Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs for October 30, 2023

“Labor” pains transcend reality in this gulag.

Well Kailuk of Rathor, you is in luck. Meets Tarzan the escape expert. He famous for his old escapes once again to gets captured once again trick.

RATHOR is nearly the anagram of LOTHAR… (remember Mandrake ?)

Very unrealistic. I never met anyone who would fight for freedom.

No matter how much they complain about their lives, they keep on doing the same thing as everybody else, everyday.

That old greek dude was right: “Most men are born to be slaves.”

Just how many kingdoms of white savages are in this story arc?

You say you want a revolutionWell, you knowWe all want to change the world

“The Tarzan redemption”……

They skipped a couple panels to save time. Tarzan first asked him where he got his hair cut to get the small talk going.

A slave revolt brews .

New artist. Tarzan got a perm. Probably lost the bone headdresses. Hopefully Merala hasn’t lost her Maidenform, er, form. But at we know she’ll still be nuttier than chipmunk excrement.

Wait, what the heck does that mean? He “narrowly” studies his fellow workers? Is it like closely studying, but only out the sides of your eyes? You don’t look directly at them? He holds up two sheets of paper and stares at them between the paper?

“If you would fight for freedom, then what would you do for a Klondike Bar?”

I know the artists have changed recently, but these characters (including Tarzan) are downright uglier than ever before. I wonder what Merala and “Dr.” Wong will look like when next we see them…then there’s always M’lunga. How much uglier and hairier can he become?

“…. just so I can take his whip with me.”

Kailuk of Rathor: Here we die slowly. Sometimes it takes two weeks of strips to tell 5 minutes of story.

“I am Tarzan, who are you?”… Talk about a subtle narrow study of his fellow workers!