Monday 19 December 2016

Behind my favourite Tarzan scene is a bunch of wild paintings and comic book drawings!

Not fully rewritten until years later. 

Ahh, Russ Manning and the Buscema Brothers’ Tarzan artworks have a large but indirect impact not just on the minds of fans, but also on the making of what’s perhaps the most famous scene in both the Disney’s Tarzan franchise and at the end of Disney’s generally wonderful Renaissance period. 

Here in the end of the first Disney’s Tarzan film, its hunky title hero announced himself as a newfound lord of the jungle on a dance off with his mate. While also taking a few visual cues from Tom Yeates and Joe Kubert, large portions of both his yelling and chest pounding are perhaps visually based on artworks made by Joe Jusko. 

Yuh-Ughh! Ooh-Uh-Oah-Ughh! We-Ah-Way-Ughh! 

Without a doubt, it does need a cyberpunk reboot expansion, which surely will become its own thing if it’s going to be made after all.. 


Friday 16 December 2016

The digital tweens and teens war unmasked!

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I noticed a big explosion of teen web-series and teenage everything in the past decade alone. I also thought that from 2014 onwards, Dora already went to aim at elementary school kids and tweenagers.

Netflix's "Tarzan and Jane" romance/adventure web serial would have been competing with Caribara's own Astro Boy comedy/adventure show (I really hastily nicknamed its titular character the "Euro Boy", because my Dad currently noticed that time's running out for the European Union to get fixed! I guess that this French Astro Boy will be much different from the innovatively beloved 2003 robot nicknamed "Boxy Boy" and his 3D/anime/tokusatsu relatives from 1959, 1963, 1980, and 2009)and of course, Nick's Dora and Friends.

Oh yeah! In the future, I wonder if fans will be bringing up (and also expanding) the Disney Tarzan film franchise for years to come? I guess that Euro Boy (unlike the older relatives which model on different characters, except for the well remembered "Boxy Boy" which is partly inspired by comic icons of the old West and East blocs like HergĂ© and Zhu Zhixiang, which had been animated by Shinji Seya!) would also be a robot adopted by a human family who loves to treat him as a person, as Disney’s classic Tarzan is to his fellow gorillas!


Awkward!