Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs for November 15, 2024

This bum needs to be stuffed with "Mounds"® bars, & lost @ sea.

If you want to fast-forward through this strip, go back to September 10, 1999. You will, of course, miss the commentary from the folks sitting in the box seats above the performance stage (reference to my favorite characters from The Muppet Show).

He’s not coconut shy by any means.

Is that a six-shooter on his hip? Wrong-way Harrigan was trying to peddle pots and pans and ended up in the middle of Africa in an area with few people and no cash and capturing monkeys is going to make him rich? He’s planning to sell them to the Eskimos in Antarctica?

(And, yes, I know there are no Eskimos in Antarctica. My point is a reflection on the story.)

Old man sure into monkey business.

09 Dec 2016. Sense of Deja vu, a certain Person has just won the election and was preparing to take office. I’ll repeat my comment too.

“Real Estate, Precious metals and diamonds are probably better way to go for a fortune than monkeys. I think Trump wrote that in one of his books.”

Boy time flies.

The hard part will come when he tries to reach the monkeys. ‘Num NUM namkita zooma Tantor ik me’ shouts Tarzan = ‘Hit the ding dong in the head with the coconuts’

“ he would be held prisoner . . . until he let go “. There’s a lesson for sure !

Story doesn’t make sense but great artwork.

One of the monkeys has had enough, brought his palm (still inside the coconut) on Harrigan’s foot. The coconut broke. The other monkeys saw and figured it was the way to get free, and did the same to the bozo. Eventually all the monkeys were freed, Harrigan fled away bruised and battered, and swore never to pick on monkeys, while Tarzan was sitting and enjoying the show. End of story. Then Tarzan looked for less silly adventure, preferably with a hottie evil queen and some lions.

A Hobson’s choice, for the monkeys. When did they start offering monkeys in the backs of comic books, along with the Polaris Sub and Sherman tank. Search YouTube, there are a number of small movies about all those toys.

Hard Luck Harrigan, a gin soaked neer-do-well from the past….. We’ve been down this river before folks. I guess we’re going to be subjected to “reruns” for a while…….UGH!

Harrigan is as lost as those South American monkeys.

They’re voting for their short-term interests instead of long-term.

Not only a talking monkey problem but a mean talking monkey problem. Maybe it is a chimpanzee. They can be very mean.

Why don’t the monkeys shake the item out of the hole instead of reaching their hand into the coconut?

Greed binds us and frees us.