From January to December, all the most beautiful girls from PK2 will join us with a series of high-sexy rate shots. As always, we have the elite team working on: Silverware to photography and color moods, Rita Micozzi and Nicolò Assirelli to drawings, and Morpheu5 to colors.
January's playmate, or better pkermate is of course Lyla, as a gorgeous "Befana" from whom we all would like to receive presents... ;O)
(For those who don't know, it's not a Witch parody... the Epiphany is an italian typical feast: on January the 6th a kind old lady flying on a rake, the "Befana", brings presents to children, just like Santa Claus)

We point out that this calendar is intended as a product solely for adults (just like this site, again) and we'll not feel responsible for eventual damages to Disney's image or to the elementar's smart kids' brain.

The pictures are published in a separated mini-site (to be improved, just a prototype for now) in which will be put also the future calendars and perhaps, one day, you'll have the chance to purchase something online. The address to bookmark is

http://pk.immaginario.net/calendari

One footnote: surely many people will feel scandalized by the publishing of pictures portraiting really naked female ducks, but we see it as a try to "educate" at least a part of the public to a different way of thinking and living Disney comic, and adult version not intended to lessen or insult the classic way of Disney - nor we aim to be coarse. This is our philosophy, and we are faithful to it: this calendar can be seen also a strong sign of our protest against the very low target the series was pushed. The making of doujinshi, calendars etc. is a normal thing in the world of comics (especially about mangas), but it's definitely the first time that a group of readers/artists comes to an initiative of this level in the Disney area. It is true indeed that there are tons of erotic (or actually porn) drawings on the net about the heroines of american Disney MOVIES, but we are the first to make use of PK-girls. If you are grown enough go to the page and enjoy your Christmas present, also featuring extra stuff!

"Are you ready to face your doom?"

Some issues happen to be out "weird", and I believe this is one of those. SOTTO IL SEGNO DELL'OMBRA (Under the mark of shadow) (by Conti/Artibani/Bertolucci) comes up with a very trendy Taranee on cover, wishing us a Merry Witch Year under a metal shining logo. It goes on inviting readers to buy a copy of the Heart of Kandrakar, who costs just 15 Euro and can be purchased only via phone/internet (mmh... quite the temptation, after the One Ring it would be a nice Christmas present!) and then opens the story with a pin-up where Will really looks to be terminally anorexic, her cute face hollow and her boots 3 sizes too big - you'll really want to rip the page away.
This episode is very important because Nerissa finally resolves to start the destruction of the Coven, and onslaughts directly upon Kandakar, crossing over barrier after barrier... the whole story seems a quoting of a sentence from the Spawn movie, "Lead us to the holy land so we can burn it down"... Nerissa drives her servants to Heaven to crash it down! Contemporarily, Will has her good mystical-experience time talking with Cassidy's spirit while her friends hold back the throat-cutting Khor using fair means or foul (that means - Khor really getting his ass kicked!). Cassidy gives Will a copy of the Heart of Kandrakar: so the girls gain their powers back and buy a one-way ticket for a sieged Kandrakar. There they found Caleb, finally out of the reviving room, and so we're over again with the endless mawkish feuilleton in magic sauce between him and Cornelia; but this time it gets more juicy when Caleb discovers that her fianceé in her real form is a young teenager, making a face you'll mad laugh looking at! But Nerissa is in front of the gates: the time for the final battle has come...

What stroke me most are the drawings of this issue: more harsh and rough than usual, sometime nice, sometimes less. Bertolucci doesn't care showing things usually suppressed: wrinkles, quite marked face folds, neck tendons just below the skin, and I don't know if you have noticed what huge boobs has Nerissa in some vignette! So his style doesn't look particularly refined, but has its worths.

And now we're at the protest corner. This time a critic is towards both Witch and PK teams. One thing really got us mad... but how can you be so brave, guys, to insert a page asking the reader teenager girls how must end or continue the Caleb/Cornelia love story?! I think such a thing to be really shameful: it's not prefessional to let readers decide the plot, and shows lack of ideas and demagogy. Moreover I take it as a real insult to PK-readers, that have been discussing new plots for the series for 6 years and were never listened or publically recognized for their contribution. NOW, ON WITCH, they dare ask directly to the readers what they must put in the comic-book!!! I think this is really loathsome and scandalous: we were always treated almost like, can I say it, shit, they tried to kick us away from the series with the restyling, while to the readers of Witch has been allowed the privilege to personally decide the plot of their favoured comic... well, do whatever you want: just stop bothering us with this ridiculous soap-opera, we can't take it anymore!
PKERS' rating: 6/10

In this period Assirelli went on a hard work: the results are 11 new masterworks that fill up his 7th gallery. Two are about Vittime di Guerra (War Victims), both wonderful: the big match between Seiano and Skarn, and an Exotrooper, when in the 4th part Pk finds out that the evronians make us also of children coolflames to pilot exosuits in battle... a highly dramatic moment, amazingly captured in this picture, that reminds young victims or much more real wars. Follows Lyla in disco, sketch and full, Juniper and Korinna in a Resident Evil version (here Nicolò surpassed himself), and some parodies: PK vs Witch (poor Caleb!) and... Juniper and Korinna in a lesbian kiss?! It's just the ducky version of the popular music video Tatu - All the things she said, with the famous russian lesbian (?) singers: it inspired us because of the looking-alike of the protagonists! The gallery ends up with two pics of Tyrrel in "Terminator" version and Pk as Vash the Stampede in Trigun.

It's up to the Micozzi sisters now, Laura and Rita. The older one gives us a fantastic drawing of the PKERS' staff in Matrix version! In the group you can see Silver (as Neo), Morpheu5 (as Morpheus), Rita (as Trinity), Paolo Dalla Valle (as Cypher), Assirelli and Vattani (as the agents). Also, the comic strips are coming soon!
Laura instead submits four drawings with various themes, a Witch one, then the manga SD of herself and two Lylas, one inspired to The Taste of the Night and a very sweet one in a tight swimsuit that is gonna warm up a bit your frosty winter.

Then here's the funny art of Paolo Dalla Valle coming with 9 plates: you find six of them in his 4th gallery that include Lyla in bikini (again?), Pk in wash with the enemies inspired to the namesake fiction by Dapiz, more others oftenly intended as satire about the third "american way" series of PK. The other three were added in the special gallery Silver & Rita adventures, which shows what kind of blockheads are the authors of this site... :) Most recommended is the pker version of a famous picture from City Hunter, with Silver, Rita and Paolo in superdeformed.
Talking about that: did we tell you that Join The Sex Empire 2 is under construction?

Last but not least is Matteo Vattani, who joined the Scuola Romana di Comics (we hope them to treat the students better, at least) and under the teaching of Mastantuono is improving dramatically: he proves it with 8 new pictures, variously themed (included his own intepretation of the ducks at the disco). Really great the one with Pk in Spider-man version.

There are then the usual nice drawings of those not-almost-professional artists who want to contribute too. One by Morpheu5, a nice night-time Lyla, and five by Sady, a loving fan of PKERS, who we thank also for the enthusiastic moral support during the exhibition affair.

About Lucca Comics 2002 see also Eclypse Neo's great reportage (italian only).