Starting with one of the most famous, the Squadron Supreme.
ITT: Pastiche characters
Cameron Edwards
Christian Morris
Ayden Rogers
The Justice Guild of America
Lincoln Gomez
The Punisher was such a shameless copy of paperback hero Mack Bolan the Executioner that Marvel had to pay restitution to Don Pendleton.
Angel Myers
not the characters themselves, but the team.
Ian Young
Jacob Taylor
I really am a smoothbrain, it only just occurred to me who this team is a pastiche of and it makes the lineup choice make a whole lot more sense now.
Hunter Morales
Michael Morales
Big Bang Comics did a lot of DC pastiche comics during the 90's and 00's. They even made up an elaborate history for the comics, like for instance Knight Watchman being created by "Tom King" (this was decades before there was a Tom King actually writing Batman comics).
This comic was originally printed in black-and-white decades ago but ran in color a few years ago in Savage Dragon.
Aaron Thomas
Austin Stewart
Isaiah Nguyen
Hunter Wood
Adrian Smith
DC in turn made a pastiche of the Avengers and the MoE, with Godiva instead of Enchantress, Skyscraper instead of Giant Man, and I firget the rest
Carson Cruz
James Kelly
Bentley Walker
Lord Havok and the Extremists
Gabriel Morris
Wyatt Adams
You're thinking of "analogous". There's no "pastiche" in the Squadron Supreme.
Dominic Scott
It really evolved into its own thing. And I'd debate as to whether or not they were even all that similar to start with.
Connor Lopez
>pastiche
So this is the new hipster-word that sjws all just learned on reddit and now are going to be misusing for the next few weeks/months?
Nicholas Martin
Except is an actual pastiche because they emulated the style of the Finger/Kane stories you buzzword-spewing redditor
Lincoln Jones
Dude, chill
Joseph Miller
Someone uses a word incorrectly once and you go full retard, huh
Ryder Brown
Ironically in his blind rage, he showed he didn't understand the definition either.
Ayden Nelson
BBC (hurr hurr) basically did only period piece comics. Most were DC but they also did Marvel ones. Knight Watchman was their longest running character.
Kayden Jenkins
GOAT team
Adam Phillips
My ideal Squadron Supreme line up!
> Hyperion (hickman)
> Zarda / Power Princess (supreme power-verse)
> Old Soldier (supreme power-verse)
> Arachnophilia (supreme power-verse)
> The Rider (great society)
> Doctor Spectrum (great society)
> Boundless (great society)
I think it's got a good contrasting mix of characters.
Zarda & Arachnophilia are edgy & murderous heroes.
The Rider & Boundless are classic idealized heroes.
Hyperion & Older Solider are somewhere in the middle.
Doctor Spectrum could be either depending on if she is from before her planet was destroyed or after.
Ethan Johnson
Which ones are the originals?
Lucas Johnson
Dr. Doom, Doc Ock, Sabertooth, Magneto, and someone else idk
Andrew Martinez
Fpbp
Oliver Nguyen
Tyler Hall
Last one is Dormammu, I think.
Elijah Taylor
My favorite Justice Friend was, is and always will be Capital G.
Carson Adams
I really hate that Orlando wasted them on his JLA run, having Not-Latveria as a permanent fixture could really have expanded DC's geopolitics. Theres only so many times they can use Bialya and Qurac
Brandon Roberts
>hipster-word that sjws all just learned
What?
What does "pastiche" have to do with sjws?
Alexander Gutierrez
Ryan Rodriguez
Everything
Colton Hernandez
This is you.
Luis Cruz
like what?
Owen Campbell
>not-Daredevil still looking the wrong way.
It's the little things.
Thomas Edwards
Cameron Barnes
Jaxson Watson
what book is this from?
Andrew Wilson
Flash Forward
Aiden Martin
Atoman (Superman )
M'rrgla Qualtz (Martian Manhunter)
The Hound (Batman)
Sizzler (Flash)
Scarlet Scepter (Green Latern and Starman)
Sun Woman (Wonder Woman)
Davy Jones (Aquaman)
Logan Campbell
Vigilante from Venus
Isaac Davis
You mean characters that started out as pastiches?
Kevin Evans
Also that
Cameron Gutierrez
I wish Marvel would create a pastiche Sandman just to make Gaiman mad.
Maybe even Nightmare could fill the role.
Connor Hall
If Marvel ever does that it should be a Wesley Dodds's stand in
Grayson Walker
>Stacked Canary
Well...they're not wrong.
Michael Lee
I agree pastiche is more an artsy term. Like you use it as scientific term but not in a normal article or conversation.
Its like saying salt is sodium in a conversation about your meal. Used by people who want to sound smarter.
Landon Brown
The redditor with the tantrum is correct in that a lot of people are using it incorrectly, but pastiche is more about imitating a certain style and character. A lot of the characters in the thread are more analogues than pastiches. Actual pastiches would be like the Big Bang Comics stuff, and Moore's Supreme (particularly the flashback parts done by Rick Veitch) and 1963, even if Moore's stuff had a bit of parody in them, because those three are deliberately trying to evoke specific styles and not just do analogues of the characters.
Cameron Scott
Another pastiche would be when Dave Sim had Roach become Morpheus-parody Swoon, and actually put effort into mimicking Gaiman's style of writing dialogue.
Angel James
Some details differ, but the broader strokes paint similar pictures:
>protag is Vietnam vet with reputation as stone cold killer
>both were/are snipers
>protag's family dies due to Mob involvement
>protag goes on one-man crusade against organized crime
>both characters have mobile headquarters (War Wagon, Battle Van)
>both keep a "Captain's Log"-type journal
>both wear black sneaking-around garb (tho Frank kinda spoils the effect, opting for the scary white death's -head)
>both have a scary moniker
>both have tried to kill Spider-Man
So, there you have it.
Bentley Cox
>the new hipster-word that sjws all just learned on reddit
You kids make me feel tired.
Andrew Scott
So true. The Executioner paperbacks were very successful in their era, creating a genre with a dozen imitators. Gerry Conway was not a particularly creative writer and his first stories of the Punisher read very much like an Executioner swipe. I believe the court agreed.
Jonathan Cook
They did, the Badge ones were like a combination of Simon and Kirby's Guardian + Captain America, with later Badge stuff being like 70's Kirby Cap + 60's Steranko Nick Fury and Cap.
Also I think last I checked they did an Earth-A and Earth-B which is like how the Silver-Bronze Age and Golden Age DC worked, except Earth-B isn't just the Golden Age Big Bang Comics world, it's also the world where the Avengers analogues live. (The Badge was on both Earths though)
Lucas Roberts
That kaiju looks like that knife-headed monster from Gamera.
Joshua Allen
Pretty much.