Fans of the books might recall that the Tin Woodman lived in a standard castle in Marvelous Land of Oz and his tin castle wasn't introduced until Road to Oz. In this comic, it's been 4 years since the first adventure, so I figured he'd have the tin castle by now.

In the book, Billina says, "He built it because the old castle was too damp," but that doesn't make sense! Why would the Wicked Witch of the West's castle be damp? So, I decided it's the same castle. This gave me a fun design challenge of making a friendly-looking metal castle with the general shape of a spooky castle. I was inspired a bit by the eclectic nature of castle Duckula, though that probably isn't obvious.

My favorite depiction of the tin castle is probably Andy Hirsch's design in Kovac & Hirsch's Royal Historian of Oz, which incorporates corn cob towers, implying that he shares the castle with the Scarecrow.

The alderman joke is also from Road to Oz. Jack's line was spoken by Button-Bright and Logan's line was spoken by Dorothy Gale.