Pastiches

Both the Marvel and DC Universes have introduced pastiches and tributes to characters from each other's companies, which give their respective characters the chance to face off with characters they might otherwise never get to encounter.

These guys are broad, amusing pastiches of different archetypes in 1980s youth culture, in much the same way as the teens from Return of the Living Dead, right down to the presence of Linnea Quigley.

According to The Alternative Sherlock Holmes: Pastiches, Parodies, and Copies by Peter Ridgway Watt and Joseph Green, the first known period pastiche dates from 1893.

Composed in part of a series of interwoven pastiches of popular fiction genres from the era in which it is set, the novel inspired mixed reactions from critics and reviewers.

During the first part of the year he published in various journals pastiches of other writers.

His Rococo pastiches also may have offered escape into a musical world purer than his own, into which he felt himself irresistibly drawn.

Other content Spoof news stories The comic also prints regular satirical pastiches of typical tabloid and local media news stories.

Stage pastiches There have been various "derivative works" of Hamlet which recast the story from the point of view of other characters, or transpose the story into a new setting or act as sequels or prequels to Hamlet.

The book includes homages, parodies and pastiches from both the lives and works of Crowley and Joyce.

The book must be 'one of the most skilful pastiches in the history of literature.

The Conan stories were increasingly edited by de Camp and the series was extended by pastiches until they replaced the original stories.

The explicit variations on classical pastoral themes, the citations from and pastiches of Rembrandt, Goya, Velázquez, Manet, are external products of a constant revision, a 'seeing again' in the light of technical and cultural shifts.