Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs for February 01, 2019

Called it.

There should have been a warning sign.

And…that’s as far he sinks.

And Tarzan is in no position to rescue him in time?

So how did Tarzan manage to get to the tree? I guess there are some questions better left unasked.

I once read that you can swim out of quicksand if you don’t panic. I guess I’ll have to try that sometime. “Hey…hold my beer while I…”

Now is Tarzan going to let the quicksand cause a slow death by drowning, or is he going to take pity on his would be killer and throw him a rope?

Now comes the part where Tarzan should drop that vine down and then pull it out of reach, each time Jim tries to grab it. My guess is Tarzan will save his dumb ass, and Jim will see the evil of his ways; depending on the decade this was written. If it’s really old he dies; if it’s more recent he will be redeemed. Unfortunately, my guess is he will be allowed to live.

I recall, as a child reading Tarzan comics, thinking that sinking slowly into quicksand was a particularly horrible way to die. It used to give me nightmares.

Actually quicksand deaths are fiction, you can laboristly swim out of them.

the zanster drops jim a vine, which is quickly cinched around his scrawny neck. jim is then hauled out of the quicksand. unfortunetly, jim ends up two feet off the ground. goodbye jim, it was nice to know ya.