After taking a night out from superhero duty, Donald is warned by One about a mysterious flying vandal. The following night, Paperinik meets him, and is easily defeated by the crook's mysterious powers. While the villain keeps stealing ostensibly useless objects, One and Paperinik learn of his true abilities and that they will need help... Maybe a strange journalist can offer a hand?
Tropes Present In This Issue:
- Breakout Villain: The Raider acts as a very flat villain in this issue, but he will soon become the most three-dimensional bad guy of the series.
- Butterfly Effect: Defied: the Raider, who's trying to build a machine able to change the future without triggering it.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: A pretty minor thing, but Angus doesn't have his Signature Laugh yet.
- Family-Friendly Firearms: Averted: a guard shoots the Raider with regular bullets.
- Freudian Slip: After bumping into Donald, Lyla inadvertently calls him Paperinik.
- MacGuffin: The cronosail.
- One Man's Trash Is Another's Treasure: Except for some diamonds, the list of objects stolen by The Raider includes such priceless items like a box, a rope and two coils of copper. And yet, thanks to them he can change the future.
- Pun: Considerable amounts of time-related puns. Or is that too soon to share?
- The Reveal: Lyla is a robot from the future that works for the Time Police.
- Save Scumming: The Raider's favourite tactic: if something doesn't go his way, he can simply go back in time and change it.
- Time Travel: What the plot revolves around.
