Zoot Shoot

The word zoot was British slang for smoking weed. This created the iconic but ultimately fleeting men's fashion known as a zoot suit. In 1946, Fox Feature Syndicate thought it would be smart to use this term for getting high as the title of their funny animal anthology, Zoot Comics. Starting in Issue #7, the comic shifted gears with the first appearance of their new character, Rulah the Jungle Goddess. What set Rulah apart from the brunette jungle girls of the time is that her skimpy getup was made of giraffe skin, the same giraffe the female aviator killed when she crash-landed in Africa. Aside from being just another white girl in roadkill, a nearby tribe viewed her as their queen after freeing them from a swindling self-proclaimed moon goddess. From this point on, Zoot Comics primarily became a showcase of Rulah stories. The truly indifferent thing about this change of pace was the fact that there were two separate comics for Issue #14. In what was later labeled Issue #14(A). The cover featured an amazing but still questionable masterpiece by the legendary Matt Baker. This particular issue shows a flock of large birds attacking a village with their jungle goddess ready to shoot one of the giant feather dusters with a bow and arrow. The questionable part is that the one villager being lifted away by the winged monsters seems to be the only other bikini-clad white girl in town aside from Rulah herself. The picture makes it seem like Rulah is weighing her options as whether she wants to either save her only known rival for position as resident caucasian cutie, or if our heroine wants to just let the other girl get turned into bird food.

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