Rita Micozzi makes the show: in her gallery #4 you'll find 4 new amazing drawings, two of them colored, all about the characters of her series, Reportage. There's a nice Kat with his hand in ache, the trio Stefan-T@lita-Kat both in pencil and pastel version, and a drawing of Stefan with a old and ripped trench gazing at the city from a roof: it's enough to make the famous vignette of Pastrovicchio on PKNA #16 hide in shame. Take a look at it and you'll never read again PK in the same way!

Nicolò Assirelli is prolific as always! In his fifth gallery were added: the usual drawing aobut the last issue of PK2, a portrait of Will (it's just the second fanart piece about Witch that we host... c'mmon boys, you can do better, we accept also Witch fan art you know?), nonetheless four images inspired to Vittime di Guerra: a unpublished sketch of Seiano and 3 beautiful pictures of Ken, the charming ninja created by Silverware, in the famous fight against Pk on the roofs of Mary Ann's hospital.

Opened too a third gallery for Paolo Dalla Valle, always with drawings on pk-fictions: 3 sketches for his "Il Terzo Occhio" ("The Third Eye") - coming very soon -, a preview for the new one "Wendigo", a suggestive illustration from Futuro Imperfetto (Future Tense) and another great one from Evron vs Alien, with Gorthan portraited in all of his great shape and evil power.

Also a picture by Luca Carnevali, student of the Scuola Internazionale di Comics (International School of Comics): in his surreal style here's a new colored image of Paperinik.

Little adds in the normal galleries: two new pictures in gallery #2 and #3, the former from an american friend named Cali, fan of the Mighty Ducks (don't mind if you don't know what they are, it's an american tv cartoon), the latter a graceful Witch drawing about Cornelia, sent by Francesca Teso.

Ladies and gentlemen now it's up to the month's main event: the first issue of X-Mickey (or maybe we should say #1000, since that's printed on the cover?!).
Well, that's it: we were worried and we were right. Although it's evident how much the authors were concerned in working at their best, the result is quite disappointing. It's not a technical problem: the drawings of Perina, Turconi, and Coppola are great. And the scripts are even better: suggestive Macchetto's one about the man/monster, so much Dylan Dog-like, very professional the one by Enna, who takes out texts impressively fitting for the series. So why we are disappointed? Because of the target! Low, lowest than ever. X-Mickey is a comic-book for 10 years old children, the stories are almost like the ones on Mickey Mouse. Thanks for this to the she-director Claretta Muci, who is even brave enough to greet us with an editorial concluded like this: "We are sure you'll stay with us for long... soooo long..."... well, great, at least one of us is sure!!! We're just starting to feel an enormous nostalgy of MM... why ever they opened a new series to make stories like Mickey Mouse ones, they could respawn Topomistery at this point!
For us, working like that is a nonsense. So we'll keep an eye on X-Mickey still for a while, but if the target won't grow (and probably it won't) we'll just stop talking about it in the monthly reviews, because if we did we could talk about Disney Princesses too... and PKERS claims a little more grown public.
Dear readers, welcome to the impossible: yeah, like "How a director by herself alone is slowly destroying all the new-generation Disney series!"
PKERS' rating: n/a

More the covers of PK2 #16 and X-Mickey in the Pkdatabase were added also two new covers of Fantonald.

The magazine is "Isa e Bea Streghe tra noi" ("Isa & Bea, witches among us") and it's published by Edizioni Cioè, publisher specialized in magazines for preteen girls. The base model is similar to Witch: young teenagers gifted with magical powers, but living in our own age. But, this time the main characters are two witches from the middleages (gorgeous as usual), banished in the XXI century for having used their abilities in a wrong way.
A kind of bad Witch clone so? Not at all.

First of all, the technical making is completely out of the state-of-the-art. The subject is vaguely interesting, the script is childish, drawings are the delectant level, colors... well, leave it. There are also many gadgets as usual for girls' make up, and they seem to dry out those 3 Euro it costs, since the story is only 32 pages long. In its whole this comic-book seems just like a commercial magazine for little girls loving Harry Potter and Buffy but that understand nothing about comics.
But, although it's evident how this comic tries to ride the wave of success of the recent pseudo-esoteric productions for children and teens, we cannot accuse "Streghe" to be copied from Witch: part for some deep differences in the plot, part for the low-quality making, part for the article inside explaining how the idea is actually born from the director's (Marco Iafrate) little daughter, during August 2000, when also Witch was under construction or early just born. So the two ideas are mostly independent from each other, thus installing on the same genre for a matter of trend, in which Streghe had the bad luck (?) to be out later for a lack of resources instead of Disney.

We will not talk further about this comic anymore, but we'll try to keep an eye on it... you never know.

The famous PK-videogame is actually going to be released, and it will be available in both Playstation and PC version. It was developed by Ubisoft for Disney Interactive and it's fully based on the first series PKNA (so, evronians!!!). The gameplay should be a first-person shooter, "Quake"-like for non-addicts. We also know the date of first release: October 2002, but it will be officially presented in Italy on July, exactly at the same time the new series of PK will be out.
We're still trying to get some preview screenshots! We're so curious too... ^^

Nicolò Assirelli is once again the most prolific: in his fifth gallery you'll find four new drawings, all about Lyla, Juniper, Korinna & co. From the chocolate Easter egg of our dreams, Juniper e Korinna birth naked like mummy did them, covered only with a big ribbon... a pretty nice way of wishing a merry Easter to the readers, maybe a little late but we hope you won't get angry for it. The other three are the usual drawing about the latest issue, also in a variant version, and an amazing portrait of Lyla in vest, with all of her beauty.

Rita Micozzi doesn't make sitting duck: under suggestion of the old good Silver, she's giving us a real masterpiece. Lyla, Juniper and Korinna portraited like super-sexy mermaids on a rock, naked of course! Who has a good eye maybe will spot a pair of nips, hidden among hair... soon this drawing will be available also in pastel-colored version. Hurry up to Rita gallery #4 to download this great pic.

Paolo Dalla Valle couldn't miss: curiously the idea is the same of Assirelli's drawing (that one suggested by Silverware too), but this time from the Easter egg comes out a nice Lyla, naked as always, un unfortunately there's the April fish. PDV gallery #2.

The parade is closed by the new entry Kiara Pasquini, giving us a tiny lovely drawing of Lyla in a japanese geisha version: that's the dream of every pker! Inside gallery #2.

Moreover a new Silverware wallpapper: Lyla in lingerie, for your desktop's delight. It's in the Wallpapers section, page 2.

Well, that's for: voting PKERS is quite convenient! Remember it! ;)

Remember also the appointment: on Sunday 14th April 2002 on Radio24, the radio show Pappappero (ghnn, in English it sounds terrible!) will devote all the episode (from 10 to 11 AM) to Witch's first year. You can talk to the transmission calling 800.281.111.
Who knows what they should organize, if they knew that PK has made 6 years as well!

Details are still classified, but it's certain that at the end of the Quadrilogy began on #15 PK will undergo some big changes. Disney understood many people didn't like PK2, so at the end of July will launch a new series of PK that will start again from issue #1. Thus a new beginning (again), that should bring new lifeforce to the old PK. Let's hope for the best.

The other news is the publishing, on the end of April, of a new PK-like Mickey Mouse series. After the partially failed experience of MM, Disney has another try with X-Mickey, a unseen horror version of the popular (?) mouse. Mickey will handle cases worthy of Mulder and Scully: parallel dimensions, WereGoofies, monsters hidden into mirrors, mysteryous beings feeding people's memories (maybe evronians changed their tastes in the last times?). The series will feature also new characters: allies, foes, and his new sidekick Pipwolf, driving him into this new paranormal world. X-Mickey will feature two stories per month, one long and one short, much like the old PKNA; also articles by the well-known authors like Enna, Ambrosio, Cordara, Macchetto, Artibani etc...
The first episode is "NELLO SPECCHIO" ("In the mirror"), script by Enna and drawings by Perina.

We feel somehow perplexed about these new manoeuvres: we expected a new PK, but X-Mickey is a real surprise. We hope the MM lesson teached something up there, Mickey is a difficult chatacter to handle inside a new context. But we had doubts also on Witch, so it's better to see before judging...

And, if you think that's an April fish... see you at the newsstand!

Thanks to your great support, PKERS resulted as winner in the PK Redmarks contest - www.pkredmarks.cjb.net and in all opened polls. Here are the results:

CONTENTS >>> 75%
ART >>> 70%
GRAPHICS AND NAVIGABILITY >>> 58%
IMAGES >>> 67%

Also the mailing list Pkeri has won the COMMUNITY special award, with a 62% score!

These are the pages to check the prizes:
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Results confirmed also by the polls on PKERS and FANTONALD.COM:

PKERS poll
Valutando tutti gli aspetti di questo sito (contenuti, grafica,
navigabilità, comportamento ecc.), che voto gli daresti? - In all honesty
(considering contents, graphics, navigability, behaviour etc.) how would you
rate this site?
  votes percent
 1.)  Perfetto! (Perfect!) [10] 27    36%
 2.)  Eccellente (Excellent) [9] 28   38%
 3.)  Ottimo (Great) [8] 8   11%
 4.)  Buono (Good) [7] 6   8%
 5.)  Sufficiente (Sufficient) [6] 1   1%
 6.)  Mediocre [5] 2   3%
 7.)  Insufficiente (Non-sufficient) [4] 1   1%
 8.)  Una schifezza! (It really sucks!) [3] 1   1%

Total Votes:  74

FANTONALD.COM poll (www.fantonald.com)
Which foreign Pk site do you wish most? (Qual è il sito di PK all'estero che preferisci?)
 
Total Voters: 32
 
Pkers  16 (50.0%)
Phantomias Fanpage  1 (3.1%)
PKGalaxy  0 (0.0%)
Phantomias.de  0 (0.0%)
PK²XTREME  1 (3.1%)
Pk2 No Limits  0 (0.0%)
Is only on Fantonald.com  14 (43.8%)

Now only PK Awards are missing... so please, another little effort! ;)

We thank all of our supporters from the deep of our heart: thanks so much! We are deepley affected and honored! Your faith will be paid back... as long as we can, we'll keep on living with you this great adventure, always trying to be worthy your support!

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(Because of the happiness we were forgetting... a new poll is opened. Pkersnews should be only a service to notify PKERS updates or a kind of press agency, submitting also news and other sites' features?)