Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs for April 28, 2023

“Monkey meat” for dinner.

this species of ape has no blood

He’s in a better place.

At least Goom ruined the victory cry by pulling off Tarzan’s leopard pants and exposing his uncool white underpants. The amazed king said I haven’t seen those since grade school.

Sorree!

The look on Tarzan’s face in the last panel says “You are next”!

Where’s the knife now?

Panel 1: Tarzan made another kill, panel 2: his famous cry knocks the spots clean off his loin-cloth, panel 3: the embarrassed look that says,“You saw nothing”.

Awesome ! Totally awesome !

Tarzan turned to face the amazed king, a bit sheepishly. “OK, so I’m stripped down to my undies. Goom got lucky. You wanna make something of it?”

What? That’s all? So much for the king of rare talking apes. That big monkey does without even saying a word. What use of talking ape if we not even see he talk?

Why isn’t the amazed king wearing a funny hat in the last panel?

Before reading the dialog I thought that the yodel had awoken the guy watching soaps in the other room.

“You’re next.”

Gigantic ol’ Goomba gone, but now his even bigger and meaner wife will rise from the hairy smelly ape city below and demand that Chiram, or Mon Dieu D’Arnot replace her now dead husband! Meanwhile, Tira is working up a sweat in her boudoir with her now-favourite salami-sausage…….

“Wonderful!” the king said. “We have just lost our mezzo-soprano and you would make a fabulous replacement.”

This is so Awesome ! Tarzan single-handedly slew a giant talking ape using a knife and his bare hands with sheer brute strength alone and then stood over the still warm corpse of his vanquished foe howling his victory in jungle bloodlust. Now he turns his gaze to the stunned and shocked onlookers. What fears are gripping all who witnessed this spectacle ? Who in their right mind would now ever challenge Tarzan ?

Slowly, he turned….