DUCK AVENGER / PAPERINIK NEW ADVENTURES - Fiction Addiction

[@eb7389]

Don't forget that in the italian comics Donald is also DoubleDuck, a James Bond-like secret agent!

[@mennio100]

GUYS....PKNA is one of the coolest comics ever made!!! The story, characters,technology,humor....it changed my life when I was young

[@Zivilin]

Same

[@Peter_Pierre_Anderson]

Cameraguy was the best character. Ex war journalist who reported war crimes and helped war victims! True hero.

[@Bruno-wx2yb]

I've read some of the old Duck Avenger comics and always think: this guy deserves a cartoon for his own!

[@nathandegroot6490]

He has comics in Europe

[@pkdeathrow3142]

@@francescosaporiti1431 Now that you mentioned it, in the Ducktales reboot, Gyro did invent a pill like device to alter a person's voice (don't remember what it was called). For Donald's case, making his voice sound "normal" and understandable. At this point the Duck Avenger can be introduced into animation for the first time in history and in America with an actual explanation for his voice change when Donald becomes the Duck Avenger.

[@falketvgaming8172]

I am making My own Ducktales series and the Duck Avenger is in it

[@daseal1479]

How many aliases and epic action-hero moments has Donald had over the years? PK, Maui Mallard, Quackshot, a member of the Three Caballeros, he fought in the Navy, he's an incredibly powerful mage in Kingdom Hearts, AND he has gone on many, many adventures in the Ducktales comics and shows. What a life.

[@Christopher_Woods]

He definitely has. Would be cool if they had his Paperinik identity in animation. Maybe a possible crossover with Darkwing and Gizmoduck.

[@thatitalianlameguy2235]

Double duck the secret agent too

[@JusticeSolaris85]

I'm from Italy and I'm very happy that you enjoyed the stories. The New Era stories are five up to now and next year a new one should come out. And in this New Era stories there is also a crossover with Donald's another secret identity, he's also a secret agent based on James Bond style named DoubleDuck

[@matteomellozzini4392]

Americani: Creano Paperino Italiani: Lo fanno meglio... MOLTO MEGLIO!!!

[@ArsyaUtomo]

So what's the deal with DD and PK crossover?

[@JusticeSolaris85]

@@ArsyaUtomo time traveler Duck Avenger went to the future and helped Double Duck (aka himself) to stop a time traveler terrorist

[@JusticeSolaris85]

@@ArsyaUtomo Luckily there wasn't a triple crossover with all Donald secret identities, he works also for his uncle Scrooge as a secret agent (but in this case the stories are only comedics)his name is Qu Qu 7 that stands for "Quasi Qualificato" (Almost Classified)

[@JusticeSolaris85]

@Dawid st Doubleduck knows informations that only Pk should know, also Doubleduck knows how to use Pk shield and he also said to himself to say hello to One, so Donald plays both identities since 2014. Until then he was Pk until 2002 when he stopped being a superhero when Everett left Earth

[@ElTio.45-70]

I just love Italian Paperinik and DoubleDuck stories.

[@kitz3691]

I live in italy and paperinik is as famous as mickey and donald

[@larslersso]

There should be a comic book crossover with the Duck Avenger and Darkwing Duck.

[@josethebeast8709]

Amen brother amen

[@Stranglars1]

Oh yeah!

[@orignal3577]

TimeCrime

[@a.g.styles3500]

If Paperinik was inspired by Diabolik, then Darkwing Duck might be inspired directly by Rat-Man.

[@yrooxrksvi7142]

@@a.g.styles3500 Darkwing Duck was based on old pulp comics such as the Shadow or Golden Age Era Batman.

[@BlackFlash09]

God, I hope the Duck Avenger appears in the Duck Tales 2017 cartoon!

[@DrGregoryHouseIT]

Ooh, Paperinìk New Adventures: I was HOOKED on that one. And being Italian, of course when you say duck superhero the first thing that popped into my mind was Paperinik. Great review.

[@ludothorn]

i love how you say "paperinik" (i have all the comcs, much love

[@Tazmogus]

Man, I’ve been obsessed with Pk for over a year now and this video was the key for me to understand what Duck Avenger really was. I got the first Duck Avenger: New Adventures book that has comics #0-2 in just one book. When I first read it, I was so damn confused... until I came across this video, Wikis, and the fanbase, of course. DANA Volume 4 hasn’t been released yet (WHERE IS IT IDW!?!?!!?!!?!??) and I’m still waiting impatiently for it!!! America needs more Duck Avenger! (Also Trauma reminds me of Obscura, Stella’s Nemesis from World of Winx)

[@marcolaf6948]

I read the Disney magazine from France on the daily as a child. I also had all of duck avenger.honestly forgot it existed. But Disney+ should make duck avenger an original series

[@TrocaTheNero]

Yeah the Super-Donald was awesome, although here in your arch-nemesis Sweden he is called Stålkalle, which literally means "Steel Donald". Kinda makes you think how the hell he manages to have a secret identity but oh well.

[@jurtheorc8117]

Ah, it's always awesome to hear people acknowledge, leave alone talk passionately about the PKNA series. First experience i had with it was when i was a kid, when i had the issue in which Duck Avenger and Xadhoom set out to Africa to destroy an Evronian spore nest. (I think it was called The Wells of the Moon, if i remember correctly. I'm translating on the spot from Dutch as i'm writing this). I had no idea how emotional or serious it actually was, nor that it was a self-contained universe at the time nor who, let alone what the Evronians were. As time passed i sadly lost that book and never looked into it, until when a few years ago the Donald Duck Premium pocket books (what we Dutch call the Jumbo Books) came out which are thicker and bigger than the average pocket book, with the uneven numbers telling the PKNA saga whilst the uneven numbers are telling different stories, from more mature Mickey Mouse detective-ish stories with literal attempts at murder if i remember correctly, to completely new comics about Darkwing Duck, to the adventures of Donald as his secret agent alter ego Double Duck. Now i have Premium Issues 1, 7, 9 and 11, i'm waiting for issue 13 to come out and i really want to add issues 3 and 5 to my collection. I'm sorry to say that i've kind of outgrown "regular" Donald Duck stories and my preference lies more on the more serious and mature stories of PKNA these days, although there are still "regular" stories that i really enjoy. As for my favourite character, of course Donald himself, alongside One and Xadhoom. It's not often that you see a female character as brutal, brash and unforgiving as her, at least for me, and she's got a kickin' mohawk. One is simply great, no other explanation needed, and Donald has always been my favourite, especially above Mickey. he's a bit of an annoying know-it-all, in my opinion, and i find Donald in general to be more relatable. Whilst he may not have as short of a fuse as in the regular stories (at least to my experience) , he is still a very relatable and recognizable character. Also, mah boi Evron himself! I haven't seen him in action yet, only Zotnam, but Evron manages to have a terrifying presence even with something as goofy as a duck bill! The artwork i've seen him depicted on so far on Google is awesome so far. Also, I really want to see Trauma in action! I'm a sucker for physically powerful characters that are more than just dumb muscle, one of the reasons for that being that it's been too long since i saw physical powerhouses being an actual threat rather than a dumb, general henchman, and i've seen too many rogue-ish characters, generic heroic sword-wielders, innocent lovely magical girls and more deal with them with much more ease than it should. It's coming out of my nose at this point. I think it's because not enough example of the power of such characters is given: if you give me a scrawny guy with a knife and a burly guy in armor and don't show me what they are capable of, yet they go down in a few hits, then it gets quite boring for me. I understand anime and such generally isn't a thing to be taken serious, though. I dream of the day that the Evronians will be present in a Kingdom Hearts game and more than just the European fans will know about PKNA... whilst i'm not the greatest fan of KH, i admit i have thought more about my version of a KH story with the Evronians in it than one probably should, as the saying goes. With one of my own OC's in the main role (who is a weird guy. He's immortal, nigh emotionless, fully genderless and generally clueless, but will do almost anything to get power. And i created him before i picked up my first copy of the Premium Pockets with the PKNA stories and fully discovered what the Evronians were all about, as i was too young to understand it all at the time) My idea *coughfanficcough* would be that they discover the Keybearers to be the greatest sources for emotional energy in the universe and cook up schemes to get the most emotion out of them as possible before Coolflaming them, from locking them up in absorption cages and letting them experience different stadia of emotions like they do with Beepos, to having Grrodon replace and impersonate one of them who has a love relation with another one, carefully manipulating them to the peak of their emotional stadia before they Coolflame them. Essentially it's like a really messed-up psychological version of Bio-industry, which i guess is a way you could put it. Correct me if i'm wrong. You made a really amazing video on the PKNA series, man, and it's because of PKNA that i found you in the first place. I plan to stick around here for a while longer, if you don't mind... and if the fridge at your place is full. Kidding aside, i've actually seen a bunch of your other videos as well before writing this after having watched this video for the third time. I'll definitely keep my eye on you! (And i love the part from 3:36 - 3:41. It's short enough to not be a violation of the eardrums, but loud enough to still scare off your socks!) Until then, i wish you good luck with any future projects of yours, and i hope you'll have a nice day, man! :) Also, nice beard.

[@ThePaganSun]

Awesome views!!! I too love physically powerful characters that are also smart and that's also why I love Donald and PK so much because he too has potential to be a physical powerhouse but is also incredibly resourceful and intelligent!

[@jurtheorc8117]

@@ThePaganSun Thank you! And y apologies for replying so late to your comment. It's indeed really nice to see Donald depicted as he is in these stories. He manages to be smart and go about things quite well without One's help from time to time, which One commends him for-- and I really like seeing that kind of stuff. Currently the comics here in the Netherlands are at issue 37, i believe, and I can't wait for the next one to come out!

[@ThePaganSun]

@@jurtheorc8117 Yeah, he's amazing! And I love the stories where he wins or is more heroic/action-y rather than swamped by bad luck.

[@ThePaganSun]

And if you like physically powerful characters, Donald Duck himself while sometimes depicted as "toned" in some cartoons and comics, he was depicted as REALLY BUFF in a Quack Pack episode "The Really Mighty Ducks". It's somewhere here on KZbin so you should look it up. At one point, he becomes so strong he destroys the entire universe and his nephews are only able to stop him by going back in time!

[@MarioBrosFan]

Duck Avenger New Adventures is so awesome. We need a cartoon adaptation of this series! Maybe one is already secretly in production, like Legend of the Three Caballeros... Hopefully. Too bad the official English translation was cancelled due to low sales... I really want this series to be more known. And this is kind of a stretch, but wouldn't it be amazing to get a PKNA video game with a similar structure to the Batman Arkham games? Imagine roaming the streets of Duckburg on the Duckmobile and beating up villains with the Extransformer Shield while teaming up with folks like Lyla and the Raider? Ahh, a man can only dream...

[@Christopher_Woods]

It would be cool to see a Paperinik cartoon series. Just a bummer these comics don’t sell too well in the United States. Everyone knows that is the core country to really breaking bank on the comics. Imagine if Paperinik, Darkwing and Gizmoduck had a 3 way crossover.

[@michelvanderlinden8363]

this comic (named Super Donald in the Netherlands) was just so much fun to read. It dealt with some pretty "heavy" storylines for an (unofficial) disney cartoon. Hell I was kind of surprised to see the death of a certain (minor) character take place. I fully recommend anyone who is a fan of the superhero genre and Donald Duck to give this comic series a try when they can. It's a very pleasant read. *edit* Regarding Layla Lay, okay.. yeah I feel she was initially put in as a female love interest for Donald. However that tone later on shifted substantially to just being allies. However, her purpose there was NOT to just be eyecandy. Layla served as a strong female character in several storylines, going from time agent investigating the time traveling "-plunderer-" Raider (-I dont know his english/italian name-), to being an unwilling part in a timewar between the Time agents and androids who want independance. Donald also called in her help several times due to her ridiculous android strength. Yes, some artists gave her the Lola Bunny treatment for some shots, but overall? She's a great character and addition to the cast. *edit 2* The differences in artstyle (cartoony and "normal) is an easier one to explain. In europe we have regular comic books (A4 sized comics) and pocket comic books. The pocket comic books are generally speaking way more cartoonishly drawn than regular comics, which allow for much more detail. So in some storylines like Xadhoom's introduction, you have way better artstyle, and in some others like the moviestars being kidnapped by Evronians, things look more.. cartoony, despite it featuring the same previous villains.

[@IndoManiac90]

I agree with you regarding Lyla, I think she is one of the most compelling, strong and interesting female characters of all of comics. She also isnt a mary sue like so many modern female superhero characters are. The reason why Lyla couldnt fully be a love interest for Donald is probably because of Disney having strict rules that Daisy is supposed to be Donalds love interest across all Donald related media, even though Daisy is barely featured in the PKNA series.

[@leeviheiskanen1271]

This series deserves TV show

[@minsklit5811]

Yesss thank you for covering this content! In the English speaking world nobody knows this amazing character, but it really deserves a huge space under the spotlight

[@nakenmil]

My and my friends did this thing where we each bought one issue, and we exchanged to read, since none of us were really given money for this kind of thing. We absolutely loved it. One of my favorites (probably because it was one I bought personally) is the issue where he loses his memory at sea. It's not a hugely impactful issue, but it was so interesting to see how the sailors he met treated him (he wears a sailor's outfit, so they assume he's a sailor, obvs), and they discuss how one views the sea ("the sea is neither good or evil... it just... is.") and philosophically that kinda extended to how you view nature and the universe in general, which was thematic for the issue's villains (who were trying to manipulate some animals for their own evil intentions). There's also a scen where Donald, still amnesic, stops a robbery by instinctively picking up a serving tray and wielding it like the combat shield. Everyone is stunned, including Donald himself. It's just a really cool moment seeing ordinary Donald being seen as some kind of Clint Eastwood-esque badass that everybody respects even though they don't know where he came from or who he is.

[@NigerianPrince0]

That feeling when you are born in 2001 and once your 4 years old your dad brings his over 300 donald duck comics and lots of books and the first hero you ever saw was Duck Avenger or *Taikaviitta* In Finnish. And yes i read duck avenger since begginig. Aka Villa rosa. Btw Duck avenger was like zorro before. Not stopping that many crimes and even taking money from scrooge. And when gyro created Duck avenger's stuff he took a memmory erasing pill at the old Duck avenger comics, if remember correctly.

[@Kiiriminna]

My favourite superhero ever! In Finland, we call him Taikaviitta (means "magic cloak" or something... I really don't know why he got named like that). Raider was the best character I think, and I just loved it when they gave him a kid...

[@leeviheiskanen1271]

Well if we got rough translation it would be "paperinilkki" or something like that

[@moonman375]

great rundown of the video. It's a shame these comic never took much hold in america, growing with them in italy was marvelous and the fandom is super active to this day

[@sananaryon4061]

I think my favorite may be Fragments of Autumn (Høstblader, as it was called in Norwegian). Such an amazing story, and there's barely any fighting in it. The story is about Lyla and PK being drawn into a political scheme between the current (23rd century) Calisota governor, and an anti... droidist who's running for the same position

[@leonardorossi1543]

Great story, deep and beautiful, but Trauma is the best of the best for me without a doubt

[@Toshiro93]

@@leonardorossi1543 Wow, come sei grosso! Che ti dava la mamma, a colazione? FRULLATO DI PAPERO.

[@IndoManiac90]

Yeah thats a good one, I also love Carpe Diem, Trauma, Time to Time, and Ancient Future just to name a few. All of it is compelling, overall I prefer the Raider/Lyla/Timetraveling stories over the Evronian/Xadhoom parts, but those are still really good too.

[@IndoManiac90]

Btw, that photo of that woman that remains in Fragments of Autumn after the fire in the end.. is that supposed to hint that the scientist who tried to make Lyla fall in love with him, that he made Lyla in the image of that woman in the picture, who might be a former lover/partner that he lost? The reason for his emptiness and pain?

[@LucianTheWorldGamer]

You managed to make me feel emotional. This is the comic I grew up with, back in Italy. You did it total justice. THANKS!

[@FictionAddiction]

Glad you like it. There's another for PK2 And I do plan to cover more later.

[@LucianTheWorldGamer]

@@FictionAddiction Of course, that's already on my watch later!

[@MikePhantom]

and since they introduced a voice changer for dionald in the new ducktales THEY MIGHT BE SETTING UP DUCK AVENGERS FIRST TV DEBUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@hetavoid]

Unfortunately there was no duck avenger

[@Realmidboss]

One of my favorites has to be "Portrait of the Young Hero" which also introduces one of my favorite characters : Odin Eidolon. Altough as the story of the issues continues we may already know who Odin is.......... or was.

[@pellonpoika]

PKNA is the best Donald Duck comic book series I have EVER read. I grew up on the PS2 game that was made of it and only later I found the books. The world is so interesting. I wish it would still be around and even have it's own show like DuckTales. In my opinion it's so good that it deserves it's own show, a movie or something. I wish it would rise from the ashesh of being forgotten and be more involved today with Donald Duck. It seriously beats all the Donald Duck adaptatios that I've seen. Such a world to still be explored.

[@sananaryon4061]

This is by far my favorite Donald Duck series, maybe except Don Rosa and Carl Barks

[@Atlas_Redux]

Took me ages, but I FINALLY found a guy that had all the issues in good condition and in Norwegian ^^ I am so happy, even though I paid a small fortune for it.

[@seeratrizvi7576]

My favourite Donald Duck stories were when Donald Duck used to comes as his alter ego Paperinik and save his nephews from misadventures or save Uncle Scrooge’s wealth from beagle boys or just fight crime! He is the coolest duck which sadly is not portrayed in the new series of ducktales. :/

[@fabyliciousss9196]

But there are episodes of DT where he is portrayed like that. In the last episode from season 1, it's Donald who comes up with a plan to save Scrooge from Magica. And in previous episodes, he fought against the beagle boys so he could save the triplets.

[@lorenzomuti4131]

I remember when I bought the first issue in 1996. I was 11 and... well, I have the whole collection on my bookshelf, including the latest PKNE issue ❤️ Italian Disney artists are awesome. And a fantastic thing is that they’re free to use their personal style in comics, which make every artist recognizable :)

[@IndoManiac90]

I was around the same age as you when I started reading it, its so awesome, Im jealous of you living in Italy though, I live in Sweden and we didnt get all issues, which is the reason I could only get to read all of it now thanks to online uploads of all the issues. The new PKNE issues are not all available yet though, i will have to wait until i get access to that.

[@MitjaShi]

Oh man I could totally feel you every second of this video! In Finland, we only had some of the volumes released, so I was planning to learn Italian just to be able to read the missing volumes... still haven't done that though!

[@Nicola-wd2oe]

you should, or atleast in english

[@llOGARDll]

America need to make a cartoon about PK

[@camillovidani2586]

«...."The Organization". Great name, guys» The purpose of a name is distinguishing things, Mr. Esh. We have no need for that. We are UNIQUE!

[@FictionAddiction]

Yeah well, do you dress in the dark or have you lost a bet? (Pay attention everybody, this one knows their PKNA!)

[@camillovidani2586]

I just had to quote that ;) Nice video, cool nostalgia trip. I'll add a couple notes that you might like: 1) PKNA was also the first attempt by Italian Disney to cultivate a "modern" nerdy fandom. PKNA #0 hits shelves just about when the Internet is starting to become widespread in Italy (I got my first 14.4kbps modem that year...) and the creative team was quite present on the web, talking to readers, supporting fan sites and so on. One of my friends was the webmaster of a PKNA fan site back then and he got to meet the authors a few times - that might sound normal now but it wasn't back then, and especially not in Italy, not for Disney comics. 2) Building on that, the one extra section you probably didn't get in the Netherlands was the fan mail. It was a huge running joke, with the team answering super-sarcastically to every letter and the fans lining up to be blasted by writing the silliest questions possible. The team once promised to send special cards to kids who would send a photo of themselves wearing a bathrobe in a phone booth... and people did, in droves. "Technical" questions would more often than not be answered with "Poche Ragazze Da Quelle Parti" -> "Few girls out there, huh?". And now that I think of it, this whole video and thread is extremely PRDQP. 3) The rotating artstyles are common in Italian comics; Sergio Bonelli Editore, the largest publisher of original comic books in Italy, does the same.

[@FictionAddiction]

You're right, I didn't get the fan mail in the Netherlands. What with being from Denmark and all. But that does sound hilarious.

[@leeviheiskanen1271]

Is it just me, or is "The Organization" same one DoupleDuck fights against ?

[@Lorenzo2300]

@@leeviheiskanen1271 Believe it or not, there was actually a crossover story that revealed a connection between the two "organizations"

[@ganymedes7591]

Even though I'm 5 years late, it's so cool to see someone bringing up these stores!! I read a few of the first comics as a child and still remember them fondly, childhood me was generally a big fan of Duck Avenger (or Fantonald in Norwegian). I didn't know there were more issues actually, so now I'm definetly gonna try to find somewhere I can read the rest✌️

[@kurtdenter1799]

Yes, yes, yes - I think we all want to hear more about these comics and the game :D

[@xLestath]

I'm from Norway and here he was named Fantonald, a pun on the Fantom comics that are also really popular here ^^ I was actually on a quest a few years ago to buy all these comics so now I have a glorious longbox in my closest filled with these gems!

[@znaj7335]

I grew up with donald duck back then literally because I loved the game PK: out of the shadows. It felt like a disney HALO game xD

[@TheZoe132]

AAAA!! thank you so much! I wish people would know more about PK and his comic series. I'm slowly getting through PKNA and have been enjoying it immensely!

[@germin9784]

The Duck Avenger (or Superdonald, as he's called in Dutch) was always one of my favourite characters in the Disney universe, with some amazing stories. When I saw the Dutch translations of PKNA issues back in 2007, I had to read them. Sadly I only got my hands on Invasion, Silicium and Trauma, and after the latter it was discontinued. Over the past 5 years they have been published again, and it is my favourite comics series besides Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck. Some of my favourites include the three I had already scored back in 2007, Trauma especially, the Xadhoom trilogy and More Time (if that's the correct name, issue 44). PK2 is being released now so I got more to look forward to. The series deserves more love and recognition, and I'm glad you did a video on it

[@cliff1446]

Isn't he called Phantomias?

[@germin9784]

@@cliff1446 That's his "predecessor", "Fantomius", a gentleman thief in the 1920s. I think old Dutch comics called Superdonald "Fantomerik" instead though.

[@KrazyKaas]

Had all the comics and The Raider made me curious about time travel and butterfly effects. Loved the small story about Raider's son In danish he's called ''Stålanden'' (Steel Duck).

[@IndoManiac90]

Damn thank you for making this video bro. I remember being obsessed with this comic series when i was really young around 12 years old or so (as well as the sequel PK2, the reboot Pikappa wasnt nearly as good but still decent, i hate reboots in most cases anyway. I think the fact that you have this established universe already with the Donald Duck Disney characters which I already knew and loved, combined with a new mature science-fiction/superhero setting made for a very unique combo that really made an impression on me that stuck, so much that I still think about it alot even today over a decade later. The only other piece of art/media that gave me a similar feeling was the Kingdom Hearts game series, for the obvious similar reasons. But even that wasnt as captivating as PKNA was. When I read PKNA for the first time when young, the stories were so complex and mature for someone of my age at the time, even more so compared to the Batman/Spider-man cartoons that were present on TV during that same time, the late 90s etc, that really stuck out to me in a similar way Anime was way more interesting than most western animated/comic stuff. It really makes me happy that the series is now ongoing again with the PKNE set in the same continuity as the first two, PKNA and PK2 series. Its not completely available to me in Sweden yet but considering how easy it is to get access to foreign stuff and media in 2023, I expect to be able to get translations of the full new series eventually (I have already read 6 or so of the first published stories of PKNE). I just wish this series was bigger in the west outside of Italy, and that there were more english speaking forums to discuss it.

[@SpedeVesku]

I never grew up with these comics myself, but I did read regular Donald Duck comics as a kid and was farmiliar with the traditonal Paperinik (or as he is known here in Finland, Taikaviitta/"Magic Cloak") stories. I did grew out of Disney's Duck comics as a teenager and most of my comic reading focused on Marvel superheroes, which I also loved as a kid and am big fan of to this day, so more serious and Marvel-esque take on Paperinik did piqued my interest, when I heard about these comics by happenstance. Unfortunately, these comics aren't easy to come by in Finnish, since they were never super-popular in here. Although, that's partially the fault of idiotic way the series was released. After the first two issues were translated and published, they suddenly jumped all the way to the issue #35, which meant that Finnish readers didn't get the introductory stories of most of the major characters or important pieces of the larger story. Unsuprisingly, this meant that the few readers who were hooked by the first two issues soon lost the interest and the series was cancelled after only 14 issues. Luckily, they started to recently re-release the series from the very begining in chronological order, so we Finnish PK fans might finally get to enjoy the series in our native language from the begining to the end. Although, the situation still isn't perfect, since the issues are released with unrelated Disney's Duck and Mouse comics in thick paperbacks, with the pace of two PK issues per paparback, so if you are only interested in reading the PK series (like me) you are forced to also pay for stories that you don't ever plan to read and just take extra room from the shelf, but it's still better than nothing. Anyway, this was great video and I would like to hear you talk about the PK follow-ups =)

[@Grevnor]

I probably got those comics at the same time you did (albeit the Swedish version), though I was a few years older. I grew up watching Disney movies and animated shows with my younger siblings, and PKNA was the perfect storm of a comic. I got as many as I could, but my allowence wasn't that great, plus all my old comics got lost in a move sometime ago. But I still remember them fondly. So thank you for this shared trip down memory lane.

[@stu2729]

Holy shit, I just remembered duck avenger! The Jumbobogs you mentioned, we had too in germany. They are called "Lustige Taschenbücher" hier and I still have a bunch of them. I remember some actually scary stories in them. Man, as a kid I used to adore these comics.

[@1235q]

I absolutely love this comic and its characters.

[@Jollanza]

PKNA was the italian version to the american comics since the '90s. ...and it's still awesome these days.

[@trainerredcharizard7982]

This comic appeared in Finland too..and Italians really made Duck Avengers Or "TaikaViitta"(That translates to MagicCape/Cowl) to me cool..

[@ottagol1985]

You should also check out the motion comics done by Stig, the man who was responsible for the English translations on the web. I did many voices for the motion comics; most notably the voice of Leonard Vertighel in the dub for "Fragments of Autumn".

[@basilico8344]

It's so good to see you trying to pronounce italian words :D

[@FictionAddiction]

Smasher :P good as in appreciating the effort or good as in laughing your ass off at how inept I am at it?

[@basilico8344]

Fiction Addiction Kinda both Still love the vid tho

[@FictionAddiction]

Smasher :P Get out. (j/k I love all my viewers)

[@ArsyaUtomo]

Duck Avenger for Ducktales

[@erkko8027]

Why wasnt this made to a cartoon? Or I guess its better this way

[@idakiilerich6541]

Could you maybe also talk about stories where Donald is spy in jumbobøgerne? Just to show how many weird and insane story's he has been in.😁

[@FictionAddiction]

Ida Killerrich You mean Double duck? I never read any of them. Maybe someday.

[@idakiilerich6541]

Fiction Addiction I thinks that's the one. Its called "Agent dobbelt-A" (halløj, også dansker😉) they are not as crazy as Stålanden, but still a little crazy. But I understand, if you haven't read them.🙂

[@idakiilerich6541]

Just thought they where kinda the same theme. And reeeally European (not suitable for America😜).

[@drdewott9154]

Oh yes. The Double D comic stories are really good. Some of the closes in style and edginess to PKNA

[@HB136591]

Oh yes please go in more detail of the Duck Avengers comics and storylines!! I've so far only been able to collect a few issues but I'd love to hear more of your opnions of the comic series.

[@bastiangoettert]

Oh man, I really thought Fantomias (German name) was more well known. I had no idea about his origins...thanks for the history lesson :) Great Video!

[@bartolomesalas4502]

Here in Spain this Duck was called PATOMAS. In a magazine called DON MIKI.

[@metus_fin]

Nice video man! Gotta tell you, this is my favorite comic in the whole world. I live in Finland where we had this comic for a little over a year, and man they screwed it up... They released issues #01 (Evroniani) and #02 (Il Vento del Tempo) and then jumped straight to #35 (Clandestino a Bordo). Can't imagine what was the fucking point of that. Anyway, the comic struggled for a year, and then it was cancelled in December 2000 at #46 (Nell' Ombra). I'm glad that we got the best for the least (#46 is beyond anything produced under Disney brand), but this series would've definitely deserved better. In 2014 they started releasing a special superhero-themed pocket book in Finland, which included PKNA from the very first issue on, and since then we've had the chance to follow the story in chronological order. The latest one we got was #16 (Carpe Diem), and almost certainly we're getting two more stories in November. Though I'm not sure we're going to get to the end because print comics aren't doing so good these days, and the publication of these pocket books is painstakingly slow - only twice a year with two PKNA stories plus bonuses like "Angus Tales". But the cool info pages and character profiles vanished with the original publication of the series. Well, you can't have everything...

[@ishiblack7497]

In Poland we call him Superkwęk (Superquack). Man......i wish New Adventures got one day movie animation. Its have so much potencial for action movie.

[@juha-pekkapyykonen8734]

Around Finland he's called "Taikaviitta" which translates into "Magic cape."

[@MultiSuperGuide]

I read Pikappa as a child, would love for you to review it

[@erkko8027]

Man I miss these comics

[@Toshiro93]

I'm not aware of Disney products from other countries, but I believe that, at least in Europe, the experimentation that the Italian division has carried out is difficult to achieve... I mean, who could have expected that Donald Duck, an animated duck dressed as a sailor and irascible, could he first be reinvented as a parody of Diabolik and Kattivik, and then give life to a sort of mixture between Batman and Green Lantern? Not to mention the many characters created in Italy (especially by Romano Scarpa) such as Brigitta, Trudy, Filo Sganga etc... and the characters of PKNA are no different, on the contrary! We can also say that in that monthly magazine it was dared, given that comic book characters have always been considered as suspended in a harmless bubble: no character linked to Donald Duck has ever died, in American comics (from what I know), but in In PKNA there are more than a few characters who die (Xadhoom is perhaps the most famous death, but we also remember Zoster, killed by the inability to count the power of a star). Not to mention, finally, the enormous expansion of the duck universe that has been made over the years by Italian Disney: just mention Rodolfo Cimino, who wrote wonderful stories about Scrooge.

[@Arexion5293]

Loved these comics as a kid. Though for some reason over here in Finland we only got some of them. Many from the start and then suddenly the comics skipped up ahead to catch up with the latest issues, leading to so many never getting translated. I remember reading there had been some voting and people decided we should catch up to the latest releases.. even though there were numerous comic issues we hadn't seen yet, and now never will see in Finnish.

Oh we have those Donald duck pockets and papers in Sweden too. Had no idea it was an Europe only thing

[@maryannfuggetta296]

I never knew about this until I saw an advertisement for the game. I would like to know more though.

[@Bobvanksy]

In Sweden we called him Stål Kalle/ Steel Donald, which is , yeah nice alter ego, Bruceman.

[@l-dracwarthorn2789]

In Greece his name is Phandom Duck!

[@distantmind956]

God I loved this series! And I don't even like superhero series in general. Neither was I a big Donald Duck fan. I was first introduced to the series by my cousin when I visited him at his grandparents' house (which was in a farm out on an island in the middle of freaking nowhere, and they had bought Duck Avenger issues...for some reason) I was instantly fascinated, but didn't start buying them myself until some time later. I think the first one I got was Månens Kilde, or 'Månekilden' as it was called here in Norway. I always loved the Evronian stories, though I often found them less intimidating than they should've been. Due to the fact that their aim is over twice as bad as the Stormtroopers in Star Wars, I find it surprising they conquered any planets at all. For some time I owned all issues released in Norway, but that ended sometime after Pikappa, which I think sucked so bad that it made me think less of the series as a whole. I liked PK2, but I have mixed feelings of it due to how it fucked with too many things that I had come to know and love over the years, much like how Legend of Korra fucked with some of the established lore of Avatar the last Airbender, but I still loved it for what it does right. I still haven't read all of the continuation. I'm not even sure I have much hope in it going on for long because I still have no idea how they even managed to greenlight a continuation to a series that ended two decades ago. Deals with the devil usually have some downside.

[@drsherifff]

In Germany, Donald actually uses the name Phantomias and Lord Quackett is called "The First Phantomies"

[@jiel_slyhpalott5180]

I'm from Indonesia if i remember correctly we call duck avenger super don here lmao, used to read donald(by don rosa) all the time as a kid

[@jaborsey_joseph]

Surprises me PK never got a cartoon series

[@Christopher_Woods]

Not popular enough in the United States to create an animated series on him even though I like the idea. If they did I wonder if they’d have Rob Paulsen voice Donald when he’s Paperinik similar to how Bruce Wayne changes his voice when he’s Batman.

[@nicolotosarello180]

I love this video. Big thanks from Italy! (also your pronunciation is pretty good)

[@drdewott9154]

Wow. Just wow. Great video. I'm just glad to finally have found a video on any kind of Duck comic on the internet (And by another Dane no less. Sådan mand!). I did get one of the PKNA comics as like an extra included in a Donald Duck & Co magazine one time but I never really got hooked on it. Maybe just because it was too different, idk it was such a long time ago and it's probably lost in my massive stack of old Donald Duck comics. Also one thing I can say is that since the end of PKNA there has been plenty of Ducktits in the comics XD. Especially in the Double D (Agent Dobbelt A) Comics. They're probably worth catching up on. Especially considering some of them are really long.

[@300kyuubi]

Subscribed, welp, time to get into this series. I’ve only heard about it once as a kid

[@ancientbaltoy8769]

I am still sad that not all of this made it to Sweden. I loved everything of them but the story was never finished

[@AnkfordPlays]

Issue 6 is fucking amazing, I may be half biased by the fact that it's the one issue still in my possession.

[@TokuNorth]

I was looking for a video about The Duck Avenger and i end up finding a danish youtuber talking about it...neat! (Er selv dansk)

[@anextremlyobbisehoovy8254]

In norway we call him fantdonald But i realy hope This comes in the ducktales reabit

[@simpelgames645]

Comic Donald it’s like Archie Sonic (In Germany at least). He was really often super intelligent and outplayed his nephew’s multiple times, In one version he is a James Bond like top agent who saved the world couple of times, And in one time Paperinik traveled in an accidentally travel to another UNIVERSE and meet another version of him who wasn’t a super hero just to end up to inspired him to becom another Version of Paperinik.

[@masedaace5473]

I have a remade version of the Duck Avenger origin story! Its awesome and I'm sad I never got to find the further comics.

[@arx3516]

Of course in disney universe someone of maori heritage is a kiwi!

[@Drachenhannes]

Oh Yeah. You werde part of that guy with the glasses, right? Think that's how i found horrible horror back in the Day. Was wondering how i came across your content in the first place

[@FictionAddiction]

I wasn't part of the site, but I used to post my videos in the forums, along with the Spoony Experiment forums.

[@Drachenhannes]

Weird. Now i have the vivid memory of Findling you on the Page as a horror content creator. And i never was much of a Forum guy. Eh probably Just a Mandela effect. By the way. In Germany PK is known as Phantomias. Always loved the Charakter but i don't think we ever got the duck a enger reimagining in my childhood. Inalways wondered why He never did a Crossover with Darkwing. Guess being an Italy created Charakter he never was a focal point of Disney. Because Murica!

[@franceschik1]

Thank you for reviewing this awesome masterpiece of comics!

[@rbfloat]

As soon as you said there was an English translation, I added it to my Amazon list

[@lucamedugno]

I had The same experience... and I read The original comic.

[@wankawanka3053]

In greece his name was phantom duck

[@BalzarCorporationRonflex]

I'm italian, so I got the chance to enjoy the full PK experience in real time. Unluckily the most recent issues by Gagnor feel like the third reboot series, more childly and silly. But I strongly advice that you get the chance to read the New Era material.

[@IndoManiac90]

Would you say that majority of the PKNE issues are like the mature PKNA/PK2 style of storytelling, or is the majority of it like the reboot Pikappa (which I agree its more childish and less interesting), or is it an even mix of both depending on issue? I have only read some of the early issues of PKNE

[@BalzarCorporationRonflex]

@@IndoManiac90 they are more like PKNA/PK2, except for the Roberto Gagnor storyline that has a "Pikappa" feeling because the author didn't fully understand the characterization and general mood.

[@IndoManiac90]

@@BalzarCorporationRonflex thank you for the info, yeah I did some more research and it seems most people agree with you that the Gagnor storyline is worse, seems to be partly because the art isnt as good now but also because the storyline is like you said more like Pikappa. Another issue seems to be that Gagnor is alone currently in the team when writing the new stories, in the past they had many different writers collaborating in creating the script and storylines if im not mistaken. i hope they expand the team in the future and start doing plotlines again that connect to the loose ends of PKNA and PK2, because apparantly Gagnor avoids doing that intentionally even though its still the same universe

[@phantomspecter6223]

Raider and Cronin kinda resemble Johnny and Randy from DuckTales (2017), I doubt they're related, but it'd be kind of cool if they were.

[@segoeprint1303]

These are why i'm trying to learn Italian. However i'm not even past the basics yet -w-'

[@segoeprint1303]

Sure but there are also other Donald Duck comics that are not. Besides, learning languages is healthy for your brain. Hecc English also isn't my first language.

[@segoeprint1303]

Wait really? hoLY FLIP-- Well still there is a lot more Untranslated duck lore in Italian besides PK so xD

[@segoeprint1303]

Ahhh phone space-my worst enemi

[@LuigiSammartino]

At the moment, there's a new run which is completely different from the original, and is titled Danger Dome (or War Dome, as the original, I don't know if in DK people have any idea of the Urban Dictionary definition). It will arrive in DK very soon.

[@aeroten4507]

Pkna is a completely other thing than the normal Pk stories, because in Europe Pk is one of the most liked Charakters, especially in my country.There are a lot of "normal" storys about him,for example "Phantomias in modernen Zeiten"(translates into:The duck avenger in modern times),while Pkna is a completely other thing and the Pkna comics aren't even published in normal comic books here.

[@ShogunGin0]

A follow up episode for the later comics sounds good to me.

[@nathandegroot6490]

Really cool Donald.Duck is big in the NL with own universe n stuff.

[@ancientbaltoy8769]

Duck avenger is a much netter name than the swedish one Stål Kalle. That is Steel Donald

[@giank88]

Paperinik an Italian Pride

[@NigerianPrince0]

I just now found it his name is the duck avenger... Im from finland so we have simple and short name for him. Taikaviitta. It means magic cape but trust me in finnish it sounds awesome as hell

[@Redlas95]

There are some minor mistakes (Diabolik is a 60s comic; you showed Tito Faraci's photo instead of Ezio Sisto's), but great video! My favourite series in this franchise is PK², so I can't wait to hear you talk about it!

[@FictionAddiction]

You're right - a slip of the tongue. I think I may have mixed Diabolik up with a different character in the moment, possibly Fantomas. I also was not terribly familiar with the creators' appearance and trusted Google. Sorry bout that. Either way, glad you liked!

[@Redlas95]

No need to be sorry, if you ask me... This errors happen, no problem. You know, I just saw that Claudio Sciarrone shared your video on Facebook (and by the way, Lorenzo Pastrovicchio joked about that photo mistake in the comments too)! So don't worry, you really did a fine job. :)

[@FictionAddiction]

@@Redlas95 oh my God, they did? That's awesome! I'll have to dig that up, thanks for letting me know.