Ultimately, Mr. Polke's
antic irreverence was picked up by legions of artists working in all mediums on both sides of the Atlantic and beyond, among them Martin Kippenberger, Albert Oehlen, Peter Fischli and David Weiss, Richard Prince, Michael Krebber, John Bock and Lara Schnitger.
Add the
irreverence of inter-dimensional
antics, an incompatible buddy dynamic and an offbeat branch of law enforcement, and the parallels are further cemented; so too, in the threatening of the world's fate by an intricate occult scheme, and the need to protect the Earth's ordinary inhabitants from both the knowledge and consequences of such unusual goings on.