Life is Joy and Frustration

Saturday, September 17, 2005

Blake and Mortimer parody

This year I started buying some strips from the series Blake and Mortimer, an MI5 officer and a scientist living in London. I started with The Yellow Sign, which once was nominated as the best strip album ever. I now have six albums from the series.

As with some other strips and adventure stories (like Tintin), there are hardly any women in it, at least in the ones made by Edgar P. Jacobs - the people who continued the series after him introduced women.

Today I saw an interesting parody on Blake and Mortimer, called Jake and Francis (their first names). I didn't buy it (yet), but I read a synopsis of the story on the back. It was about all the women in London going on strike, to prove how important they are! This naturally caused a lot of chaos, and Blake and Mortimer have to solve this problem. Quite an original parody!