1963, released in 1993 and written by Alan Moore, signaled the rise of the pastiche comic book. No medium of art or commerce can exist for too long before its gaze turns inward, and in an industry in which technologies like time travel were a thing of the past, the format offered a new way of looking at the future. In the pastiche comic, creators painstakingly mimicked the form of classic comic books from the Golden and Silver Age of comics, imitating both the dynamic art styles as well as the bombastic writing.
Those whose love is withheld from us are often those we most closely imitate, and the pastiche technique operated as a tool to expose the contradictions at the heart of some of our most beloved characters and media.
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