Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Year One
My attitude to the Power Rangers brandhe is quite ambivalent. I’ve always been a fan of big monsters and watching Megazord fights with gargoyles Rita and Lord Zedd on the small screen was a childhood dream come true. In addition, the series was distinguished by a positive message about the power of friendship and wide representation. With time, I ceased to be part of the production target, and repetitiveness (26 seasons!) And kitsch turned me down more and more. You could say that I’ve always liked the idea behind the series more than the way it was made. And then this comic book came out, all white… red-pink-blue-yellow-black-green. He surprised me with a bold approach to the topic – it is not an origin story, the reader is thrown somewhere in the middle of the first season of the series, and yet the action does not take place in the nineties, but now. The love of the series is clearly visible here, though without too much obedience. Using well-known characters, screenwriter Kyle Higgins creates a completely new story in which the stakes and the tone are much more serious. And all this with an interesting visual layer. In this way, a great and efficiently written comic was created, which should be pleasant to people unfamiliar with the subject.
Only the rubber monsters regret. The opponents of the team are, unfortunately, standard creatures and robots that can be found anywhere else. Therefore, nothing beats the combination of turtle, cannon and traffic light from the series. – Jacek “As” Murawski
