Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs for June 16, 2020

So sad … dying in a desert … Tarzan having nothing to do with it.

Wait, the dead guy named his daughter “The Blood Ruby”? And what’s with the carefully preserved incomplete letter? This is like The Castle Arrrrgh in Monty Python and the Holy Grail: “He must have died while writing it …”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlIz0q8aWpA

Too bad the letter ended with that, with no mention of who is daughter is or where she is.

By now, his daughter is the queen of the pygmies, because in all Tarzan tales, all African tribes have a white queen for some reason.

Do these dreaded pygmies live in the deep woods of the jungle and talk in the Bandar tongue?

Go find that ruby and give it back to its rightful owner!

Desert Pygmies?

Bet this chick will be fat and ugly. (Sarcasm, folks.)

With the desert expanding like it does every year, then twenty tears ago, it’s possible the guy actually died on the edge of the jungle.

I still say, dig a pit! This time Tarzan will catch pygmies and a white queen. She’ll be all goo goo eyes for Tarzan, and blah, blah, blah.

In the last panel, Tarzan realizes that we’re all watching him.

Little cannibalistic pygmies would have eaten that poor girl by now savoring each morsel. Time to bring back Betty Cole, she’ll know what to do. Pygmy lives matter, or do they?

Twenty years…conveniently just enough time for the daughter to have grown up to be impossibly hot and scantily clad.

A valuable ruby and a young woman! That’s all Tarzan needs to know. He doesn’t even need to know what direction they are or where in the 3 million square miles of desert. It might help to know where water is, though.

Tarzan said a letter and a plea for help my %@#. Ruby and chick equals adventure.

Probably wasn’t wearing sun screen.