Lunch sketch from the past two days. Here's the backstory for this dumb weapon:

The X-188 ‘Long Iron’ was a disposable six round hybrid ‘rocket pistol’ developed in 2052 in response to the growing Hollow Earth Lizard-Folk hysteria.

The X-188 was the brainchild of Desmond Langley, son of trillionaire and former six term President Stanford Langley, who commissioned the design after a six day drug bender where he, among many other things,
“…did battle with the Lizard Menace and found a Glock wasn’t enough to punch through their scaly hides.”

Production halted on numerous occasions as the technology developed was not ‘awesome enough’ for Desmond’s tastes, which resulted in the rockets becoming more inefficient and heavy due to their higher explosive payload and rocket motors designed to output red, white, and blue smoke patterns.

Early reviews of the pistol criticized its 50lb weight, the fact that it was single-use and could not be reloaded, the tendency for rockets to jam in the barrel, the way it vented hot rocket gas directly onto the wielder’s thumb causing second degree burns, and the recoil which tended to both break the wielder’s forearm and fire off a second unintentional rocket upward.

In 2053 after disastrous sales of five units sold and one million day one returns, and two thousand lawsuits, Desmond admitted the design was a failure and scrapped all ten million units developed, dumping most of them in the Great Barrier Reef from his personal helicopter stating, “The planet is safe now.”

When criticized for spreading uranium-tipped rockets across one of the most crucial ecosystems on the planet, Desmond was also quoted as saying, “The uranium is a warning to the Atlanteans- I’m coming for them next.”