"Will you stop JOKING? Maybe you can find a better time!"

We can't deny: with this third issue, UN MONDO PERFETTO (A perfect world), Pkteam as Gianfranco Cordara and Claudio Sciarrone had his hard workin' time to give readers a sligthly better thing compared to the previous two ugly issues. The results are fair, though somehow criticizable.

Before reviewing this story, an official communication is required. As this issue was out, we were flooded by people writing us that the main story looked literally copied by a Silverware's famous fan fiction, Futuro Imperfetto (Future Tense). Actually that looks right, the two plots are very look-alike and being Cordara an usual customer of this community the suspect seemed legitimate. Seeking for an explaination, PKERS wrote directly to him. He declared himself really surprised, stating that he had never read Futuro Imperfetto; he said he took inspiration from another source, Gibson's "Continuum of Gernsback", and even that he had the idea back in the times of PKNA, but he wrote down the script only today. Well, maybe you don't expect that but we do believe him... some because we know which fan fictions Cordara has read or not, some 'cause this kind of idea is quite a classical plot in literature and cinema. So we trust in the author's intentions ("In Cordara we trust" ;P), even though some shadows on Pkteam's originality are no news...

Set this right, let's go on. Who's a member of Pkeri knows that about this issue I posted a very long spoiler examining each point deeply, so I'll try to be more brief. The basic idea is not bad, but during the scripting stage Cordara spread around a number of mismatches, abiguities and even bad errors that eroded the solidity of his own plot. For example, it's not clear if Paperbuck's built dimension was it either real or virtual, because if it was real in the final fight Pk would have killed all the citizens of Paperopolis, instead if it was virtual it couldn't try to merge with Pk's own reality. Then Paperbuck is taken back to Duckburg because if left there that would cause a dimensional disaster, but the Pikar that is native of Pk's dimension too is peacefully left on the other universe (and about that, changing her shape was a real homicide!!!). Characters like Rupert and Tempest appear, people that Paperbuck should not know personally and so shoulnd't be able to replicate in his private reality... and why if it's a perfect world he can replasm with a mere thought there are the Imperfect rebels? Moreover O.N.E. has become really unbearable to listen, now Pk even calls him "boss"... and Pk himself is no more the smart character he was, he wanders all the time around speaking stupid jokes on which only Spider-Man would waste his time ("I have to make humor because it's on my contract!"). Then put over all this Angus Fangus crying tears for mankind's freedom and the chaos is perfect! At least, Pk and Lyla seem to be getting very close toghether, maybe even they are going to... flirt? Let's wait and see, it's interesting!
Sciarrone's drawings are as good as usual, though a bit less outstanding than in PK2, but the artist paybacks giving us a never-so-sexy Lyla... now she goes into adventure dressing short and tight dresses, and in a couple of vignettes Pk saves her from a good upskirt. Very intriguing :)_
There's also a nice small story by Ambrosio and Ziche, taking us back to the old times of Angus Tales, but unfortunately without the same good cinism. Cover? We like... Lyla (^^), but Sciarrone made some mess with the details. For the rest it's all the same stuff.
So, good try, various troubles with the making, but it's a START.
PKERS's rating: 6,5/10

Nicolò Assirelli is back, as great as usual. There are six new drawings of his (and twice are in queue). The disco-duckgirls series goes on with a new Korinna sketch and also the definitive version, a very sexy duck to welcome you in the most trendy night club of Duckburg: the "PKERS"... definitely forbidden to the "elementars smart children"! Then, another nice portrait of Juniper that, after Lyla, whises us a good birthday. The gallery keeps on with a drawing dedicated to the first issue of the new series (too much of effort...) and with a new parody: PK AKIRA! That's it, even Katsuhiro Otomo's masterwork could not save itself from being portraited in a PK-like version. Would it be appropriate to make a gallery full of all these "fusions" we made?

More updates are quite everywhere. Unfortunately there is only one new drawing by Rita Micozzi, because the artist is working very hard on the e-comics "The taste of the night" (by the way, pencils are almost done). Netherless you'll find a new couple strip of ours in Silver & Rita adventures, at this time we kinda have... ginecological troubles?!
Yet six new fanarts, some very very artistic-looking, in Gallery #3, all by Stian Thomassen, Francesca Teso and Mariangela Bonavita.
Other single pics in Flavio Naspetti #1 and Matteo Vattani #2.

Coming soon a new flood of drawings, also coloured, and the beginning of PK Fantasy (many of them are about it)!

"I met a BOY!"

Witch #18 - FRAGMENTS OF SUMMER (but what is it, the sequel of Fragments of Autumn? ;) doesn't seem to have been much appreciated by the community: but I disagree. Personally I think it's a nice issue, in the average level of the series, maybe not quite that shining but with an interesting direction. Giulia Conti made a good script, making the story faster with an agile direction, and was well understood by Paolo Campinoti, who, even if never was a star, looks really improved from his previous works (by the way, Marina Baggio and Roberta Zanotta are inkers any penciler would like to team-up with). Strangely, it seems that in various points of this issue the direction is much inspired to Evangelion, just see the mythical frame with the street lamp on page 57, à la "Hideaki Anno", or the long travel shot of interiors on page 29. And, indeed, also Hay Lin's new boyfriend looks much like Shinji Ikari! Who knows... (Zaaankokou na witch no theeseee...)
Anyway in some passages the script is not so accurate, like upon Caleb's escape, and Campinoti may have his hard times with distant shots.
In this issue do happen various important things: Nerissa rejuvenates herself and gets ready to burn Kandrakar down, Luba seems to sacrifice to save Caleb (man, this guy always has to be saved by someone!!!), while Will is disillused by Matt because of a misunderstanding and Cornelia is disillused by herself for abandoning Caleb, because of a spell that erased the Witches' memory. It really looks the good guys do nothing but cry upon theirselves, while the bad guys are left to do their worst!
This issue has actually only ONE scandalous thing: the advertising of PK at page 6, with Lyla being defined as a "Newbie Witch"... unbelievable, and then they ask why there are some pkers hating Witch! If a character that was glorious before Witch was projected is treated like that, no wonder people gets offended!
Well, another one is gone.
Voto di PKERS: 6,5/10