#edgarriceburroughs = Every Day With Edgar Rice Burroughs - November 9, 2025

 November 9, 2025 and twenty-six years ago on this day in 1999, “Dark Horse Comics” published “Tarzan: The Rivers of Blood #1.” A Bill Ross article about the Dark Horse “Tarzan Comics” is available at: https://www.erbzine.com/mag11/1156.html

The creative team behind it was a pair of Croats, artist Igor Kordej (or Kordey as he rendered his name for the English-speaking market) and writer Neven Antičević. The story takes Tarzan from his home in the jungles of Africa to Vienna and then to Zurich, first seeking aid from Sigmund Freud and then finally Carl Jung to help a mentally distressed Jane, who was put under a spell by a powerful magician. It was supposed to have a total of eight issues, but was cancelled after the fourth, apparently due to low sales.

Even so, Antičević had fully scripted the series, and Kordej had completed the art, i.e., both pencils and inks, for the fifth, sixth and first half of the seventh issues, and he had also done the roughs for the rest of the seventh and all of the eighth issue. And all that material sat around for a decade and a half, when a Belgrade-based publisher, System Comics, notified Kordej and Antičević that it had managed to get a license for a Serbian edition of Rivers of Blood, with the express intention of publishing the entire story and any extra materials. So in 2015 this lovely, oversized hardcover edition – or, as Kordej put it at the time, “one single, big, fat amazing book!” – was released:

The drabble for today, “Where the Wild Things Poop,” was inspired by the story, Tarzan: The Rivers of Blood.” Nothing like a little potty humor to start the day.

Sigmund Freud said, “So Mr. Greystoke, you’re here because you’ve decided that your wife is crazy.”

“That’s Lord Greystoke.”

“Lord?”

“Yes, and I’m the king of the jungle.”

“Interesting. You think that you’re a lord and a king, but that your wife is the one who’s crazy. Let’s not talk about your wife just yet.

Let’s talk about you. How well did you get along with your mother?"

“My mother died when I was an infant and I was raised in Africa by a tribe of great apes.”

“Mein Gott! I can’t imagine what your toilet training was like.”