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[[File:LesYay.gif|link=Megatokyo|frame|Miho [[One of Us|sees the tropes.]]]]

 

 

From another perspective, as the [[Stick Figure Comic]] and [[Sprite Comic]] tropes show, being unable to draw is not an impediment to pushing your own brand of funny on the world. Thanks to the '''Remix Comic''', neither is the inability to come up with your own characters.

 

Usually remixes are made by fans. They are also known as Strip Slaying, Rescripting or Fanmixing.

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== [[Comic Books]] ==

** In the mid-'70s, ''[[Planet of the Apes]]'' suddenly became a hot property. [[Marvel Comics]] had a popular "Apes" series (in its black-and-white Marvel Magazines line). Marvel's British imprint, Marvel UK, eagerly followed suit with its own magazine, reprinting the American stories. But Marvel UK's "Apes" magazine was published ''weekly'', so they quickly ran out of American material to reprint. How then to fill the space? Marvel UK just took stories from Marvel's ''[[War of the Worlds]]''/Killraven feature (''very'' loosely inspired by H.G. Wells' original and never printed in the UK), rewrote the scripts and altered the art to turn Killraven's alien adversaries into apes. The result? Killraven became ''Apeslayer'', and Marvel UK could fill out the pages of its ''Planet of the Apes'' magazine for the rest of its run.

 

* ''[[wikipedia:Dysfunctional Family Circus|The Dysfunctional Family Circus]]'' may have been the ultimate Remix Comic, spawning a community that generated countless remixed captions for 500 Bil Keane ''[[Family Circus]]'' strips, until Keane's publisher, King Features Syndicate, told DFC webmaster Greg Galcik to stop. During its run, DFC developed a complete set of tropes and in-jokes all its own- most of them as offensive as possible.

** There are also ''[http://jerseycircus.blogspot.com/ Jersey Circus]'' and ''[http://www.losanjealous.com/nfc/ The Nietzsche Family Circus]'', which use ''[[Jersey Shore]]'' and random [[Friedrich Nietzsche|Nietzsche]] quotes, respectively.

** Taking this in about as many directions as possible is ''[[Square Root of Minus Garfield]]''.

** There's also the Garfield Randomizer, which takes random panels from a vast library of Garfield comic strips and puts three of them together to form strips that are, as the theory goes, funnier than the originals. There's been copyright trouble over this one, as predicted, but those resourceful enough to look for it can probably find it.

* [http://danarchy.youfailit.net/Spiderman/ These remixes] of the ''Amazing [[Spider-Man]]'' newspaper strip were done by Jay Pinkerton.

* [http://3eanuts.com/ 3eanuts] simply removes the last panel of ''[[Peanuts]]'' strips. This tends to make them [[Crapsack World|extremely depressing.]]

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

** Vitriolic blogger John Solomon also attempted a Remix of the entire comic strip, entitled ''[[Dominic Durgan]]'' as a parody of its writing and art style. He himself admits [[So Bad It's Good|it was created in one night and is profoundly juvenile]].

* A particularly infamous image board has instituted something called the ''CAD rule'' for "improving" the webcomic ''[[Ctrl+Alt+Del]]''. In its most common incarnation, you remove the middle two panels and put the first and last in sequence, and then remove the dialogue from the last. [https://web.archive.org/web/20090923001737/http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20060331 Good luck with this one, guys...]

** The same image board also likes to play with Sonic comics, and a single panel from another unidentified comic; in the latter case, the original dialogue was ''probably'' [[Memetic Mutation|"This is a sandwich."]]

*** That panel is from a Jack Chick tract. Something Awful started it.

* ''[[DM of the Rings]]'' and ''[[Darths and Droids]]'' both follow this concept... working with screencaps of the ''LoTR'' and ''Star Wars'' films and adding their own dialogue.

** The ''[http://check.animeblogger.net/nanoha-gamers-index/ Nanoha GamerS]'' comic does this with screencaps of ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]] [[Oddly-Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo|StrikerS]]'' and rewrites it as an [[RPG Anime]] of sorts, in the vein of ''[[.hack|.hack//]]'' and ''[[City of Heroes]]''.

* ''[[Looking for Group]]'' fans have been rescripting more and more when producing motivators.

* ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'' has recently invited people to do remixes.

* A popular activity on the ''[[Awkward Zombie]]'' forums is to remix the most recent comic with past comics. Typically, the Dominion Rod will come up at least once.

** Recently, Katie's dad asking about gas has came to popularity.

* The "Law 4 Kids" comics produced by the Arizona state government have been popular targets for LUE and 4chan users.

* ''[[Twokinds]]'' fans do the [http://twokinds.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8710 panel shuffle].

* [http://tgcaps.com/caps/ TGCaps.com] is devoted to remix comics with transgender themes.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* Ridiculously easy to exploit with ''[[My Life Me]]'' and its [https://web.archive.org/web/20110123181535/http://www.mylifeme.com/#manga online "manga" maker].

 

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[[Category:Webcomic Tropes]]

[[Category:Derivative Works]]