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

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Quinch will never win awards for being the smartest of satire, and it’s definitely of it’s time, but it is an example of 2000AD being fun and frivolous in a way which I wish it was to this day.

The dialogue and captions by Moore say or present one thing while Davis’s art presents a very different version of what the narration describes. The opening story is well drawn, yet staid in comparison with the remainder, where Chuck Jones mayhem bursts off the page.At least it does allow for Moore to bring back Crazy Chryssie, who’s imprisoned on the planet the fighting is taking place on, as are D. Wildly odd and entertaining as they join the army, the cub scouts, fall in love, blow stuff up, go to Hollywood and cause several deaths.

The characters were initially meant to only appear once but they proved so popular that they were given their own semi-regular series. It’s the best story so far, short and sweet but full of inventive madness, great dialogue and it makes our leads more interesting and complex to boot. They’re nicely drawn, and raise the occasional smile, but rapidly run into the brick wall of repetition, which was inevitable when violence was always the answer. R. has committed did not have the desired effect on her, but rather drove her into a life of delinquency and crime to rival the two chums own rap sheets. It all began at 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.

R. no longer wants to hang around with him he kidnaps Chrysoprasia and shows her footage of all of the murder and horror he and D. R. and Quinch travel through time and mess with Earth's history and stuff, and then totally blow the whole place up. Rereading Alan Moore and Alan Davis's work on Captain Britain it's amazing how quickly both improved, and no wonder Davis went onto a very successful career in US superhero comics. It took multiple readings before I really could start enjoying it, but the fantastic art and storylines make the multiple readings worthwhile.

The occasional joke is obvious or falls flat, but all these years later Moore’s scripts remain ridiculous and very, very funny. And sometimes they deliver, like, moral lessons and philosophy musings and stuff, but not, like, boring square ones, but, like, warped and crazy ones. This comedy of inter-galactic proportions is brought to you by comic book supremo Alan Moore ( V for Vendetta) and respected artist Alan Davis ( Uncanny X-Men).R.'s not-quite girlfriend 'Crazy Chrissie', something where I'm sure an older Moore would have obliged. I shall be looking for ways to include the lines, “close the curtains, Geoffrey, I’m amphibious,” and, “mind the oranges, Marlon” in any future writings. Things seem to be going well until they get to basic training and have to suffer under a nasty drill sergeant right out of Full Metal Jacket. Unfortunately Marlon gets squashed under a big pile of oranges, though this inspires the name of the film as "Mind the Oranges, Marlon".