Saturday, February 5, 2022

Warlord and Tarzan

 

I'm kind of surprised I hadn't featured this pairing before, but better late than never!  It also gives me the opportunity to feature the artwork of the very talented Mike Grell.  I enjoyed his work on Green Arrow back in the day, and I was glad to be able to pick up a sketch by him:



6 comments:

  1. Cooperation will have to wait. These two are going to have to fight first.
    But over what? The true name of Hollow Earth? (Maybe they are both lost? - maybe this is the Savage Land?)
    Or the coolest means of aviation? (Hint: pterodactyls are hard to top!)
    Whatever, this is a very intriguing setup...

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  2. You're right, Ross; this is a natural pairing that should've happened before now, and I too am glad to see it corrected. This is a great cover for bringing these two together for the first time.

    Here's another (and I remembered to check this time, both on the blog and real comics): Dick Tracy and Mystery, Inc. (Scooby Doo)! And of course the culprit there is Mysterio.

    I remember enjoying Mike Grell's run on the LSH, even though I didn't care for some of the costume designs and something always bugs me about the way he draws noses -- for some reason they almost always look two-dimensional (the Green Arrow sketch you have here is a notable exception), and that stands out in his otherwise quite dynamic work.

    @Dave: The inevitable initial fight probably comes before this moment in the story, upon Tarzan's arrival, as Warlord mistakenly thinks that Tarzan is responsible for the problem.

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  3. Bob is right. A crossover like this would've been obliged (by the writing tropes of the time) to begin with a mistaken identity slugfest. But I, for one, would've been consoled if the interior artists had remained faithful to the cover depicton of Tarzan riding a thipdar.*


    *Pteranodons who were, to the sentient telepathic mahars, what gorillas and chimps are to Homo sapiens.

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  4. @Davejonz: more likely, some third party has framed each of them for the "murder" of David Innes.

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  5. @Carycomic: I can't wait to see what you have in store for Issue #3600.

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  6. Oops! That should have read: "I can't wait to see what Ross has in store for Issue #3600."

    Sorry, Ross. :-(

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