#Fantomius

[patemi-pk]

Stefano Zanchi appreciation post

Just a selection...

[nashikichi]

anthro

[0sharis0]

ok so John Quackett is my another fav character :3

and Fantomius too

[madmachaca]

H: you're right, little brother! But I love thos cape, it makes me feel like a hero!

J: you're wrong! A hero like Duckrin Hood does wear a cape. Masks and capes is what criminals use to hide!

H: they can also keep something precious, John

J: what is this about?

H: it's the story of a noble who fights for the poor and against the tyrant rich wearing a mask and a cape. Not always a mask hides, sometimes, it reveals

H: ...and what would our world be?

J: well, aren't we rich an noble?

H: " Our world" is what we create, brother. It matter not where you come from, but where you want to go

Reminder that without Henry, there wouldn't be Fantomius

[frc-ambaradan]

Topolino #3541 cover by Paolo Mottura and Andrea Cagol.

[just-a-simpel-narrator]

As far as I know, we never got to find out what the Q. Birgitt Q.'s Name actually stands for

So that got me thinking-...

What if it stands for Quackett?

John Quackett never had any kids off his own, as far as we know but that doesn't mean that these two couldn't be related in some way

Maybe Birgitt even knew about her relatives secret life as Fantomius and his connection to the Duck Avenger/Pk?

(I haven't read the Pkna reboot yet, so if her name got revealed there, i'm sorry and feel free to correct me-)

[kiiriminna]

I've been lately busy with editing and translating my old works, so I got nothing ready for valentine's day; but here's a picture I drew for my wall calendar this year.

Month of February: "Lovers"

[hext00ns]

They give massive swingers vibes

[redkimmie]

the 10th set ! 🤩

Now with characters from the Fantomius stories by Marco Gervasio. Though she's not shown here(yet), the Quacketts are connected through Samantha Gander. She is the great-aunt of Gladstone Gander and the mother of Dolly Duck. If you're not familiar with any of the characters shown, keep reading 😊

For this set, we have :

1.) Marie Lamont-Quackett - the mother of John Quackett, a Parisian.

2.) Duke Andrew Quackett - the father of John Quackett.

3.) Howard Quackett - the grandfather of John Quackett.

4.) Henry Quackett - the brother of John Quackett, he was the architect behind Villa Rosa and Notre Duck.

5.) John Quackett - the fabled Fantomius, the predecessor to Duck Avenger.

6.) Dolly Duck - known by her alter ego, Dolly Paprika. She is the partner of Fantomius.

7.) Margaret Duck - Dolly Duck's sister. She is a famous dancer.

8.) Richard Quackett - ancestor to the Quackett nobility, he is better known as the "Mad Duke".

• All names here came from Marco Gervasio's stories about Fantomius. The character of Fantomius originated from the original Duck Avenger stories by Guido Martina.

• Richard Quackett came from a Carl Barks story, though he was referred only by "Mad Duke". Gervasio later provided the name.

Note : The portraits here may be changed a bit anytime which means that the portraits here are not the final version. If there's anything wrong here, lemme know 😁

[stephdecidedtoart]

"The man who hides behind a mask of clumsiness" or "The many advantages of not being taken seriously"

John Quackett/Fantomius for my Character Study series.

A painting on watercolors.

Originally posted here.

This is what I wrote on the original post description about the quotes I pasted on the piece:

The quotes I used are from "Le strabilianti imprese di Fantomius, ladro gentiluomo" by Marco Gervasio, and I chose the quotes I feel summarize better who he is as a character, because he is a noble, but is not his fault, and a thief...but a gentleman.

[patemi-pk]

Provolino is canon in Fantomius.

Thanks to La Tana del Sollazzo for pointing this out.

[michimonie]

Scrooge McDuck is a Disney princess, pass it on.

[madmachaca]

Fantomius in his cute winter suit:

Pretty as usual.

[maxwell-grant]

hi. you've mentioned Donald Duck a few times in your posts, with scrooge being one step removed from pulp heroes, Donalds Paparinik (Italian superhero identity which I love, the new PK Adventures where lovely) in terms of their relation to the Diabolik line of European superheroes and Donalds general tendency to run head first down slippery slopes. so I'm wondering if you have any further thoughts on his comics and weird place in the superhero/pulp world

Oh God, do I. I mostly wanna talk about the superhero side of things but I feel like it's worth mentioning I grew up with Donald Duck comics, specifically the Carl Barks ones. The picture above wasn't taken by me but I own and recognize like 7 of the books in it, my mom always bought these that collected several of his stories and had these beautiful painting covers so we could read them together, and I still flip through them on occasion and love them very much (I really wanna buy a translated edition of Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck to read with her but those cost a liver). Donald Duck was one of my childhood hyperfixations and I got my hands on all the comics and movies and cartoons I could find with him, and I actually did read several of the Italian comics, I could go down the stationery right now and grab 5. I first stumbled on Paperinik via those, and for long I didn't think much of it, because Donald Duck moonlighting as a superhero for decades isn't the kind of thing that comes up often. I just thought Paperinik was a weird but funny idea for the longest time and always liked rereading a story where he puts on the costume to scare a rich jerk into leaving his granny's farm alone. And THEN I stumbled onto PKNA, Paperinik New Adventures, and oh my god this rules so much.

Actually one of the best superhero comics I've ever read, it's just constantly and consistently doing these wild absurd stories and swings into genre territory and quality storytelling. It's famous for opening it's first issue with aliens genociding an entire planet and I thought that was kinda overselled, and it's not frequently this dark (sometimes it actually gets darker though, and I probably stopped before it could really get there), but it is a very weird comic. It's more akin to Fantastic Four's serialized consistency than any kind of graphic novel prestige storyline but it is frequently so good at what it does, even the lamer issues are still worth reading. I like describing it as Donald Duck falling headfirst into Batman-level resources, forced to deal with Superman problems (on both the "huge sci-fi horrors" and "people being really, really irresponsible dicks" ends), while trying to stay Ditko's Spider-Man and failing. These do not feel quite like any Donald Duck comics I'd read before and while they would hold up with a different character, I do think they deserve credit for how they make it still always feel like you're reading a Donald Duck story, if a slightly different one. In fact I'd even say PKNA actually makes the concept feel more suited for Donald Duck in a way that brought the idea full circle.

To those of you that don't know, Paperinik started as a villain, or more of a revenge fantasy. By that point there was a tradition of doing a lot of parody stories with Donald that started in 1953. By the late 60s, readers were dissatisfied with Donald Duck always constantly being mistreated by the rest of the supporting cast and losing unfairly, so it was decided to have one of those parodies feature Donald Duck as uncovering the fortune and resources of "Fantomius" and becoming a masked rogue able to get back at them by achieving the impossible, in that he both steals from Scrooge and defeats Gladstone's luck by framing him for it.

He had a stint as a master thief until it was decided it made him too mean, so he morphed into a superhero trying to overcome his prior bad reputation and using his new skills and gadgets (still prone to malfunctioning) to deal with his typical rogues and new ones, and having the admiration of his nephews who don't know that Unca Donald and Paperinik are the same. PKNA, in turn, was sort of a reboot, shedding the previous history and pretty much getting rid of Donald's traditional supporting cast and having Donald stumble onto a different set of resources and means to fight crime, but keeping the idea of Donald Duck having a superhero alter-ego that nobody suspects. The scale and menace of the threats he's up against DRASTICALLY increases, and if anything that fact is crucial to what allows these to still feel like Donald Duck stories, even with Paperinik being a genuinely impressive and cool hero able to save the world. Nobody believes Donald Duck could be a cool and impressive person if he tried, and so Paperinik becomes not just a power fantasy, or a call to something better or be someone better, but it becomes a key component of Donald Duck stories: a thankless job he's expected to do that he doesn't want to do until his pride or something crucial is on the line. These are still parables about human failures and what can be learned from them.

I'd even say a big part of why they succeed is because they introduce a character who can pick up Donald's slack as a comically unpleasant ill-tempered grouch in need of a lesson protagonist in Angus Fangus, a character who's sort of J Jonah Jameson meets Harvey Bullock. Angus has it out for Paperinik and gets up to a lot of the antics you would traditionally expect Donald to be doing if this was a classic Donald Duck comic (and even has a Gladstone-esque rival of his own in another reporter), and getting to learn lessons and be humbled and even have his own set of impressive moments. The choice to give an entirely new cast around Donald greatly added to the comic's ability to experiment and do new things while still keeping the core of Donald.

I actually like a lot of these new dynamics better than the ones he traditionally has, I love The Raider and Lyla and One and oh god Xadhoom, Xadhoom is so fucking cool, such a cool design and name, this powerful roaring supernova stickbug alien person in a crusade of murderous vengeance who names herself her language's equivalent of creditor because the death of her entire planet is the DEBT SHE WILL COLLECT IN BLOOD ENERGY and she is just the most 90s anti-hero ever made except she's stuck in a Donald Duck comic getting into comedic situations and learning to laugh and feel emotions and learn from her mistakes again whether she likes it or not. These two are so good together.

Even with a superhero lair and supercomputer and gadgetry handed to him, Donald Duck is so comically outmatched against his opponents he still winds up winning through guile and will and comedic trickery. Donald desperately wishes he could go on self-serving ventures or just sit at home and enjoy tv, and not get dragged into dealing with murderous alien invasions, or cyberpunk revenge stories, or collapsing future timelines, and still having to solve those problems so there's a world to come back. The stories are frequently fun and they are prevailingly comedic and very good at it too, but they also get a lot out of taking weird turns into unexpected territory.

I haven't finished it because I wasn't able to find it in full or keep track of what's the og series and what's the reboot, still trying to sort that out, but god what a find this series is. What a great strange turn in the history of this great strange character.

[ducklooney]

In my country he is called Paja Phantom or Phantom Duck (Paja Fantom ili Fantom Patak). Lol.

I think we should we should start a compilation with all of this Guys different Names in different languages! Who's with me?

I'll start with the German one:

"Phantomias"

[sonicexelle-junkary]

Adeptus biologis asks the question: can the "exterminatus" destroy the disease "rot" within one planet-world?

Fantomius Jurius - genetor adeptus biologis

What?