The comic in question: http://disneycomics.free.fr/Ducks/Rosa/show.php?num=1&lo...

Excellent story (Inception with a Ducktales flavour).

With thanks to ctdonath for the link, in the first place. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2255484

It seems like nearly all of today's pop culture is based on earlier works. We are doing almost nothing original, at least in the pop field.

You can find original in the indy world though, but you have to dig a lot.

Shakespeare's plays were almost exclusively based on earlier works. Pure originality is mythical and overrated. What matters is quality, not conformance to some particular checklist of artistic purity characteristics.

But even he didn't sink to

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern : Assignment Miami Beach