How are the Power Rangers comics? I never see them posted about much, but I'm interested since I've been feeling some Power Rangers nostalgia lately.
Specifically I remember there being a mini-series about Andros and Karone fighting the Psycho Rangers, is that good? In Space and Lost Galaxy were my favorite seasons, so I'm more interested in stuff dealing with those seasons. I know most of the comics are MMPR focused though.
they've lost the plot
They refuse to move on from MMPR season 2, but they do the comic book thing where each arc has to increase the stakes and threat level
So they are currently fighting Dark Specter and a more powerful than normal Rita, who are corrupting Power Rangers across space and time and dimensions and turning them into their evil minions
And just like any comic book that has gone through multiple creative teams none of the lore matches what was established in previous issues, let alone what was established in the television show
I was really hoping they wouldn't do this.
Most of the major changes in Mighry Morphin' Power Rangers weren't motivated by creative decisions, but by behind the scenes issues. The green ranger was replaced by the white ranger because the source material limited the Green Ranger's existence, the Thunderzords happened because they had to sell new toys, and the Red Black and Yellow swapouts happened because the actors wanted more money (and admittingly they were underpaid).
None of this should have meant the comic needed to adhere to the same set of events, and personally I felt the originals setup was always the most functional one.
The comics relation to tv canon is bizarre to me because even from day one there's a modernization of the setting and they have played loose with the show's canon multiple times but they just don't want to fully commit to it
No matter what, the timeline dictates Zeo to Cosmic Fury will still happen in the setting
Brzrkr with Matt Kindt
Kimberly and Yellow lookin real fkable right now.
Any girl drawn by Gurihiru is fuckable.
Flexible right?
That's what you meant
The graphic novels that focus on non-MMPR aren't very good
The TMNT crossover is solid
Early GGPR is peak Mighty Morphin formula storytelling
Your enjoyment of the comics would depend on what exactly you even want out of a Power Rangers comic to begin with
The Godzilla crossover was fun too.
I haven't paid attention to Power Rangers since like '95 but I do like that artist's work.
*those artists
Gurihiru are two Japanese women
And sadly californian too, that semi woke superman comic with the chinese characters.
>semi woke
Does that semi trigger you?
>And sadly californian too,
They literally live in Japan and are actual Japanese you dumbass
Also who thought letting Amy Jo Johnson write a comic was a good idea? That new mini-series is going to suck.
I blame Keanu Reeves for the increase of celebrity comics
What did he even write?
This art immediately made me think of that mangamaster comic.
Anon, this was drawn by two Japanese women
Language and region and all
I dunno but probably shit considering Gurihiru is working on it. Publishers use their super cute art to carry shit stories.
They only did variant covers
The amount of seethe Gurihiru cause some autists on this board always makes me laugh.
Gwenpool is the only good thing they've ever worked on. Everything else gets hardcarried by their art. They even managed to make Ms Paki somewhat popular for a short amount of time.
Power Pack?
Superman Smashes the Klan?
Both are things that read like parodies but somehow aren't.
They're both perfectly serviceable comics. Also, Gurihiru don't have anything to do with the writing, they just take the work offered to them.
Yeah, they didn't write Gwenpool's ongoing either
That was Hastings
I liked what they did fro Marvel's Ultraman.
>Gwenpool
>Good
To be fair, everything makes autists here seethe. Its not really an accomplishment.
Hate to admit it, but you're right. Gurihiru does really cute art that doesn't not save the usually awful writing they get saddled with. Or they just do a cover, as they have many times, for a book that look 10 times worse and it's just really cruel false advertising.
Yale is best boy
General advice is to just read it for yourself with a reading order (chronological or by publishing) and just stop when you lose interest
They're pretty fun. Its like its from an alternative universe where the writers weren't limited by Japanese footage and were allowed to write a dense, compelling story with no limitations.
Regardless of the final product and its ups and downs, I appreciate the mentality they went into with Power Rangers at first
The team wanted to make the series less about what Power Rangers actually was when you saw it as a kid and more about it what Power Rangers felt like when you saw it for the first time. That a comic aimed at older fans shouldn't feel like its making fun of your past self for liking it to begin with.
The longer I really look at this image, the weirder it becomes.
>two Lightspeed Reds
>two Jungle Fury Reds
>two Overdrive Reds
>FOUR Mighty Morphin Reds
>>two Lightspeed Reds
Android copy from that one episode
>two Jungle Fury Reds
Casey and the Red Emissary
>two Overdrive Reds
Yeah that one's weird
>FOUR Mighty Morphin Reds
Jason, Tyranno Sentry, Grace Sterling, and Wild West Red Ranger from that one episode
>Jason, Tyranno Sentry, Grace Sterling, and Wild West Red Ranger from that one episode
There's also a Putty Ranger closer towards the middle left
The girl red from MMPR Pink might be floating around somewhere too, I see the rest of that team
It still kinda bothers me that they've tried so hard to make a Power Rangers universe out of 50 years of different super sentai shows and most of them don't even measure up to the kid-friendly soap opera antics of the originals on their best days. This is a neat picture, but at the same time, it feels so chaotic and stupid to try and resolve these several dozen different series into one continuity that amounts to "90s MMPR and also some other shit, but it's kinda mature and serious"
>but it's kinda mature and serious"
I never got the complaints that the comics were "too serious"
They're not any more "dark" as say the post-Zordon Saban era or RPM
Its not like Agony in Pink got canonized
"kinda mature and serious" is not "too serious"
People who complain about power rangers being "too dark" are coasting off memories of the sillier moments and forgetting the times the show was a regular kid's action show.
>The black one is actually a black guy
>The yellow one is actually Asian
You can't make this shit up, I'm glad they stuck with the source material
>Trini's kissable tummy
>It's a kiddie franchise tries to pretend it's not kiddie
Its not Power/Rangers levels and its not self-parody levels
Its a genre reconstruction rather than a deconstruction
>Black ranger
>Is literally black
Oh my god
The artstyle looks familiar. Who’s the artist? What other comics have they done?
>Comics teased Masked Rider
>But not pic related
Give me what I want
Masked Rider actually crossed over and his grandpa canonically built Alpha. The other Saban Toku shows never shared the same world.
Although they did tease the name Ryan Steele once or twice in the comic.
THE ARTIST SIGNED THEIR NAME ON OPs PIC YOU FUCKING IDIOTS
THE ARTIST SIGNED THEIR NAME ON OPs PIC YOU FUCKING IDIOTS
THE ARTIST SIGNED THEIR NAME ON OPs PIC YOU FUCKING IDIOTS
do they get swimsuits in the comics?
Every time I see art of Trini, I get sad because I'm reminded her actress died pretty young.
They're okay at best and highly convoluted at worse.