PKNA

[Chris Hilbig]

Rod,

  You're right about the style of art being slightly different. Plus the 
PK series takes place in a more futuristic Duckburg. But if you want to 
check PK, I recommend you visit the PKERs fansite. 
<http://pk.immaginario.net/index/index.htm> It's in both English and 
Italian and has quite a bit of information. Click on Translations and 
you'll find a couple of issues of PKNA translated to English. I'm not 
all that much a SCI-FI fan, buy the few translations I've read are 
pretty well written. But the only issues I see with Gemstone reprinting 
PK material is that it pretty much deviates from the rest of the known 
Duck Universe in relation to Barks/Rosa (that might matter to some 
purists), and has a slightly different target audience. (A niche of a 
niche.) Also, from what I've read, Disney Italy restarted the PK 
"universe/storyline/whatever" with a second, more mature series (On the 
level of DC and Marvel).  That might confuse some people, because in 
the second series they rearrange and rename some characters, etc. On 
top of that Gemstone couldn't publish PK material with out having to 
restart in the same manner as Disney Italy. (Maybe they could skip the 
first series and jump straight into the second. I don't know.) None the 
less, PK has been quite popular in Italy and has two titles dedicated 
to him, PK3 and Paperink. I also remember Disney Adventures doing their 
own version of PK (Duck Avenger). It wasn't as good as what the 
Italians produced. But it's also archived on the PKERs site, so you can 
judge it for yourself.

Have fun,

Chris Hilbig