Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs for August 17, 2022

Tarzan: "The sentence you said in panel 1 was incomplete. You should ask: ‘what do you ______ (fill the blank with a verb) in my country?’ ".

Avoid the customs shed at all costs………

“OK” said Tarzan “then I will just throw you from this mountain so I can get back to the upper world and not be killed by your people”

And that is why no missionary has ever returned from Clovi. And now you know the REST of the story. Good DAY!

Sounds like North Korea.

“It is our custom to kill all strangers, so thanks for the help, but…” (stab, stab, stab)

I guess Tarzan is going to be a rug in front of a fire.

“No, we don’t cotton to no flatland furriners in these parts. ’Course, we have a bit of fun with ’em before we kill ’em."

Ovan later changed his name to Onan (because, honestly, ERB couldn’t keep track of his characters’ names, anyway) and went to college. He abandoned that whole “kill all strangers” bit after he got his engineering degree and started his self-named auxiliary power generator business. It turned out killing prospective customers was bad for sales.

Why of course. Why should anyone trust a bear murderer fiend like Tarzan?

Different strokes, different folks.

Why did I attack the bear? That’s what I do kid. Kill $#!+ for the hell of it. Look, you got an 80,000 word story to fill up. You can use up about 5000 every time you kill something. Do the math.

Ovan should be in school learning proper grammar, and is that snow on the trees in panel 3? They can’t even get the seasons straight in this convoluted tale.

And one must always follow tradition.

“We don’t get many strangers here.”

“And with these customs, you won’t get many more.”

Their custom is to kill strangers, especially when their faces come out of the rain.

These moralizing dialogues are terribly boring….