Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs for March 04, 2023

Multi-“faceted” treachery.

He said, reaching for his gun…..

The 90s band, Fizzy Fuzzy Big and Buzzy sang “Everybody knows that the world is full of stupid people, but I’ve got the pistol so I’ll keep the pesos, hey that seems fair” Sure looks like that’s what’s going to happen here. Oh yeah, I’ve waited a loong time to use that!

Gee how nice to wakes up the unfriendly neighborhood with a gun shot.

50:50 You get the lead, I get the diamond.

What monstrosity is lurking in that pit? We’ll soon find out tribemates and Tarzan will will have to eliminate it, after Chiram does in Wolfie that is.

As he fingers his gun, digitally…

A cell where they let you keep your weapons, the ever so convenient and easily discovered “secret” passage, the unguarded “jewel casket.” Gee, Chiram and Wolf, you knuckleheads, did it ever occur to you this might all be just a little bit too easy? Nah…

Once again, Chiram knows everything exactly. When will be get our answer to this seemingly gaping plot hole? (And why he can’t find the bloody place despite knowing everything about it.)

“I’ll take 50, and that leaves 50 for me.”

Friends agreed to each put a thousand dollars in the coffin of the first to die for him to have. One died. The others did as they had promised. The last friend, however pulled out all the cash and replaced it with a check for the total, including his thousand.

Which offs dummy Wolf first, Chiram’s gun or the White Casket’s boobytrap?