Two things sprang to mind as I was watching The Jungle Book with my dad.
1. This version of The Jungle Book ended up calling Mowgli 'Lord of the Jungle'. How would he stack up against Tarzan? I mean, we saw Mowgli handle mass combat pretty well in the climactic fight with the dholes in Kipling's book, but he hasn't had nearly the amount of development that Lord Greystoke did - comes of his author only getting off the two Jungle Books about him, I suppose. We can't really rate them on the same scale as they've got different ecologies within their respective jungles. How about we drop the two of them off in a nice deep patch of the Amazon rainforest and see how they handle themselves? Precious few wolves - I'm not sure they even have wolves there any more - and no great apes. No big cats, either, nor pachyderms. Give 'em a year and see what each one comes up with. The judge will be whatsisname, Ka-Zar of the Savage Land in Marvel Comics.
2. What's the point of civilization if every time a kid gets led off by monkeys or wolves or something, they wind up making it to adulthood, developing m4d 4n1m47 sk177z, and being taught to speak Human within three months of their discovery by their own species? Jeesh. I gotta add that to the
Pulp Survival Rules somehow.
3. How come neither Tarzan nor Mowgli grew any kind of facial hair? Seriously, they ought to have had major beardage going on by the time humanity found 'em. Do wolves have magical shaving powers in their tongues or something?
