# Utterly insane take on comic strip characters: Weapon Brown

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**Created:** [July 21, 2019, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utterly-insane-take-on-comic-strip-characters-weapon-brown/837404 "2019-07-21T18:31:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\
**Post date:** [July 21, 2019, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utterly-insane-take-on-comic-strip-characters-weapon-brown/837404/1 "2019-07-21T18:31:58Z")

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So let’s say that you have your typical post-apocalyptic story: a ruined America, a hard-as-flint mercenary anti-hero, evil corporations and their doom troops, a underground of good guys, a MacGuffin that can save (or destroy) the world, zombies, mutants, cyborgs, psionics/magic, and a psychotically murderous killing machine villain for the hero to fight. OK, so it’s all been done before; how can you make it new?

Answer: **Cast adaptations of comic strip characters in all the roles**. This whole story arc is one big “name that cameo” adventure. In fact maybe we should start listing them all here. 🙂

link below. NSFW for sex/nudity and even more so for splatterpunk levels of violence.

[noparse][https://www.whatisdeepfried.com/comic/weapon-brown/[/noparse]](https://www.whatisdeepfried.com/comic/weapon-brown/%5B/noparse%5D)

Two mild spoilers: I was amused by how Uncle Duke from _Doonesbury_ fit in with no real adaptation needed. And just who Calvin from _Calvin & Hobbs_ grew up to be.

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**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2019, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utterly-insane-take-on-comic-strip-characters-weapon-brown/837404/2 "2019-07-22T20:47:29Z")

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I also thought Blockhead’s War was awesome. I had to look up a bunch of the characters, though. Like the French Foreign Legion guys.

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**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2019, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utterly-insane-take-on-comic-strip-characters-weapon-brown/837404/3 "2019-07-22T22:10:12Z")

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Characters in Order of Appearance:

“Chuck Brown”, who has a curl of hair on his forehead and wears a shirt with a zig-zag pattern; and “Snoop”, a dog with apparently human-level sentience.

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**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2019, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utterly-insane-take-on-comic-strip-characters-weapon-brown/837404/4 "2019-07-22T22:17:58Z")

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> [@Lumpy](#):
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> Characters in Order of Appearance:
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> “Chuck Brown”, who has a curl of hair on his forehead and wears a shirt with a zig-zag pattern; and “Snoop”, a dog with apparently human-level sentience.

Not exactly a cast of thousands, then?

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**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2019, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/utterly-insane-take-on-comic-strip-characters-weapon-brown/837404/5 "2019-07-23T03:03:03Z")

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I thought I’d let someone else add to the list.