Due to holidays, on this month PK and Witch reviews are toghether in one news. Let's start from the good one...

"Sometimes, life splits what destiny puts toghether!"

Witch #17 - NON CHIUDERE GLI OCCHI (Don't close your eyes) is, indeed, an excellent issue. Bruno Enna always succedes in giving its characters a regardable vitality, making everything closer to the reader. Above all, for the first time Caleb looks friendly! While previously the ex-murmurant has been treated just like Cornelia's subject of desire and fulfilled with heroic stereotypes, Enna is able to give us a nicer version of him, capable of making fun of himself and play the bad boy scaring the classical child pest on the bus. Maybe that's just a try to rappacificate with the reader a character who should have been left dead and was resurrected only to please the reader girls, but hell it works. Yes, as Kandrakar.it points out he still looks the lady-boy who is knocked out just to wait for her girl to save him, so let's hope they make him a bit more reactive up to the next issues since he got the powers of all 5 witches and he should be the very badass of all sorcerers.
A big applause goes to all the graphic team and most to the great Giada Perissinotto, who seems to have a very regardable talent: she draws very well Caleb and Nerissa, but also Will in her "Honda" outfit makes her cool shape. The cover is beautiful too, the protagonists seem to be grown respect to last year: that means - correct me if I'm wrong - that Witch characters do grow and get old, crashing down the most classical of the Disney rules.
PKERS' rating: 8,5/10

"Let down the gun, you blockhead!"

(I warn in advance that this issue made me VERY angry, so in some passages I used a bit rough language to review it. Those who think they may be offended by my personal judgement shouldn't read this.)

To balance the shining Witch issue we have this ugly PK #002 - TOYLAND. I read it on the beach and I almost felt bad (I swear!), and also Rita didn't take it very well. I thought I knew the meaning of the word "scandalous", but after reading this I sticked the thumbnail of the cover on the dictionary. It's horrendous to describe the rape readers had to undergo with this issue, moreover completely unnecessary. Ambrosio's story, poor thing, is a silly plot for itself. Why should Gorthan worry about going to the Pozzo and take Trauma when he can just push a button to animate the mechanical dinosaurs of an amusement park, terrifying the poor turists that are so impatient to get coolflamized, then to stand there in a reckless pseudo-poetic delirium? Sigh. So the beasts come to life, and the mighty Guardian of the Galaxy comes to the rescue (ta-dà!). We find ourselves in front of a carnage: Konrad greeting Pk so kind and excited, the evronian officer madly laughing, One who requires the mission reports every 5 minutes and at mission ending, with a bit of sugar the coolflames disappear and in the most terrifying american cartoon style, Donald coming out of a vignette and talking to the reader in the last page! Do you think that to be enough? And what about the coup-de-grace? Of course! So from now on you won't call evronian disks "individual disk" but "Surf-runner model Klyrion" and the glorious Evrongun will turn to the banalized "Coolflamizator" (and why not "Hoover's Emotionsucker"?). Clearly all the description about the evronian chaste system is disappeared, there stay only big empty words uselessly attempting to hide the worst bullshit. An unbelievable vulgarity.
Tasteless are the drawings of Palazzi, even Rigano in the short story falls down badly after the great promises of PK2. Yes Miss Lyla Lay, you have a nice butt indeed, but was the rest built up in steaks or what? Maybe Pkteam thinks that they just need to draw Lyla a bit more sexy to make us pk-maniacs think about nothing else! Are you making fool of us? Do a pair of robochappers alone make a good comic book?!

So, this PK is BAD. So bad that couldn't be worse. Not "childish": it's just STUPID. I think that if authors make such stories, so deeply unrespectful towards PK spirit, they must have a shotgun pointed behind their neck or they've just gone mad. Because if they were doing this of their own will they should be just disgusted of theirselves, as readers more than as authors. There are no words to describe the sadness with we're following the new PK, and we're SERIOUSLY thinking about stopping (not the whole site - only reviews). We reviewed this issue purely for service duty, but even duty has its limit. We reached a level unseen even in PK2: all right, that series sucked, but at least it made some sense! Here everything was good about the character's history was thrown down to pigs! We can't go on like that, seen the anger in the community Claretta Muci should understand that her tactic to conquer the children audience is just FOOLISH! There are voices who say X-Mickey's sells are dropping: you wanna know why? Because children audience does not make hardcore fan readers, they like one thing today and another one the next month. It's a public as easy to conquer as easy to lose. They don't criticize and request nothing, but betray without remorses if they are no more interested. Do you want PK to end up in the same way? We don't! So help us, write to Pkteam and ask them to stop this as long as they can! Meanwhile, we give a terrible mark to this Pamper Premium full of colored paper. That is what happens when the reader is abused too much, and even the most moderated reviewer loses his patience in the end...
PKERS' rating: 3/10 (and the Excommunication is still up)

What we were about? Oh yes... maybe you noticed while on the beach that in the newsstand is out a thing called PK #001 (click on the image for cover). Silverware made a full article composed of 5 pages to explain what is it and most important WHY is it, and it's here (there are also a lot of interesting images you won't see for months)... but it was too long to translate, so we shall make a short summary out of it.

The new PK is cool in looking indeed: drawings, colors and graphics have dramatically improved since PK2. But it's childish, simplified, commercial. All the origins of the character were denied and everything is restarted, PK becomes a superhero just now - nothing more exists about a 30-years long story. Also the characters, even if remained almost the same in looking, were changed in their characterization according to a very american-way model.
As long as the authors made their best to get out of this thing the better they could, they were requested by american Disney to do it like this. That's no more the PK we knew and we loved... you'll see when it will be published abroad. An age is over forever.

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