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Hey, man, let me tell you about something that's, like, [[Totally Radical|totally amazing]]...

 

 

It all began at [[2000 AD|The Galaxy's Greatest Comic]] where a young, budding [[Alan Moore]] was frequently tasked with writing for the ''Tharg's Future Shocks'' and ''Time Twisters'' strips. These would always be brief, self-contained stories that are rarely over five pages long and would usually end with a [[Twist Ending]] of sorts (often of the [[Cruel Twist Ending]] variety).

 

 

In what can best be described as "[[Rule of Funny]] [[X Meets Y|meets]] [[For the Evulz]]," ''D.R. & Quinch'' tells the [[Rule of Three|totally amazing]] story of one [[Magnificent Bastard|Waldo "D.R." Dobbs]] (the "D.R." stands for "Diminished Responsibility"), a skinny, lanky, teenage [[Delinquents|delinquent]] who boasts a genius IQ, enjoys acts of extreme violence and destruction, and looks like a cross between [[Gremlins|a gremlin]] [[X Meets Y|and]] [[Marvel Universe|a skrull]] with a [[Good Hair, Evil Hair|pompadour]], and Dobbs' best friend [[Dumb Muscle|Ernest Erroll Quinch]], a large, purple-skinned [[The Brute|brute]] who is [[The Quiet One|much, much quieter than Dobbs]] as he prefers writing to talking. Together, these two [[Comedic Sociopathy|deeply sociopathic]], [[Faux Affably Evil|evilly affable]], [[Omnicidal Maniac|omnicidal maniacs]] do as they please, and what pleases them usually involves death and destruction on a tremendous scale; it helps that, in their part of the Milky Way, [[Nuke'Em|nuclear warheads]] are [[Talks Like a Simile|as easily obtainable as a handgun in the]] [[Deep South]].

Along with their two occasional companions (and, presumably, only other friends in the galaxy, besides each other) Crazy Chryssie (D.R.'s equally violent girlfriend) and Pulger (a [[Shell-Shocked Veteran|war veteran]] who is always prepared for combat, just in case [[The Vietnam War|Charlie]] launches a sneak attack), the [[Delinquents|delinquent]] duo have been on a handful of adventures in which they influence all of human evolution (including, very fittingly, the Survival of the Fittest) and a lot of Earth's history, get drafted by the army to fight in a war similar to [[The Vietnam War]], and even making a [[Cult Classic|cult film]].

 

 

 

When you read ''[[Watchmen (comics)|Watchmen]]'', you think Alan Moore is a genius.

 

 

''S'right!''

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* [[Aliens Are Bastards]]: Just the eponymous main characters though.

* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Even after Quinch shows Chrysoprasia what a real monster her boyfriend, Waldo, is really like, she just commits herself to being as evil as he is, transforming herself into "Crazy Chryssie" in the process, and insists that she's now more compatible with D.R. than ever.

 

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