NEW YORK (AP) ' If anyone can create a graphic novel onstage, it's the irreverent downtown troupe The Amoralists. As the title implies, good guys will be scarce in "The Bad and the Better," a typically outrageous new play by the troupe's co-founder and resident playwright, Derek Ahonen.

Cartoonish and vulgar, "The Bad and the Better" is a violent and highly enter.....