The Tiger Woman

    (Millennium, 1994-1995)
™ and © Donald Marquez

In an origin embarrassingly similar to Tarzan’s, Tiger Woman was raised by a pack of sabre-tooth tigers after her parents were killed by the Centauri, band of centaurs in American Indian drag. (Don’t ask.) Her parents had rescued a tiger cub from under a crushing branch and subsequently the tigers regarded the child as one of their own.

The tortuous back-story relates that after the fall of civilization at the end of the 20th century with a third of the population dead and cities in ruins, a great experiment was begun on the plains of the North American continent. Gentech Park, a high-tech amusement park was populated with sabre-tooth tigers, mammoths, wolves and genetically altered centaurs. But after only 45 years the park would be abandoned and the creatures were left to establish their own culture. The centaurs adopted a civilization very similar to the American Indian replete with attacking the passing prairie schooners of hapless humans.

Now there exists an uneasy truce between the Centauri and Tiger Woman, as long as the Centauri do not hunt on the grounds where she and her cats dwell.
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September, 1994
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