Obscure Adventures in Geek and Nerd Culture

People forget that there still are a few good Mandarin Chinese Mockbusters in a sea of just plain crap!  Let me introduce you to the rather bloody amazing world of Qian Guisun’s Tarzan lianhuanhua series. It is a fantastic romp of an unofficial adaptation made by Qian Guisun for the PRC market during the post-Cultural Revolution, pre-Xi Jinping period.  The Tarzan lianhuanhua series does have more mundane looking prehistoric hominins standing in for the actual Mangani of the canonical comics and books, which is pretty awkward in itself. Still, it’s a funny addition alongside many other references to both old and then-new comic books and films which focus on Tarzan.  Besides the somewhat inaccurate prehistoric hominins standing in for the Mangani, It’s actually pretty cool to have both Meriem and Korak build a treehouse in the Son of Tarzan lianhuanhua, which is likely a snarky tribute to the Johnny Weissmuller films.  Even in spite of the ridiculous censorship, it is...