Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs for May 15, 2012

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    Buzza Wuzza  over 12 years ago

    scratch one snake

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    Marc Poschman  over 12 years ago

    An African snake “rattled”??

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    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.

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    quartermain  over 12 years ago

    a good plot line for an amnesia story.

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    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.

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    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! :)=

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    alleyoops Premium Member over 12 years ago

    Time for the horse to return the favor and save Tarzan.

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    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.

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    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.

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