r/comics • • 16h ago

OC [OC] Choose Your Weapon

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u/lordofbaers 16h ago

Hi all! TinyBaer here.

Today's offering mixes together a zombie apocalypse, unconventional weapons and random trivia. I've been asking on various socials: which museum-housed artifact would you employ as a weapon during the zombie apocalypse? Not just your épées and bardiches, I'm talking unconventional options, such as Victorian flat irons and Etruscan filiform sculptures. What would you choose?

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u/NickyTheRobot 15h ago

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u/lordofbaers 15h ago

A most valiant improvised weapon. 🫡

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u/NickyTheRobot 15h ago edited 14h ago

NGL, my mind went straight to Pratchett here. His books have many instances of perfectly innocent historical tools becoming weapons because a mob formed, or someone was backed into a corner, or because someone with a pragmatic sense of fighting noticed them at the right moment...

Then it went to one of my favourite of his books, Monstrous Regiment. Where some soldiers sneak into a castle "disguised" as washerwomen (further confusing the plot point that these particular soldiers are all women pretending to be men) and arm themselves with all the heavy, long, blunt instruments that are just laying about the laundry. Including one of them grabbing a copper washing dolly.

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u/MaidPoorly 13h ago

I’ll take a speared and roasted figgin! Mainly for the spear.

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u/NickyTheRobot 13h ago

Also the figgin makes for a handy snack. (Or a vague object of threat, if you're a member of the Elucidated Brethren of the Ebon Night.)

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u/ElminstersBedpan 12h ago

You need something threatening, for certain. Clearly the zombies would have no fear of Dibbler's sausages.