Various images, originally ivory numbers fully animated against a deep red background, were designed to fit the pace of the channel, and the music soon gained notoriety, and was often satirised and parodied in popular culture, perhaps most famously by comic Bill Bailey who likened the theme music to an " apocalyptic rave ".

Some of Kaye's films included the theme of doubles, two people who look identical ( both played by Danny Kaye ) being mistaken for each other, to comic effect.

The Trojan Women for example is a powerfully disturbing play on the theme of war's horrors, apparently critical of Athenian imperialism ( it was composed in the aftermath of the Melian massacre and during the preparations for the Sicilian Expedition ) yet it features the comic exchange between Menelaus and Hecuba quoted above and the chorus considers Athens, the " blessed land of Theus ", to be a desirable refugesuch complexity and ambiguity are typical both of his ' patriotic ' and ' anti-war ' plays.

Only a few compositions that Satie took seriously remain from this period: Jack in the Box, music to a pantomime by Jules Depaquit ( called a "" by Satie ),, a short comic opera on a serious theme, text by Lord Cheminot, The Dreamy Fish, piano music to accompany a lost tale by Lord Cheminot, and a few others that were mostly incomplete, hardly any of them staged, and none of them published at the time.

He moves easily between the buttoned-down demeanor that suits a police procedural story and the loose-jointed manner of his comic roles .” A repeated theme in roles he has portrayed is that of saving the world, including the characters of Ted Logan, Buddha, Neo, Johnny Mnemonic, John Constantine and Klaatu.

The comic-book style is apparent throughout the game and is a core theme, and the game is an adaptation of a comic book of the same name.

Modern names are sometimes a marketing ploy or attempt to create " brand awareness ", frequently using a comic theme thought to be memorable, Slug and Lettuce for a pub chain being an example.

A larger variant ( approximately 1 cm thick ) made with dehydrated potatoes is marketed as Andy Capp's Pub Fries, using the theme of a long-running British comic strip, which are baked and come in a variety of flavors.

Tomb Raider is a media franchise consisting of video games, comic books, novels, theme park rides and movies, centring around the adventures of the fictional English archaeologist Lara Croft.

The comic focused on a common human theme of good versus evil and later included storylines and themes about prejudice and racism, all of which have persisted throughout the series in one form or another.

In the popular comic by DC Comics, as well as three Batman movies ( 1966, 1989 and The Dark Knight ) and the TV series, The Joker is the supervillain nemesis of Batman and is often portrayed as having a rather " Dark and Twisted " jester-like sense of humor whose theme of practical jokes almost always holds death as the punchline during his " performances ".

In Greek mythology, Isocrates, in his witty declamation Busiris recounts " the false tale of Heracles and Busiris " ( 11. 30 – 11. 40 ), which was a comic subject represented almost entirely in the repertory of early 5th century BC Athenian vase-painters: the theme has a narrow narrative range, according to Niall Livingstone: Heracles being led to sacrifice ; his escape ; the killing of Busiris ; the rout of his entourage.

For example, the comic book Superman was so popular that it spawned over 30 different radio, television and movie series and a similar number of video games, as well as theme park rides, books and songs.

The theme, inherently a comic inversion of gender roles, is not fully illustrated in any surviving text from Classical Greece.

A recurring theme in the comic books ( though far less so in the strips ) was that of " reality engineering ", wherein " the very fabric of space and time " is mined for " the good of mankind ".

Pope also wrote or co-wrote many comic songs for Not the Nine O ' Clock News and Spitting Image including British Number 1 hit single " The Chicken Song " with Rob Grant & Doug Naylor and along with Simon Franglen, he did the main theme for Round the Bend for Yorkshire TV, a three series comedy shown on CITV, later shown on Channel 4 and Nickelodeon.

The Winter Carnival parade reflects the theme, and Garry Trudeau, the creator of the comic strip Doonesbury who grew up in the town, creates artwork with characters from his comic strip doing things related to the theme for a button that can be purchased each winter.

His stand-up routines often feature music from genres such as jazz, rock ( most notably prog rock from the early seventies ), drum ' n ' bass, rave, classical, and even theme songs, usually for comic value.

Maynard Solomon in The Late Beethoven: Music, Thought, Imagination expresses this idea symbolically, as a journey from the everyday world (" Diabelli's theme conveys ideas, not only of the national, the commonplace, the humble, the rustic, the comic, but of the mother tongue, the earthly, the sensuous, and, ultimately, perhaps, of every waltzing couple under the sun " to a transcendent reality.

Because of this, comic books in general are one of the few entertainment mediums where the concept of parallel universes are a major and ongoing theme.

The Incredible Hulk comic book series further complicates this theme, as Bruce Banner loses control to the Hyde-like Hulk whenever he becomes angry, yet also depends upon the Hulk's super powers in order to combat villains.

The original series has spawned: several successful novelty western / folk albums from 1962 – 1965 ; three dozen Dell and Gold Key comic books from 1962 through 1970 ; Jim Beam Whiskey Ponderosa Ranch decanters 1964 – 1966 ; a series of " Big-Little " books from 1966 – 1969 ; Revel Bonanza model character sets from 1966 – 1968 ; a chain of Bonanza and Ponderosa steakhouses from 1963 – present ; the Lake Tahoe-based " Ponderosa " theme park from 1967 – 2004 ; a line of American Character action figures in 1966 – 1967 ; Aladdin lunch buckets and thermos bottles in 1966 – 1968 ; View Master slide sets from 1965 – 1973 ; Ponderosa tin cups from 1967 – 2004 ; a series of Hamilton collector plates in 1989 – 1990 ; and most recently, Breyer Fiftieth Anniversary Ponderosa Stable sets, with horses and Cartwright figures in 2009 – 2011.

The rise of comic book specialty stores in the late 1970s created / paralleled a dedicated market for " independent " or " alternative comics " in the U. S. The first such comics included the anthology series Star Reach, published by comic book writer Mike Friedrich from 1974 to 1979, and Harvey Pekar's American Splendor, which continued sporadic publication into the 21st century and which Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini adapted into a 2003 film.

From Hell was originally published in serial form in Taboo, an anthology comic book published by Steve Bissette's Spiderbaby Grafix.

The Dr. No comic strip was reprinted in 2005 by Titan Books as part of the Dr. No anthology that also includes Diamonds Are Forever and From Russia, with Love.

The From Russia, with Love comic strip was reprinted in 2005 by Titan Books in the Dr. No anthology, which also included Diamonds Are Forever and Casino Royale.

In January 2005, McFarlane announced that he was set to produce a half-hour anthology television series for Fox called Twisted Tales, based on the Bruce Jones ' comic book to which McFarlane had purchased the rights.

* TenNapel has also contributed to several other comic books, such as issue # 5 of Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror, issue # 3 of Scud: Tales from the Vending Machine ( TenNapel also contributed cover art to the 24th and final issue of the main Scud: The Disposable Assassin series, as well as penciling a single page on the same issue ), the Fractured Fables anthology graphic novel, 9-11: September 11, 2001 ( Artists Respond ), and Flight Volume 2.

For its final two issues, the comic became in effect a horror anthology, with the title character being little more than a host / narrator in several short stories.

The company's first comic book was Yellowjacket, an anthology of superhero and horror stories launched September 1944 under the imprint Frank Comunale Publications, with Ed Levy listed as publisher.

* Inferno !, a Warhammer anthology magazine mixing text and comic stories

Walt Disney's Comics and Stories, sometimes abbreviated WDC or WDC & S, is an anthology comic book series that has an assortment of Disney characters, including Donald Duck, Scrooge McDuck, Mickey Mouse, Chip ' n Dale, Lil Bad Wolf, Scamp, Bucky Bug, Grandma Duck, Brer Rabbit, Winnie the Pooh, and others.

Apart from Comics and Stories and Mickey Mouse, Li ' l Wolf has also appeared in many different Disney anthology comic books, including a number of giant-size specials and a series of one-page text stories in Donald Duck.

Formerly a fine artist, she contributed her first comic strip to Wimmen's Comix # 3, the seminal all-women anthology published by Last Gasp.

Melaka Fray also appears in the story " Tales ", by the same creative team as the series, in the anthology comic book Tales of the Slayers.

Issue three, an anthology comic called Tales of the Uncanny, featured USA, Ultimate Special Agent based on Captain America, and Hypernaut, who was based on Iron Man, with elements taken from Silver Surfer, Green Lantern, Arnim Zola ( in appearance ), and Swamp Thing.

Issue four, another anthology comic called Tales From Beyond, introduces readers to the Unbelievable N-Man, based on The Incredible Hulk, and Johnny Beyond, a beatnik version of Doctor Strange.

Text stories and later comic strips based on the Tom Thumb character appeared in the anthology comic The Beano from the first issue in 1938 until the late fifties.

In October 2005, Slave Labor Graphics began publishing a bimonthly Haunted Mansion comic book anthology, with the main recurring story ( Mystery of the Manse ) centered around " Master Gracey " and inspired by the sea captain concepts proposed for the attraction by Ken Anderson in the 1950s.

In early 1946, Superboy moved to Adventure Comics, where he debuted in issue No. 103 ( Apr 1946 ) as the lead feature for the anthology comic, and he remained the headlining feature for over 200 issues.

His recipe for “ Stirred Eggs ” ( Chapter 13 ) is a classic of American comic writing which was recently included in the Library of America anthology of food writing.

The Sandman: Book of Dreams ( 1996 ), edited by Ed Kramer and Neil Gaiman, is an anthology of short stories based on The Sandman comic book series.

Between 2002 and 2004, Big Finish released eighteen audio plays featuring characters from the British sci-fi comic strip anthology magazine 2000 AD.

In addition to heartfelt odes like " Dedicated to the One I Love ," Pauling also wrote comic and risque tunes, including " Monkey Hips and Rice ," later the title of a two-CD anthology of the group's music released by Rhino Records in 1994.

Shimura is a comic strip in the British science fiction anthology the Judge Dredd Megazine, detailing the exploits of its eponymous hero in Hondo-City, a futuristic version of Tokyo.