In celebration of misunderstood big bads we give you "The Adoration of Elphie." The Wicked Witch of the West has never looked more beautiful!

Graphic designer Jaz Parkinson's Colour Signatures is an interesting way of visualizing books. She pulls out all of the references to color in a single novel or play, tallies them up, and graphs the color scheme for each book.

Sam Raimi's Oz: The Great and Powerful was a visual feast, full of gorgeous CG imagery — but some of the concept art for the film is more stark, and thus more striking. Check out some more of the whimsical, sweet Oz art below.

In between making the disastrous Spider-man 3 and Oz the Great and Powerful, director Sam Raimi made what The Middleman once called "a zombie palate cleanser": the masterfully nuts B-movie Drag Me to Hell. As you watch the plodding action in Oz unfold, you'll find yourself wishing it had a bit more of the anything-goes…

I never would have imagined The Wizard of Oz would warrant any kind of a prequel, but darned if all the previews and clips for Sam Raimi's upcoming Oz the Great and Powerful haven't looked pretty darned good. This final trailer still doesn't give us a good view of the Wicked Witch of the West, although it does have…

Although much of the action in Megan Lavey-Heaton and Isabelle Melançon's webcomic Namesake takes place in the merry old land of Oz, it opens not with a Dorothy but with an Alice. Alice Liddell, to be precise, has gone missing, and the only person who knows where she's gone off to is her friend Charles Dodgson, better…

We've seen a collection of clips and featurettes for Sam Raimi's Oz the Great and Powerful, but we've yet to see one actual clip... until now. Behold the first real look at the ladies of Oz, sisters Evanora and Theodora, wildly accusing each other of collusion. Love the costumes, ladies.

What if you gave everyone in The Wizard of Oz swords, and instead of the Wicked Witch of the West throwing fireballs she throws decapitated horse heads? Boom, Game of Thrones meets Oz. And that's exactly what Warner Bros. TV wants their next big magical series to be.

We'll be seeing a lot of strange versions of L. Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz this year, including Sam Raimi's Oz: The Great and Powerful, and possibly the long-delayed Dorothy of Oz movie with the voice of Patrick Stewart. But these might just be the strangest visions of Oz you'll see for quite some time.

Sam Raimi has released a much longer, even more colorful trailer for his Wizard of Oz prequel, Oz: The Great and Powerful . Watch as James Franco is coddled by the three most beautiful ladies of all time — Michelle Williams, Rachel Weisz and Mila Kunis. Looks like the Wizard is pretty close and cuddly with all three …