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Re: Comic possibly partially inspired by Marathon
Posted By: DaddoDate: 5/9/07 10:27 a.m.

In Response To: Comic possibly partially inspired by Marathon *LINK* (Daddo)

Ok, I've recollected myself a bit.
The first three issues of the comic (#0, #0/2 and #0/3) introduce the main characters and storylines.
#0 is set in present-day Duckburg, where Scrooge has bought Ducklair Tower, a 150-storeys skyscraper whose proprietor and builder, Everett Ducklair, was a millionaire inventor who disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Donald is forced to become the tower's warden (until his uncle manages to sell back or rent most of it) and discovers an anomaly between the 149th and the 150th floors. During a night patrol as Paperinik (Donald's alter ego as a superhero), he manages to enter the tower from the top and finds itself in the 151th floor (1+5+1=...), where he is greeted by a "green" coloured AI, Uno ("One"), which introduces itself as the supervisor for Ducklair Tower (which still contains most of Everett Ducklair's inventions and technologies). Uno soon becomes PK's advisor and guide, as well as an essential support in PK's operations (for instance, it gives PK its main weapon, the Extransformer shield) against the many enemies and perils he has to face during the story. It is Uno, for example, that tells PK about Evronians and Xerbians, the two most important alien races plotwise. Evronians are a sort of vampires: they absorb emotive and intellective energies from the species they subdue via Evronguns, weapons that look a bit like a blend of a fusion pistol and an assault rifle (as soon as I manage to scan some pages I'll talk about the artwork). Their social structure is hive-like, quite rigid and biologically determinated: they have got castes, the members of the lower castes are mostly soldiers and technicians, while the upper castes are formed by generals and scientists, above all is the Imperial Council and the Emperor. They try to conquer every race they meet and those whose energies are absorbed become Coolflames, zombie-like slaves. Earth is their current objective.
Xerbians are a people of scholars and researchers long subdued by Evronians. There is only one known survivor, a female scientist by the name of Xadhoom who was doing experiments with the system's sun when her planet was invaded. Her experiments turned her into a humanoid star, an almost unstoppable living weapon, and she devoted her life to the destruction of Evron. She meets PK in issue #0/3. At the end of the series, she is reunited with her people and turns into a sun to allow them to start life anew.
In #0/2 the other main element of PKNA's plot is introduced. PK inquires on a series of seemingly impossible thefts, and discovers the responsible to be the "Razziatore" ("Plunderer"), a 30% cyborg time traveling smuggler from the 23rd century, in whose capture and arrest is helped by Lyla Lay, a "female" droid from the 23rd century Time Police, who works under cover as a journalist for Channel 00 (which has its offices in the Ducklair Tower).
From this point on PK will occasionally be involved with time travels and the Razziatore (for example when the latter tries to steal a device to travel between alternate realities).
In #2 a new character is introduced, Due ("Two"), Uno's backup copy, whose long inactivity led him to develop a sense of jealousy towards its twin. At a certain point (issue #8), after trying to get hold on a litter of evronites (the larval, bulb-like stadium of Evronians) he seems to be destroyed in an Evronian assault, but actually it has escaped on their ship. And later on (#30) he tries to manipulate Evronians to get his revenge on Uno and PK. Does that ring a bell? Do I have to mention that it's red and bitter as a spinster?

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Comic possibly partially inspired by Marathon *LINK*Daddo 5/9/07 1:46 a.m.
     Re: Comic possibly partially inspired by MarathonDaddo 5/9/07 10:27 a.m.
           Re: Comic possibly partially inspired by MarathonJohannes Gunnar 5/9/07 12:30 p.m.
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