Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs for March 16, 2015

panel 3. Seriously?

And where did he get his Shakespearean grammar from?

And it must take a serious effort, moving the lodestone down, when they want to go back down.

Cartoon physics: In real life magnetic pull is only 1/square of the distance between the objects.

Just reverse the magnetic bar on the cart and down they go.

They skip 2 days, 2743 & 2744.

Well maybe comic strip artists weren’t too up on electromagnetic engineering,

In this case, a picture is worth 10,000 words.

Let the male member jokes begin.

Well, if the magnet is that strong, everything metal they are wearing should be flying upward too. And their watches broken.

Yeah, the physics is improbable. I kinda figure the artist drew the panels, and an editor familiar with the working of incline railways looked at it and said, “where’s the other car that goes down to balance Tarzan’s car going up?” At which point they decided it would be easier to invent some mumbo-jumbo about magnetism than to re-draw the panel…

Or maybe Tarzan’s going to meet Nikola Tesla in tomorrow’s strip.

Got to love the 1940’s, when this was drawn, the one advanced civilization we find in the jungle is populated by what appears to be caucasians definitely not Africans. Man this would never fly today.

Otamu must have a very strong grip on that “thing” in panel #3! ;)> "Brake"HoHoHoAGowa!!