Publisher: Boom! Studios
Writer: Kyle Higgins
Artist: Hendry Prasetya
Editor: Dafna Pleban
Release Date: OUT NOW!
Price: $3.99

Nobody likes the Power Ranger’s, right? I mean, they’re just a bunch of toys aimed at little kids. Giant robots turn into dinosaurs? Please, give me a break. Then they got their own TV show and how lame are the special effects on that! With that kind of baggage dragging them down how the heck do they expect to stand shoulder to shoulder with the great and the good in the comic book world? No self-respecting comicbook reader would take them seriously.

But then, can four million viewers per week be wrong? And there’s a new film coming out in 2017 which is going to create a lot of heat for a title Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #1, so maybe now is the time to put all prejudices aside and give our primary coloured teens a second chance.

And you know Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #1 not half bad. “Green Ranger: Year One” sees the introduction of a new Ranger (Green, yes, I know, they really could have come up with more imaginative names!) who has defected from evil Rita Repulsa’s cause to the side of good. Except Rita, sporting a pointed bra that would make Madonna green with envy (get it?), still has some mind control whammy going on inside his head. Friend or foe? Good guy or undercover villain? That’s the driving force behind this ideal jumping on point for those new to the Power Ranger’s universe and those who still have a guilty box of plastic dinosaurs hidden in their attic.

The costumes and the colours of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #1 do nothing for me, but the basic concept has been rebooted into something much more substantial thanks to sharp writing from Kyle Higgins and dynamic artwork from Hendry Prasetya, all of which means that “Green Ranger: Year One” could be the start of a new golden age for the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

Reviewer: Gary Orchard
Reviews Editor: Steve Hooker