Hi all,
A follow on from my intro in another forum but I never got a follow up onto a kinda question.....well 'Crazy Legs Pulver' was the perp who used the 'Stupid Gun' on various MC1 heists and robberies etc with an accomplice.....but if the 'Stupid Gun' were to be used in a film/movie...who would you wish to see as your ideal futuristic perp duo using this nefarious weapon as per the story?
My fav duo would have been 80's icons Brigitte Nielsen and Grace Jones...letting two Fem Fatales have this device would have been quite a twist to the story than your normal male gangsters etc
This story ran in progs 316-318 and to me its the best ever due to its originality, humour and art work etc...where else could such a 'weapon' be invented other than MC!
Your forum name 'Eck Muttox' still cracks my brother and me up, decades after the Stupid Gun was published!
Quote from: Eck Muttox on 02 April, 2014, 07:01:57 PM
the 'Stupid Gun' ... ran in progs 316-318 and to me its the best ever due to its originality, humour and art work etc ...
Yep - to me, Dredd's at its best when it's funny, frightening, or fascist; and at its
very best when it's all three at the same time.
The Stupid Gun is just straight-up funny, but it's a definite highlight of that strain of the strip. Some fantastic Ron Smith art, but what I enjoyed most about it was the fact nobody really explained what the stupid gun was supposed to be for.
The work experience Eck's on is described as giving juves marked for permanent unemployment a taste of what they were missing, the phrase
WHAMMA-BAMM-LOO is etched onto my consciousness for as long as I live, and Eck Muttox and Crazylegs Pulver are classic TB Grover names. The absurd, pseudo-Dickensian names were one of the first things that got me into Dredd, and made me realise there was more going on in the strip and with the writers than something like
Mean Arena.
Hi folks!
Yes the names are quite unusual I mean Eck Muttox sounds German or Eastern European perhaps....but even after a name search theres no one with that surname listed...ie a 'real' person
Perhaps they are anagrams etc...hmm will have to see I can work something out from them
Your right about Prof Keefer not having thought his invention through..apart from crime and perhaps the military then what would it be used for!
The artwork was brilliant and humor especially at the end when all the journalists and media are waiting for Dredd to bring a now 'goo-goo' Pulver...literally dragging him to the 'Meat Wagon'...and they find the situation and crime scene absolutely hilarious...not concerned that a hundred or more Mega City One 'citizens' have had their brains erased! :D
Quote from: Eck Muttox on 06 April, 2014, 02:37:09 PM
Eck Muttox sounds German or Eastern European perhaps....but even after a name search theres no one with that surname listed...ie a 'real' person. Perhaps they are anagrams etc...hmm will have to see I can work something out from them
Eck is an affectionate contraction of the name Alec or Alexander in Wagner and Grant's native Scotland. Dudley D Watkins gave the DC Thomson Scottish comics icon
Oor Wullie a supporting cast which included Wee Eck, and that's become Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond's defacto name in the sections of the Scottish press who don't share his vision of the future.
Muttox seems likely a conflation of the words
mutton and
buttocks, suggesting the stupidity and hopelessness of the character by likening him to a lump of meat, or perhaps a sheep's erse.
Ah thanks Sauchie that must be a definite answer to it then and can see the connections yes ha...was thinking as in Eckhart a German name...also German for corner huh?
A good bit of detective work and I like your Muttox suggestion :)
Guess the 'Stupid Gun!' can be classed as a 'fun' weapon in the realms of sci-fi suggestions huh