News of JANUARY 2002

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News stored on 29.01.2002 - Futuro Imperfetto, the first sketches
Join the obscure kingdom of Dark Avenger...Another great update in the Pktreations, tasty as always.

After Vittime di Guerra (War Victims), we find Assirelli working on some illustrations about Futuro Imperfetto (Future Tense), other famous story of Silverware. In the young artist's second gallery you'll find 6 new drawings inspired to that violent fiction, more one of Pk vs Morgoth, and more yet are coming. And again: 2 new sketches for Reportage by Rita Micozzi, the drawing of Evralien life cycle of Paolo Dalla Valle coloured by our faithful Morpheu5, and some more adds to in the new opened galleries. See the index: every voice marked with "new" was updated.
(note: if you don't understand what the hell all these fan fictions talk about, you can ask explainations in English to the webmaster. He will reply to all of your questions.)

Wallpapers also do not lack: the PK Warfiles series goes on, having gained all over the Europe a huge success. So here are two new wallpapers by Silver, Tyrrel Duckard's Warfile and the OFFICIAL PKERS wallpaper in the Warfile Style. Don't miss 'em.

Some new fan fictions, italian only. The prolific Silverware is giving us a new small story, protagonist a very sexy Lyla, titled Il Sapore della Notte (The Taste of the Night). A tale short but intense and introspective, full with homages to Frank Miller and John Romita JR, and also Enna and Sciarrone. Cherry on the pie are the previews of two new fictions by Cristina to be out in the next months: Vladimir's History e "Urk non ha amici" ("Urk has no friends").

 

News stored on 24.01.2002 - Fantonald, the norwegian covers
In the Pkdatabase were added the hi-res covers of Fantonald, the norwegian edition of PK, from year 1996 to 1998. The rest of them will be on these pages soon!

 

News stored on 20.01.2002 - Fantaghenna, Superevronians and PK2 #13
It's been just five days, and here's a a new great update.

TN_cover_pk2-13.JPG (2696 byte)First of all, PK2 #13 - ALL OR NOTHING is out. A issue long-waited and annouced to be the new Trauma, that unfortunately proved quite unsure. Regardless of the precence of holy monsters like Faraci and Pastrovicchio (and some less holy, like the big mean reptile on the cover) fans feel very odd. The plot is somewhat already seen and even too much inspired to "The Matrix", moreover jumps out a new IA that is vanquished immediatly. At the end of reading, you won't know if you have to make an applause or ask for the artists' heads. The issue anyway looks really opened to critic interpretations, beyond the apparently poor story. You can read Silverware's spoiler in this page (italian only), and then judge for yourself: the thread is opened.
Of course, like every month, in the PkDatabase you can find the hi-rez cover, toghether with the one of Atlantis #2.

news_prevtraumase4.jpg (7642 byte)More images meanwhile join our huge fan art archive. In the Hidden Years Special you'll find some colored versions by Essekappa of Rita Micozzi's drawings. Then in Nicoḷ Assirelli's second gallery, you may stare at his evocative pencils working on Vittime di Guerra's character desing, the famous story of Silverware. Assirelli is giving us five new illustrations of stunning power, bringing to life the superevronians like never before. In his gallery are waiting for you: Stefan Vladuck war photograph, Trauma Superevronian 3 and 4, and also some sketches. Take a look and you won't regret. Also, in Schizzi inediti #3, there are two drawings by Turconi, courtesy of Pk Galaxy.

news_prevfantag.jpg (3761 byte)At last, we are introducing in the Specials section a preview of Fantaghenna, the new italian e-comic by Settemondi Studio, written by Giovanni Gualdoni and drawn by our fellow Stefano Turconi. If you have already seen it on other sites, only us have made a english summary of it, and we have also unseen and sexy images of the protagonists in exclusive preview for PKERS...

 

News stored on 15.01.2002 - Articles, awards & whereabouts
It's the half of January and here's a new fan art update, with a lot of new drawings by our great guest-stars: check the sixth (and last) volume of Hidden Years (by Rita Micozzi) and five new drawings by Nicoḷ Assirelli in his private gallery. We recommend to give a glance 'cause it's really worthy. For example, in Hidden Years there's a Lara Croft in duck version, plus a short story with Konrad falling from Ducklair Tower and Pk and Camera 9 trying to save him; instead into Assirelli's gallery (between the other things) there are Pk vs the Verifier and Ghost in the Shell in the duck version.

About Internet news, see a special (italian only) we worked toghether with the online magazine Ex Libris (http://exlibris.too.it). It's not the first time Ex Libris is talking about new-generation Disney comics, previously there was a special about MM.
At last, remember that the first stage of PK Awards 2001 is opened: at the address www.pkawards.cjb.net you can vote your favourite authors, pencilers, episodes, covers etc. of PK2, nonetheless the special categories for the best pk-website, pk-webmaster and community. Of course the official suggestions of Pkers are the following ones...
Miglior sito (best site): http://pk.immaginario.net
Miglior pk-webmaster (best pk-webmaster): Silverware
Miglior pk-community (best pk-community): mailing list Pkeri
If you like this site, if we were of use for you, if you have appreciated our efforts for giving you the best service, then vote, vote, VOTE! Thanks! ^^

To help foreign visitors to vote, we report you some translations for the categories in the left frame:
Autore = Author (this is your favourite scriptwriter)
Copertina = Cover (best cover)
Disegnatore = Drawer or penciler (the artist you prefer)
Episodio = Episode (the best issue in its whole, not only good story or drawings)
Uomo = Man (best male character)
Donna = Woman (best female character)
Rubrica = Editorial (which editorial you do prefer)
Soggetto = Story (your favourite issue's plot)
Spoiler (which anticipation of the next episode was best made in the fourth page of cover)
Titolo = Title (the title that sounds best for you)
Under these there are 3 fields for the special prizes, in which you have to type the address of your favourite site, the name of the community and the nickname of the webmaster - all as reported above. After voting click on the button "Invia" (= "Send").

 

News stored on 09.01.2002 - PK2 and Witch, one year later
It's almost one year since our favourite comic-books, PK2 and Witch, have been living togheter in the comic shops. And, with year 2001 definitely gone, it's time for balances. PK2 has been confronting with the other half of the sky for 10 months... let's see how it's gone. Silverware is explaining it to us in a long comparative article in the "Special" section, reviewing shortly every issue for each comic-book and giving the final votes, thus passing to a deep analysis of the differences among the two series, so similar but so different at the same time. The article is very long and so it's yet italian only, but you can see the votes anyway and easily make an idea of the situation. Take consolation from the fact that we are making the translation of PKNA #14 - Carpe Diem and it should be out for the first days of February at the latest. Click here to see the article.

 

News stored on 08.01.2002 - Great fan art update
A tutti i lettori di PK... SMACK! Vi aspetto nelle Pktreations! ^_^Great year-beginnigs update for the Pktreations!

This cool Lyla super deformed, by Roberto Nisi, is just of of the new files...
In the Pk-fan fictions, you may read (italian only) the preview for a whole new saga by Silverware: PK Fantasy, for all those who love the world of fantasy.
In the page about MM and Witch you'll find a couple of new Witch wallpapers for you desktop.
In the drawing galleries, a bunch of new images. In Gallery #2, the big-size version of this Lyla. Then, the great Rita Micozzi is flloding us with her drawings as usual, that you can find in Rita Micozzi Gallery #3 (there's also another manga-Lyla and a Lyla as Skydoll) and the fifth volume of Hidden Years.
Moreover, PKERS is proud to introduce to you a new very young artist (he's just 14 years old) but also really gifted, possibly already more skilled than many authors actually drawing on PK: discover the art of Nicoḷ Assirelli in his private gallery!
Last but not least, we opened a new subsction, Memorabilia, where you can find photos of objects created or decorated with PK-themes. Here you'll find a little model of Paperinik sculpted a spanish visitor (David S. Fuentes) and the beautiful t-shirt that Rita gave to Silverware for Christmas, drawing on it a kind of PK vs Evangelion crossover: three gorgeous babes, Lyla, Korinna and Juniper, squeezed in tight plug suits! Why the hell are you still here? :)

No! One moment please! I was forgetting to tell you that in the PkDatabase you can find the latest covers of Witch and Atlantis! ^^

 

News stored on 04.01.2002 - Witch site opens: and the pkers get angry
news_witchsite.jpg (14040 byte)The news for year 2002 start as both very good and very bad: the official website of the now-most-popular magazine W.i.t.c.h., in fact, opened up a couple of days ago, making its debut in the best way. Great graphics, HTML and Flash versions, rich and full contents, summary of past issues' plots, online games, astrology and assorted magic stuff... for the readers of Witch, a handsome menu. That you can see at http://www.
disney.it/Publishing/Witchmagazine/

Unfortunately we can't say the same for PK-fans, who feel (right enough) betrayed and very angry due to the shameful situation of the PK2 official site: news_pksite.jpg (27944 byte)opened MANY months ago, it has a stunning but too heavy graphics and practically no contents but some photos, low-quality covers and the usual abonnement page.
The disillusion for pkers was harsh: in nearly six years of faithful reading, Disney didn't give us even a decent official site, but for the beloved and cuddled Witch, that we like so much but it's just 10-months old, a beautiful and complete site was put up immediatly.

On PK-discussion groups, and especially in Pkeri, the thread generated from the indignation turned soon into a kind of flame; protests and strikes were proposed. At this time we are considering the opportunity to take part in these manifestations or not. We'd like to express the same our indignation and our blame to the company for their behave towards the most fonded readers of a glorious comic book that opened the way for all magazines of his kind, especially for Witch. We feel betrayed and humiliated, and so we ask officially for someone to stop this shameful situation for a obvious matter of pride. If you want to join our protest, email the Pkteam too asking for a better PK2-site at pk@disney.it. It's important anyway to remember that all this is not actually Pkteam's fault, but it's from directors, so don't be mad to the artists, that are already so worried about making better the inconstant quality of PK2... instead, ask for your email to be forwarded to the real responsibles.

Thanks from now to all supporters of PK.

 

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