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===Parodies=== The main characters of ''Blake and Mortimer'' have made cameo appearances in various comic series, particularly those series that are set in the same period of history, the twilight of the [[British Empire]]. They are often a tribute to their creator, [[Edgar P. Jacobs]]. For example, they make a one-off appearance in the [[Valérian and Laureline|Valérian]] adventure ''[[On the False Earths]]'' when the hero visits a [[Victorian era|Victorian]] London club. Another example is the popular Belgian comic series concerning the adventures of [[MI5]] agent [[Clifton (comics)|Colonel Clifton]]. Clifton once featured in a story entitled ''Jade'', published in 2003. In it he meets two characters called Blake and Mortimer, though even as caricatures they bear little resemblance (perhaps deliberately) to Jacob's originals. The story includes elements from the original books, such as the entrance to the secret passage from ''S.O.S. Météores'' and the cave that doubles as a [[submarine]] base in ''L'Affaire Francis Blake''.<ref>''Jade'' {{ISBN|2-8036-1669-6}}, by [[Bob de Groot]] (writer) and [[Michel Rodrigue]] (artist), published in 2003</ref> In 2005, [[Dargaud]] published a parody entitled ''Menaces sur l'Empire'' ("The Empire Under Threat"). This was a humorous presentation of the adventures of Blake and Mortimer and was not part of the [[Canon (fiction)|canon]] (in fact, the space reserved for the series' title reads "Les Aventures de Philip et Francis" as opposed to "Les Aventures de Blake et Mortimer"). The jokes contained include: *Mortimer's attempts to break his diet, which his Indian manservant always thwarts, even from a long distance *Confusion over whether they are working for [[MI5]] or [[MI6]] *The heroes catching Prime Minister [[Winston Churchill]] in bed, engaged in an affair with a young woman *A send-up of [[Bruce Lee]]'s ''[[Game of Death]]''<ref>''Menaces sur l'Empire'' {{ISBN|2-205-05457-0}}, by Pierre Veys (writer) and Nicolas Barral (artist)), published in 2005</ref> Two additional volumes of "Les Aventures de Philip et Francis" have followed, ''Le Piège machiavélique'' (2011) and ''S.O.S. Météo'' (2014).<ref>[https://www.mediatoon-foreignrights.com/serie/aventures-de-philip-et-francis-les/]</ref> ''Tigresse Blanche'' (''White Tigress'') by [[Yann (comics)|Yann]] and [[Conrad (comics)|Conrad]] is another Belgian comic series featuring the adventures of a [[Chinese Communist]] woman spy in post-[[World War II]] China. It features a British agent, Sir Francis Flake, whose friend (based on Mortimer) gets drunk on the announcement of Indian independence.
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