https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/837368/mighty-morphin-power-rangers-2026-1-by-marguerite-bennett/MMPR...again...this time with uglier costumes.
>>152552794I love MMPR and recognize that Prime had its flaws but just doing MMPR again for the millionth time is insane. There are so many other teams or concepts they could go with. Power Rangers thrived on change. Tying it solely to the MMPR era will cause the franchise to stagnate and die.
>>152552794I get why MMPR again, but why the stupid costumes?
>>152552794>Bennett is backAnd now I go to sleep again
>>152552809On paper I sort of see why it's the caseDirect market and Gen Z nostalgia don't really mix given the whole industry crash thing and getting a veteran writer makes senseProblem is this is the person whose arc is stated to be skippable plenty of times and said arc wasted the potential of a mish-mash team Honestly I would have preferred a proper anthologySomething like Marvel Two-In-One or Brave and the Bold But instead (if this lines up with FCBD) we're getting The Return/Once and Always again for the third time
>>152553073>But instead (if this lines up with FCBD) we're getting The Return/Once and Always again for the third timeWhich would be nuts given that The Return could have easily continued based on where it left off.But I agree, would have loved an anthology with different teams.
>>152552809>but just doing MMPR again for the millionth time is insane. There are so many other teams or concepts they could go withThe comic market is largely mafe up of people over 35. MMPR is the target market for themThe entire Disney era is a wash in terms of nostalgia, despite the dedicated fanbase, because Disney buried it SO hard the numbers were far less than the Fox era. There's simply less of an audience for them than 3 years of MMPR got. Samurai unironically did better than any Disney season despite being far worse. I can see In Space or TimeForce being done.. but those seasons are more popular for their stories than their cast outside of their main characters. Besides Andros and Zhane and Wes/Jen/Eric, the rest of those casts are pretty bland.
>>152553110My theory is that AJJ isn't available and/or she broke-up with the co-writer
>>152552809And not just MMPR, but Season 1 MMPR where it's Rita and Green Ranger Tommy rerun yet again. Seriously, the original show didn't start finding its footing until Season 2 when they filmed more of their own scenes didn't have to slavishly follow the Sentai footage as much.
>>152552794The first 12 or so issues of Go Go Power Rangers, before the Shattered Grid event, was the only good Power Rangers comic Boom published.
What’s the solicit?
>>152553193Post Shattered Grid GGPR was still good albeit I will agree it was better before the time-skipThe TMNT crossovers are also goodGroom's short run should have lasted longer as a return to form but I get they wanted Issue 100 to be this huge thing and as Ryan's send-off
From CGD/FCBD>A brand new era of Power Rangers starts right here!>This special #0 issue brings back your favorite Rangers from every corner of the Morphin Grid in three brand-new stories for Comics Giveaway Day.>First, the original Mighty Morphin team have moved on... and grown up! What happens when Billy calls them back to the Command Center for the first time in years? And where’s Tommy?>In the second story, a darkness has spread through the universe... and it’s up to Power Rangers from across space and time to join forces in fantasy match-ups you’ve only imagined!>And finally, we’ll see a favorite Ranger in a whole new light... trying to survive as the Last Ranger on Earth. Don’t miss this pivotal entry in the annals of Power Rangers lore that is a perfect jumping-on point for newcomers and lapsed fans alike!Bennett's story is the first one, it's the one this ongoing will be based onThis honestly feels like late-stage licenseshit where a publisher's big plans go up in smoke and now they're aimlessly trying to figure out what to do without thinking about it critically
>>152553190The chemistry of the season 1 cast was better than the replacements. Rocky and Adam are just kinda there until Zeo, Aisha is Kimberly's echo, Tommy lose his best friend and rival in Jason and just hogs the spotlight. Plus Green Ranger Tommy was way more interesting than White Ranger Tommy.
Predictions>Darkest Hour's cliffhanger will not be addressed>Someone will be gay (it's Bennett, even for guys her Andros/Zhane issue all but stated they were gay though that mostly came from how the artist drew them)>Trini will die (again)>This lasts longer than Prime but not by much
Some Japanese guy scribbled these designs in like an hour 35 years ago and they still look better than any redesign short of the 95 movie.
>>152552809MMPR sells. The other teams don't. It's that simple.
>>152552794>Mighty Morphin againYOU FUCKERS
Post your favorite rangers.
>>152552794Bootleg ass designs lmao
>>152553298What of the direct market being full of aging millennials don't you understand?When they were releasing standalone graphic novels the editor literally said they couldn't get proper ongoings because of concerns involving sales so this was their way of testing the waters.The problem is that almost every time they try to highlight another team past the caveat of it being an MMPR crossover, there's some monkey's paw shit involved.>Beyond the Grid has a genuinely excellent premise......wasted on a mediocre at best writer who got Cam's character wrong>Psycho Path was a story starring the In Space Rangers.....that failed to get WHY the Psycho Rangers were so popular>Sins of the Future exists>Ranger Academy was meant to be this conglomeration of the series' lore for new readers....but it was written by someone who didn't really do justice to either the school premise or the incorporation of PR
You think Boom will reboot the comics when the reboot TV show starts?
>>152553261>Plus Green Ranger Tommy was way more interesting than White Ranger Tommy.In hindsight yes but to kids at the time no
>>152554199It dependsI don't see this having a futureI don't see Bennett sticking on this for longThis blatantly comes across as "The Return sold well but we can't do The Return 2 and Prime bombed so here's Not-The Return of the Return"Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if Boom drops Power Rangers soonThe line has been aimless and has been lacking footing for the past couple years now and I'm already getting flashbacks to what their Buffy line was like before they pulled the plug on that
>>152552794I wonder if the show would have survived changing the suits along with the ThunderzordsThe movie would have to be different
>>152552794The more I look the worse these designs get>The shape on their chest sucks>Everyone has two shades of their color >Even their belts are lame >The buckle is just a circle instead of their classic morphers
>>152554371>Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if Boom drops Power Rangers soonHow are the sales of the PR comics nowadays?
>>152552794Did they change the design for copyright reasons? Hasbro really wants to get as far away from Toei as possible, huh?
>>152554502They're still selling toys of the old design, so probably not.
>>152552794JUST LET IT DIE!
>>152554458We don't know We haven't had sales estimate numbers for years but considering Prime got cancelled out of nowhere, probably not goodThe franchise as a whole is now less Transformers and more....Robotech and Voltron in terms of relevance
>whine about MMPR again>never actually say which season you'd want insteadFake fans and cowards, all of you.
>>152554555The toys are doing well.
>>152554560No point in saying I want a Lost Galaxy comic because I know it's so far down the list that it will never happen.
>>152554616Lost Galaxy did well ratingswise and Saban considered it worth marketing stand-alone in the 2010s at least. It's more likely to get nostalgic pandering than, say, the Disney seasons after SPD which got so little marketing and were largely not reran outside of their premium satellite channels.
>>152554555>The franchise as a whole is now less Transformers and more....Robotech and Voltron in terms of relevancethe sad thing is, given that Power Rangers managed to last almost 30 consecutive years with a retail presence, it's easily more relevant than Robotech, Voltron, or 80's nostalgia properties that refuse to die like MOTU or GI Joe ARAH. Those had maybe 4 big years of relevance. PR managed to stick around much longer consistently, if not as big as the peak of something like MOTU.It's just so terribly maintained and treated like an unwanted property most of the time.
>>152554560Name a season and I could give a pitch Except for OO, Samurai, Megaforce or Dino/Cosmic Fury. Some things are just inherently broken
>>152554560time force and lightspeed rescue because one has two reds and the other an original ranger
>>152554560I'll settle for a Zeo mini that finally explains what the hell happened between it and Turbo.
>>152554199I imagine the show will get some sort of tie-in
>>152554560Any of them? Literally only MMPR has gotten an on-going series. Zeo got a one shot. And then next to nothing for anyone else. I'd love to see some more Dino Thunder or Ninja Storm
>>152554728>It's just so terribly maintained and treated like an unwanted property most of the time.Because it is Disney didn't want it, it was part of a mandatory packaged dealThe guy at Hasbro who wanted it, who spent 522 million on Power Rangers (and other stuff as part of a mandatory packaged deal as well) literally got cancer and died leaving the rest of the company not sure what to even do with it and outright auctioned off EVERYTHING they had relating to the show>>152554688This is comics we're talking about
>>152554778What could you do with RPM?>>152555261Didnt the film happen?
>>152553323
>>152555350>Because it isI know that, but again it's so stupid because Power rangers is still, despite Disney, Nick, and Hasbro trying to bury it, far more successful and long lasting than a bunch of franchises that refuse to die. If you just MARKET it and make merchandise it basically carries itself, because the show always found a decent audience of kids year to year to carry it. The show doens't even have to be all that good and you could do the bare minimum just translating Japanese plots and adapting it as needed, like Time Force(best possible outcome) or even Samurai(worst possible outcome...but still successful) GI Joe should by all means be dead but Hasbro considers it more viable than Power angers for whatever reason despite not being relevant in decades.
>>152555559>but Hasbro considers it more viable than Power angers for whatever reason despite not being relevant in decades.G.I. Joe is their babyThat's why (and apparently the new toyline is doing very well even for non-Joe fans)From /prg/>Transformers is a custody joint with Takara>GI Joe is pure Hasbro kin and can literally go to jail for murder and still be given love by the parent>MASK, ROM, Micronauts etc are neglected adopted kids>Visionaries is the kid who's biological but died after sleeping on their stomach as an infant>Same for Xevoz>Also for Inhumanoids but they straight up lost the body as well through an accident>Air Raiders died the second the baby took a breath out of the womb>Wizards of the Coast stuff are the kids CPS barge in to investigate>Power Rangers is the neglected adopted kid, jumped from foster family to foster family who was initially given so much promise only to be pimped out to someone else now for cheap cash>The horses are the successful daughter who the parents love, but they always ask why she keeps dating men twice her age.
>>152552794If they're really insistent on doing MMPR again, can't they at least make a progressive series that covers the entire Zordon era? Alien Rangers is like the one season that needs extended material the most to make the team interesting.
>>152555597The original Boom run SEEMED to be heading into that complete with Kimberly getting focus to make her leave more meaningful (because let's face it, she was the closest thing the series as a whole had to a main protagonist from GGPR to MMPR and so on).....but then Darkest Hour happenedThey couldn't make it to Season 3
I'd recommend this book. Finished it recently. Good insight into the inner-workings of the show and how most execs didn't really get it but allowed it to exist and thrive. Mostly focuses on the show but touches on the comics.
>>152555467The film abandoned every remaining storyline from Zeo.>Rita and Zedd's plans now that the Machines are out of the way>Prince Gasket and Archerina still on the loose>Bulk and Skull becoming detectives in Paris (the movie has them back with Lt. Stone like nothing happened)
>>152554580Anon, we're talking about comics
>>152555706Still counts. Hasbro said they "re-energized the brand".
>>152555856The comics or the toys?The sales of the toys don't influence the comics
>>152555865Toys.>“Power Rangers” is a great proof point – our master toy agreement with Playmates Toys has reenergized the brand, with Mighty Morphin Power Rangers leading the charge.https://www.licenseglobal.com/toys-games/10-minutes-with-hasbro-on-how-it-is-redefining-licensing-in-the-u-k-with-nostalgia-innovation-and-fan-first-strategies
>>152555897Turns out selling a combiner for "cheap" actually has it's merits. Maybe they could learn something over on the TF side
>>152555941Can't sell the fucking Dragonzord though. Fucking Walmart...
>>152555467>What could you do with RPM?RPM has some of the most possibilities! It's literally its own world rife with potential.There was a whole year between the Wall in Corinth going up and Dillon showing up in the first episode.You can do so many stories that explore what Scott, Summer and Flynn were up to. How they got selected to be Ranger Operators, what that process was like. How they met and got to know each other and learned to work together.There's also what Ziggy and Dillon were up to during this time. Ziggy got kicked out of Corinth, and he managed to survive on his own for a while.What is life actually like in the Badlands? Are there people living out there that aren't in Venjix's camps. What's life in the camps like? Did Venjix kill all plant and animal life or are there places that he didn't manage to get to?What were Gem and Gemma up to? Just constant hit and run attacks on Venjix bases for like 2 years? How did they survive for so long?Plus you can explore the whole alternate universe aspect. Did Zordon ever exist on this planet? Is Rita on their Moon and just still stuck in the dumpster?Did the Samurai Rangers exist? Did Animaria or the Ninja Academies or Animal Spirit Kung Fu or the Mystic Force? Were any of these non-Ranger ancient orders come out of retirement to try to fight Venjix? Did they get wiped out?What's the cosmic landscape look like in this world? Is Earth under quarantine or something so Venjix can't get out? Why didn't someone like the Space Rangers come down to try to help? Blue Centurion?Why aren't there any evil space ninja aliens trying to take advantage of the chaos?Does Dark Spectre still exist or the Alliance of Evil?It's basically everything they wanted to do with Prime but in already existing framework, and characters fans are already attached to
Sentai died for all this crap.>I NEVER WATCH THE SENTAI>I DONT CARE ABOUT THE SENTAI>POWER RANGERS SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO STAND ON ITS OWN.
>>152556677
>>152556677Sentai died because Japan itself stopped caring about Sentai
>>152556677Sentai died because they wanted to do MCU Metal Heroes, you mean
>>152552794I take it that this is a >These comics don't sell well enough to justify ongoings, but the brand was super successful once upon a time, so we can't afford to lose the license if someone can figure out the formula to sell welltype of deal, right? Like Sony's one billion experimental Spider-Man spin-offs that all suck?
>>152556677>POWER RANGERS SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO STAND ON ITS OWN.What a load of nonsense. Especially when the only reason Sentai is going away is due to the jew bastards having the international rights.
>>152556800>>152556807>SABAN HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH ITNiggas c'mon.
>>152552794STOP.REDESIGNING.THE ZYURANGER.SUITS.AND CHARACTERS.
>>152556875Saban is not even relevant here anymoreHe sold the series to HasbroSentai died because Power Rangers ending caused a huge cut of Sentai's profitability
>>152555674>Jason is still present and essentially an active member of the team in the very last episode before the movie but the movie treats him like he hasn't been since since he left in Season 2
>>152556822That's not how comics work you idiot
>>152556875Anon it's been 8(EIGHT) years since Saban had anything to do with the franchise now.
>>152553270By "scribbled", I assume you mean that the guy who designed them did so with the understanding that:1. It would be sixteenth entry in the franchise and so the costumes really only needed to look unique enough compared to the previous 15 sets while not straying too far from the same idea.2. They just needed to be easy to film and recreate, as they would be used for ~50 shoots over the course of a year.3. That they would be completely replaced the next year with something that in turn would also be replaced the year after that and it would repeat an indefinite amount of times (33 as it turned out), with the possibility that the show would never get reruns or the costumes ever getting used in anything ever again.Am I right about that? It's obviously not the designer's fault that Toei ended up licensing the show to some American Godfrey Ho for a Frankenstein experiment, and that the audience for this Turkish Star Wars edition of Zyuranger ended up putting it on a pedestal as the "untouchable original".
>>152556850I kep hearing this..but what will really change? Toei doesn't market Kamen Rider much outside of Japan as is, and they've had all the rights to it for years. Simulcasting is what they do..and yet there's no real KR merch push or anything. I doubt Project Red is going to get any Bandai US toys either. Power rangers was free money for Toei/Bandai when Bandai USA has the toy rights. But they don't care about marketing it on their own.
>>152557118It's simply a flippant, semi-humorous way of putting it that none of the attempts at a redesign look as good as the original, which was probably done under a crunch. Of course in reality, the design had a few passes. I mean in all fairness even Tsuyoshi Nonaka recognizes PR being a special case(it helps that Daizyujin was the first lead mecha he designed so it holds a special place for him)...and even his designs don't look as good.
>>152554371>The line has been aimless and has been lacking footing for the past couple years now and I'm already getting flashbacks to what their Buffy line was like before they pulled the plug on thatGod don't remind me. Once they opened the door to multiverse shit the whole line collapsed and it became an unreadable mess
>>152557231>multiverse shitThe mark of death for many a franchise.
>>152556875I wouldn't doubt that stupid contract was juicy bonus to this, but I also seriously doubt that if Sentai was still seeing the numbers it'd been seeing 10 years ago they still would've made this move. I can't imagine Kamen Rider is making so much bank abroad that that alone is the reason it hasn't been rebooted/replaced.
>>152553270First time I see japanese Sentai art of the rangers themselves, every American piece of cartoon art of the rangers always make em buff.
>>152557421the big difference is that Kamen Rider is sustainable JUST with Japan. Sentai with 5+ heroes, multiple mecha designs, all adds up as a base price to make a series. Kamen Rider has multiple riders and forms too, but the formula is more flexible. Turns out there might not be a coincidence that Sentai was the one toku series to survive the 90's when so many other series went on hiatus.
>>152557582one thing that actually blew my mind--the roided out Ranger look was actually used a lot in Japanese marketing too. Even their toys, which weren't even reused in the US release. I wonder if ti was due to Bandai/Plex's ongoing fascination with US comics at the time(you see this a lot in Digimon)
>>152552794Based
For me it's Lost Galaxy
>>152556677Sentai died because TOEI signed an awful deal with Saban on top off an already awful deal with Marvel at the time.It's not Saban's fault that they ended up selling the PR brand to Hasbro during a time where Sentai's popularity in Japan was at an all time low because Toei effectively replaced it with Kamen Riders return.It's a bed Toei made
>>152554778>Name a season and I could give a pitch>Except for OO, Samurai, Megaforce or Dino/Cosmic Fury. Some things are just inherently brokenFaggot, shitting on Lost Galaxy like that
>>152557888Based
>>152557888>>152557915
>>152557888Good taste.
>>152556677Sentai died because the female villains stopped dressing like whores after the 90s
>>152552794The symbols on their chests look like hearts. The 6-11 boys demographic that this show was intended for would never buy toys with big girly hearts on them. Completely lost the plot.
>>152557888>>152557940She was naked in "Not Another Teen Movie", she even had more nude scenes in the Unrated cut
When will Boom comics do an arc about how SPD Yellow got herself an onlyfans account?
>>152554560>>152554778Wild Force prequel about the first Org warNinja Storm academyLight Speed Rescue missionsSPD operatives
>>152557942Based
>>152557954Best Yellow Ranger
>>152557925
>>152552794>So, you know the pleasing diamond pattern on the suits?>Let's not do that.>Also, two tone colors.>Also, fuck their belts up.Them removing Pink's skirt. is kinda a given, but still...The 90s movie suits are the only redesigns that worked out, huh.
>>152558047Soul
It'll be out when it's out
>>152557954>>152558026
>>152552794The diamond pattern on their chests looks like a mouse head
>>152558181It's subtle advertising for Disney's new Power Rangers show.
>>152558172Cute
Back in 2007 Disney wanted to make a "Power Rangers animated series" for their DisneyXD channel and they hired various artist to do concept art for the show before they cancelled it
>>152557903>Faggot, shitting on Lost Galaxy like thatSorry what?
>>152552794Could they allowed to create their own MMPR series?
>>152558234Top design looks like shit
I'm so sick and fucking tired of Power Rangers: Kanto.
>>152557915
>>152558318That was Prime.....sort ofI wanna say this is New 52 MMPR (I mean it certainly looks the part) but it feels like.....IDW2 Power Rangers
>>152558183Fat
Why'd the comic make Rita Repulsa a babe?
>>152557678King Ranger/Gold Ranger is one of my favourite Tokusatsu suits of all time. Second only to the Beetleborg Metallix and Big O and Kamen Rider Amazon cause the late 70s early 80s was great too.
>>152559342Sexo
>>152559342That's not even the worst example.
Just give me some Ninja Storm, Dino Thunder, or Lost Galaxy comics.
>>152559771Man, she was cute.>>152559784Her too, except she refuses to acknowledge the show exists.
>>152559771This
I want a reboot that combines the movie continuity with the original show somehow. And since I know recasting was because of Jew bullshit I'd want to keep the OG team together for longer. The lead up to Zeo was so fucking exciting to kid me and I would kill for a Zeo comic that had Billy not be useless because of more behind the scenes BS and Jason as Gold for long. Or fuck it maybe Billy as Gold. Also make the bridge to Zeo and Turbo better. But we will just get shit redesigns of MMPR forever...
>>152552794Rehashing MMPR is a given at this point, but the fact that they've come to the point of aping the kind of Americanized fan redesigns you would see decades ago is something else.
>>152552794why are Americans still pushing this franchise? Didn't the original Japanese franchise already end?
>>152557678>A la berga ESTOY MAMADISIMO!!T. El Pawer Renyer Rojo.
I want SPD!
I liked that Prime brought back the VR Troopers but shame it didn't last long enough to bring in Beetleborgs, Masked Rider or Mystic Knights
>>152560183>Big Bad Beetleborgs (METALIX!)Man, that brings me back.
>>152560124Yeah, so? Theres money to be made.
Another reboot? Already? What happened to the last one?
>>152557942What about Nao Oikawa in Go-Onger?
>>152560233Lasted 16 issues plus a spin-off mini about the VR Troopers. But had plenty of release issues/delays especially online which sort of killed the flow and sales.
>>152560233It ended at 16 issues because it moved at a snail's pace.
>>152560244>especially online which sort of killed the flow and sales.Pretty much this. Many issues were unavailable for months on Amazon and even my LCS didn't get orders for their release dates.
Are the Ninja Storm TokyoPop books any good?
>>152560267>cine-mangaPretty sure that means it is literally just show screenshots used as comic panels.
>>152552794baffling idea.
Wouldn't mind a sequel to The Return. But that seems unlikely at this point.
>>152560275Oh I see
>>152560244>>152560249How'd it even end? I remember reading the first few issues and sorta gave up
>>152560289Again, this blatantly feels like they're way of having more of The Return without getting AJJ back to writeThe FCBD issue's description had two other stories that sound far more promising and yet we're getting a book that feels like the summation of learning the wrong lessons
>>152560326Final issue hasn't come out yet but it's pretty telling how the solicit is hyping up the debut of A zordNot a Megazord, A zord
>>152555961They could always put it on Pulse
>>152560455I wish. But Playmates is making it, not Hasbro.And "no retailer wants it".
>>152552794People like Bennet, Tini Howard, Leah, Joshua Williamson, etc. are proof that the talent pool in comics is so shallow that being a shitty to at best mediocre writer won't actually get you out of a job.
>>152560460They sold Super7 Ultimate Rangers on Pulse. Probably still do I haven't looked.
>>152560289I reread this last night. I didn't remember it ending on such a blatant cliffhanger. The best sequence in the book is when the Rangers attack/sneak into the lunar palace.
>>152557294See in Boom Buffy's case, it wasn't just standard multiverse shit it was the fact that after they just threw shit on the wall to see what sticked for one universe they moved to another one What started as something as simple as Buffy's story told in the modern day with a few deviations (so basically Buffy: GGPR edition complete with Dan Mora on art) quickly just lost sight like a chicken without its head
>>152552794You thiink Griffith made the helmets look like the old promo art on purpose, or is it just the usual inability to grasp how to draw the helmets at work?
>>152560553>What started as something as simple as Buffy's story told in the modern day with a few deviations (so basically Buffy: GGPR edition complete with Dan Mora on art) quickly just lost sight like a chicken without its headMan I was so excited by that book at first.Buffy and the gang back in high school. Willow already gay, introducing Robin Wood as a young Watcher in training, Kendra coming in and not immediately dyingI wish they had gone even further with it. Have all of the big bads that we know were already operating in town, operate in town at once.Have Dawn exist already and get underfoot without any of them knowing Glory is out thereHave the Initiative kidnapping demons every so often or getting to a crime scene before Buffy canHave the Mayor be a lurking presence in the background controlling local police and government so that no one is asking questionsAnd then have occasional clashes between these different evil factions
>>152560107That is some 90's ass art, where'd this even come from?
>>152560107Hey, what the heck, this person stole my idea from the redesign I never shared with anyone like twenty years ago... The chest/shoulder area, mainly. The gloves and the hip/upper leg area looks awful on these.
>>152561405Just some fanart that I got from a Czech fansite decades ago.
bump
>>152552809Last year would have been perfect for SPD stuff since that takes place in 2025.
>>152553193> Zack and Trini> Not Adam and AishaCringe
>>152553267> Andros/Zhane issue Excuse me? There's a what?
>>152553275I would buy Power Rangers in Space or a Magna Defender soloGive me an Ecliptor solo
This thread needs more Megazord. This is my favorite Megazord, it's up there with the MM megazord. I love this Megazord, and I love Wild Force.
>>152553323Already beat me to it, but Zhane was a favorite of mine, too.
>>152554438Now that you mention it, it's quite terrible
>>152554560Literally anything between MMPR and Time Force but my two biggest ones would be In Space and Lost Galaxy. Zeo and Turbo would be cool because I never really got to see them as a kid and the villains are cool. Time Force has an awesome setting and premise to play around with, and Lightspeed Rescue is really nifty in that they're basically Power Ranger cops (plus Titanium Ranger is cool)
>>152555597Alien Rangers would be cool, or heck, bring back Ivan Ooze.
>>152556850They could just make Super Sentai and call it something else
>>152560043I'd like to keep Trini but get rid of Zack
>>152557942Based. For me, it was Scorpina.
>>152562818For me, its the Mega Winger.
>>152562886Red haired Astronema and Trakeena were pretty hot
>>152557942But Yodonna did all that along with 2 of the cast having some cake. Hell, she had a lesbian kiss scene
>>152560006
>>152555511based
>>152562886i liked divatox
>>152562845I dont get why they dont just do team ups with other Power Ranger teams of they HAVE to mill MMPR so hard. They teamed up with the TMNT, usagi Yojimbo, Kaiju, and god knows what else. But you can't just do a simple story where the Time Force has to chase a bad guy back In time and meets the Wild West Rangers?I mean a simple team up too not the multiverse shattered and a ragtag group of random rangers gather to make weird ships and prop up an OC purple ranger
>>152562800They got her to write a prequel one-shot to help set up the then-current event and the artist was a Russian fujoshi It didn't explicitly say they were gay but it looked VERY gay complete with a panel of them wearing each other's shirts
>>152564488You didn't get gay vibes from them watching the show?
>>152562868Yes, they're basically doing that.
>>152564882Fuck off fujoshi scum..
>>152560192absolute 90s
>>152564441I'm been waiting for them to do something with RPM. I can understand them ignoring the badly received seasons, but RPM and a few others were the most popular with the fandom. An MMPR / RPM team up would be fine too.
>>152552794So what is this? Another reboot or revival of a previous run or an entirely new thing?
>>152566505New thing apparently. The MMPR team meeting up as adults, apparently after retiring.
>>152558047:D
>>152564488There was also some really weird shit about Andros and Zhane being adopted after KO-35 fell, raised together by the previous team of Astro Rangers, two of whom were lesbians. And then they all died
>>152566528AGAIN?
>>152554560Post-Tommy Turbo, In Space, Lost Galaxy, Lightspeed Rescue, Time Force, SPD, come on anon.
>>152557888She wasn't even the hottest female on the show.
>>152565090Is it good?
For me, its Scorpina
>>152552794>bennett writingDOA. Why do these same scumbags get gig after gig after gig?
>>152567507Maybe no one else wants to.
>>152557888Same
>>152567489Only one episode out so far, a little exposition dump heavy but promising.
>boom getting in on the compact comics fad>charging $5 more than the competitorsIs Boom run by retards?
>>152554560>>152564441I think the only way the market can support non-MMPR is to basically make it a PR universe book where all the teams(or at least part of them) remain active. You would need some MMPR team members part of it to help bridge casual comic fans with the more dedicated fans. So you have Power Rangers Earth with Lightspeed Rescue being established, and maybe adapt some Time Force tech so you have that implied link that It, SPD, and TF are all connected that people got from Sky's dad using the TF costume. Maybe some of the team retired, Carter and Ryan and maybe Chad active. Joel could be retired and his kid with the former Mrs. Fairweather could be his replacement green ranger. Over in Silver Hills Wes and Eric are active rangers. Maybe redeem Justin and since he'd be older and has his boy genius angle he could be part of establishing a lot of later Ranger tech, plus he kept his Turbo ranger powers thanks to his spare morpher. Always liked the idea that the Lightspeed Rescue zords were developed from the Turbozords since they were the last Earth based zords before the space years.Tommy around with his Dino Thunder teamThen Power Rangers Cosmic which deals with Andros and the Lost Galaxy Rangers and Alien Rangers all encountering loose threads. Billy could be a linking thread since he lives on Aquitar Characters who survived the Z wave thanks to missing costumes, like Rito, could be villains amassing their own forces for revengeIf those are successful enough I'd go into a book with the more independent teams based off ancient powers or secret , like Ninja Storm, Mystic Force, Samurai, and maybe explore Ninjakon and whatever ties he had to Ninjor. Jason could perhaps be a linking part for them as he travels the world, or even Trini since she always had interest in obscure martial arts skills and culture. Just because Thuy is dead doesn't mean Trini has to be, which is one thing that bugs me about every modern take that has Trini dying.
>>152568256>I think the only way the market can support non-MMPR is to basically make it a PR universe book where all the teams(or at least part of them) remain active.So, basically the show, but without needing to worry about a special effects budget.
>>152557582>>152557678I always been fond of this kind of look for Sentai heroes. Sleek with some buffness here and there.
>>152563228Cute
>>152568284Well yes, but the show generally ran with the idea that one team steps down with another stepping up the following year, with the exception of crossovers where powers would come back with no explanation. I'm saying to basically make those crossovers the main angle. Or something like the Power rangers Hexagon pitch, without the Civil War angle just yet.
>>152568438>the show generally ran with the idea that one team steps down with another stepping up the following yearOh, sure. But ever since... Forever Red, probably... the show has always sort of teased the idea that there was a "Power Rangers Hexagon" of sorts with plenty of unseen adventures (Rangers knowing each other when they've never met on-screen before, TJ already knowing who Lord Drayven is, etc) but it's never really wanted to commit to it. The idea got a lot more prominence in the Hasbro years, though.
>>152552794Thank GOD it's not Melissa Flores
>>152559710Good lord she's hot?
>>152568256Member when they were hyping out the reshoots of the Legendary War for Super Megaforce with promises of hours of NEW ORIGINAL FOOTAGE, only for it turning out to be a lot of crap?Even the post Sentai LW footage shot for the Extra Heros added for the Gokaiger movie was less insulting.
>>152568610It's hilarious when you remember that all that heavy, serious-sounding dialogue is being spoken in Barbara Goodson's high-pitched witch screeching.
>>152568616Hey now, that was a great single two-second shot of Turbo Pink. What else would you have wanted?
>>152568256>Just because Thuy is dead doesn't mean Trini has to be, which is one thing that bugs me about every modern take that has Trini dying.Reminds me of that one pre-Boom MMPR comic where Billy's tricked-out car gets possessed by Zedd and nearly runs down Trini in one panel. Everybody was screaming in rage at the scene due to how Thuy died, so reprints had to redraw her into Kimberly.
>>152559799She apologized for that Twitter incident.
>>152568979>She apologized for that Twitter incident.When?
>>152568911It literally happened again with the Godzilla crossover where Trini inspects a Xilien and said something like "Good thing he had his seatbelt"Yeah the reprint had to remove that IIRC
>>152552873So they don't have to pay for the license to the Zyuranger likeness
>>152569344Trini dying should be handled with respect. In a Godzilla crossover, this can be done by having her take Dr. Serizawa's role, deploying the Oxygen Destroyer
>>152568586Bennett is worse broFlores was inexperienced in comics but she had credentials for the role since she literally wrote the series Bible during the Neo Saban era and had a history working at Saban Bennett is just aggressively mid at best and agonizingly bad at worstI heard her Witchblade run is decent but man was Beyond the Grid wasted potential
>>152569958One of my fave characters
>>152552794Exciting!
>>152552794Boring
>>152552794Weird-looking Flash Family comic. Is this Bart?
>>152569958Nice Astronamams
>>152568911>>152569344The Trini specific poster for the 2017 movie, showing her relaxing on top of the Sabertooth Tiger, had a tagline to the effect of "No, she doesn't have her license." After a while it admittedly does kinda start to turn from harmless coincidence to "Why do they keep giving all the car-related shit to Trini?"
>>152568256>Just because Thuy is dead doesn't mean Trini has to be, which is one thing that bugs me about every modern take that has Trini dying.This bothered me too. Power Rangers is too shitty of a show to honour someones death. The after credits memoriam like the did for JDF would have been fine. Especially when you have the most retarded writing like Billy being responsible for bringing Rita back by trying to resurrect Zordon, one of the Alphas dying and NO ONE GIVING A SHIT, and then the moral of the story is he just has to try harder to bring Zordon back again. In the special about Trini being dead because Thuy died. What.
>>152572579Remember when a pic of a wrecked car in Once & Always popped up and people thought THAT was how Trini would die?
>>152572600>Especially when you have the most retarded writing like Billy being responsible for bringing Rita back by trying to resurrect Zordon, one of the Alphas dying and NO ONE GIVING A SHIT, and then the moral of the story is he just has to try harder to bring Zordon back again. In the special about Trini being dead because Thuy died. What.This and the whole "No, Minh, revenge is bad" thing. Do you know how many hundreds of episodes have shown Rangers getting revenge on villains and it is absolutely portrayed as a good, heroic thing (and usually for shit a lot less important than murdered parents). Like either way, this shit ends with Robo Rita exploding in a ball of fire. Why not let Minh morph and beat the shit out of her beforehand, and just be there to watch out for her in the meanwhile?Zack: "Anger and revenge is never the answer."Also Zack: https://youtu.be/hzbrqcjAeDA?t=87And then he ends the whole thing with "This is for Trini," thereby making the whole plotline moot anyway.
Outside Higgins run is there a good PR comics run?
>>152572745Ryan Parrott and Mat Groom runs as well though your mileage may vary on the former depending on how you feel about it goes At the very least, read GGPR before the time-skip
>>152564488Well that's disappointing but I am curious to see more In Space content>>152564882Zhane and Karone are canonically a couple. Darkonda even had to re-brainwash her after they had their first romantic moment
>>152568256What's pic from?
>>152568341That's pretty cool art where did you find it?
>>152572600>>Especially when you have the most retarded writing>Billy plays God because he's not over a death that happened 25 years ago>Billy resurrects one of the greatest evils in the universe>Billy gets Alpha killed>Billy gets Trini killed>Any other death and destruction that Robo Rita causes is Billy's fault>...but it's MINH that needs to learn a lesson about doing the right thingThe big climactic moment where Rita uses her death spell a second time should've been a "set things right" moment for Billy, where HE takes the shot for MINH. Instead the lesson that needs to be learned is "take a bullet for the guy who got your mom killed"?Not to mention how the special treats the Power Coins like the Force when that's literally never how the Power Coins, whether Dino or Ninja, have EVER worked. The Sabertooth Tiger Coin deems Minh unworthy of morphing because she isn't acting 100% altruistically? Really? So explain evil Rangers then, asshats. Minh trying to avenge her murdered mother is a no-go but Tommy using the Dragonzord to destroy Angel Grove is A-OK? Fuck off. Minh's handicap shouldn't have been her not being able to morph, it should've been she CAN morph, she just doesn't know what she's doing because she's a teenager who grabbed a Power Morpher and has no Zordon to guide her.
>>152568014Yes, it's partially owned by Disney.
>>152572600> one of the Alphas dying and NO ONE GIVING A SHITThis is just par for the Alphas though. 5 is the most popular one and it’s probably a pile of debris somewhere in space no one cared to ever mention again. 6 had its personality required and voice changed which effectively made it a new being and no one was bothered by this because the old voice was annoying. Then it got decommissioned and tossed in an Earth warehouse. 7 randomly had 5’s voice and people called that good enough.Oh and 4 was in a box of parts under the command center where Goldar and Rito used its head as a place to hide a bomb.
>>152568256For me, make an ongoing called Power Rangers Anthology or something where each arc/tpb focuses on different PR team. That way you can tell stories of every team, and if you've gone through every team, you can start over again.
>>152553275>pretending SPD and Dino Thunder wouldn't sell like hot cakes after years of MMPR nostalgia baiting
>>152574161They probably wouldn't do as well as late Saban series like In Space and Time Force.I think what people don't grasp is that Disney buried the show hard when they had it. The ratings drop like a stone after peaking with Ninja Storm.https://henshingrid.blogspot.com/2015/11/power-rangers-by-generations-and-ratings.htmlIts not clear what the ratings were on Fox before the sale, but the show was doing well enough to keep going after In Space with no threat of cancellation until Saban sold all the assetsAre the generation that grew up with SPD or Dino Thunder even active comic buyers? They can hype it on Twitter all they want, but would they support a comic?
>>152573234Just looking up Keita Amemiya artwork. /m/ every blue moon, have an art thread dedicated to Toku concept art. Also look up Duel Heroes artwork for Nintendo 64.
>>152557888Good choice
>>152574161We're talking about comicsThere's a reason why Gen Z nostalgia doesn't get pushed That's the gen immediately after the industry crash
>>152567531There is literally zero chance that’s the case. What a retarded thing to say. Literally thousands of writers out there who’d write it in an instant.
I love the comics and I revel in /co/ consistently trying to convince me not to. Also I've never actually seen the series so it's my only point of reference.
Someone on instagram said we’re getting two more comics. One that covers all 30 years (Power Rangers Unlimited) and one about Green Ranger Tommy as the last Ranger on Earth.
>>152572680>>152573505I personally chalk it up to, not the Coin choosing when to let Minh morphBut Trini acting from beyond and wanting her daughter to fight for the right reasons instead of letting revenge drive the rest of her life.We know that Zordon went on to become a Morphin Master or whatever. I don't think Trini should as well, but maybe she called in a favor
>>152574689>Also I've never actually seen the series so it's my only point of reference.You should check out MMPR for shits and giggles. If you like cheesey tv the monsters, suits, fights, special effects and music are all great and the 90s ness of the rest of it is really funny looking back on it. Super Sentai is a legitimately good family show sometimes. Like check out Jetman or Timeranger you'll probably enjoy it
Power Rangers 2026 is lookin crazy
>>152575039Unlimited is basically what would please a chunk of the fandom
>>152576169it would please them but would they actually buy it?
>>152575064>I personally chalk it up to, not the Coin choosing when to let Minh morph>But Trini acting from beyond and wanting her daughter to fight for the right reasons instead of letting revenge drive the rest of her life.If that was the intent, then that's even dumber and worse? Trini wants her daughter to learn a lesson so badly she's literally going to let her throw hands against Rita herself without any powers to protect her? Holy shit what a bad mother.
>>152577649Any single parent that has decided to stay an active Ranger when they have a underage child at home isn't going to win Mother of the Year
>>152577664A parent with a dangerous job isn't a new concept. There are cops, firefighters, soldiers, etc. But if Minh being unable to morph was Trini's doing, there's a huge difference between the parent having a dangerous job and suddenly throwing their kid into same said job but without any of their precious life-saving attire or equipment.>"Go be a firefighter, kid.">"Cool! Can I have your breathing apparatus and your fire hose?">"No."
>>152575039Yeah that's what the FCBD was aboutThree ongoings?That's kind of surprising since at most Power Rangers only had two with a miniseries
>>152575039Matches the CGD description>>152553232Unfortunately the second story sounds cool but it'll likely be co-written by Allor who botched the Psycho Rangers
>>152560844I wish Dan Mora drew Faith
>>152577725Kid threw herself into that fight without any training or permission She stole the Morpher, no one gave it to her.She acted like she was entitled to the Power just because she wanted it Trini didn't tell her to be a Ranger, she just wanted her to have the right motivation if she did
>>152577988Sure, but in the meanwhile, whether Minh earned it or not... She was still face to face with three evil robot monsters. Maybe Trini could save the "correct motivation" lesson until Minh wasn't in immediate life-threatening danger.>without any training or permissionTo be fair, this was also Zack's fault. He'd apparently been training Minh to some degree only to pull the "it's too dangerous" bullshit as soon it was time for Minh to use said training. Which, understandable, but when does the "No, it's too dangerous, you can do it when you're older" routine ever work?
FINALLY
Also another Tommy series
>>152579033I really don't care for Hyper Force
>>152579033>>152579285I'm surprised it's getting any more attention after Saban exited the picture.
>>152579285>>152579729Thats not official art, its just whatever the person used for the news post. Only the logos are out
>>152579033Hmm, sounds legit fun.
>>152579729Hyper Force having prominence in Darkest Hour makes sense given it's Flores' baby
>>152579043
>>152579043Hail to the king.
>>152579043Why does Tommy get this treatmentBut Trini dies in every timeline?
>>152572600>Especially when you have the most retarded writingLike how they did away with Rita's entire personality simply because she was allowed to say "death" and "kill" now?
>>152562804Same here.
>>152575681What the fuck are they doing? Those look more like Kamen Riders.
>>152584076Based retard
>>152584148So are those Kamen Riders or...?
>>152552809How is prime? im not familiar with the comics but it sounds interesting that its like a reboot thing
>>152585250Its slow going and the story is stretched out too much (an issue I have with most modern comics) but otherwise its an interesting take on things as an alternate timeline/universe. Lauren and Rita are great, as is the reintroduction of the VR Troopers.
>>152585622I wish Masked Rider wasn’t so hated and could get reintroduced in such a way. Wonky as that show is I did like watching it when I was very young
>>152582412because Tommy merch sells and Trini is literally the last or second to last to move.
>>152579033>>152579043>>152580023Will PR really be able to carry 3 ongoings? Seems like a lot.
>>152579043Just think of how different things would've been if Hasbro just threw JDF a bone and put him in Dino Fury or something instead of ghosting him, which lead to his mid-life crisis that ended with his suicide.Seriously if he got some dumb Netflix special it probably would've done better than Once and Always and he would still be around, and there wouldn't be this morose feeling around the whole franchise these days.
>>152588005>which lead to his mid-life crisis that ended with his suicideAnyone that fragile needs to stay the fuck away from entertainment and seek help
>>152588005>Just think of how different things would've been if Hasbro just threw JDF a bone and put him in Dino Fury or something instead of ghosting him, which lead to his mid-life crisis that ended with his suicide.>source: i made it the fuck updude's entire family life was fucked from the beginning, and you can actually look this up instead of just bullshitting. his brother committed suicide, his daughter-in-law died, his 19 year marriage had been a mess and they had been separated, and there are allegations of drug abuse.
>>152568256with all the teams running about, the only real way to give them coverage is the 40k long-stretch anthology way, where there's a main plot that gets drip feed and a bunch of books about individual chapters or teams doing their own thing. lots of room to fill villain lore.
>>152563228is she the one that went into porn?
>>152560267
>>152574161Dino Thunder hinges on Tommywank, but I'll give you SPD. It's arguably the most popular Disney season.
I wish Boom would release trades that just collect everything in release order, like IDW does with Ninja Turtles.
>>152588523I've started to suspect that JDF was molested or something when he was modeling as a kid. He makes some dark references to how he grew up, and there's an interview from nearly two decades ago where he ends making an off-color remark about doing adult films at 12, which could just be dark humor, but the way he gets intense about bringing up his youth in other interviews has made me question if he was confessing through jokes. https://youtu.be/8nLGp03YgQg?si=H_BRmHdS1PZ2n2vP&t=90
>>152588574No
>>152588614>It's arguably the most popular Disney season.The ratings didn't actually reflect that. Disney era fans have a chip on their shoulder but despite the vocal fanbase they're almost assuredly a smaller fanbase because less people watched those shows when they were new. Ninja Storm did the best of the disney years, Wild Force(technically Saban but released under Disney) a close second. Everything after that drops off hard. What I never got is why In Space-Time Force fans aren't as whiny about not getting attention as Disney era fans are.
>>152588413Anon, basically everyone in entertainment needs help. >>152588523He had a lot of issues, but I really do think not having any PR projects after he tried to contact Hasbro with no luck was a straw that broke the camel's back. His wife is rumored to be the one who really pushed him into marketing himself as Tommy all the time(he was pretty chill about it in the 2000's), and I think that caused a huge ripple since he basically made cons and Power rangers his life.
>>152589540>Ninja Storm did the best of the disney yearsHell yeah it did!
>>152588005I don't get why they didn't want him in O&A anyway. Not out of any particular "Oh, the great JDF, the great Tommy, everyone loves Tommy," but simply because he was one of the original MMPR and the whole point of the special was seeing the original MMPR again. Especially since they weren't able to have Thuy, Amy, or Austin in it. Why purposely leave out one of the people the special is about?
>>152589698I think he refused O&A because he was still angry over not getting anything between Ninja Steel and that. round the time it was filming is when he had his whole thing where he said he was retiring from Tommy and focusing on being Not Tommy the White Dragon.Amy Jo was never gonna come back and Austin was probably meant to be in but got in major legal trouble. It's a real shame it turned out the way it did.
>>152589698>>152590343There's some one-sided drama with Bat in the Sun over JDF's wishes and his stance on things like Lord Drakkon stemming from a "betrayal" and the closest thing I can think of is Higgins saying their Shattered Grid pitch got screwed over during the transition to Hasbro.Higgins mentioned in his statement on JDF's passing that he sort of had a falling out with the guy but wasn't even sure why and thought they'd see each other again.I think it's because what Higgins saw as yet another typical failed pitch (he's been through multiple given his history in television and film), JDF took it more personally (possibly). Anyways, the guy in charge of Bat in the Sun repeatedly putting words in JDF's dead mouth didn't really help his case especially when he did multiple things souring Power Rangers' fans with the last film JDF worked on by doing stupid shit like accusing AJJ of stealing their ideas for The Return.
>>152553270I've just realized how much better the Power Rangers would look if they had white sleeves, to continue the white triangles to the left and right, with their gloves changed to their overall suit color to compensate.
They took the money and ran, didn't they?
>>152590401I used to really like Super Power Beat Down, but Aaron's behavior ever since JDF's death has been really sad and shitty. Gives off some serious "obsessed with their ex (even though they never actually dated in the first place)" vibes.
>>152590566a lot of 80's sentai have white sleeves and it looks SO clean, lot of white on the suit always looks good, it's why I'm such a fan of the Lost Galaxy look too.
Many people praise DaiZyuJin for starting the new zeitgeist of how the main mecha should be designes, but i dont get why.
>>152552809>will cause the franchise to stagnate and die.>will
It'll be interesting to see what happens with Power Rangers now that there's no sentai to use. I wonder if Hasbro actually knew that Sentai was going on hiatus, and that's why Cosmic Fury was a blatant test run.
>>152591532Hasbro dropped Toei all together years ago. They are doing an MMPR reboot now and have no intention of using Sentai footage ever again.
>>152591532If you read >>152555638 they mention that not using or only using some of the sentai footage was discussed multiple times from the very early years of the show to the final seasons. It was an inevitability
>>152591150It won a Japanese design award the year it came out too. The main thing is that a lot of prior Sentai mecha had very boxy and flat profiles, and tended to minimize the individual mecha's individuality, and very linear combinations(I.e., become arms, legs, core). Daizyujin switches it up with mastodon and pterodactyl wrapping around the Tyrannosaurus which gives it more depth. The individual mecha also have more detailing to them as well.
>>152592968There's a surprising amount of US suitfootage done since the beginning too. It's strange because sometimes the JP footage will dictate plot, then they end up reshooting a lot anyway. Like the whole white Dino thunder ranger having an evil clone.
>>152594659And then there are some instances where they simply CAN'T use Sentai footage, like Seasons 2 and 3. If only Super Megaforce didn't try to be smart...
>>152593413Hilarious how over designed and ugly the main mechas became during the 2000s and especially in the 2010s, with Kyurangers main Mecha being the ugliest.
>>152592249What they are gonna do with the Zyuranger character designs and concepts then, use the comic redesigns? Does Plex has a say in this?
>>152594975>Does Plex has a say in this?For whatever it's worth, the main show runner in charge of the last couple seasons of the show (and Once & Always) had no idea what Plex was when a fan asked a question concerning it.
>>152596326That makes a lot of sense considering this.What were they thinking.
>>152596472American kids like muscles on action figures or something
>>152596474Even the 95 movie suits were better.
>>152592968I think the rule was that Toei required a minimum quota of Sentai footage to be used in any Power Rangers series since that was what they were really selling overseas. >>152594682By Season 3, the only Sentai footage being used was for Zord battles.
>>152557888My 3D waifu
>>152594975>Does Plex has a say in this?I think Bandai have ownership of the company so PR lose Plex relationship
>>152567502Same
>>152596511I'm really glad they realized how stupid this looked.
Fortnite getting Dino Thunder skins got a ton of hype, there’s clearly a demand for a return to that era
>>152599299Well, Fortnite only gave it a glance because Tommy's in it. I'll wait until they do a season without any of the originals before I get excited.
>>152599299I think people are very fond of that early Disney era. I distinctly remember dropping Power Rangers shortly after Lost Galaxy (which I liked) but became more into Pokemon and other anime imports but picked it up again for Ninja Storm and Dino Thunder, which became two of my fave seasons as a kid.
>>152599665I was kind of the same way. For me, it was SPD and Mystic Force. Later went back and watched RPM because people kept saying how good it was, and they weren't wrong.
>>152599299We're talking about comics
