Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Cash Grab Comic - Comic Tropes (Episode 43) 

The weird thing is, a comic book provided them opportunities to do stuff that they couldn't do on the show's budget, and instead they did...this.

I guess this proves it is possible to make a complete comic book on your lunch break without setting down your burrito. Stuff like this is why licensed comic get a bad rap. It makes you appreciate licensed comics that had real effort put into them. Like... ROM!

the whole "why they don't just go after their families" or any other kind of "why we dont go actualy evil for once" is always been a weird thing in stories. i mean, it literally applies to a lot of super hero stories. one time in he original digimon series the main villain had gathered all kids in tokyo because he needed to find the 8th chosen kid for some reason, and the other kids were starting to become a nuisance to him so the villain right hand goes "we could held all those kids we have as hostages and kill them if the chosen kids don't surrender" and the main villain goes "no that's not my style" and that always cracked me up to the point is my most memorable part in the whole show, the whole idea of the villain just going "what? no! i have standards man" is fucking amazing

"'Oh, computers. Can't those control my car and microwave and the stop light?' No." Meanwhile, in 2019, computers can control our shopping list.

The Japanese TV footage was only used for the "superhero"/monster-fighting scenes. This is why it was cheaper to make this show. It was an interesting concept in TV marketing that became extremely popular.

Rip Jason David Frank. I met him about a month before he passed. He was great to his fans. He will be missed.

Power rangers are beast right now especially with Shattered grid and Lord Drakken

Oh, the 90's..... Loved them..

This comic is actually the secret origin of autocorrect

I was 9 when power rangers dropped. I was nuts for it. I have very fond memories of it. My son is almost 4 and I saw power rangers on Netflix, so I figured I'd watch a bit with him. He instantly fell in love. It's his favorite thing now. I can't stand it. I didn't remember the reason I stopped watching it when I was a kid. I remember now. It's definitely a show that doesn't age with it's viewers.

Please don't let this distract you from the fact that the current Mighty Morphin Power Rangers comic are absolutely incredible and the definitive version of MMPR.

As a lifelong fan of Power Rangers, I can agree that the guys behind this obviously didn't watch the show before making the comic. It's almost like some later seasons where the producers tried to cram two or more plotlines into the same episode and as a result didn't really do a great job on either. (BTW I had a reprint of this comic when I was younger, but the issue I had only contained half the story and I never managed to get the next issue. So, thanks for filling this hole from my childhood.)

I was the prime age for Power Rangers and loved it. Power Rangers along with TMNT is how I learned to spell and learned about colors. However, my fandom didn't last long outside of toys etc. I didn't watch much after the movie and Trini, Jason and Zach left.

I remember when Power Rangers blew up in 90s. I was around 8 or 9 yrs old, and I was anticipating the first episode on fox Saturday morning cartoons. I remember the episode, it was about some pig monster. It was a terrible show, and when I went to school on Monday, almost everyone were power ranger fans. I didn’t get it. The show came off as corny. I was into Batman and X-men. Which were great shows.

Licensed books are often difficult- especially when your licenser is Haim Saban- tend to micromanage every aspect of the book which leads to a lack of caring.

In 1995, Marvel Comics produced the comic adaptations of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie and two Mighty Morphin Power Rangers series, the first with seven issues based on the second season and the second with five issues called Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Ninja Rangers/VR Troopers which was a flip book with adventures based on the third season on one side and of VR Troopers on the other. A year later, The Power Rangers also appeared in the Masked Rider comic book from Marvel. It was released during the same time as Barbie, Ren & Stimpy, Disney Comic HITS!, and Conan the Savage comics was on the shelves.

"I DEVELOPED A CUSTOM ROUTINE OF CONNECT FOUR AND ZUMBA CLASSES FOR THE RANGERS." "Well I'm sorry about that." Lol ohhhh man that joke killed me🤣

I remember having one big action figure of the Red Ranger with I think a Disnosaur logo on its chest, must have been in the mid to late 90s. It had some sort of kick action feature from what I remember.

Ron Lim was my favorite artist as a kid. I had a subscription to Silver Surfer around the time of the Infinity Gauntlet. The only comic I ever subscribed to.

Don't forget, Windows 95 did have autorun turned on by default, so they actually made an OS that DID just run whatever you stuck into it.

It was marketed toward kids who watched the show. They already know about lord Zed. Its purpose is not reintroduce every character in every issue.

24:00 TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTERS!!!! wow... evenas far back as '95 they predicted internet addiction in children. 😏

It's weird to think there are ppl who have just had internet there whole lives these days. I grew up without it and got to watch it grow into what it is today. It's just weird thinking of my sons being born into an already connected world. Lol

This is a good example of doing a licensed property and not caring and doing something like G.I. Joe, Micronauts, or ROM and coming up with something great and rising up above the origin of being a toy.

Back in Nomad # 25 (May 1994), Fabian Nicieza wrote that he'd rather see Nomad cancelled than see it written by another writer. Do you think that this could be the reason why Marvel "demoted" him to doing licensed comics?

I don’t remember liking Power Rangers as a kid but I do remember getting a very nice Green Ranger action figure for Christmas once 😅

Still a great comic. I enjoyed this as a kid and I enjoy it now

I do read the comics and I was very young getting into the series and saw it evolve and change through the years growing up with different versions of the rangers

I love Power Rangers. I did not grow up with Mighty Morphin though. I grew up in the Disney era of Power Rangers with Dino Thunder, Ninja Storm, SPD, and Mystic Force. I loved them as a kid and in my early teens I tried to deny it and acted like I didn't like Power Rangers. Until I saw Jungle Fury on TV and I was hooked on that. It's still one of my favorite seasons to this day. But all the other kids in the neighborhood never really understand the appeal of Power Rangers and that's such a shame since it legit can be a fantastic show for both kids and adults. Here's a quick list of my favorites in no real order. In Space, SPD, RPM, Jungle Fury, Dino Thunder, Lost Galaxy, Time Force, and parts of Lightspeed Rescue are also really good but the villains were a real disappoint which kinda brings the show down for me. I haven't seen some seasons yet to this day though like the original Mighty Morphin run, Zeo, or Wild Force. So I can't speak to their quality. I also haven't seen much of the Neo Saban era or the new era we just entered recently with Beast Morphers I think it was called. Also on an unrelated note my cat came over and sneezed on me then walked away. Thanks cat. You're a real jerk-

Considering that Marvel coproduced super sentai in the late 70s, it isn’t a stretch for doing comics of the derivative show.

Fun Fact: This comic's plot was also later implemented into an episode of Power Ranger Zeo where they battle a monster that can use computer viruses to attack.

Chris : Actually the background and the motives of Lord Zed was never explained on the TV show ether..

Anyone else notice the extra word "day" in the word balloon at 15:10?

Ron Lim and Fabe Ni-cough-cough *ahem* were big-time back then. Crazy that they were working on a trash book like Power Rangers.

edit: Haha oh wow, the villain was Starlink all along, like in real life. This is more realistic than you give it credit for. I never watched the show, but at one point you say that the bully characters had become less of bullies... by joining a junior police force. I'm sure this somehow made more sense in the context of the show and their specific portrayal and everything, but generally speaking that would be more a confirmation that they wanted to make careers out of being bullies, than that they had become better people who had no desire to have arbitrary power over others and see those around them treat them with fear and undue respect. As for your question at the end, yeah, I was in the same position, I was just a bit too old for it when it came out... I was getting into anime, particularly things like Evangelion that were shockingly mature for what I had thought of as "cartoons" up until that point, so Power Rangers was really not at all appealing to me. Again I was discovering anime for the first time as this magical medium that was animated yet mature and took itself absolutely seriously, often way more seriously than the vast majority of American live action fare, besides rare things like Homicide: Life on the Street (precursor to The Wire, same writer etc, for whatever reason I got really into it as an adolescent in the 90's, probably because it was so different from everything else at the time). So Power Rangers came out right when it was the last kind of thing I had any interest in... but I still thought it was neat, like Pokemon, that something Japanese had become such a big hit in America. Not that that actually made many Americans ever really take Anime seriously as an art form just as important as anything live action (see the series of tragic live action adaptations of anime on Netflix, all made because the idea that something animated cannot inherently ever be serious and adult... and when you think of the kind of person who still thinks that way, it isn't a surprise how awful all those adaptations are, beyond how awful they would naturally tend to be no matter what. I feel like if you got someone who truly understood Anime, the thing being adapted, Japanese culture, etc, and gave them total creative freedom, something like a good adaptation could be possible. But.... why? The whole point of Anime is that they can create exactly what they want, without regard for actors, sets, locations, time of day, compositing special effects, boom mics, etc etc etc. To take something made with that kind of creative freedom, and force it through all the constraints of live action, on top of everything else that will inevitably be misunderstood or adapted in not the best way... it's a recipe for something that is ineluctably vastly inferior to the original, all for the sake of Westerners who just cannot and will not ever wrap their minds around the notion that Anime is a fully legitimate art form that has no need to be translated into live-action in order to "be serious, and be taken seriously by adults". I've always felt like, if someone can't handle that concept, they aren't going to appreciate anything else about the work you're trying to adapt, so why even bother. Like the famously horribly Evangelion dub... if someone can't handle reading subtitles and listening to the original VA's speak Japanese, if that's just a bridge too far for them... they probably aren't going to appreciate what Evangelion is doing as a work of art. That's just a shot in the dark.

If you ever talk about the power rangers again, you should bring up how super sentai has a lot in common with Marvelman and Spider-Man. How super sentai was based on the Japanese version of a Spider-Man TV series in the 70s iirc.

What do you think about modern Power Ranger's comics?

The Jeff Rubin Jeff Rubin shoe podcast did a great interview with the actors who played bulk and skull If I recall correctly, the two of them were basically left alone to come up with stuff for their characters

Kamen Rider, originally created by Shotaro Ishinomori - who also created Super Sentai - is the better show from an adult perspective: try Kamen Rider Gaim from 2013 - it's freaking nuts: rival dance gangs use bizarre / goofy techno belts / fruit armor to fight each other (or pokemon-like gremlins) over who gets to use a dance stage in the public park but, WHY? HOW? It goes absolutely berserk from there. I'm not kidding - it's crazy af!

The Internet Festival slogan turned out to attract entirely the wrong kind of people.

I'll add to the list of people praising Boom!'s comics

Anyone notice that guy Peter is drawn like our boy Peter Parker

Also can you talk about android kikaider or Kamen Rider manga on of these episodes

Why is Billy's hair yellow?

These comics weren't objectively great, but they did justice to the themes of the show. That is to say, they created and followed the same structure of the 'after school special ' format for the comic interpretations

I was already at the end of my teenage years, but teaching/working with kids who were very much into the show, so I did watch it to get some kind of common ground. The show always talked down to kids, IMHO, and was irritating to watch for that reason. The comic isn't "less dumb" in its plot device. It did fall short on the reason everyone watches it, which is fighting giant monsters. I am amazed that the show continues, but it was only mainstream with kids I knew for a short season.

Rest in peace Thuy Trang.❤️🟨🙏

Power Rangers were Marvel characters in the comics.

This is what happens when an adaption of a kids show is written by adults who weren't "into" the show writing down to 8-12 year olds

25:00 The pink ranger's helmet isn't colored.

12:15 Pretty sure they are supposed to be referring to a virus

Maybe this junk was written with a computer that had a glitched floppy disk...

Oh its a glitch that sends out garbled messages? Well are you sure its not proto autocorrect?

I'm from the middle east, I only know about the old seasons from few VHS we got here, not tell MPC3 start subing it with Wild Force, I only saw 4 or 5 seasons Mistic Force was the last

also, Adam wasn't smart too like Trini. They just slapped Trini's personal trait on him because he's Asian

I do like the fleshtone mustache. Or is the man some sort of filter feeder creature?

AWWW Why Didnt we get THAT one??

"Now he's learned that the more we all talk to each other all over the world, the better we'll understand each other and the better off we'll all be!" Oh no, oh no no...that...that is not accurate at all...

2:30 I process That over the years I’ve learned to dislike Which is why I have fallen out of love for the show and watch torrents of the original Japanese series’ now

Ya need to take a step back for a min. Please understand that this comic was aimed at younger readers, in the 90's. Try not to be to critical.......

Where can i find a copy of american powerful rangers?

When I became aware of Power Rangers, I was just out of high school and was only exposed to it if my friends' kids were watching it. I wasn't impressed,

Didnt they have diffrent outfit when they got the ninja zords

My brother and I used to make fun of my cousin for liking Power Rangers. Hah

15:30...and he has no skin and 1/2 of a skull, for some reason.

Cool

The Kyle Higgins run this is not

I feel kinda bad for Ron Lim and Nicieza

He co-created Deadpool.... so your telling me it took TWO hacks to come up with the idea to... rip off DC. ....that's kinda lame.

So no Jason, Zack, and Trini?

It would be like asking an American what you think of double quarter pounders? Or what do you think of being fat? Cause that's what they know of America. You think that's a burger? This is a burger. Lol

I was the right age growing up but i hate how much the bore me to death!!! its just all the same tropes everytime grrr

first comment and like bitches, love your content man!

I love power rangers and super sentai; this comic is crap though

Bro, you're talking about this comic as if the show was actually good or something. Don't get me wrong. I'm an old dude and I had my "Power Rangers" when I was three to five years old. I used to eat up some Spectreman, Ultraman, Space Giants and various other suitmation and Kaiju shows but by six or seven years old, I was fully aware that most of this stuff was far less than great and/or artful storytelling. I was an adult when the Rangers hit American TV but I'm pretty sure that this wouldn't have been my style, even as a five year old. Too bright and not enough consequence for all the action. I'm astounded that it's lasted so long... ...but then, I feel the same way about the Ninja Turtles.