History Webcomic / WeaponBrown

In 2018, Yungbluth announced that he was in the process of developing a sequel, called ''Weapon Brown: Aftershock''. The comic is to work as an epilogue of sorts to ''Blockhead's War'', and will be structured as an anthology, with the FramingDevice being a mysterious wasteland prophet telling three different tales about Weapon Brown around a campfire to an audience of townsfolk. Yungbluth himself will handle the frame story, while the three stories will be handled by three different artists. Yungbluth is currently seeking to [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1927638179/weapon-brown-aftershock fund the project through Kickstarter]].

** The [[ComicStrip/{{Blondie}} Dagwood]] expy, all clad in bondage gear, is called "Dogwood", and it's heavily implied that he loves dogs [[BestialityIsDepraved in "that" way]].

* GoodGriefAnotherPeanutsShoutOut: Seeing how the comic is mainly a dark parody of Peanuts, this trope inevitably pops up at several occasions, in the form of visual references and other in-jokes.

* AffectionateParody: Judging from the seer amount of {{Mythology Gag}}s and visual references, regarding ''Peanuts'' and numerous other newspaper comics, a lot of love and attention to detail has clearly been put into the comic.

->''"I've got a lot of names, depending on who you ask. I'll let you call me Chuck.\\
I kill for a living. There's a lot of guys in my line of work, and they're all cheaper than me. If all you want is to put a hole in somebody, you hire one of them.\\
But if you want to take out a tank crew of battle-hardened scum and fall asleep knowing they died screaming --\\
You call good ol' '''Weapon Brown.'''"''

* AprilFoolsDay: In one strip, Chuck and Crokk are revealed to be Beepo and Roadkill, the main characters from ''Deep Fried'', [[PeopleInRubberSuits in rubber suits]].

* HumansAreWhite: The comic invokes and frequently lampshades this in a satirical jab at how newspaper comics in general seems to lean towards MonochromeCasting, with only the occasional TokenMinority appearing every once in a blue moon. In "A Peanut Scorned", Chuck expresses puzzlement upon encountering Patty's bodyguard, Franklin, asking if his darker skin is some strange kind of mutation. In "Blockhead's War", Chuck remarks to Hughie X, after meeting his family, how weird it is to see more than one black person at the time, comparing seeing three of them together to encountering a convention. It then also becomes a justified trope when Hughie reveals that during the war, the Elbonians developed a SyntheticPlague meant to either kill every person of African descent, or turn their skin white, and that they for the most part succeeded.

* HumansAreWhite: The comic invokes and frequently lampshades this in a satirical jab at how newspaper comics in general seems to lean towards MonochromeCasting, with only the occasional TokenMinority appearing every once in a blue moon. In "A Peanut Scorned", Chuck expresses puzzlement upon encountering Patty's bodyguard, Franklin, asking if his darker skin is some strange kind of mutation. In "Blockhead's War", Chuck remarks to Hughie X, after meeting his family, how strange it is to see more than one black person at the time, comparing seeing three of them together to encountering a convention. It then also becomes a justified trope when Hughie reveals that during the war, the Elbonians developed a SyntheticPlague meant to either kill every person of African descent, or turn their skin white, and that they for the most part succeeded.

* HumansAreWhite: The comic invokes and frequently lampshades this in a satirical jab at how newspaper comics in general seems to lean towards MonochromeCasting, with only the occasional TokenMinority appearing every once in a blue moon. In ''A Peanut Scorn'', Chuck expresses puzzlement upon encountering Patty's bodyguard, Franklin, asking if his darker skin is some strange kind of mutation. In ''Blockhead's War'', Chuck remarks to Hughie X, after meeting his family, how strange it is to see more than one black person at the time, comparing seeing three of them together to encountering a convention. It then also becomes a justified trope when Hughie reveals that during the war, the Elbonians developed a SyntheticPlague meant to either kill every person of African descent, or turn their skin white, and that they for the most part succeeded.

* BadassBoast: Chuck gives us a good one: ''I'm a hearse. I deliver dead bodies.''

* BerserkButton: Don't hurt Snoop. Weapon will not be pleased.

* ChekhovsGun (invoked by Yungbluth in the annotations in the softcover edition)

* FutureBadass: Just about every character who was a child in their own comic has grown up into a post-apocalyptic asskicker.

* MacGuffin: [[LawyerFriendlyCameo Miss Bucksley's]] genetically enhanced '''breast milk'''.
** Oh, if ''only'' that's what it was. [[{{Squick}} It's not.]] [[spoiler:It's the Garf's ''excrement''.]]

Yungbluth released an omnibus, containing all the Weapon Brown comics stories, loads of extra material as well as new stories about the eternally grim hero.

* GoodGriefAnotherPeanutsShoutOut: Seeing how the comic is mainly a dark parody of Peanuts, this trope inevitably pops up at several occasions.

* FunetikAksent: Displayed by a fair number of characters, but taken to extremes with [[BroomHilda Hilda]].
** "Dalab! Brakka glazz! Brakit ffurritseez ennamore!" [[spoiler: The lab! Break the glass! Break it before it sees any more!]]

* OlderHeroVsYoungerVillain: Chuck, being the hero, and CAL, being the villain. Both of them are cybernetically enhanced {{Super Soldier}}s, but Chuck is an older model who has been living in the post-apocalyptic world for quite some time, while CAL is a newer, more advanced model who is physically younger due to having spend quite some time as a HumanPopsicle. Eventually, it turns out that while some of CAL's enhancements might be superior to Chuck's (such as a better HealingFactor for instance), Chuck's experience with the post-apocalyptic world gives him quite the edge in the end.

* SexIsViolence: CAL literally gets off on violence

** And for Pops: [[spoiler: during their assault on U.S.A.C.R.E.S., the Syndicate legionaries kill Olive Oyl, who you should know is Pops' goyle. ''Big fucking mistake.'']]

* UnstoppableRage: [[spoiler:Popeye, after Olive Oyl is killed.]]

* PresidentEvil: [[spoiler: Daddy Warbucks,]] the last president the US had before the last war, basically started the war and refused to end it, even when things got so bad that it was obvious there would be no winner. At one point, he literally called [[Film/FlashGordon Premiere Ming,]] the leader of the opposite side, to the bargaining table for the sole purpose of spitting in his face. This was the "Man In The Fancy Hat" solely responsible for turning the world into a nuclear wasteland, and for what is likely to turn out to be the inevitable extinction of the entire human race. [[spoiler: Chuck is sincerely happy to meet him, since if it weren't for him he probably wouldn't exist.]]

* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: [[spoiler: The shmoo seems to work this way. Once Weapon Brown finds out its actual origin (that it's the GARF's excrement), he can't get past the idea that he's essentially eating giant bug shit, so it tastes terrible to him. Others in the know, Anne for example, don't a problem believing the shmoo will taste like whatever they want it to.]]

* SyntheticPlague: During the war that wrecked civilization, the [[ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}} Elbonians]] somehow came up with a virus mean to either kill every person of African descent, or turn their skin white, and for the most part they succeeded. Hughie X and Reilly however avoided its affects due to having [[{{Animesque}} some Japanese ancestry.]]