Evronians for All Seasons, part 1

Here it is: The PKalender part one.

I haven't gotten around to translating the small text on the side yet - any readers who can help me out with those?

Coming soon: Evronians for all seasons

Hey, guys. As you may have noticed, there wasn't any update on the 22nd, and I didn't even get around to putting a message up. Sorry about that.

I'm currently working on getting some scans done (Who knew - it's a lot more work when you have to do it yourself (and don't have easy access to a quality scanner)) for one of my prized possesions, which I've never seen scanned before.

It's an illustrated, Italian calender (or PKalendario, as it's called) featuring the Evronians all year round, with all-original art. Ever wanted to know how an Evronian celebrates Halloween? Well, you're about to find out.

Rather than hurrying to get the first part ready here and now, I'll just make sure to have the art for the first 6 months ready by Friday. (I was originally planning to do it 4 months at a time, so it evens out.

But first: Here's a sneak peek of the calender with the first month's piece of art.

PKNA issue 11 - Bonus content

Alright guys, here's the update at last. I think we'll be sticking with just weekly updates for a while, so expect the next update on next Friday.

Mandatory Stop

You’re at the bus stop and a thick mist just swallowed the shop where you just bought the latest Duck Avenger issue whole? A giant duck-shaped shadow armed like a spear-wielding barbarian passed by instead of the bus? And that shadow is being followed by a small but determined shadow, wrapped in a classic superhero cape? If your answer to all of the above was yes, then the worst is yet to come. Look behind you: the creature could be behind the stop sign. Stay calm: all the creature is doing in Duckburg is… depopulating. And don’t just say that’s it’s doing it because it loves passer-bys. And most importantly, do not misuse the X-Transformer: the controls are set on the bradionic paralyzer.

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HUNTER

Name: Urk

Activity: Hunter

Origin: Planet Earth, alternate universe

Body type: Enormous, but extraordinarily agile

Strength: Extremely superior to any human in our dimension

Look: Big, heavy, and apparently very mean

Vocal tone: Guttural

Intellect: He’s particularly sharp, with extraordinary deduction capacities

Characteristics: Determined, almost to the point of obsession. When he follows a trace, nothing can distract him, for any reason

Emotions: Limited. When he’s hunting he doesn’t let his instincts impede on rationality

Equipment: Energy spear

Goal: To return to his Earth. But only after neutralizing his prey

Catchphrase: “Urk doesn’t have friends!”

Weakness: He’s nostalgic of his village

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Synthetic biology

The Creatures

The battle between the Viking Empire and the Manitu’ people from the other side of the Atlantic is one that’s been going on for centuries. But now things are changing. Definitively.

The laboratories of Thor’s children have created a living synthetic entity capable of penetrating through the natives’ defenses.

It’s called the Creature. It has one goal: To survive, and to devour its only nutrient: Time.

Its victims, whose chronal energy is taken from them, age quickly and grow weak in the cocoons the Creature captures them in. It’s extremely hard to stop it. It’s invisible to electronic tracking devices, and impenetrable to x-rays. Its body can’t be defined. Cold obscurity kept together by neuronal reactions, it’s some kind of blob held by a net, in which floats a mobile brain, which is impossible to track.

It’s a lethal enemy that learns from its mistakes and adapts to each different situation it faces.

Its preys are kept in suspended animation in synthetic cocoons, connected to the mother Creature through a mental net. The psychic-probes inside the cocoons suck out the chronal energy out of the prisoners, depending on the needs of the Creature. It almost works the same way as spiders with insects.

On Urk’s Earth there are no effective weapons against the Creature. The energy spears are just restraining measures. The Bradionic Paralyzer of the X-transformer, on the other hand…

No update today

Real life (and a certain lack of management skills on my part) has gotten in the way a bit, so there won't be an update today. We'll hopefully be back on track by Friday, so we'll see you then. Sorry about the mess-up, and sorry that I couldn't tell you about it earlier. I had some trouble getting to a computer. (Travelling will do that to you.)

PKNA issue 11 - Angus Tales part 2

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PKNA issue 11 - Angus Tales part 1 / Announcement

Alright, here's the update. It's going to be a two-parter this week. Scroll down for Angus Tales. But first, an announcement of sorts.

As some of you have noticed, a lot of links on this site have been dead for a while. We've lost the first few pages of a lot of issues, and if you try to access them, you just get a dead end.

Unfortunately, it's not a problem we can easily fix, as the posts in question have been removed by BlogSpot, at the request of Disney. It's a fairly automated procedure, so I don't think we'll have lawyers breathing down our necks anytime soon, but just to be on the safe side, we are NOT going to reupload the pages in question. (BlogSpot made it clear to me, in a polite yet firm automated email, that if I simply reupload everything, they might have to shut down my account.)

Obviously, this was always a risk with what we're doing, and obviously the people at Disney are entirely within their rights. We can just hope that the fact they care, means that they might be getting around to PKNA themselves at some point.

So, what does this mean for us in the future? Well, we were always intending to take a step back from PKNA after issue #11, so it doesn't change THAT much. Still, we might slow down a little in the future - especially the very near future, as we try to figure out what to do next.

I've thought about setting up a mailing list, just in case this site suddenly gets shut down. (Hey, you never know.) We might not know what we're going to do YET, but it'd be a shame if we couldn't reach you guys when we figure it out. If you'd like to be added to that kind of list, just write to birch_PKNA@yahoo.com and write 'Mailing list' in the headline.

Any questions, just ask me in the comments. We're still figuring out how to deal with this situation, so we'll see what happens.

(But, hey, maybe this will finally get us to focus on translating the special features for the first few issues. Som maybe SOME good will come out of it.)

And now: ANGUS TALES!

(Special thanks to Murray who did the translating on this one.)

Original title: cani
Writer: Tito Faraci
Artist: Silvia Ziche
Translator: Murray





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Disney has already shown an interest in the characters – Superduck comics are now available in the US, the UK, and Italy through Disney Digicomics! A growing archive of never-before-translated comics are now available. Here’s a brief explanation.

DigiComics for iPod
DigiComics for PSP
A bit of info

Mr Fangus will be running a bit late

Another delay, I'm afraid. I apologize, but I've been a bit distracted lately. But I'll explain that when the update goes up properly.

There's still some work to do on the update, so it might not be ready till tomorrow. Again, I apologize.

So, um, here, have a bikini-wearing Lyla.