Can anybody confirm the policeman says he's using tranquilizer shots in it, while them being normal bullets in the Italian edition?
If true, this is actually worrisome, given the amount of Real Weapons, Real Dangers and Real Deaths(even quite graphic. Oh, so many suicides.) that will be portrayed in the successive issues...
I know that "Duck Avenger" was already used as his english name in the previous comics before this english version of PKNA. I said that Comixology have made a digital version of PKNA with their english translation. I was wondering they didn't used Duck Avenger as his english for the digital version because that's his official english name that was made by American translators not Super Duck. I also know that Super Duck was already used in some non-Disney comics series like the Archie series that you mentioned.
Well, but Comixology has never translated PKNA. They translated Pk - Pikappa, which is an other character. That isn't the Paperinik created by Guido Martina and Giovan Battista Carpi, but a new character with the same wearing. In fact, the first number of Pk - Pikappa is actually a new origin, and the character isn't named "Paperinik" but "Pikappa". PKNA, instead, is actually Paperinik.
Out of curiosity what was the Pikappa story that was translated on Comixology?
Thank you very much! I was wondering how the heck I kept missing this series when I searched Comixology, but then I realized it's because he is called "Superduck" not "Duck Avenger" *facepalm* Gotta love name consistencies *sarcasm*
I was wondering how the heck I kept missing this series when I searched Comixology, but then I realized it's because he is called "Superduck" not "Duck Avenger" *facepalm* Gotta love name consistencies *sarcasm*
Depending on your IP-address, you might get a result when searching for Duck Avenger too. Most Disney comics from IDW (including Duck Avenger) are now available on comiXology - but not for all countries. And if you have the "wrong" IP-address the IDW comics won't show on the page, even if you have the direct link to an issue.
It sounds complicated, but in the end it really isn't. Super Duck is irrelevant; it was a self-contained reboot, and is over. Right now, there's just two parallel Duck Avengers going on- the "normal one", Donald Duck having a double identity at night and doing superhero-y stuff in the normal (Italian) Disney Comics world; and the "serious one", if you will, the one from PKNA, PK2, and now the... PKNE, I think that's the letters for the new stories they're doing? Where he has a new suit?
Imagine it's just a timeline that split at some point. Either Donald gets hired to work on Ducklair Tower, leading to PKNA, or he doesn't, and things continue being the normal old Duck Avenger.
Visually, you normally most easily distinguish them by the technology- "normal" Duck Avenger has things like a melting mushroom, spring boots, and the good old 313; "serious/PKNA" Duck Avenger has the X-Transformer shield in his hand, spaceships, etc.
(of course, the Italians like to have fun with this stuff regardless- I remember one story for an example where a copy robot of the "normal" Duck Avenger gets hit with an "advancement ray" that moves his technology forwards, and he becomes the "PKNA" Duck Avenger with the X-Transformer shield :V )
Super Duck is as relevant to all this as the video game, or the attempted Americanization of all this where the name Duck Avenger comes from and Spike the Bee was his helper. IE, old discarded ideas not relevant to what's being done now
EDIT: Now, if you want to have fun with continuity, try inserting the Brazilian superhero comics into this as well :V
The Egmont stories open a different field as well. Here, Duck Avenger usually has a kind of metal glove, and the layout often gets all irregular like PKNA. (A recent story actually implied a continuity with PKNA despite Gyro's ongoing involvement!) The series written by Andreas Pihl tried to bring the whole thing back to its origins, but his portrayal of Fantomius was ridiculous and also violated some of the things said in D.A.'s origin story. By contrast, Marco Gervasio - one of the current top Italian artists - is one who really carries the torch of the early "avenging" stories and has also fleshed out that Fantomius legend a lot. (Almost like Don Rosa did with Scrooge's youth, though he had more material to work with thanks to Barks facts.)
My favorite name for the Duck Avnger is Phantom Duck (since it allows one to still use the initials "PK"). Though yes, there is a certain charmingness to "Super Donald" in the way That Duckfan described; about the two possibilities (either Super Donald or a name like Phantomius), you can have it both ways, actually, as in French, where we have "Phantomiald" (Phantomius + Donald).
Also, about the continuity stuff, I don't personally regard the two as separate continuities. Part of the time Donald "duckavengers" with Gyro's gadgets, and sometimes with One's. I don't really know if the two (Gyro and One) are aware of each other's existence, but I see no real contradiction that would stop them from being set in the same continuity.
Well, the first special DOES insinuate that Gyro stopped collaborating with Donald. Also, the PKNA universe very much ignores Donald's old surroundings - something DoubleDuck ironically doesn't, what with Daisy being jealous of Kay-K and all.
The second special, ZEROBARRAUNO, shows WHY Gyro stopped working with Donald.
PKNE stories are actually showing more of Donald's usual surroundings and cast, compared to PKNA and PK2.
I had the specials mixed up, sorry. This is because of the awkward way those were printed here in Germany. While we got the entire first special "Missing" in the second PKNA collection (but not in the proper sequence!), only the Gyro episode was extracted from the second special and printed as an "epilogue" to the first PKNA-LTB.