The Complete D.R. & Quinch (The Alan Moore Collection)

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Callahan, Tim (7 May 2012). "The Great Alan Moore Reread: D.R. & Quinch". Tor . Retrieved 31 May 2016.

So to start with, like, D.R. and Quinch travel through time and mess with Earth's history and stuff, and then totally blow the whole place up. It's funny because no-one cares about us boring mud-drinking humans. Then afterwards, like, they get arrested - not for blowing the Earth up, for a bunch of other stuff - and they have to persuade this totally square judge that they're "reformed characters". Not gonna spoil it, but they get off the hook and get revenge in, like, a totally sweet way. D.R. & Quinch's anarchic humour was popular with its original audiences — the feature won the 1985 Eagle Award (for comics published in 1984) for Character Most Worthy of Own Title; and the supporting characters Pulger and Chrysoprasia were both nominated for Favourite Supporting Character. [6] In addition, the first collection of stories, D.R. & Quinch's Totally Awesome Guide to Life, won the 1987 Eagle Award for Favourite Comic Album. [7] D.R. and Quinch - Definitive Edition ( Fleetway, 1991 ISBN 1-85386-255-X) which contains only the Moore/Davis stories in color Sophisticated As Hell: Seeing how, Waldo Dobbs, has a a 280 I.Q., it doesn't come as much of a surprise that he says an occasional "sophisticated" word here and there mixed in with his more usual lexicon that's based around more Totally Radical words (i.e. Asking for The Judge's appellation, rather than his name). a b Nolen-Weathington, Eric (2006). Alan Davis. Raleigh, N.C.: TwoMorrows. p.40. ISBN 9781893905191.No Celebrities Were Harmed: Subverted for as far as legal rights can go. The story "D.R. & Quinch Go to Hollywood" consists of several alien characters who look like caricatures of various Hollywood legends; the main one, based on Marlon Brando, is always called "Marlon." DR and Quinch were subsequently drafted to fight in the Ghoyogi Slime Jungle Wars they had restarted. Deciding to make the most of it, the pair were initially happy at the thought of access to all the military's weapons, but found basic training under NCO Sergeant "Ribsnapper" Rorchmutt disappointing due to them using dummies for weapons practice instead of actual Ghoyogians. Humans Are Morons: Plays a large role in "D.R. & Quinch Have Fun on Earth." When humans finally discover the alien life and society the title character's corner of the galaxy, they're given a civic reception at "The League of Disadvantaged Planets' Charity Hall" because everyone thinks they're "mindless lifeforms." In a later interview, however, co-creator Moore expressed discomfort with how the series exploits violence for comic effect, claiming that it has no “lasting or redeeming social value”. [10] [2] Bibliography [ edit ]

Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Every single story is given a title along the lines of "D.R. & Quinch _______" So then later, D.R. and Quinch get, like, drafted into the army, and they're like "yeah!" because they get to shoot some totally bodacious guns. But their drill sergeant is, like, a total square, and then they get posted to this slime-jungle, and some crazy stuff happens. Alan Moore looks like someone who might be hiding out in the vast forests of Gaul as Romans put less observant druids to the spear elsewhere and his other accomplishments might be an unspeakable appendage slapping conservative comic book readers in the face. In everything Moore has ever written there is satire and commentary on the state of this wretched Earth. The degree of subtlety varies from volume to volume and character to character. What works in a mainstream DC comic book might not work for a 2000AD audience, which in turn might not work for his Avatar Press readers. What is most important to remember about Alan Moore is that the notion that he is a genius is well-deserved. Remember that when you read the exploits of badboys Walter "D.R." Dobbs and Ernest Quinch. The Bermuda Triangle: In D.R. & Quinch Have Fun On Earth, one of the segments of the eponymous duo's adventure through time that sees them influence the course of history on some Insignificant Little Blue Planet features Quinch recalling a time with his buddy "while cruising just off Bermuda" and trying to pull in human aircrafts towards their ship with a Tractor Beam "to get a better look at them," only for the beam's force to break apart the fragile planes. Mumbling Brando: There's a Marlon Brando caricature in "D.R. & Quinch Go to Hollywood." The fact that he's The Unintelligible isn't really much of a surprise.In 1986 Titan Books released a collection of all D.R. and Quinch stories from 2000 AD called D.R. and Quinch's Totally Awesome Guide To Life. It became one of Titan's best selling books in their lines of 2000 AD reprints. The book went out of print several times and it has since been collected as The Complete D.R. and Quinch ( ISBN 1-84023-345-1) in 2001. Love Makes You Crazy: While D.R. was romantically involved with Chrysoprasia before she snapped, he was much less willing to commit acts of violence. Molcher, Michael (2015). "Man on the Outside: Alan Moore". 2000 AD: The Creator Interviews: Volume 2. Oxford: 2000 AD Books. ISBN 9781849979849. Breaking the Fourth Wall: Done at the beginning of just about every adventure with whichever character is narrating the story making reference to the "totally amazing, well-written, awesome adventure" that we're about to read about. Historical In-Joke: D.R. & Quinch's first adventure ever is based entirely on how they influenced Earth's history and development as part of an elaborate revenge scheme against their college dean.

I Take Offense to That Last One: Before being sent off to Ghoyogia, D.R. isn't phased by his platoon-mates' fears about the planet ("Ghoyogia, where the saliva-trees digest you alive," "Ghoyogia, where even the terrible diseases have terrible diseases") until he learns that there aren't any expensive foreign restaurants there. He then describes this incident as his "first exposure to the total insanity that is war." D.R. and Quinch began in 2000 AD as a one-off comic in the Time Twisters series titled “D.R. and Quinch Have Fun On Earth”. The characters were initially meant to only appear once but they proved so popular that they were given their own semi-regular series. [1]Alan Moore is a genius and his work's widely known through the movies it spawned: Watchmen, V for Vendetta, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen etc - some of them a tribute to the original, some a desecration. None, I understand, receiving Moore's blessings. I even read that he's never watched any of them - which shows colossal self-restraint! In any event, as a long term reader of 2000AD comic (I started with issue 1 in 1977) one of my early introductions to Moore's work was this lesser known series of somewhat madcap and subversive humour. I loved it.