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Tarzan the Warrior (1991)
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Fiction Review by The Gravedigger
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11.18.08
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TARZAN THE WARRIOR (1991) This five-part comic book series from Malibu Comics presents the Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan and successfully transplants him to the modern age. He and his wife Jane have not aged in over a hundred years. The series also explains as to why Tarzan was always able to find those "Lost Cities" and "Lost Lands" in Africa when no one else could. He is able to "sense" them.
The story starts in Baltimore, where they are trying to save the life of a Great Ape that was hit by a car. They aren't able to save the creature and return home--but are pulled through a "rift" in time and space by an alien craft that is damaged. They then find themselves in a version of the future, where the city is in ruins and taken over by jungle. Of course Tarzan much prefers this but Jane wants to get back to civilization. With the help of the alien pilot they try to get back to the right time period but then find themselves in the past where they encounter a tribe of Ape-like creatures living among Mammoths and sabertoothed tigers.
there's also a parallel story, which the comic cuts back and forth to, to the present in which an old man is kidnapped by a Tarzan look-alike, who is convinced that this old man is Tarzan and that he's his father. He takes him back to Africa, to Tarzan's derelict plantation, and wants to force him to admit that he is his father.
The two stories eventually converge into a satisfying conclusion--and adds to the Tarzan mythos.
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Rating: nan out of 10.0 - votes cast total
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