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''Weapon Brown'' is a 2002 comic book published by Death Ray Graphics and written by Jason Yungbluth, the author of ''Deep Fried'', an anthology comic also published by Death Ray Graphics, in which the Weapon Brown character and story first appeared split across four issues in a story called ''A Peanut Scorned''. The entire story was compiled from these four issues of Deep Fried, had new content added, and was then released as a one shot issue in December 2002. The story features parodies of the cast of Peanuts as well as a number of parodied objects and settings set in a post-apocalyptic world, and drawn in a darker, more adult style as a direct contrast to the more innocent style used by Charles M. Schulz. The one-shot also includes a back-up feature, ''A Weapon Brown Christmas'' which shows a story set sometime before the events of ''A Peanut Scorned''. A sequel graphic novel, ''Blockhead's War,'' was published online on a weekly or semi-weekly basis between April 2007 and December 2012. Comprising 339 installments, the sequel again focuses on the characters of Weapon Brown and Snoop, but moves beyond parodying the characters/setting of Schulz's Peanuts to involve them with characters and situations based upon hundreds of newspaper-published comic strips dating back to the inception of the form (the installment published October 16, 2012 featured The Yellow Kid, a character/cartoon first appearing in 1895). Characters from Calvin and Hobbes, Little Orphan Annie, Dilbert, Popeye, B.C., Beetle Bailey, The Wizard of Id and Broom-Hilda are among those prominently featured. ==''A Peanut Scorned''== Weapon Brown is set in a post apocalyptic world, and the story itself centers around the eponymous character Weapon Brown, who is on a mission to rescue the woman he loves from a former acquaintance: Linus Van Pelt, a man who is obsessed with a supernatural entity he calls "The Great Pumpkin". Over the course of the story's events, readers are introduced to a number of characters who are clearly recognizable as adult parodies of well known ''Peanuts'' characters. Weapon Brown and his pet Snoop are themselves parodies of Charlie Brown and Snoopy. The story begins with Weapon Brown having an encounter with Schroeder, while in the course of looking for Linus' sister Lucy. While he gets no information from the piano player about Lucy's whereabouts, he does learn that a woman named Patty- later revealed to be the Weapon brown incarnation of Peppermint Patty- would know where Lucy is and directs Weapon Brown to ask her at the whorehouse she owns, which he does, greeting Patty with a slap to the face, an action she recognizes as being distinctly exclusive to Weapon Brown and greets him with a kiss. After meeting with Patty, he learns where to find Lucy, and before heading off to confront her spends the night at Patty's whorehouse, where he has a brief nightmare about how he was transformed into a one-man cyborg army. Awakening from this nightmare, and not remembering much of anything of it, he confronts Lucy, looking for information about Linus. While she has no idea where Linus is, she does know quite a bit about Weapon Brown, as she was one of the people who helped transform him into a killer. A confrontation between the two leads to Weapon Brown slaying her, but not before he drags out of her an idea of where Linus might be: The Pumpkin patch, the area where the destructive Zinger Bombs which essentially destroyed the world first fell. After a brief battle with an anthropomorphic and excessively hungry tree—described as an 'arboreal weapon' left over from the fourth world war—Weapon Brown finally locates his quarry and the woman he's gone so far to rescue. A brief battle ends with Weapon Brown defeated and imprisoned by Linus thanks to a quasi-sentient life form Linus has psychic control over (which Linus refers to as his 'Security Blanket'), who is attempting to raise "The Great Pumpkin". Astonishingly, he succeeds, but Weapon Brown breaks free of his confinement and destroys Linus' blanket. Shocked at the death of his weapon, Linus then falls victim to the Pumpkin itself, which kills Linus, Weapon Brown's younger sister, and the woman Weapon Brown has come to save. The sole survivors of the encounter are Weapon Brown and Snoopy, who leave the Pumpkin Patch, their fates from that point on unknown. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Weapon Brown」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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