Balaclava, this story is from an Edgar Rice Burroughs adventure. I don’t remember which. But it’s a typical ERB mix of Tarzan with strange creatures, lost cities etc. Tarzan went to the Earth’s core, got immortality in (as I recall) Opar and so on…ERB is ERB… While I don’t like the way the artist has done Tarzan’s face in close-up, in this latest one, I do think the art and writing are just fine, and I wish people would stop griping so much.
you made me laugh out loud, Out of the Past. This strip seems based on Tarzan at the Earth’s Core…I THINK. Either that or it’s some other lost civilization/Tarzan adventure. I’m surprised he didn’t do “Tarzan on Mars”, where he could hang out with Dejah Thoris and John Carter. (The movie John Carter I still say is way under rated)
I don’t understand. Beasts of Tarzan—which is something adapted from the books I remember. And that worked. I liked it. But then this jump to the midst of this, in media res, what the heck…how’d we get to this particular story? Where’s the lead-in?
I’m sure a lion would avail itself of an ape meal but I don’t think they hang out where most apes hang out. ERB just relied on vague knowledge of the jungle, I’m afraid. He knew more about the wilderness of the Southwest USA—he was in the Army, chasing Apache renegades back in the day, before he was a writer, hence the opening bit in A Princess of Mars.
I really like this whole sequence, it’s so artfully told and funny and …creative. Way creative. Great job carol. And of course it’s been here for years and I didn’t know.
Balaclava, this story is from an Edgar Rice Burroughs adventure. I don’t remember which. But it’s a typical ERB mix of Tarzan with strange creatures, lost cities etc. Tarzan went to the Earth’s core, got immortality in (as I recall) Opar and so on…ERB is ERB… While I don’t like the way the artist has done Tarzan’s face in close-up, in this latest one, I do think the art and writing are just fine, and I wish people would stop griping so much.