Last Kiss by John Lustig for September 25, 2023

Are you feeling like you’ll live yet?

I recently saw an episode of “Murdoch Mysteries” which involved a murder at a writers’ convention where suspects included Edith Wharton and Rudyard Kipling. At the end of the show Constable Crabtree (a published novelist himself) tells “Norman Bean” that he needs a more dignified name — say, Edgar Rice Burroughs — and that the name Zantar for his main character is lame.

He’s not exactly “the gorilla of her dreams”. But then Goober appeared on “Finding Your Roots,” and discovered he is Rupert Murdoch’s love child from a safari he took. The resemblance between the two is now obvious.

Poor Goober Tarzan. You know she’s gonna Cheeta on him.

[nerd alert] In an issue of ‘The Inferior Five’ the team finds a jungle tribe where all the women are beautiful and all the men look like apes. There’s a footnote explaining that monkeys are easy to draw and hot ladies are fun to draw.

Tic-Tac ! Tic-Tac !!

Apparently she doesn’t want to grease his grapevine.

What Tarzan – the original one – had going for him was that he was an English Lord, with a huge estate in Britain and incalculable wealth. Goober Tarzan has a second-hand treehouse, and a well-used toothbrush with no toothpaste. Plus he never quite perfected the art of vine swinging.

the first Tarzan novel is a masterpiece…when he reached England he can speak 7 or 8 languages, he becomes one the most popular Lords in Parliament, always looking out for the regular guy, and then a RAF fighter pilot in WWI, Tarzan one cool dude

Eww

You got me at “Goober”! Haaaa!!!

That is no Tarmongoni.

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GOOBER TARZAN: JUDYJUDYJUDY! (Trying to impress Jane by “taking off” on Cary Grant)

He’s a real knuckle dragger.

She doesn’t dig baldies??

This is rather disturbing.

I know this is irritatingly esoteric, but the cartoon calls to mind the Aldous Huxley novel, “After Many a Summer Dies the Swan,” in which an unscrupulous scientist acts upon the theory that humans are prematurely born foetal apes, and that increased longevity unfortunately depends on the process to apehood to continue.

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