Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs for June 17, 2024

The “mane” events.

Great location, at the foot of an active volcano!

Are the homes lit by lava lamps?

Lion mens? Oh them poor fools is so doomed now. For here comes Tarzan the mightiest lion killer!

Is Valthor going to explain how he ended up so far from home?

As was the tale in the Roman Empire 1940 years ago: “There lies Pompeii, the city of dead men”

Tarzan – “I have a knife for that!”

Oh great— Tarzan, lion hunt, magic knife—trouble brewing.

A strange land . . .

That volcano looks pretty active. I wouldn’t stay too long if I was Tarzan.

“I don’t know where I’m a-gonna go when the volcano blows.” Jimmy Buffet Volcano

Hey, Volthar, can you say, “pyroclastic flow”? Yeah, they don’t do much for property valuations, but they are kinda great for archeological preservation. So at least Anthor has that going for it.

Tarzan said, you know I bet a burg like this has a heckuva beautiful princess.

Yonda lies da volcano of my fadda.

Two thoughts today: 1. I thought the two cities were Athne and Cathne in the original Burroughs story. Maybe the writer wants to avoid blatantly stealing from the master, kind of like DeCamp and Carter did in their (much poorer) Conan tales. And 2. Tarzan is grilling in today’s “1 and Done” here on GoComics.

So city names have been changed but the plot (so far) remains the same. I wonder if Tarzan’s pet lion Ja-bal-ja wil arrive to rescue him in this version.

And Tarzan thinks “Oh, goody….I get to kill some more lions!”.

“Lion killers,” said Tarzan. “My kind of people.”

For sure they’re gonna get covered with lava