Boom’s Power Rangers Comics are Morphin Into a Reboot

Since 2016, the Power Rangers person been surviving good implicit successful the satellite of comics. A assortment of originative teams managed to archer immoderate fun stories implicit the past 8 years, but with the archetypal saga present effectively over, that means the full slate’s being wiped clean crossed the board. And what amended mode to capable successful the spread than with a caller comic and immoderate caller blood?

Ahead of the weekend, IGN helped Boom propulsion backmost the curtain on Power Rangers Prime, a marque caller comic by Mighty Morphin writer Melissa Flores and Iron Fist artist Michael Yg that aims to supply a “completely caller start” to participate Rangers enterprise. The publication volition absorption connected Lauren Shiba (the secondary Red Ranger from Power Rangers Samurai) arsenic she’s being hunted by a squad of Eltarians. While her exploits yet pb her to Angel Grove, Flores said the metropolis is “not [the way] we remember,” further punctuated by a deficiency of Zordon. As for different Rangers, she was tight-lipped, though she did uncover characters from Power Rangers Megaforce and Power Rangers Jungle Fury would marque appearances.

“They volition amusement up successful antithetic ways, not the ways possibly you expect them,” said Flores. Prime gives her and Yg “the full zeitgeist of Power Rangers,” and she afloat intends to instrumentality vantage of it. “We look astatine each azygous quality of Power Rangers, not conscionable successful Mighty Morphin, but each implicit the place.” How Lauren interacts with those characters depends connected their feelings connected the Rangers successful general, and the wide vibe is that Power Rangers Prime gives the bid “an eventual world, wherever condition and effect person created an wholly antithetic [one] we’re getting to know.”

Unlike Boom’s erstwhile Power Rangers comics, Power Rangers Prime will get to afloat beryllium its ain thing, alternatively than serving arsenic an hold of the show. Editor Alyssa Gronowitz said a “ground-up creation” was ever successful the cards aft the “Darkest Hour” arc, some to supply a caller jumping connected constituent for readers and Rangers fans, and besides to marque thing wholly theirs. “We’re taking a bully thought and making it our own, successful a sense,” she explained. “[Prime] gives america an accidental to distill the halfway of what is peculiar astir Power Rangers and to research that successful a precise focused way.”

“We tin instrumentality acquainted elements that we emotion astir Power Rangers,” added Flores. “We tin adhd caller elements, and truly crook this into a existent comic acquisition successful that we don’t person to interest astir what the different media is doing. We tin conscionable absorption connected what we emotion astir Power Rangers successful this comic publication series.”

Power Rangers Prime will footwear disconnected connected November 13, portion IGN’s afloat speech with Flores and Gronowitz tin beryllium work here.

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