In later years, Lindengren's humor has become somewhat less adolescent, as he has created the superhero parody Kapten Stofil ( Captain Fogy, although translated as Captain Geezer in the comic ) about an old grumpy hero whose sole " power " is 1950s and 60s nostalgia, usually drawn in a deliberate Silver Age pastiche.

During this battle Apollo was severely beaten by The Commander, a Captain America pastiche.

Azzarello's run is one large meta-story, that follows John Constantine on a trip across America, starting with his incarceration in prison, then variously uncovering a pornography ring, catching a serial killer, taking on a Neo Nazi group before finally dealing with the architect of his incarceration, Stanley W. Manor, a thinly veiled pastiche of Batman.

Another pastiche, also inspired by " The Elements ", is the " Boy Scout Merit Badge Song ", listing all the merit badges that can be earned from the Boy Scouts of America.

Burroughs published Naked Lunch in Paris in 1959 and in America in 1961 ; this is considered by some the first truly postmodern novel because it is fragmentary, with no central narrative arc ; it employs pastiche to fold in elements from popular genres such as detective fiction and science fiction ; it's full of parody, paradox, and playfulness ; and, according to some accounts, friends Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg edited the book guided by chance.

Other pastiches of " The Major-General's song " in " The Elements " mode include the " Boy Scout Merit Badge Song ," which lists all the merit badges of the Boy Scouts of America and the 2012 webcomic xkcd pastiche " Every Major's Terrible ", which lists the faults associated with various undergraduate majors.

2004 ), was fan William Galen Gray's attempt to create " a chronology of all the stories, both Howard and pastiche.

Formula fiction should not be confused with pastiche ( the mimicking of another work or author's style ), though the latter by its nature may include elements of the former ; the same holds true of some parody and satirical works as well, which may well include formulaic elements such as common stereotypes or caricatures, or which may use formulaic elements in order to mock them or point out their supposedly cliché or unrealistic nature.

Andriessen's early works show experimentation with various contemporary trends: post war serialism ( Series, 1958 ), pastiche ( Anachronie I, 1966 – 67 ), and tape ( Il Duce, 1973 ).

His modernized ballad opera, Love in a Village ( 1762 ), began a vogue for pastiche opera that lasted well into the 19th century.

On its date of publication ( May 1996 ), Sokal revealed in Lingua Franca that the article was a hoax, identifying it as " a pastiche of Left-wing cant, fawning references, grandiose quotations, and outright nonsense.

Berlin, who lavished a great deal of effort on the song designed it as a pastiche of " The Carioca " from Flying Down to Rio ( 1933 ) and " The Continental " from The Gay Divorcee ( 1934 ), and the lyric communicates its fake origin: " It was written by a Latin / A gondolier who sat in / his home out in Brooklyn / and gazed at the stars.

That megamix, a pastiche of loops from several disco records, particularly the bassline from Player One's " Space Invaders " ( 1979 ), had been Saunders ' " signature " tune as a DJ ; it was one that other DJs in the city didn't have or didn't play.

He is best known for his novels such as the non-narrative 69 Things to Do with a Dead Princess ( 2002 ), his re-imagining of the 1960s in Tainted Love ( 2005 ), and earlier parodistic pulp fictions Pure Mania, Red London, No Pity, Cunt, and Defiant Pose that pastiche the work of 1970s British skinhead pulp novel writer Richard Allen and combine it with pornography, political agit-prop, and historical references to punk rock and avant-garde art.

Bizarro debuted in Superboy # 68 ( Oct. 1958 ), writer Otto Binder casting the character as a Frankenstein's monster pastiche that possessed all the powers of Superboy.

Several alternate universe versions of the character exist: the Silver Age Bizarro appears in Justice as a member of the Legion of Doom ; one-shot The Superman Monster ( 1999 ), essentially a Frankenstein pastiche features a monstrous copy of Bizarro created by a Viktor Luthor ; one-shot Superman: Red Son ( 2004 ) features a " Superman 2 " created by genius Lex Luthor for the United States to stop the Soviet-based Superman ; and Lex Luthor creates Bizarro-like duplicates called " Liberators " in the limited series JLA: The Nail ( 1998 ).

Louis Andriessen ( born Utrecht: June 6, 1939 ) is a composer whose early works show experimentation with various contemporary trends: post war serialism ( Series, 1958 ), pastiche ( Anachronie I, 1966 – 67 ), and tape ( Il Duce, 1973 ).

Ennis's most notable Dredd stories include Muzak Killer ( a pastiche of mainstream pop music ), Emerald Isle ( a tongue-in-cheek story set in Ennis's native Ireland ), and the twenty-part epic Judgment Day.

An overly zealous cultural anthropologist and ethnologist named Kalikari Stone, Baron Bodissey, working on a grant from the Historical Institute of Naval Research on the planet Riverain, appears in Hayford Peirce's novel The Thirteenth Majestral ( 1989 ), a pastiche written in the manner of Jack Vance.

His modernized ballad opera, Love in a Village ( 1762 ), was equally novel and began a vogue for pastiche opera that lasted well into the 19th century.

* The Deluge ( novella ), a 1954 pastiche story credited to Leonardo da Vinci, actually written by Robert Payne

was parodied by Sesame Streets " Mysterious Theatre " sketches in the early 1990s, hosted by Vincent Twice ( whose name was always said twice ), a pastiche of Vincent Price.

Originally published as The Secret Ascension by Tor Books in 1987 ( but subsequently reprinted with the author's preferred title ), this work is an homage to writer Philip K. Dick, a pastiche of his style, and includes an alternate reality version of Dick as a character.

While the traditional view of Roman artists is that they often borrowed from, and copied Greek precedents ( much of the Greek sculpture known today is in the form of Roman marble copies ), more recent analysis has indicated that Roman art is a highly creative pastiche relying heavily on Greek models but also encompassing Etruscan, native Italic, and even Egyptian visual culture.

The quiz involves the panellists each week writing a pastiche of the work of a selected author ; Faulks has published a collection of his efforts as a book, Pistache ( 2006 ), which was described in The Scotsman as " a little treasure of a book.

* Synonyms: archetype, prototype ( the first draft of an original work ), model, template, and pastiche ( an imitation of an archetype or prototype in order to pay homage to the original creator )

At the peak of their career they also enjoyed British number one singles with " Tiger Feet "; and " Lonely This Christmas " ( 1974 ), an affectionate Elvis Presley pastiche ; plus " Oh Boy " ( 1975 ), a virtual a cappella cover of the Buddy Holly hit, which also featured on their album Mud Rock Volume 2.

Although partly a return to the band's heavier punk roots, the album featured a typically idiosyncratic mixture of musical styles which included a country and western style Johnny Cash pastiche / homage " I Hate You ".

Another example is a 1979 recording by Ray Stevens titled " I Need Your Help, Barry Manilow " where the song's intro is reminiscent of Manilow's hit, " I Write the Songs " and the vocal performance, melody, and name-dropping of Manilow song titles is a pastiche of Barry Manilow.

The sketch presented Neil Innes ( ex-Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band ) fronting The Rutles singing " I Must Be In Love ", a pastiche of a 1964 Lennon-McCartney tune.

An angelic caricature of Stepin Fetchit tries to recruit souls for Pair-O-Dice using a pastiche of James Montgomery Flagg's World War I army recruitment poster in Clean Pastures.

Taking the idea back to basics, he left the James Bond pastiche idea behind and ended up thinking more of The Shadow ; " suddenly I was engaged and enthusiastic about the idea ".

In the video game Mass Effect 2, the character Dr. Mordin Solus sings a short pastiche version (" I am the very model of a scientist Salarian ").

In an episode of Unfabulous, Addie Singer begins to sing a pastiche of the song entitled " I am the very model of a modern major idiot " while rehearsing for The Pirates of Penzance.

The poem is fragmentary and employs pastiche like much postmodern literature, but the speaker in The Waste Land says, " these fragments I have shored against my ruins ".

A pastiche of the ballet forms part of the music video for Queens 1984 single I Want to Break Free.

According to Hocking, he wrote his Conan novel Conan and the Emerald Lotus out of dissatisfaction with the Conan novels being published in the early 1990s, " trying to put into the story all the things I thought were missing from Conan pastiche at that time.

Clarke herself says, " I think the novel is viewed as something new ... blending together a few genres – such as fantasy and adventure and pastiche historical – plus there's the whole thing about slightly knowing footnotes commenting on the story.

" I didn't want to do twenties pastiche – there was too much of that around ," he recalled.

Writer Steve Martin told the New York Daily News " I view it as a pastiche of things I've seen come and go through the years ," and stated " Scientology gets a lot of credit or blame right now, because they're the hottest one.

One show introduced The Rutles, a four-piece band fronted by Innes as a man " suffering from love song " spoofing The Beatles, singing " I Must Be In Love ", a masterly pastiche of some of the early Lennon-McCartney songs.

I also really appreciate the more advanced pop pastiche aspects of it.

Part 1 is a pastiche of vocal themes, borrowing from Soft Machine's earlier " That's How Much I Need You Now " and " You Don't Remember ", but largely from new vignettes recorded in a demo by Wyatt in October 1968 while on holiday in New York state.

The authors of the book I Can't Believe It's a Bigger and Better Updated Unofficial Simpsons Guide, Warren Martyn and Adrian Wood, called the episode a " wonderful pastiche " on the Tim Burton Batman films, and added that Milhouse is an obvious candidate for Fallout Boy.

In Mojo magazine in October, 2008, McCartney acknowledged that the style of the song is a pastiche, saying, " I was basically spoofing the folksinger.

" Writer Steve Martin told the New York Daily News " I view it as a pastiche of things I've seen come and go through the years ," and stated " Scientology gets a lot of credit or blame right now, because they're the hottest one.

An angelic caricature of Stepin Fetchit tries to recruit souls for Pair-O-Dice using a pastiche of James Montgomery Flagg's World War I army recruitment poster.