Korky the Cat again dropped when the Dandy was re-branded into the magazine-themed "Dandy Xtreme". Korky returned again in the Dandy Xtreme Holiday Special, drawn by new Bananaman artist C. McGhie. , reprints of Korky strips by Nixon are appearing in the Dandy Xtreme. The Dandy was relaunched on 27 October 2010 with Phil Corbett taking over as the Korky artist. Corbett's Korky is squatter than previous incarnations of the cat with dark blue fur rather than black. The trademark red nose, green eyes and fluffy white belly remain the same. Adult comic Viz parodied "Korky the Cat" in a strip entitled "Korky
The Blue Peril theme regarding the possible existence of superior alien life. "The Blue Peril" may have been the inspiration of other such stories about the Earth being unknowingly occupied by superior aliens, such as Eric Frank Russell’s Sinister Barrier (1939). It was acknowledged as the central idea for John N Raphael's Up Above (1913), as well as borrowing (with permission) some of the details for his story, as was noted on the first page of Raphael's book. In 2010, "Le Péril Bleu" was translated into English, by Brian Stableford, as part of a five-book translation of Renard's work. The Blue Peril The