No rattlers anywhere in Africa folks, however some snakes do flick their tails as a warning and make a noise striking the leaf litter on the ground. Mambas, vipers, cobras, adders abound in Tarzanland, but someone has made the same mistake made several months ago by describing a boa constrictor attacking Tarzan…should have been a python! I guess that’s what happens when you go horseback riding…in the jungle! :)=
True, but that’s a cartoon snake. Real snakes don’t have rippling rainbow eyes that can hypnotize you as did Kaa in Disney’s THE JUNGLE BOOK, but it was still both funny and effective. So was Kaa’s excessive length and the even more excessive length of another snake in Disney’s TARZAN.Can you say “suspension of disbelief”? :)The best thing to do with a comic, or any other work of speculative fiction, is to learn what logical framework it operates within and then put your mind in that framework. Comics and related media are disproportionately created by Myers-Briggs ENFPs like me and we play with logical frameworks in a “trickster” way that T-types often (not always) find crazy-making.
One can’t get away with every breach of external consistency that way (e.g., rattling snakes in Africa), but self-consistency (e.g., all animals with eyes blinking whether they have real eyelids or not) makes a lot of things fair game.
Buzza Wuzza over 12 years ago
scratch one snake
Marc Poschman over 12 years ago
An African snake “rattled”??
Marc Poschman over 12 years ago
Ooo, snakey, maybe if you’re quick, you can eat him. No? Then poison him out of spite! Yes, that will make sense.
quartermain over 12 years ago
a good plot line for an amnesia story.
sydman over 12 years ago
This is more like a cowboy story. Horses just not belong in the jungle. The lack of a good writer is apparent.
profkatz over 12 years ago
No rattlers anywhere in Africa folks, however some snakes do flick their tails as a warning and make a noise striking the leaf litter on the ground. Mambas, vipers, cobras, adders abound in Tarzanland, but someone has made the same mistake made several months ago by describing a boa constrictor attacking Tarzan…should have been a python! I guess that’s what happens when you go horseback riding…in the jungle! :)=
alleyoops Premium Member over 12 years ago
Time for the horse to return the favor and save Tarzan.
Rakkav over 12 years ago
True, but that’s a cartoon snake. Real snakes don’t have rippling rainbow eyes that can hypnotize you as did Kaa in Disney’s THE JUNGLE BOOK, but it was still both funny and effective. So was Kaa’s excessive length and the even more excessive length of another snake in Disney’s TARZAN.Can you say “suspension of disbelief”? :)The best thing to do with a comic, or any other work of speculative fiction, is to learn what logical framework it operates within and then put your mind in that framework. Comics and related media are disproportionately created by Myers-Briggs ENFPs like me and we play with logical frameworks in a “trickster” way that T-types often (not always) find crazy-making.
Rakkav over 12 years ago
One can’t get away with every breach of external consistency that way (e.g., rattling snakes in Africa), but self-consistency (e.g., all animals with eyes blinking whether they have real eyelids or not) makes a lot of things fair game.