Dougie Patterson and Ivor Thompson
Created by Garth Ennis and John McCrea

Two mates from Belfast, DOUGIE PATTERSON and IVOR THOMPSON, with sweet fuck all else to do except drink, and piss away their lives, decide to provide Belfast with a service it's dearly missing. They're going to be private detectives. Okay, Dougie's not exactly a genius, and he's a bit of a smart arse, but he's a genius compared to his best friend Ivor, a not-too-bright weasel who was booted out of the U.V.F. after shooting himself in the foot.So, okay, neither has any real talent for detective work, and they're basically your garden-variety screw-ups, but they figure they're due an improvement in their lives. So they drink, fuck around, and get into trouble with various thugs, local gangsters, the British army, the ghost of Ivor's bootlegging Uncle Shuggie and the like, awhen they're not down 'round the pub with various shallow-end-of-the gene-pool pals like The Wanker and aspiring drug addict Spence.

Rude, crude, full of toilet humour, it eventually becomes clear to one and all that Dougie and Ivor may never make good private eyes, but they will always be dicks. Definitely not your grand-dad's comic books, but if you're in the mood for big laughs in low places, try this one out. A sequel is threatened...

Creators Garth Ennis and John McCrea are also responsible for such "other lowlife, socially-degenerate" comic book characters as Preacher and Hitman (both for DC's Vertigo), among others.

COMICS

• DICKS
  (1997, Caliber Comics)
  4 issues
  Written by Garth Ennis
  Art by John McCrea

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