Post by xman on Jan 1, 2022 13:01:11 GMT -5
So, I ordered four Power Rangers Boom! Studios graphic novels, last Christmas; Time Force's Sins of the Future, Soul of the Dragon, Psycho Past and of course...Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. And, I actually enjoyed reading the Ninja Turtles and MMPR graphic novel a lot more because it didn't actually felt like an idiot plot unlike "Shell Shocked" from Power Rangers in Space. Almost everybody was in-character, plus there was a lot of crazy $#%@ that you would NEVER see happen in both TV incarnations these two franchises like the Shredder tapping into the Universal Morphing Grid and becoming the Green Ranger and controlling, the Turtles and April O'Neil becoming Power Rangers for the first time, the Mighty Morphin' team creating their own ninja gear becoming their own versions of either the Ninjetti Rangers or literally any other Ninja-themed Power Ranger teams would exist after them and of course, Rita Repulsa actually fighting the Shredder and the Ninja Turtles. Like seriously, we never actually see Rita Repulsa literally fight the Mighty Morphin' in either three seasons of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. Yet, the more recent video games and this graphic novel actually shows what she is capable if only they actually let Carla Perez (the second suit actress of Rita Repulsa from MMPR: S2-in Space) have her own individual fight scenes with the Mighty Morphin' team, instead of having her pilot Serpentara and start firing energy blasts at the Rangers in part two of "The Wedding." Honestly, I felt like people who grew up to Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers felt cheated after all these years because the producers never actually gave the audience what they would like to see which is The main villain having a final battle with the main heroes!! And with season one, I guess it's understandable why they never did that. However, in later seasons after Machigo Soga was replaced by Carla Perez as Rita Repulsa, I think we deserved better. But, that's all in the past. Now the real treat of this graphic novel was the Megazord battle and ooooh boy, that was f@#$'n awesome. So yeah. All-in-all, I actually had fun reading this graphic novel.
Soul of the Dragon: Now this is the closest that we are ever gonna get to having an "Old Man Logan"- style send-off/farewell to Tommy Oliver's character with special consultant, Jason David Frank mind you. But, it was still a heartfelt goodbye to the character and a nicer way of establishing his son, J.J. to carry on his father's legacy as the new SPD Green Ranger. Hell, this is like a lighter version to the movie, "Logan" and its' finale where unlike that movie, the titular character doesn't die at the end, but he still passes on the torch to the next generation while he enjoys the rest of his life watching from the sidelines. And, it eventually explains where the hell Scorpina and Lokar were during the events of the Z-Wave in "Countdown to Destruction." THANK THE WRITERS OF THIS GRAPHIC NOVEL that we finally got an answer to where those two were after 20 plus years of no official answers from the TV show writers and producers. And I am aware that it's not even cannon to the main storyline of the TV show, but that's the actors' fault. Blame the producers and the TV show writers and Haim Saban for that one. It's better than having no answers at all. So yeah, this was actually pretty good.
Time Force: Sins of the Future; It's nice, but it's more focused on Wes and Jan trying to balance out their duties as Time Force Rangers and Wes as the commander of the Silver Guardians. Although, the weird thing is that the graphic novel added in a caption saying that Silver Hills is set in Seattle, Washington?! Like Seattle, Seattle, Washington?! Weeeeiiird!!!! That and the graphic novel tried to add logic about time traveling to a show that had so many plot holes and time and space distortion?! I mean, I've been watching Time Force and Timeranger and even I can tell that both shows had plot holes about explaining how time traveling and space-time distortion works. Still, not too bad, just something extra for fans of Time Force to enjoy.
The Psycho-Past: This one was probably the weakest one, story-wise. I mean, I don't mind them trying to give Karone yet another redemption story-arc after the events of In Space and Lost Galaxy, respectively. But making the revived Psycho Red, Black, Blue, Pink and Yellow sympathetic characters and trying to humanize them, save for giving them actual human-like identities in the graphic novel which I didn't mind that. But making the Psycho Rangers, all sympathetic characters?! Yeah, I don't think that that was a good idea. No Psycho Green, he was literally an unsympathetic bastard in the story and his origins story at the end of the novel explains it all. That why I miss seeing unsympathetic villain characters and intelligent, competent villain characters and groups in Tokusatsu shows, nowadays. Especially for Kamen Rider villains.
So, there you have it.
Soul of the Dragon: Now this is the closest that we are ever gonna get to having an "Old Man Logan"- style send-off/farewell to Tommy Oliver's character with special consultant, Jason David Frank mind you. But, it was still a heartfelt goodbye to the character and a nicer way of establishing his son, J.J. to carry on his father's legacy as the new SPD Green Ranger. Hell, this is like a lighter version to the movie, "Logan" and its' finale where unlike that movie, the titular character doesn't die at the end, but he still passes on the torch to the next generation while he enjoys the rest of his life watching from the sidelines. And, it eventually explains where the hell Scorpina and Lokar were during the events of the Z-Wave in "Countdown to Destruction." THANK THE WRITERS OF THIS GRAPHIC NOVEL that we finally got an answer to where those two were after 20 plus years of no official answers from the TV show writers and producers. And I am aware that it's not even cannon to the main storyline of the TV show, but that's the actors' fault. Blame the producers and the TV show writers and Haim Saban for that one. It's better than having no answers at all. So yeah, this was actually pretty good.
Time Force: Sins of the Future; It's nice, but it's more focused on Wes and Jan trying to balance out their duties as Time Force Rangers and Wes as the commander of the Silver Guardians. Although, the weird thing is that the graphic novel added in a caption saying that Silver Hills is set in Seattle, Washington?! Like Seattle, Seattle, Washington?! Weeeeiiird!!!! That and the graphic novel tried to add logic about time traveling to a show that had so many plot holes and time and space distortion?! I mean, I've been watching Time Force and Timeranger and even I can tell that both shows had plot holes about explaining how time traveling and space-time distortion works. Still, not too bad, just something extra for fans of Time Force to enjoy.
The Psycho-Past: This one was probably the weakest one, story-wise. I mean, I don't mind them trying to give Karone yet another redemption story-arc after the events of In Space and Lost Galaxy, respectively. But making the revived Psycho Red, Black, Blue, Pink and Yellow sympathetic characters and trying to humanize them, save for giving them actual human-like identities in the graphic novel which I didn't mind that. But making the Psycho Rangers, all sympathetic characters?! Yeah, I don't think that that was a good idea. No Psycho Green, he was literally an unsympathetic bastard in the story and his origins story at the end of the novel explains it all. That why I miss seeing unsympathetic villain characters and intelligent, competent villain characters and groups in Tokusatsu shows, nowadays. Especially for Kamen Rider villains.
So, there you have it.
