This article provides an original analysis of David Vandermeulen’s work, Ric Remix (2012). It underlines how it appropriates and reimagines the classic French language comic strip detective series by Tibet & Duchateau, ‘Ric Hochet’. That work was first published in Tintin Magazine (starting full serializations in 1961) and has continued to the present day. The article uses Vandermeulen’s work to show that it does not conform to many contemporary expectations about either the comics/Pop Art relationship, or the current fashion for nostalgia as a common contemporary theme in graphic narrative. Ric Remix evidences that the graphic narrative format can successfully use and recuperate Pop Art images and techniques without implying any great ressentiment. It informs that retro work can offer new and fascinating perspectives when shaped by a strong underlying political philosophy.