That last frame just makes me think: “I wanna introduce you to a very personal friend of mine. This is an M41A pulse rifle. Ten millimeter with over-and-under thirty millimeter pump action grenade launcher.”
Over AND under grenade launchers? Wouldn’t that be ridiculously heavy and almost impossible to aim with any accuracy? And how would you do the “pump-action” part on the top mounted one?
It’s not Linus. Linus was a character in the first Weapon Brown story that had a psychokinetically-controlled blanket. Chuck killed him after killing Lucy.
Judge Dredd did actually appear weekly on the funny pages, (1981–1998) in the British tabloid Daily Star and in the British freesheet Metro from January 2004–2005. The artist was mainly (entirely?) Ron Smith for the Daily Star.
In profile, B.D.’s nose is very square. This character’s nose sorta matches. Then there’s the helmet; for some 35 years B.D. was never seen without one. And of course he’s combat-trained…kinda surprised he wasn’t part of Prince Valiant’s ambush, actually.
Well, that’s twice now that CAL could’ve been taken out but wasn’t ’cause someone was being cute (the Phantom shooting the guns and not the head, and now the well-phrased but ill-advised warning – as we know this arc starts with CAL taunting Chuck, it doesn’t bode real well for the grenade-launcher).
I’m on board with the BD theory.
Oh, and, lest we forget … the Phantom is still walking …
(Captcha must be impatient to get five things done: now erandsV)
OK, the look on Cal’s face when our mystery guest says “Hey Asshole…” looks to me like he’s hearing a voice he doesn’t expect to hear…or I could just be delusional, works for me either way 😉
Hmmm… Definitely not BD, JY does Trudeau’s style very well and that’s not it. Bazooka Joe would have been perfect here, but alas, no eye patch. Please Jason, I give up! The suspense is killing me!
“Rules for tertiary characters:
1: If you have the bad guy dead to rights… don’t alert him that you have him dead to rights.”
Hey, at least the grenade is already on the way out as he’s saying his second line! Most don’t even have enough sense to shoot until they finish their one-liner.
The “priceless” crack may refer to nothing but Watterson’s refusal to allow any commercial use of his characters’ images instead of any specific clue to the shooter’s identity. However the shooter clearly seems to be known to Cal, as punx has noted. Who thwarted Cal in the strip? His parents, Susie Derkins and Rosalyn most often. No glasses so probably not his Dad and probably too ugly for his Mom or Ros. Susie frequently bested Cal in a snowball fight too. Susie, is that you? Sure growed up butch if so.
Considering the lengths to which you have gone to include practically any character that ever strode a funny page as the tale has gone on, is there any reason for us to be able to figure out just who this guy is, based on his sole line of dialog and an (almost) unrecognizable mug? I hate to piss on anyone’s leg, but I think BD is too easy…this is probably some guy who appeared in a WWII comic strip about rationing, if the peyote is working right 😉
The helmet looks familiar, but I can’t remember where from; my knowledge of old newspaper strips is nowhere near encyclopedic. I’ve been wracking my brain for days, to no avail.
“Over AND under grenade launchers? Wouldn’t that be ridiculously heavy and almost impossible to aim with any accuracy? And how would you do the “pump-action†part on the top mounted one?”
Its over/under, all that it means is one barrel is mounted above the other (google over-under shotgun).
The pump action…. The M41 Pulse Rifles in Aliens could actually shoot live ammo. This is because the actors weren’t the only ones in costume. They were actually Thompson Submachineguns, with a very shortened remmington pump action for the “grenade launcher”.
Thanks for coming out to Chicago! I bought the first Weapon Brown book. It’s great to read up on the background for the character. Hope to see you back next year!
In a world of mutants, super natural, and mysticism all of which are based on other worlds of mutants, super natural, and mysticism, the thing you guys are questioning is the physics behind an over/under grenade launcher.
Hope CAL catches that one in his teeth!
with Hobbs bleeding stuffing… Bang goes my idea that Snoops would lead Hobbs into the carnivorous Kudzu…
That last frame just makes me think: “I wanna introduce you to a very personal friend of mine. This is an M41A pulse rifle. Ten millimeter with over-and-under thirty millimeter pump action grenade launcher.”
So, who’s the hero?
Over AND under grenade launchers? Wouldn’t that be ridiculously heavy and almost impossible to aim with any accuracy? And how would you do the “pump-action” part on the top mounted one?
@Dannyboy It would, yeah. But clearly you underestimate our Main Man here.
Whoever he is.
How accurate to you NEED to be with a grenade launcher? I’m guessing, not pinpoint …
@NaOH
I was thinking more along the lines of, “Say ‘Hello’ to my lil’ frien’!”
B.D??? I don’t feel too confident about the future prospects of a character without a name.
LINUS!?!?
I’m not getting who the guy in the last panel is… Not Judge Dread, he didn’t have a weekly that I know of… WHO IS THAT HELMETED MAN?!?
Bullets have someone’s name on them. Grenades are addressed “to whom it may concern”.
This should be interesting. 🙂
I’m not getting who he is, either!
@buttereddeathtoast
It’s not Linus. Linus was a character in the first Weapon Brown story that had a psychokinetically-controlled blanket. Chuck killed him after killing Lucy.
@Jody
I see what you did there.
@Matthewjfazio
Judge Dredd did actually appear weekly on the funny pages, (1981–1998) in the British tabloid Daily Star and in the British freesheet Metro from January 2004–2005. The artist was mainly (entirely?) Ron Smith for the Daily Star.
That’s not an over and under grenade launcher. Looks like a standard 40mm setup on some kind of sturmgewehr.
As for who it is… I wondered if it was Calvin’s Dad…
That is a fucking BOSS one-liner.
“I’m not worried about a bullet with my name on it…it’s all the ones marked ‘OCCUPANT’ and ‘RESIDENT’ that worry me…”
I don’t think it’s any particular character; just someone on Chuck’s side with a grenade launcher. Am I right, JY?
— The Captcha images are getting downright illegible; I had to refresh it four times to find one I could read, which is “adsevata Très-“.
Wrong, Sherlock! You get…NOTHING!!
Surely that’s not Moe the Bully? Pretty thin and no hair covering his eyes, but the nose is quite large.
Moe was one of the ones CAL killed back in his early days. I’m guessing BD myself, but it’s hard to tell. (Captcha: Dolores Groman isn’t sure either.)
Looks kinda like Danny Kaye, but I doubt it.
With teeth like that, maybe it’s R. Crumb related.
“Priceless” or “Price” is a clue world, folks. Think, think … or is it that JY just doesn’t like “Rhymes with Orange” …?
In profile, B.D.’s nose is very square. This character’s nose sorta matches. Then there’s the helmet; for some 35 years B.D. was never seen without one. And of course he’s combat-trained…kinda surprised he wasn’t part of Prince Valiant’s ambush, actually.
Thanks, captcha! I needed ANU altsnt.
Funky?
Well, that’s twice now that CAL could’ve been taken out but wasn’t ’cause someone was being cute (the Phantom shooting the guns and not the head, and now the well-phrased but ill-advised warning – as we know this arc starts with CAL taunting Chuck, it doesn’t bode real well for the grenade-launcher).
I’m on board with the BD theory.
Oh, and, lest we forget … the Phantom is still walking …
(Captcha must be impatient to get five things done: now erandsV)
Another vote for the BD theory.
After long and careful consideration (almost 5 minutes!) I have my own theory on our erstwhile hero and soon possibly corpse. Bazooka Joe!
OK, the look on Cal’s face when our mystery guest says “Hey Asshole…” looks to me like he’s hearing a voice he doesn’t expect to hear…or I could just be delusional, works for me either way 😉
Hmmm… Definitely not BD, JY does Trudeau’s style very well and that’s not it. Bazooka Joe would have been perfect here, but alas, no eye patch. Please Jason, I give up! The suspense is killing me!
Rules for tertiary characters:
1: If you have the bad guy dead to rights… don’t alert him that you have him dead to rights.
The word “priceless” has got to be a clue as to who Helmet Guy is. JY wouldn’t put in a line like that in for no reason. I got nuthin’, though.
“Rules for tertiary characters:
1: If you have the bad guy dead to rights… don’t alert him that you have him dead to rights.”
Hey, at least the grenade is already on the way out as he’s saying his second line! Most don’t even have enough sense to shoot until they finish their one-liner.
I’m not one hundred percent sold on BD, but it seems like a decent guess..
And it’s another 6 DAYS before we will find out…maybe, knowing our Lord ValdeBluth LOL
The “priceless” crack may refer to nothing but Watterson’s refusal to allow any commercial use of his characters’ images instead of any specific clue to the shooter’s identity. However the shooter clearly seems to be known to Cal, as punx has noted. Who thwarted Cal in the strip? His parents, Susie Derkins and Rosalyn most often. No glasses so probably not his Dad and probably too ugly for his Mom or Ros. Susie frequently bested Cal in a snowball fight too. Susie, is that you? Sure growed up butch if so.
OK, Lord ValdeBluth, question:
Considering the lengths to which you have gone to include practically any character that ever strode a funny page as the tale has gone on, is there any reason for us to be able to figure out just who this guy is, based on his sole line of dialog and an (almost) unrecognizable mug? I hate to piss on anyone’s leg, but I think BD is too easy…this is probably some guy who appeared in a WWII comic strip about rationing, if the peyote is working right 😉
The helmet looks familiar, but I can’t remember where from; my knowledge of old newspaper strips is nowhere near encyclopedic. I’ve been wracking my brain for days, to no avail.
How about scrooge.
I’m going with B.D… It looks like him, and the ‘Priceless’ quote reminds me of the old maxim from the ‘Rules of a Gunfight’.
\Anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice. Ammo is cheap. Life is priceless\
Definitely something B.D. would believe… at least during his combat years.
@luggage: The helmet’s why I’m leaning towards the BD theory. It looks sort of like the one he wore during the Gulf War(s).
Harry Callahan? 😉
“Over AND under grenade launchers? Wouldn’t that be ridiculously heavy and almost impossible to aim with any accuracy? And how would you do the “pump-action†part on the top mounted one?”
Its over/under, all that it means is one barrel is mounted above the other (google over-under shotgun).
The pump action…. The M41 Pulse Rifles in Aliens could actually shoot live ammo. This is because the actors weren’t the only ones in costume. They were actually Thompson Submachineguns, with a very shortened remmington pump action for the “grenade launcher”.
The More You Knowâ„¢
Thanks for coming out to Chicago! I bought the first Weapon Brown book. It’s great to read up on the background for the character. Hope to see you back next year!
So let me see if I got this straight:
In a world of mutants, super natural, and mysticism all of which are based on other worlds of mutants, super natural, and mysticism, the thing you guys are questioning is the physics behind an over/under grenade launcher.
Do I have that right?
Well, not all of us, just those with a weapon fetish, OK? 😉
P.S. anyone else getting Captcha parts that are upside down? I type them in as if they’re right side up, but…WTF?
@Daveshan: best/funniest comment in this whole thread of 50!