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I'm trying to find an old American underground comic from the 1960s, 1970s, or 1980s - probably the '70s. I think it was illustrated by Robert Crumb but I could be wrong.

It's quite graphic and violent. The main character hides himself inside a robot-like device, for some reason, which is a simulacrum of a nude, beautiful woman. It's explained that the android / gynoid is a gift for the President, and the main character, on meeting the man, tries to shake his hand. But oh, no! The machine is so strong that it rips his arm off!

I don't remember much else, presumably it's part of some sort of wacky chase / battle of wits between stoners and The Man, as most of these things are. Anyhow, any help would be greatly appreciated!

This has been driving me mad for quite some time.

I'm trying to find an specific 2000AD Future Shock, or Time Twister, or other one-off strip from the Eighties or possibly early Nineties.

It was illustrated by Steve Dillon and it was about these two looters who were on Mars or some other planet, searching an ancient alien ruins for The Ultimate Weapon.

I remember one particular frame where they find a handgun of some sort and aim it into the distance, fire it off, and it's a portable nuclear weapon! BOOM!

They're impressed, but the dialogue says something like "Not very ultimate though". And they keep searching. Then they find another gun that doesn't have a trigger but seems to be activated by thought, and one of them says "I'm trying to hit... that mountain". And the mountain dissapears!

They think this is the Ultimate Weapon, but then there's some kind of twist I don't remember. Does anyone have any idea what I'm talking about, or do I have a bad case of Mandela Effect?

It's their signature move!

There's nothing government and big business love more! Barely a month goes by that some government or corporation doesn't either institute some new tax or invent some new gadget that puts people out of work, and they're always so proud of it "This new peasant tax / Oligarcho-tron 5000 will put half the workforce out of work... and the other half on notice! ahahahaha!"

And then when everyone loses their jobs and is skint and miserable and the economy collapses, they fill the newspapers with ranting, raving, hateful screeds like

"WHy oh why are stupid lazy poor people too stupid and lazy and stupid to work and pay their peasant tax? I bet they don't even own an Oligarcho-Tron! hawhawhawhaw!"

AND WE GO ALONG WITH THIS SHIT!

We're all like "Ooooh oi loves the maaaaastuuuuuuuurr, please beat me some more maaaaaaastuuuuuurr".

Or worse, we go off on some nutty tangent. I feel like I'm on crazy pills with this one: All my life the internet has been full of freaks babbling on about "how the evil lizard people control us by putting bromide in your corn flakes" and "the true truth about the secret evil secret masters of the universe and the secret evil ways they fuck you over" when THE PEOPLE IN CHARGE ARE ALL OPENLY PISSING IN YOUR FACES AND LAUGHING!! What the fuck? Is it not completly obvious to you chuckleheads?

Maybe I am crazy. At least if I was crazy none of this shit would be real.

It's their signature move!

There's nothing government and big business love more! Barely a month goes by that some government or corporation doesn't either institute some new tax or invent some new gadget that puts people out of work, and they're always so proud of it "This new peasant tax / Oligarcho-tron 5000 will put half the workforce out of work... and the other half on notice! ahahahaha!"

And then when everyone loses their jobs and is skint and miserable and the economy collapses, they fill the newspapers with ranting, raving, hateful screeds like

"WHy oh why are stupid lazy poor people too stupid and lazy and stupid to work and pay their peasant tax? I bet they don't even own an Oligarcho-Tron! hawhawhawhaw!"

AND WE GO ALONG WITH THIS SHIT!

We're all like "Ooooh oi loves the maaaaastuuuuuuuurr, please beat me some more maaaaaaastuuuuuurr".

Or worse, we go off on some nutty tangent. I feel like I'm on crazy pills with this one: All my life the internet has been full of freaks babbling on about "how the evil lizard people control us by putting bromide in your corn flakes" and "the true truth about the secret evil secret masters of the universe and the secret evil ways they fuck you over" when THE PEOPLE IN CHARGE ARE ALL OPENLY PISSING IN YOUR FACES AND LAUGHING!! What the fuck? Is it not completly obvious to you chuckleheads?

Maybe I am crazy. At least if I was crazy none of this shit would be real.