YMMV / Ojo in Oz

• Accidental Innuendo: The entirety of the Dicksyland chapter. Dicksyland populated by the “queer” Dicks. Some Dicks are described as short and fat, others thin and handsome. Their leader, Dickus the Third, the Dicktator of Dicksyland, has a “Right Hand Man”. It goes on; the fact that “dick” and “queer” already had their current slang meaning in the 1930s makes one wonder how “accidental” the innuendo really was.
• Fanon Discontinuity: Later books ignore Ojo’s upgrade to Seebanian royalty and finding his parents. Jack Snow, author of two official Oz books, has Ojo back to living in a cottage outside the Emerald City as if this book never took place, but he also ignored all of Thompson and Neill’s books. Modern Oz books also ignore this book, although a big reason for that is because it is still under copyright (one of the dwindling number of Oz books that still isn’t public domain at this point). Authors of modern semi-canon Oz books also tend to feel that the results of this book limit Ojo’s storytelling potential. And the book’s political incorrectness certainly doesn’t help matters either.
• Values Dissonance: Thompson could have just made up a fictional Wacky Wayside Tribe to kidnap Ojo, but she had to go out of her way to vilify the Romani even though it didn’t even make sense within the story. Romani faced discrimination in fiction until recent decades, sadly.