Auardon kids aesthetics part 4;

Here are part 1, part 2, and part 3.

Ariana Rose of the Moors aesthetic. Mostly canon compliant. Suspected daughter of Aurora's cousin, Tulip Morningstar.

James "Jim" Pleiades Hawkins aesthetic. Mostly canon compliant.

Katherine Blake aesthetic. Mostly Canon compliant. (Treasure Planet 2 character).

Pin aesthetic. Mostly canon compliment.

Jenna of Agrabah aesthetic. Mostly canon compliant (Aladdin book character).

Rafi of Agrabah aesthetic. Mostly canon compliant (Aladdin book character).

Salima of Agrabah aesthetic. Mostly canon compliant (Aladdin book character).

Jeanne "Meriem" Jacot aesthetic. Mostly canon compliant (Korak's future wife/girlfriend).

Charles "Chip" Potts aesthetic. Mostly canon compliant (I got the name from 'As Old as Time (A Twisted Tale)').

Carina Potts aesthetic. Mostly canon compliant.

Cover to the Ace Paperback edition of The Son of Tarzan, by Frank Frazetta.

Tarzan, Jane, Korak and Meriem

It’s clear that, even by the standards of both his adult life and heyday, Edgar Rice Burroughs himself was too much of a British Aristocracy fanatic, sheesh. The Disney’s Tarzan franchise can be just as wild as the ERB canon that it spun off from.

Daniel Frogson will play a convincing CGI Tarzan, who brachiates with his hands, tree surfs with his handy feet, and yells out really loudly while pounding his chest.

Madison Wolfe will play a gutsy minded, CGI Jane Porter, a blonde wrench archaeologist who dares to protect herself when in distress.

Milo Mannheim will play a powerful CGI Korak, Tarzan’s ‘Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome Clone’ who grows up rather too fast, from toddler to tween to adult just within his likely first six years of life, which is perhaps attributed to the famously egregious writing of Edgar Rice Burroughs.

Dalila Bela will play a wily CGI Jeanne Meriem, Korak’s equally badass and memorable French girlfriend/wife who will bore him two kids, Gilbert Jeannot ‘Jackie’ and Suzanne.

Tying into the previous gif post, Korak and Meriem can definitely be very physically affectionate even in public settings. Mostly because that’s just how they’re used to being with each other after their time in the jungle and their fairly new romantic feelings for each other. 

However given that they live in the Edwardian era and Korak  or Jack as he’s known in these settings is from a noble English family this has definetly caused something of a stir. No doubt because of their racial differences as well. 

Jack/Korak hasn’t brought himself to care. 

The Son of Tarzan (Tarzan #4). Edgar Rice Burroughs. Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1918. Illustrated by J. Allen St. John. First edition, later (probable fourth) printing. Original dust jacket by J. Allen St. John.

Alexis Paulvitch, one of Tarzan's enemies, wants to get even, so he draws Tarzan's son, Jack, away from London, but Jack isn't so easy to capture and kill. He escapes, and makes a home among the apes as his father did. He becomes known as Korak the Killer, and meets a lovely young woman named Meriem. Narrow escapes, fun action, and a definite sense of adventure in the wilds of Africa make this a must-read book.

THE GREATEST ADVENTURE Hardcover

Price: $29.99 Rating: Teen+ Cover: Cary Nord Writer: Bill Willingham Art: Cezar Razek Genre: Action/Adventure Publication Date: June 2018 Format: Hardcover Page Count: 248 pages ON SALE DATE: 6/13/2018 Heroes and heroines – along with the villains – from the entire Edgar Rice Burroughs library stand together! Tarzan, Jane Clayton and Meriem Clayton, John Carter and Dejah Thoris, Korak The Killer, Jason Gridley, Billy Byrne, Bridge, The Oskaloosa Kid, Barney and Victoria Custer, Jim Stone, Townsend Harper, Virginia Maxon, Johnny La Fitte, The Rider, Shannon Burke, Ulysses Paxton, and more! Together for the first time! Tarzan and Jason Gridley have assembled a crew of the greatest adventurers their world has to offer. Aboard the Martian sky ship Venture, they’ve set off in pursuit of a powerful gemstone called the Eye of Judgment. They’re in a race to find the gem against an alien battleship called the Resolve. If the villains aboard the Resolve get it first, they’ll be able to construct a death ray that can reach across the stars themselves, and kill anyone on any world, with the touch of a button. Explore the worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs as never before with Eisner Award-winning writer Bill Willingham (Fables) and artist Cezar Razek (Red Sonja) exploring every corner of the Burroughs world in this 248-page hardcover collecting the complete, 9-issue epic, and featuring all of the covers by Cary Nord (Conan), Greg Smallwood (All-New Guardians of the Galaxy), Roberto Castro (Red Ronja/Conan), and more!

INTERVIEW: Bill Willingham Channels ERB for The Greatest Adventure

When Bill Willingham was a young boy, his mother would buy him comic books when he stayed home sick to occupy him while she maintained her home-based accounting business. One day, she betrayed him (his words) and brought home “The Return of Tarzan” by Edgar Rice Burroughs instead.

Due to sheer boredom, the disheartened child eventually cracked the spine of his new paperback novel, only to discover a wonderful world of action and adventure. His mother’s betrayal led to a lifelong love of the Lord of the Apes and the collected works of Burroughs that has lasted to this day, the writer told CBR. That’s why his latest project, illustrated by Cezar Razek, has filled him with joy and some heart-felt trepidation.

In “The Greatest Adventure,” an upcoming series from Dynamite Entertainment, Willingham is set to tell a story Burroughs never managed to deliver himself: the meeting of his two most iconic characters, Tarzan and John Carter of Mars. That, Willingham revealed, is why this is the most intimidating series that he has ever done, as he first imagined the possibility of such a meeting more than 50 years ago as a young reader.

The seven, eight or possibly nine-issue series will also feature many of Burrough’s other classic characters, including Tarzan’s immediate family (Jane Porter, his son Korak and his daughter-in-law Meriem), Jason Gridley from the Pellucidar series, and Billy Byrne from the Mucker series, as well as the little known Townsend Harper from “The Monster Men” and Kolani/Jim Stone from “The Resurrection of Jimber-Jaw.”

CBR: In “Fables,” you mashed together hundreds of characters from fairytales and folklore together in Fabletown, but — am I right in thinking Edgar Rice Burroughs very much wrote these characters as if they already existed in a shared universe?

Bill Willingham: That’s right. As a matter of fact, the discovery of that was a particularly fine moment for me. At first, it didn’t quite click because I read one of the books from the Tarzan series out of order. It was called “Tarzan at the Earth’s Core,” in which Tarzan goes to the hidden, inner world of Pellucidar and meets and interacts with David Innes from the Pellucidar series. But at that time, I didn’t realize there was a Pellucidar series. I just thought these were other interesting characters that Edgar Rice Burroughs had created for Tarzan to visit.

After that, I found out that there was a whole series of Pellucidar books. At the same time, I was a little disappointed because by the next book, Tarzan was off in some other recently discovered world. I was wishing that Tarzan could spend more time in Pellucidar. I ended catching up on the Pellucidar series, and that’s when I found out all of this stuff all takes place in the same world.

I tried to read Edgar Rice Burroughs’ books in order, but to a great extent, I was limited to what order that I discovered them. I found something called “The Mad King” that was part of a little two-book series that starred a character named Barney Custer. He was mistaken as the king of one of these fictionalized, Eastern European countries. His sister gets involved with a frozen caveman in a book called “The Eternal Lover,” and at the beginning of that book, Barney Custer and his sister are hanging out in the Greystoke Manor in Africa, just having cocktails and such as you do in an Edgar Rice Burroughs novel. That’s what finally cemented to me that all of this stuff takes place in the same world. I just went with that for this series.

One of the great disappointments amongst all of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ fans is that, to anyone’s knowledge, he never wrote the Tarzan on Mars book that you know should have been written. Tarzan and John Carter really, really needed to meet each other, and yet, it didn’t happen. As a matter of fact, the issue that I am writing next is that meeting and the intimidation factor is dialed up about as high as it can be because it needs to be an important, big moment. Do I have the capability of doing it right? Probably not, but we’ll see. [Laughs]

I loved “Fables,” and a lot of that love came from your leading man, Bigby, aka the Big Bad Wolf. I didn’t see it before, but in hindsight, there is a lot of Tarzan in Bigby. What attributes does Tarzan possess that allow him to stand front and center and lead these men and women on this greatest adventure?

This is very much the book version of Tarzan. He thinks in real thoughts. By this time in his life, he knows about 30 different languages. He is a savant in picking up languages, which retroactively justifies the almost impossible task of a kid teaching himself to read with just one primer and a few books in a cabin. He is clearly some kind of mental giant, but he is also, because of the way that he was raised, almost a stoic. He does not wear his heart on his sleeve. The intimate moments that he has with Jane, thank God, are for the most part off-screen.

One of the things that I like that Edgar Rice Burroughs said early on about Tarzan – and in later books, he contradicted this – is that he seldom smiled and never laughed. He is a dour fellow. Not in a sense that he doesn’t have a sense of humor. He’s not grimly serious all of the time, but he was raised in the jungle, and if you want to survive, you don’t make extraneous noises. He learned from an early age to just keep things to himself. That’s the Tarzan that I am hoping to show here. I think Tarzan also has an internal monologue, where he is constantly weighing and evaluating things, including his opinions on the people that he is surrounded by.

Tarzan, like most, is a character I know well from TV, movies, cartoons, books and comics. Jason Gridley is someone that I didn’t know. What can you share about the character who actually brings this team together and basically appoints Tarzan to lead?

If you are going to do a take on Jason and the Argonauts, it helps to have a character named Jason. [laughs] Also, he is the scientist that invented the Gridley Wave, which is a means of instant communication that allowed Gridley to get full stories from people on Mars and David Innes down in Pellucidar. In the books, Edgar Rice Burroughs uses the Gridley Wave as a method of how he is able to tell you the story, because Edgar Rice Burroughs always wrote the books under the pretense that these stories really did happen.

This instant communication device that defies the limits of time and space also makes a very good MacGuffin in the sense that it gives the characters a reason to go on a quest because someone has taken the Gridley Wave with the intent to weaponize it. If you can communicate instantly, maybe you can do other, more terrible things, without having to worry about the barriers of time and space.

The bad guys actually capture Jason early on and try to get his cooperation in making his Gridley Wave into a death ray, but he escapes, gets a hold of Tarzan, and now we have a story. He’s essential to the story.

By setting “The Greatest Adventure” in Burroughs’ shared universe, does that mean that we also get to go back in time, to see Tarzan hunting dinosaurs in “The Land That Time Forgot” from the Caspak trilogy?

The biggest frustration with this entire series is that I have to keep it at a reasonable length. I am trying for seven issues, it’s probably going to be eight — dear God, it might have to expand into nine, but I can’t over that simply because it has to be an enclosed story. But I’m telling you, with the structure of this, and visiting all of these lands that Edgar Rice Burroughs created, I could spend a dozen issues in each one of them. Some of that stuff will have to be truncated. I will give something away: Yes, you are going to see Tarzan hunt a dinosaur in at least one point.

The best thing that was ever done on TV, animation-wise, and will never be beaten is one scene from an episode of “Jonny Quest.” Race, Johnny, Johnny’s dad and probably Hadji are in personal flying packs with bazookas hunting dinosaurs. That’s got it all. There is a nod to that fully formative moment in my life in this series, too, because as everyone who has read their Edgar Rice Burroughs knows, Martian Barsoomian tech includes something called the Equilibrimotor. It’s one of ERB’s most wonderful inventions with a terrible name, except that the name grows on me because it’s so terrible, it’s kind of charming. [Laughs]

Basically, they are flying harnesses — and they are almost never used in the books. They are used a few times, but as a reader, there were so many times in the Martian books where I was like, “This would be a good time to use an Equilibrimotor.” But who listens to me? But because that’s part of the tech available to the crew now, there will be a scene where there are a few characters flying around, hunting dinosaurs with Martian exploding bullet rifles and bazookas. Just because, why not?

We’ve talked about Tarzan and John Carter of Mars, Burroughs’ two most popular and enduring characters, but reading the scripts for the first two issues of this series also introduced me to a number of Burroughs’ creations that I never knew existed. I am very excited to go out and read “The Monster Men,” now.

“The Monster Men” takes place in Burma or one of the Far East countries. It’s an adventure where there is a mad scientist – Burroughs loved his mad scientists – and this one was doing the Frankenstein bit, attempting to create new human life from the ground up. In his case, he was growing them in vats, not sewing corpses together. The experiments were not successful, at least not right away, so you have a lot of grotesque monstrosities running around outside of this guy’s lab. Experiment Number Thirteen turns out to be the success amongst all of these failures. He looked entirely human, he was handsome, he was noble and the mad scientist’s daughter, of course, fell in love with him. In the book, and I hope I am not giving too much away, it turns out that he was human after all, and he had amnesia. He was basically clunked over the head and put in there to fake out the scientist that he had actually created a person. It’s a long and complex story, but yes, Experiment Number Thirteen from “The Monster Men” is part of the crew. [Laughs]

Just because, why not?

Exactly. If I am going to do this, why not wallow in it? [Laughs] We also have the writer from one book. We have The Oskaloosa Kid, a gunslinger from “The Oakdale Affair.” We have the Mucker, who starred in two books. He’s the closest thing we have to a thuggish brute that Burroughs ever wrote. Burroughs also wrote a morality play about what a nest of vipers Hollywood is. It was a snarky look at Hollywood after Burroughs went there with Tarzan. The book was called “The Girl from Hollywood” and so she’s in the crew. And I have to tell you, there was absolutely no reason to justify putting her in the crew other than another ‘why not’ but then it turned out — as it so often happens when you put some things in there that I know at the right time, I am confident, will pay off and I will figure out something to do with them – and that did happen with her. She became important to one part of the story at just right the time.

The Greatest Adventure,” by Bill Willingham and illustrated by Cezar Razek, begins on April 19.

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Tarzan and Jason Gridley have assembled a crew of the greatest adventurers their world has to offer. Aboard the Martian sky ship Venture, they’ve set off in pursuit of a powerful gemstone called the Eye of Judgment. They’re in a race to find the gem against an alien battleship called the Resolve. If the villains aboard the Resolve get it first, they’ll be able to construct a death ray that can reach across the stars themselves, and kill anyone on any world, with the touch of a button.

Explore the worlds of Edgar Rice Burroughs as never before with Eisner Award-winning writer Bill Willingham (Fables) and artist Cezar Razek (Red Sonja) exploring every corner of the Burroughs world in this 248-page hardcover collecting the complete, 9-issue epic, and featuring all of the covers by Cary Nord (Conan), Greg Smallwood (All-New Guardians of the Galaxy), Roberto Castro (Red Ronja/Conan), and more!

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My descendants fancast redone part 4;

Moses Thiessen as Chip Potts, son of Mrs. Potts.

Sage Mullings (@dontxsurface on twitter) as Elle, daughter of Ariel and Eric.

Lilly Singh as Meriem/Jeanne Jacot, girlfriend/future wife of Korak.

Maitreyi Ramakrishnan as Shanti, daughter of Aalia and love interest of Mowgli.

Tiffany Hines as Katherine "Kate" Blake, daughter of Admiral Blake and love interest of Jim Hawkins.

Rider Strong as James "Jim" Pleiades Hawkins, son of Sarah and Leland Hawkins.

Neel Sethi as Mowgli, adoptive son of Unnamed adoptive father, Messua, Rama (adoptive wolf father), and Raksha (adoptive wolf mother).

Karan Brar as Ranjan, son of Messua and an Unnamed father, and adoptive brother of Mowgli.

The fourth Tarzan novel, The Son of Tarzan, with a cover by Neal Adams.

Watch them hands, monkey boy!

Okay so I finished my re-read of Son of Tarzan, list of things I’ll be keeping or at least roughly incorporating:

Jack being kind of a lot?? Like it’s mentioned he has a tendency to chase off his tutors with his antics. His parents actually forbid him from going to see the ape, Akut at first and he just sort of informs his dad that he will be going regardless???? the punk energy is strong with this one.

His attempt to return Akut to the jungle going absolutely tits up and while he does return him to the jungle his every attempt to contact people being traumatic enough to scare him off the idea. 

The thing that initially draws his attention to Meriem is seeing her play with her doll.  Idk it just seems really poignant to me for Jack being this kid who’s had his own childhood very suddenly being ripped from him and his first reaction to seeing another child actually being a child is fascination and also feeling the need to protect her because of that really works for me. 

Him realizing he’s in love with Meriem when she impales a Mangani ape that was attacking them on a spear.  

When he sees Meriem again after they were separated he sees how she’s reacclimated to human society and even blossomed in a sense after receiving the care and attention she’d need to do so, and he feels sort of ashamed because he’s not sure if he can also re-transition into human society??? Idk this works for me too. 

I also kinda like how after rejoining human society Meriem does have another suitor who while ‘civilized’ actually doesn’t have much respect for her as a person unlike the more ‘savage’ Korak who does.  Weirdly most of the stuff with Meriem re-transitioning to human society is arguably one of the highlights of the book and goes a long way in supporting my feeling that Son of Tarzan is actually the strongest of the Tarzan novels. Like Burroughs actually shows how difficult it is at times and addresses Meriem being or at least perceived as a WoC (he still ends up revealing her to be a white French woman in the end but whatever) as well as her naivete about certain social/class structures given her years living in the jungle. 

And finally, Korak being ashamed of his savage, almost animal state and asking his father to bring him a set of clothes before he reunites with his mother, Jane. Also, her initial reaction when Tarzan comes to get those being ‘I still have all his little suits’ because to her Korak is still her little Jack is fucking . . .  so good????

Also one last thing I want to say about my re-read of Son of Tarzan was it was kind of jarring the amount of times Burroughs goes out of his way to say Meriem’s feelings for Korak are ‘that of a little sister for an indulgent older brother’ like he uses that exact phrase a lot

Korak Wishlist:

Meriem. I need one. 

Him and his father talking. Like I think as a child Jack really idolized his father which led to his whole ‘I’m going to run away to Africa!’ idea, assuming we drop the book angle of his parents keeping his father’s upbringing from him. But also I feel like Tarzan is going to be big part of his transitioning back into human society. They’re experiences were widly different but there’s enough there that I feel like could help each other. Also Tarzan was raised by the Mangani apes so like I’m curious to see how Tarzan RPers react when they learn the apes named Jack ‘Korak’ since he’d recognize the name means ‘The Killer’.

Just Korak retransitioning into human society, in general, is REALLY INTERESTING to me. 

NAME: John "Jack" Clayton III, Earl of Greystoke/ Korak SPECIES:  human ORIENTATION: bisexual GENDER: male

APPEARANCE

face claim: River Phoenix

RELATIONSHIPS

FAMILY:  John Clayton II, Viscount Greystoke/Tarzan {father}, Jane Porter {mother}

SIGNIFICANT OTHER: Meriem {may be subject to change as the mun does more research}

CHILDREN:-

PERSONALITY

Jack can be surprisingly empathetic especially to animals and others. Though he can also be extremely stubborn, cynical about human nature and very blunt because of that.

NEED TO KNOWS

Jack did not grow up in Africa like his father, growing up instead in England only to run away to Africa in an attempt to return the ape Akut to the wild. 

Going back to the books the apes that raised his father and who later gave Jack the name ‘Korak’ are a type of missing link capable of some language. 

I am jettisoning large portions of the book because Edgar Rice Burroughs wasn’t exactly big on research and could be fairly racist so like LETS NOT RESPECT HIS CANON. 

Also I am headcanoning that Meriem is a Central West African woman not white. I’m still reading up to figure what group would be the best fit but that’s my stance and I won’t feel comfortable RPing with a white Meriem. 

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'Tarzan - The Greystoke Legacy Under Siege' Book Review By Ron Fortier

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'Tarzan - The Greystoke Legacy Under Siege' Book Review By Ron Fortier

TARZAN The Greystoke Legacy Under Siege By Ralph N. Laughlin & Ann E. Johnson ERB Inc. 301 pages

Most fans of my generation will have first been introduced to Tarzan of the Apes via the movies beginning with arguably the most successful of them all, “Tarzan of the Apes” starring Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O’Hara. It of course wasn’t the first cinematic portrayal of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ fantastic hero but again, clearly the most recognizable and economically successful up to that point in the character’s history. From that one movie would come many sequels to keep an ever growing audience entertained and such actors as Lex Barker, Gordon Scott, Jock Mahoney and Mike Henry would pick up the vine swinging action. This stretch extended from the mid 1940s through to the 1960s and culminated with a highly successful weekly TV series starring Ron Ely.

Having been born a post-war baby in 1946, this was most of the exposure we were given and actually enjoyed until the age thirteen when we discovered the original Burroughs’ novels in paperback. You can well imagine our surprise on discovering the “original” character was far removed from the monosyllabic wild man portrayed by Weissmuller. Rather we were introduced to a remarkable human being who not only survived being raised by apes in the mysterious jungles of an untamed Africa, but also a brilliant intellect who, along with physical prowess, was able to teach himself to read and ultimately master half a dozen languages. We learned he was heir to a vast British fortune; his real name was John Clayton and eventually, as the saga played out, would ultimately claim his title and the vast amount of wealth that accompanied.

We’ll also hazard that most of you reading this review will have read many of those classics plus other pastiches, some good, some not so good, offered up by various authors over the years. Which brings us to this current series being produced by ERB, Inc. under the umbrella title of “The Wild Adventures of Edgar Rices Burroughs” with this title kicking off Series # 4.

The story takes place in the 1980s and deftly mixes fiction with reality. Authors Laughlin and Johnson immediately establish the Clayton Clan as existing among four generations. There is Tarazn and Jane, their son Korak and his wife Meriem, their son Jackie and his wife Irene and their son Jonathan (Jon) Clayton. Jon is one of the primary plot drivers in the adventure, as it is his desire to follow in his great-grandather’s footsteps that leads us through his ordeals throughout the book. At the same time one of Tarzan’s oldest enemies reaches out from beyond the grave to attack his family both in Africa and in London where the estate’s billion dollar Trust is managed by Jackie. A physical assault is directed at the Claytons’ beautiful African plantation at the exact same time that spurious charges of treason and illegal financial dealings are leveled at the Trust.

And as if this double assault wasn’t vicious enough, Korak’s dear friend, gorilla specialist and advocate, Diane Fossey, is brutally murdered in her jungle home and the blame is directed at Korak.

This book is a brilliantly conceived extension of all that Burroughs created during his career, expanding on these marvelous characters in such a fresh and original way while maintining their authentic personalities throughout. Thus Jon Clayton, as the new generation, becomes the central lynchpin upon which the adventure barrel forwards and to its credit never once is muddled as its various subplots alternate taking center stage. Each of the Claytons comes to life within these pages as never before and the central theme of family and loyalty to such is a powerful one skillfully employed.

“Tarzan – The Grestoke Legacy Under Siege,” is a terrific book and one every Tarzan fan, young and old, should pick up and add to their library. As for this reviewer, all we can say is that we are eagerly awaiting the next chapter in this exciting new series.