Anyone ever read Paperinik?

[Progg]

I recently revisited a childhood favorite of mine: Paperinik - New Adventures, the heavily Marvel-influenced Italian comic reboot of Donald Duck's superhero identity. I expected it to suck in retrospect, but found I still liked it. Granted, it is kind of pretentious and almost entirely unrelated to other Donald Duck comics, it's still pretty cool and fun, and the characters are actually interesting. Does anyone else have any thoughts about this anomaly in the Disney "continuity"? Is it any good, or am I blinded by nostalgia?

[feuersichel]

OMG I freaking love those stories so much O_O It suprises me, someone here knows about it aswell ^^ as far as I know it didn't officially got translated in english? In german it's getting republished right know ^^ But I might be blinded by nostalgia aswell xD

In my opinion I liked most of it. Especially the art, characters and because it was darker than the usuall Donald related stories.

[Progg]

Nice to hear I'm not alone! (In Sweden it was published under the name of "Stål-Kalle", which basically translates into "Steel-Donald.")

[J.Lovelace]

I LOVE THE SERIES! Oh my gosh!
I'm glad to hear someone mentioning it on the forums. I did once too, because I am missing 3 issues and asked if someone has scans of them (in English) but I never got a reply.

I always liked the idea of superhero Donald, and always wanted to read Paperinik New Adventures (after I saw it advertised in the magazines). I managed to read the series not so long ago, I think in the past 3 years? But I had to stop, because I'm missing some important issues and reading the rest without knowing what happened earlier is really confusing.

I love the humor, creativity and characters and the fact the story could get REALLY dark in some parts - a thing that the usual, light hearted Donald Duck comics didn't really have. Also that each new issue had a tie to previous issues (and mentioned which ones to look for in case you forgot the events).

I hope I can finish reading all the issues one day.

[J.Lovelace]

In Poland it's "Superkwęk" which translates to "super quack" XDDDD

[silverraven0]

In my country he's called Super Donald. So f generic, but paperinic might be hard to pronounce is why they do it. And pretty much every character got a 'localized' name. I read the 'thematic' version and a bunch of individual comic of him there and here, and I honestly love him. (And then there's super goofy with his super pea...)

[mrtoontastic]

I'm surprised someone came in and found this! I'm a big fan of Donald Duck, both in his classic shorts as well as those wonderful adventure comics by Carl Barks and Don Rosa. Seeing that hot-tempered Duck get such a fantastic expansion feels grand. Donkey Kong gave me similar feelings, but that's a different story.

I've actually been introduced to PK through an old Disney game here.

It's a nice game. It's not perfect, and a bit short, but it was fun for what it was. I did like the idea of Donald as a Super hero. Even if he wasn't the extreme best at it, and even if he didn't always get things right, he did what he needed to do. It did get dark, and was a little weird, especially for Donald Duck. But I welcomed it with glee because even a silly-styled super hero can be placed in some harsh tales as long as they find a way to come back on top and triumph over the forces of evil. Strangely, its these stories, and some of Donald's non-PK ventures, were ones that influenced how I wanted to write action-adventure stories while making someone like Donald Duck and making him heroic. And the comic series ended on a high note. Was it too soon? Maybe. But it was a blast. Down with the Evronians!

Thanks for posting this~! It brightened my day!

[Kotopopi]

It was one of my childhood favourite (italian gal here) I wonder if I still have them somewhere at my mom's

[andrew17]

I didn't know about this. In my childhood it was all Super Goof. Whenever Goofy ate one of his super goober peanuts he became the long-underwear (complete with escape hatch) clad Super Goof. I seem to remember him having a nephew as a sidekick who wore a mortar board all the time. This would have been in the early seventies, and I don't know if they were reprints of American material or locally produced British strips.

[kalrhungus]

huge fan - now my son is reading it. i made this fanart a while ago

[Progg]

Wow, this is great stuff!

[Progg]

It's great to hear that Paperinik has lots of fans! Oh, and Super Goofy is another fantastic character, in the more lighthearted Disney vein. Glad to hear him mentioned as well! (Trying to imagine him getting a dark sci-fi reboot like Paperinik got with New Adventures...)