Jack B. Quick

Jack B. Quick
Publication information
Publisher	America's Best Comics
First appearance	Tomorrow Stories #1
Created by	Alan Moore Kevin Nowlan
In-story information
Alter ego	Jack B. Quick
Team affiliations	America's Best
Notable aliases	None
Abilities	None. Inventive genius.

Jack B. Quick is a fictional character from Alan Moore's America's Best Comics imprint. He appeared primarily in humorous stories in the anthology series Tomorrow Stories.

Jonothon Beauregard Quick is a boy genius who lives in the fictional farming town of Queerwater Creek, Kansas. He spends the majority of his time inventing incredible things, most of which tend to backfire, despite his best efforts. The science of Jack's inventions is often based on incorrect reasoning or irrational beliefs that somehow work anyway; for example he ties buttered toast to the backs of cats and, because toast always falls butter-side-down and cats alwys land on their feet, the cats simply hover about the town.

Most of the minor characters are very understanding, unassuming and accomodating when it relates to Jack's experiments but a running joke through the comics is that Jack is oblivious to the fact that his tinkering "in God's domain" has made his parents quietly suicidal.

Jack was seen as a member of America's Best in the final story arc of Promethea. He attempted to stop the armageddon by building a "Doomsday Machine" and then putting it in reverse. He was treated with sceptisim by other characters, especially Tom Strong, and with alarm by the United States Government who transported him in a steel crate with protocols similar to Hannibal Lecter.

Name sake

There was also another character, from DC Comics, a Member of the Champions of Angor also named Jack B. Quick.