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| - Waldo 'D.R.' Dobbs was an alien college student whose gleefully anarchic adventures with his friend Ernest Errol Quinch included avenging himself on a judge who sentenced him for a long list of crimes, falling in love, joining the army and filming the epic movie Mind the Oranges, Marlon! D.R. and Quinch first appeared in a Time Twisters strip in 2000 AD before graduating to their own title due to popular demand.
D.R. and Quinch's first story under their own title was 'D.R. & Quinch Go Straight', in 2000 AD progs 350 to 351. It described how they bought the house next to that of Judge Thorkwung, who was trying them for a variety of heinous crimes, and turned it into 'Massacre House', a charitable institution for the rehabilitation of what D.R. called "dangerous maniac ex-servicemen in need of love and understanding." The residents were their mentally unbalanced friend Pulger, a veteran of the Ghoyogi slime jungle wars, and his equally disturbed brothers-in-arms. D.R. thoughtfully provided them with frag-mines, guns and a quad-engine stratocopter with thirty air-to-ground warpedoes .
thumb|leftThe tranquillity of Judge Thorkwung's peaceful suburban neighbourhood was somewhat disturbed by D.R. and Quinch's altruistic endeavour. Nevertheless, the mayor was so impressed by the charitable initiative that when D.R. and Quinch told him that it was all Judge Thorkwung's idea, the grateful judge acquitted them on the spot, erasing their crimes from the computer files. Unfortunately, as soon as he had done this a deputation from the Ghoyogian embassy, invited there by D.R., arrived. The ensuing carnage was blamed on Judge Thorkwung and caused hostilities with Ghoyogi to resume, much to the delight of Pulger and his comrades, who promptly re-enlisted.
In 'D.R. & Quinch Go Girl Crazy!' D.R.'s friendship with Quinch was nearly derailed when the former fell in love with Chrysoprasia, the sickeningly sweet daughter of his drama coach. Under her influence D.R. started going to the youth club, rehearsing a play called The Bleating Heart and jogging every morning. Quinch retaliated by kidnapping Chrysoprasia and forcing her to watch home movies of D.R. and Quinch's past adventures. thumb|300px
Chrysoprasia immediately decided to transform herself into a booze-swilling, gun-toting thug in order to be 'worthy' of D.R. She used a speeding hovercar to burst into the theatre where D.R. was performing in The Bleating Heart and gun down the audience. Horrified at her personality change, D.R. told the police that she was responsible for the scores of dead theatre-goers, letting Quinch off the hook . He then decided that his infatuation for Chrysoprasia must have been the result of temporary insanity caused by trace chemicals, and went off with Quinch to bomb the vegan takeaway he blamed for his condition. Chrysoprasia was removed by the police.
In 'D.R. & Quinch Get Drafted' , D.R. and Quinch were forced to join the army. After wandering in the slime jungles for hours they gunned down a bunch of soldiers, which led D.R. to descant movingly on the horrors of a war which forced them to kill a group of young men who bore a remarkable resemblance to their own platoon. The hapless duo were then informed that their victims were, in fact, their own platoon, whom they had accidentally pulverised with a devastating barrage of not-very-friendly fire. D.R. and Quinch ended up locked in a penal stockade on Ghoyogi with Pulger. They escaped via a snufflegruff tunnel but Pulger had to fend off a monstrous, slavering snufflegruff with a gun made of thumb|leftsoap while his friends made a run for it. The end of the tunnel brought them to a cell occupied by none other than Chrysoprasia, who had become a mercenary.
She, D.R., Quinch and Pulger ended up trapped between two opposing armies. The situation looked bleak. D.R.'s eloquent plea for universal peace and understanding fell on deaf ears. But just then Quinch's mother, summoned by a letter D.R. had written earlier, turned up in her spaceship and rescued them all.
In 'D.R. & Quinch Go To Hollywood' the pair became movie directors after finding a couple of tickets to Hollywood in the pocket of dead scriptwriter Torquetto Jubbli. Their cinematic masterpiece Mind the Oranges, Marlon! was named after the regrettable incident when their lead actor was crushed to death under the pile of sixteen thousand oranges that D.R. had insisted were vital to the plot .
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