687: Title Deleted by Order of Gary Larson


 * Note: This article's title is incorrect due to technical limitations.  The correct title is 687: [Title Deleted by Order of Gary Larson].

Explanation
Inspiration came from learning about Gary Larson's protectionism over The Far Side from that strip's TV Tropes pages. This inspired a parody of a trope linked within the author's notes; as much as possible was made to look like an actual victim of said trope. The author wished to avoid some of the more common sources of iToons remixes such as Pearls Before Swine and Nancy and opted to use a strip not known to be remixed as often, leading to the choice of a Dick Tracy strip.

The "original The Far Side strips" listing is a credits gag. Each of the four "[redacted]"s there leads to the TV Tropes page of a fan project within video gaming known to have actually fallen into the trope this strip is parodying at some point or another.

The author writes
Of all the...Who would have thought that Dick Tracy, of all strips, would resort to swiping dialogue from another strip? And not just any other strip, but The Far Side?!

[Note: In actuality, no actual The Far Side'' strips were even so much as observed, much less had their dialogue inserted. The setup is a parody of perhaps the best-case scenario of what might end up happening were someone unfortunate enough to actually attempt such a stunt and end up forcing Gary Larson to send his lawyers after us. Perhaps the hardest task was picking out a comic strip to play host to this setup; some strips were a bit more obvious than others, and I wanted to pick something not as obvious, so why not Dick Tracy?'']

Original Dick Tracy strip: 2023-04-03. Original The Far Side strips: [redacted ], [redacted ] , [redacted ] , [redacted}

Transcript
{All four speech bubbles read "[Deleted by order of Gary Larson]"} {Box in upper left of first panel contains one instance of, and box in lower right of first panel contains two instances of, "[redacted]"}