Monday, February 27, 2012

PKNA #28 - Metamorphosis + bonus story #26


Banker is back with another issue INCLUDING the bonus story AND featuring some beautifully rendered bonus pages. And if that wasn't enough, Aspargus32 has finished another bonus story.

PKNA#28 - Metamorphosis

PKNA #26 Bonus Story: 5Y - Too Salt to Taste

Also, here's a little treat that a fan drew my attention to: The Secret Origin of the Duck Avenger - not the avenger we know, but one that was made as an attempt to introduce the character to American audiences.



As a fan of the Duck Avenger, the first thing you'll probably notice is that everything is just incredibly, horribly wrong. Donald is called on by his uncle Ludvig von Drake to battle the evil Zondarrians who have stolen the Universal Code from Earth... It's all pretty silly.

But it's interesting to read, and I've actually been looking for these comics for years, after having read the first part as a child. So a huge thanks to the anonymous poster for bringing it to my attention.

Actually - and I'm a bit embarrassed to admit this - these entirely silly comics are probably the main reason this site is called "PKNA - Adventures of the Duck Avenger" rather than "PKNA - Adventures of Superduck". Disney has changed the official name of the character several times, so it was hard to determine what was the proper translation when we started out.

I preferred the sound of The Duck Avenger, so that's what I went with. Looking back, I actually suspect that this American mini-comic is the only time Paperinik was actually called by the Duck Avenger name in an official Disney comic. Since then, Disney seems to have settled on calling him Superduck.

Still, we're more than 30 comics in now, so it seems a bit late to change the name of the main character. Calling him Superduck at this stage would just seem weird (to me, at least). Plus, I just plain like the Duck Avenger name. So I think we'll keep it.

Even if the comic it came from IS hilariously silly. Remember to check it out, by the way. :)

Thursday, February 16, 2012

PKNA #26 - Time flies AND MMMM #1 - The Link

Sorry I'm late with this, guys, I was out of the country for a while. But in the meantime both Banker and zvbxrpl have finished awesome new issues:


PKNA #26 - Time Flies


MMMM #1 - The Link

(Feel completely free to just ignore the end pages of MMMM, by the way. Apparently someone at Disney decided that the whole series was just TOO bad-ass, and some silly "Oh-wait-it's just-a-film"-framing device was added. Far as I can tell, the story still works perfectly well if you just ignore the final pages and assume that everything is really happening, so that's what I'M gonna do.)

Also, Aspargus32 is getting back to translating bonus stories, so we'll probably see a lot more of those soon, too. Cool, isn't it?

Which reminds me, are there any Italian speakers out there who might be interested in translating some of the bonus content we tend to skip, but which is actually really awesome? We used to do bonus content in blog post-format - like this, this, or this - but only for issues #6-#11.
So if somebody's interested in picking that up again, let me know. If you do the words, I'll take care of the formatting. :)

Friday, February 10, 2012

PKNA #0/3 - Xadhoom!


PKNA #0/3 - Xadhoom!
Bonus content:
Not yet available


Original title:
Xadhoom (September 1996)
Writers:
Alessandro Sisti and Ezio Sisto
Artist:
"Paul Ackerman" (Stefano Intini)
Translator: Trauma
Scans: Everett D. (http://pkhack.altervista.org/pktube/index.htm)

PKNA #0/2 - The Winds of Time


PKNA #0/2 - The Winds of Time
Bonus content:
Not yet available


Original title:
Il vento del tempo (June 1996)
Writer:
Alessandro Sisti and Ezio Sisto
Artist:
Claudio Sciarrone
Translators: Trauma
Letterer: Birch

Scans: Everett D. (http://pkhack.altervista.org/pktube/index.htm)

PKNA #0 - Evronians


PKNA #0 - Evronians
Bonus content:
Not yet available


Original title:
Evroniani (March 1996)
Writer:
Alessandro Sisti and Ezio Sisto
Artist:
Alberto Lavoradori
Translators: Mirkl, Trauma, Birch
Letterer: Birch

Scans: Everett D. (http://pkhack.altervista.org/pktube/index.htm)

Thursday, February 9, 2012

PKNA #25 - Crossfire + a few other things


Banker actually posted this a few days ago. My apologies for not putting it up right away.

Also, this is one of my favorite issues ever. Tito Faraci is awesome.

PKNA #25 - Crossfire

Also of interest: PKNA #24 had a few errors, so Banker has made a fixed version:
PKNA #24 - Twilight (FIXED)

AND he's also done a remastered version of PKNA #22:
PKNA #22 - Fragments of Autumn

Awesome, innit?