Yes, even Mombi was beautiful once.

Longtime Oz fans may know that in the original novel, there was a chapter titled A Highly Magnified History. Halfway through the book, a giant supercilious insect wearing a fancy suit suddenly walks up to our heroes, introduces himself as Mr. H.M Woggle-Bug, T.E. (Highly Magnified Woggle-Bug, Thoroughly Educated), spends an entire chapter explaining his origin story, and invites himself to join the party. He's purely a comic relief character, constantly annoying our heroes with puns.

Now, you have to understand that Baum thought this Woggle-Bug stuff was pure gold. This, he thought, is the breakout character of Marvelous Land of Oz. He put out a Woggle-Bug comic strip, a Woggle-Bug board game, an absolutely awful non-canon Woggle-Bug book, and he named the stage adaptation of Marvelous Land of Oz "The Woggle-Bug."

Yes, you read that right. Ozma's story was renamed The Woggle-Bug.

He's not in my adaptation, but there is a non-magnified wogglebug hidden in every chapter of this comic.

Anyway, I named this chapter after the Woggle-Bug's, but it's all about Mombi.