GWARMORIAL WEEK The Weekly Lettuce part 2: Flattus Maximus

Lettuce Recall GWAR Guitar man: Flattus Maximus

Very little about Flattus Maximus is explained in Gwar lore. Even his home planet is an uncertainty. In an interview conducted during a 1997 tour, Flattus explained his hazy memory was due to his notorious pot smoking, at which point he seemed to recall a planet named Pot (made entirely of cannabis) he once called home, but he ended up destroying it by smoking the entire planet out of existence. Although his explanation was never officially set in stone, it's one of many theories as to where Flattus really originates from. What is apparent, though, is that he is illiterate, has a slight Southern accent, and that he attributes his "explosive guitar style" to a strict diet of vegetarians, which also causes his infamous atomic flatulence.

Following Smoot's death in 2011 the band explained the character's absence by claiming that Flattus stole Gwar's spaceship to return to his home planet, 'Planet Home'.

Flattus was the sad clown and his crowning achievement may well have been disrupting suburbia.

~CA