meant to be an Easter Egg to Dorothy's accent from the third book onwards, and not some foreshadowing hint that Logan and Dorothy have secret connection yet to be revealed.
  • One of the members of the Army of Revolt is a green-skinned woman named Elfie Bah, a play on Elphaba Thropp from The Wicked Years and Wicked.
• Named by the Adaptation: Ozma and Mombi's last name is Tryfle, as a reference to The Wizard of Oz (1902), and the Saw-Horse is named Logan.
• Never Given a Name: When Ozma introduces herself to the sawhorse, he realizes he doesn't have a name to introduce himself with, so he decides to name himself Logan because he's made of logs.
• Newspaper Backstory: The first page of the comic is essentially a Broad Strokes recap of Dorothy's adventures in Oz, told through newspaper cuttings in Ozma's scrapbook (with her written commentary, mostly gushing about how cool Dorothy is).
• One-Man Army: Subverted. Omby Amby is Emerald City's only soldier, so the city quite literally has a one-man army. When General Jinjur and her Army of Revolt try to invade the city, it seems at first that Omby might actually be able to hold them off all by himself. Unfortunately for both Omby and Emerald City, he swiftly proves to be incompetent at his job.
• Our Dragons Are Different: Dragons here are depicted to having a bird-like head with sharp teeth, a turtle-like body, and six legs. They can eat everything, including abstract thoughts, but would only eat once every 100 years. Oh, and all of these details are from The Tin Woodman of Oz.
• Our Ghosts Are Different: The cover of chapter 9 shows Ozma and Logan being followed by a Bedsheet Ghost that resembles those from Pac-Man. This is just a nifty bit of art to set the scene for chapter 9 and not part of the actual story as, near the end of chapter 11, The Rant confirms that ghosts do not exist in this version of Oz.
• Play-Along Prisoner: After Jinjur conquers Emerald City at the end of chapter 8, she throws the Scarecrow into the dungeon. But he's not particularly worried about it because, as he tells Logan, he could escape at any time. He actually makes his escape in chapter 11, apparently having simply slipped through the bars with his flexible hay body.
• Promoted to Love Interest:
  • Downplayed with Dorothy. In the original Land of Oz book series, Dorothy and Ozma are simply close friends. The very first page of the webcomic features Ozma displaying a childhood crush on Dorothy. And it's implied at the end of the third chapter, she still has feelings for Dorothy as she compared Logan to her.
  • More relevantly, Logan the sawhorse falls in love with Ozma at the end of Chapter 2 after hearing Jack call her "mom" makes him realize Ozma's inner gender identity is feminine, and a scene halfway through Chapter 3 shows that the feelings are mutual.
  • Jinjur also develops a crush on Ozma soon after they meet in Chapter 6.
• Pronoun Trouble: Before Ozma realized that she's Transgender, The Rant used he/him pronouns when referring to Ozma, implying those were the pronouns she used for herself. However, Logan realizes Ozma is "a girl" because of her insisting Jack call her "mom", so Logan's internal thoughts used she/her when referring to Ozma. Lampshaded by The Rant near the start of Chapter 3:
  The Rant: Reminder: Logan figured out that Tip is a girl, but Tip somehow hasn't figured out he's a girl yet, and Logan doesn't know that Tip doesn't know that he's a girl. It's very simple and straightforward and nobody should be confused.
• Punny Name:
  • Logan the Sawhorse, who is made of logs.
  • In Loonville, there's Bal Loon, Panta Loon, and Canon Foreigner Dub Loon.
• Queer Colors: Ozma's LGBT Awakening begins with a Splash Panel whose background is filled with faded shades of white, blue and pink, featuring Ozma surrounded by white, blue and pink hearts, two fairies each with a blue-and-pink color combination, and blue flowers with pink centers, all referencing the Trans Pride Flag.
• Related in the Adaptation: General Jinjur's new last name (see Adaptation Name Change above) implies strongly that she is the child of General Riskitt, a character in The Wizard of Oz (1902) stageplay; and Nimmie Amee, the Munchkin woman the Tin Woodman fell in love with before losing his heart. Nimmie being Jinjur's mother has been all-but-confirmed by The Rant under the comic where Jinjur introduces herself, but General Riskitt being her father has still only been implied.
• Relationship Sabotage:
  • At the end of Chapter 4, when Dub Loon realizes that Logan has feelings for Ozma, she tells him that Ozma will never feel the same about him and will only ever see him as just a cute animal. Even though she is wrong, she still manages to sow doubts in Logan's mind. Chapter 4's epilogue scene shows that Dub Loon honestly believed the things she told Logan about Ozma and thought she was helping him.
  • During Chapter 10, when Logan and Ozma are going through a rough patch, Juni Jump tries to help Logan reconcile with Ozma. She ends up admitting to Logan that she is helping because Jinjur has a crush on Ozma and she wants Logan to stop them from getting together. That way, she could have Jinjur instead. Her plot swiftly backfires, however, when her efforts cause Dashemoff Daily to notice Logan and immediately fall in love.
• Reluctant Ruler: Near the end of chapter 8, when General Jinjur announces to Scarecrow that she has conquered Emerald City, Scarecrow's first reaction is relief that he finally has a reason to remove his "awful" crown, giving the impression that she could have just asked for the throne and he would have given it to her. The comic's Alt Text adds a bit of extra context:
  "Scarecrow had to stuff his head with extra stiff straw to keep it from collapsing from the weight of that ridiculous crown."
• Road Runner vs. Coyote: Literally. The comic artist has made part of Winkieland into a desert very much resembling Arizona, USA, and Ozma tries to push a boulder off a cliff onto the Scarecrow midway through chapter 11. The artist even named that linked comic page "Beep Beep!" to make the reference even more obvious.
• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Upon first meeting Logan, Dashemoff Daily refers to his "decidous beauty" and calls him a "ligneous princess."
• Shipper with an Agenda: Juni Jump is invested in helping Logan reconcile with Ozma because she's in love with Jinjur, but Jinjur is head over heels for Ozma; she's hoping that helping Logan keeps Ozma and Jinjur apart and she'll have a chance with the latter.
• Shout-Out: The "clothes horse" who gives Logan the dresses keeps changing color, a reference to the "horse of a different color" that appears in the movie.
• Shown Their Work: When Jack has an Idea Bulb in Chapter 2, the author mentions in The Rant that she did a Google image search to make sure Jack's lightbulb was period appropriate for 1904, the year when the original novel was first published.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Downplayed at Loonville, where none of the Loons are popped at all, unlike in the source material where Woot pops most of them in order to escape.
• Speech Bubbles: Yellow Brick Ramble uses very standard speech bubbles, with the usual shapes and colors to indicate things like normal speech, shouting, whispering, and so forth.
  • Played With only once, on Page 9 of Chapter 2, when Logan notices Jack calling Ozma "mom". Rather than looking at Jack, Logan looks up at Jack's speech bubble.
• Supernaturally-Validated Trans Person: At the start of Chapter 7, Mombi attempts to find Ozma by using a spell that shows the location of the person whose name you ask for. The spell fails because Mombi uses Ozma's dead-name, rather than the new name Ozma chose for herself after her LGBT Awakening.
• That Thing Is Not My Child!: Subverted. At first, Ozma only acknowledges that having made Jack mean's he's technically her son, but dislikes the idea that she'd be Jack's father. Once Jack suggests that she can be his mom instead, Ozma immediately accepts the appellation and starts treating Jack like her child.
• Trans Relationship Troubles: Inverted. In chapter 5, Logan tries flirting with Ozma. Rather than someone else or society at large having a problem with it, Ozma is the one with the problem due to not yet realizing her inner gender identity. At first, Ozma doesn't even know which "girl" Logan is talking about. Then, after letting Logan flirt, she tries to explain to a nonplussed Logan that she's really a boy, but gives up on it before actually saying it. Despite these issues, however, Ozma clearly enjoys Logan's flirting quite a bit.
• Transparent Closet: Of the five major characters who knew Ozma when she was still presenting as a boy, the only one who didn't immediately realize that Ozma is a trans-girl was Ozma herself.
  • At the very start of the comic, Mombi clearly knows about Ozma's preference to be a girl and has been trying to force her to change it for quite some time (see Wanted a Gender-Conforming Child below).
  • After Ozma's repeated refusal to be called "Dad" or any variations of the title, Jack quickly figures out that she might prefer feminine terms of address, so he suggests "Mom" and she immediately approves.
  • Logan figures out Ozma's gender identity at the end of Chapter 2 when he witnesses Jack calling Ozma "Mom".
  • When Jinjur meets Ozma at the end of Chapter 5, she assumes Ozma is a girl due to the flowers in her hair and invites her to join the all-girl Army of Revolt, and even develops a crush on her while being, as The Rant puts it " "super gay".
• Wanted a Gender-Conforming Child: Mombi strongly disapproves of Ozma's "fantasies", as she puts it, and has destroyed Ozma's "costumes" or "girly" toys in the past. She also thinks that Ozma's long hair is giving her "silly ideas" about gender and is convinced that a haircut would solve those problems. The latter is what finally makes Ozma decide to run away.
• Written Sound Effect: Yellow Brick Ramble uses very few of these compared to most comics, but there are still some. For example, Chapter 4 Page 3 has four separate cases of it, making that the most sound-effect-dense page of the comic so far.
• You Mean "Xmas": Although they don't come up during the story proper, the comic has pages depicting Ozian counterparts to Thanksgiving (Friendsgiving) and Christmas (Lurlinalia) on days when Daisy is away celebrating the real-life equivalents.

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