Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Crossover Review

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Hello and welcome to The Pull Bag! Also, folks,

we are from the Command Center because it is

time that the Turtles and the Power Rangers converge.

And no, this is not any Demilo notice here, folks.

That's way, way later. I am of course TFJ on

mic this is as I said episode 478 of the pull

bag this one's a little late delayed and getting

out but it is going to be getting out on time

episode 479 with my buddy Jesse Raz is us talking

about volume 14 of the Boom Studios Power Rangers

the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers series.

So we finished that off and then episode 480

will be an origins episode. Joining me for the

first time with this specific trade is Mr. Joe

Reed. Hello, sir. Hello. There's a good reason

that I'm joining you on this Power Ranger podcast

because our boys the turtles showed up. That's

right. That is right. Oh, man. Yes. So Because

this is a crossover between the pool bag and

from the command center because this does have

to do with comic books and power rangers as well

as the turtles. What is your history with the

power rangers sir i was gonna ask you the same

thing because i know you guys have covered the

the power rangers podcast and probably other

things as well but for me. I well, hey, I just

turned 42. So like, I am the answer to all life's

questions now. But being 42, the Power Rangers

hit me just a little bit too late. I think I

was in middle school. And when I watched it,

it was just starting. That kind of thing was

just starting to get a little awkward and a little

childish and I watched it remembering and thinking

like oh man this this is a ripoff of voltron

like. We watched it I watched it it was martial

arts and giant robots alright that's cool and

I remember at one point I think in eighth grade

my friend. Eric and I went to the movie theater

to watch the Power Rangers movie because, you

know, we were, you know, too cool for, but no,

we went. And I remember making a joke with the

lady behind the ticket counter. Yeah, we're,

we're previewing it for his sister. Yeah. And

I'm like, what 12 years old. So that like joke

didn't likely plan across, but I, I respect the

Power Rangers for what they are. And, and I think.

That given an interesting mature adult take there

might be something way cool Happening with I

really think it needs to be animated Probably

by the people that did Voltron, but no, it's

amazing. It's cool. And then an entire generation

of children have been inspired by the Power Rangers

and everything else all the other iterations

of them that have come after that Yeah, absolutely,

you know, I'm The sad thing, Joe, is we can only

be the answer to everything for one year of our

lives. No, nothing after that. For me, for anyone

that's listening to this on from the command

center, you all will know from the previous X

number of episodes that I have been a diehard

ranger fan since I was 13 in those middle school

years because All of the people I hung out with,

they all wanted to, like after the movie came

out in 95, they all wanted to go skydiving. I

just watched that. I don't know why. I think

maybe it was one of my kids, like they found

it and we watched that. That was such a crazy

thing. Yes, yes it is. And I have had the pleasure.

over the years since 2011, since we started from

the Command Center to talk to several of the

people that worked in Rangers. May he rest in

peace. But I did an interview back in 2011 with

both Barbara Goodson and Robert Axelrod. Robert

Axelrod was the voice of Lord Zedd. Oh, wow.

And Barbara is the voice of Rita. I've also talked

with Jason David Frank, Karen Ashley. Daniel

Southworth. Who else have I talked with from

this show? There's a bunch that I still want

to talk with. I think those are the main four

that I've talked with. Daniel Southworth was

from a future incarnation of it. He was from

the Time Force season. He played the sixth Ranger

of that series, the Quantum Ranger. I've always

been a little fascinated, a lot fascinated with

David Yost and his story. I don't know that the

old days he's willing to talk about, but I know

I see him at cons. But from two different angles,

I want to thank him for like sticking it out

and being there. And on the other hand, I also

want to thank him for being one of the first

geeky nerdy kids that made it cool to be geeky

nerdy. Like that really was the birth of the

turn from. dorks being exactly like Billy was

in that show to actually being respected. And

I know later in the TV series, he was kind of

the mentor character back at headquarters for

the team of Power Rangers. And that was cool

to see. Yeah. So, so basically, I don't know

the behind the scenes of it. And I have yet to

ever interview David, Mr. Yost, maybe one of

these days I will. I only know what I've seen

him talk about in various convention panels and

things like that. I don't know the behind the

scenes. I know the way the character was, was

that in the show, he wanted to do more of the

Billy stuff, more of the geeky stuff, more of

the inventing more of the, I don't want to sit

here and belittle it down to tech support, but

We had new Rangers coming in and there's only

so many powers and Billy was like, yeah, sure.

I'll you know, whatever I'll stay back here with

alpha and Make all this cool stuff that people

can use So that's what I remember of it. If I'm

wrong folks, you can email me and let me know

how wrong I am But Power Rangers has been a thing

for me for you know, the 30 years it's been around

at least the American version of it. There are

certain seasons I have watched all of them. I

will go back and watch some more than others.

If you're following certain characters' trajectory,

there is a specific trajectory you can follow

with the shows that gets this character's entire

story, which is obviously Tommy Oliver, Jason

David Frank's character. He came back in Dino

Thunder and that was a really, really cool season.

I like the Time Force season because everybody

wants to do time travel, whether it's to the

future or to the past or whatever. So Time Force

was a unique, cool thing. And yeah, I mean, and

you know, we've got Boom Studios with their Power

Rangers comics and everything that they've done

to this point. And it's just so much fun. How

can you how can you say no to a TMNT Power Rangers

team? Yeah, that's really that's one question

I have but I don't have the answer to you I know

that the turtles and the Power Rangers crossed

over in live -action back in the Venus de Milo

days And did that ever make it to the United

States or was that a Japan only thing? No You

mean next mutation? Yeah. Yeah. Or the, um, okay.

Yeah. Next mutation was here. And I believe that

I would have to look it up. I would, it would

require me to do so much typing to figure this

out off, you know, the top of my head. But I

remember seeing the, the Power Rangers turtles

crossover. I think it's in, I think it's in the

in space season. I'm. I could be wrong. Like,

I don't remember up top in my head. So, so yeah,

I mean, you know, at that time when that was

happening, you know, we had just had the third

Turtles movie and we had the Power Rangers starting

up and they wanted to do a TV show for Turtles

and Say what you will about that TV show. Come

on. Bitch, I should watch that with adult eyes.

I mean, that is... I don't know the year of that,

but that was definitely when it was not cool

for me at that time to be into the... It looks

like it was 1980, 1998, so I was in high school.

1998. High school graduation. I was probably

busy. But yeah, the weird thing though, I mean,

and maybe it's just from knowing that they crossed

over back in the day, the Power Rangers and the

Ninja Turtles, it seems like a very natural crossover.

Yeah, I mean, we've had other things cross over

with Turtles. Like we've had Turtles Ghostbusters,

we've had Turtles Batman, we've had... What else?

Power Rangers. No, I'm sorry. Turtles, X -Files.

Golly, what other weird Transformers in that

one issue. I haven't read those since they came

out and I don't remember being moved by them.

They've crossed over a lot. I think a lot of

that has to do with the turtles just being genre

-bending things to begin with. Well right and

plus ever since you know turtles forever and

everything needing to have its own universe and

needing to have its own prime dimension and and

everything else I mean the turtles can come up

against any character you know we went through

those two Ghostbuster TMNT Ghostbuster trades

and I didn't I disliked so you know you got you

people who are listening to this on or from the

command center you can go over to the pullback

and listen to those two I'll probably have them

linked in the show notes on the website but I

didn't dislike the idea of the Turtles crossing

over with the Ghostbusters because, you know,

Egon and Donnie kind of mix and, you know, Rey

and Raph or whatever. Like, there are all kinds

of, you know, character whatevers. It was mostly

the biggest issue I had with Turtles Ghostbusters

was the villains. I don't know. It just didn't

really work all that well. But with Power Rangers

and Turtles, this was fun. To get this out of

the way before I forget, it is written by Ryan

Parrott. illustrated by Simone DiMeo with assistance

by Alessio Zano on issues two to five, colors

by Walter Bayamonte with assistance by Igor Monte,

editor, uh, editor. Letters are done by Ed Dukeshire,

covers by Dan Mora. So that's what, uh, what's

going on here. And yeah, this was just fun. I

love the colors. I love the art. We start with

the Power Rangers And they're doing their Power

Ranger thing The banter in this does not feel

like What I remember from the show, but it feels

much more rich much more natural Fun then yeah,

that's the thing. That's like you haven't read

the Power Rangers comics from boom, which is

fine. It's not you know What they've done is

they've taken the characters from the old series

and told wholly unique stories with them and

given them, like, there are plenty of lines from

Billy that he says in this that I hear David's,

David Yost's voice in my head saying, oh, that

is something that the character would say, you

know, and then there are other things where it's

like, oh, the this is the way this would be done.

This is the way this would be done. And it's,

it's interesting and it's fun. And it's not,

we're not in the nineties anymore. Like I don't

mind nostalgic throwbacks, but you don't need

to, you know, I'm, and I know this is more eighties

than nineties, but it bled through. I'm in the

middle of rewatching the old 87 series. I, I've

lost count how many times Michelangelo says,

dude, not that it's a bad thing. But, you know

what I mean? We just want to drive home those

catchphrases. Yup. I mean, hey, you know, that's

what it was, and that's absolutely fine. So is,

just in case, yeah, we are, we're on the pull

bag show, right? Not the... Yep. So we're on

both. We're on both. Ooh, we are definitely crossing

over. Does this follow, or is it attached to

the Boom Studios continuity? It... I'm trying

honestly. I'm trying to remember I mean, it's

probably like the Ninja Turtles where it they

might mention it in passing without saying anybody's

name But also I guess the other question I had

about this then is this is the boom studio series

Its own Canon or is it a continuation or expansion

of the TV show? So the boom studios thing is

essentially its own Canon, but it takes homages

to Like it gives you various things from the

show thing. It does a multitude of things. Like

if you ever, oh, what's the one that Jesse always

complains, we never got an answer about this.

My buddy Jesse always complains that they never

get, we never actually, in the show, we never

actually get a backstory from the Phantom, about

the Phantom Ranger. Well, the comic X number

of 30 something years later is now, has given

us a Backstory origin story for the phantom ranger

so while they are wanting to tell holy unique

stories they are telling them with the classic

characters we know. The ones we just finished

volumes eleven twelve and thirteen. They did

this cool thing where. Instead of just sending

Zach, Jason, and Trini off to Switzerland, like

they did in the show because of the contract

dispute for the actors at the time. So that's

what they did back then. So when Austin St. John,

Thuy Trang. Yeah, I believe I'm saying her name

right. I'm probably not. And Walter Emmanuel

Jones, when they couldn't. Come to an agreement

on whatever it was, I forget. Basically, whatever

happened behind the scenes in the show, those

characters, Jason Lee Scott, Zach Taylor, and

Trini Kwan, they were sent to Switzerland to

some world peace summit. It was the easiest thing

to say in the nineties, oh, they're just away

at the world because they had new red, yellow,

and black range new actors come in. Well in this

they make in in the power rangers comic they

make it work because they are now in the boom

studios continuity those three characters is

it like yes they do go to switzerland but they're

going to switzerland because they're still the

yellow black and red rangers except they are

now called the omega rangers instead of the mighty

morph and power rangers so it's this whole big

Universal thing that like, I should have been

prepping you for for the last two weeks. But

yes, essentially the boom studios cannon is its

own cannon, but it, it, it, it doesn't just say

we're, we're just going to take the character

names and you're not going to know anything.

No, it takes every, it's just like the chart,

just like the IDW. Yep. Yep. It's just like the

turtles from IDW where it's a love letter to

the franchise. The Boom Studio stuff is a love

letter to the Power Rangers franchise. So in

this trade, why anymore from Power Rangers, Teenage

Mutant Ninja Turtles? Wow. There's a lot that

happens here. Where should, I mean, I know we're

going to start with issue one here, but, uh,

you know, you have Mikey and Donnie and, and

they're fighting who they're fighting and the

Power Rangers are fighting who they're fighting.

And, and I, you know, it's just, it's so good

and so interesting. And I love how. You get a

like I don't want to I want to say these are

the 80s and 90s turtles I don't want to sit here

and say these are the IDW Turtles because the

IDW Turtles don't have a giant purple D on the

belt Yep, like this is specifically taking the

original franchise cartoons and giving them a

more modern design I mean, it's exactly what

they did our Rangers boom studios as they took

the the old property and just and didn't change

it. They just modernized it. And yeah, yeah,

there is something that happens later that when

I saw I'm like, Oh, yep, this is these are the

turtles from the old cartoon. Yep. But again,

they're done with they've aged it up for us old

people that read these comics. Yes. Yeah. And

I just I love this man. It's it looks so good.

So good. I do not follow boom studios as a publisher

Yet, but I really think I ought to just because

this is a really well done book Yeah, there are

plenty of boom studios things that I could point

your way that you would actually really really

enjoy But yeah, I mean this this I don't even

know where to begin with this and the reason

why I don't know where to begin with this folks

is because Amazon Comixology, oh god. So I am

actually flipping through this on my phone because

the Comixology app is only on mobile. Whereas

if I wanted to look at this on my computer like

I'm supposed to be looking at it on my computer,

the Amazon, the Kindle Comics app, Kindle was

made for books, folks, not comics. So I don't.

Think we're going to go beat by beat with this,

because it would take us way too long. The wonderful

thing about the book, though, is that when it

jumps back and forth and when it goes from issue

to issue, it does not let up there. Every page

is important. Every page is something. Yep. But

yeah, we're bouncing back and forth between the

issues and between the two universes, I guess.

They seem separate until Tommy is unmasked as

a foot soldier in the turtles. Wait a minute,

what? And then Raph takes notice of him being

a unique individual, much tougher than their

usual punching bags. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.

And then in the back in the Angel Grove universe,

the Power Rangers are lamenting the fact that

Tommy has been gone missing for a long time.

And he hasn't used his morpher, so they don't

know where he is. They can't track him because

he hasn't done that. Yep. And he eventually does

do it, though. Oh, yeah. And Tommy the Green

Ranger versus the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Holy crap. Yeah. That's been an interesting thing

for me too is like, I don't know exactly what

morphing does for you as a as an individual.

I think shredder does a good job of describing

it later. But you know, could the turtles who

are essentially maybe upper level human strength,

could they take on a martial arts expert with

the power of this morphine alien technology?

super strength maybe I don't know super speed.

Yeah, the panel where he you know, the the green

cloud is wearing off and it's him posing is that's

just absolutely gorgeous. Yes, yes, it is this

the is perot Perot, the usual artist on the Power

Ranger book. No, that's he's the writer illustrated.

Yeah, right. Yeah. They've had multiple artists

do things. In you know very of this of the stuff

so it is very much the boom studio style So,

you know, it isn't like it's out of character

and again seeing somebody else take on You know

the turtles and seeing it. We've seen so many

turtle artists over the years that we've been

doing the turtles books. I Almost want to say

they kind of Took a toy attic aspect with the

turtles in this because Raph looks a little brown

Yeah, that's an interesting Yeah, there's the

one of the other things about the coloring of

this issue is the lot the work the light work

is exquisite I mean everybody looks the right

color, but they're standing in different colored

lights and That is incredibly difficult to pull

off, having characters who are different colors

all look like they're lit by the same light source.

That might be Simon DiMaio. He's Italian, so

I don't know how to pronounce it. I apologize

to everybody involved. Yes, we never pronounce

things correct around here. Well, it just means

we need to interview these people and have them

say their names for us. Exactly. This art is

incredible. Yes, yes it is. But so, you know,

we're getting our question answered as to what

how the turtles would stand up against a legit

super powered individual because it seems like

a pretty balanced fight between four turtles

and and Tommy. Yeah, yeah. I mean, the thing

of it is, is that so the Morphin grid is what

gives the Power Rangers their powers. It's what

gives them their energy their enhanced strength

and whatever else and all of that so. The only

real likes in some series not necessarily this

but in some series they have certain special

abilities. What's in general it's basically here

put the spandex on you now have more energy running

through you you can punch people you couldn't

normally punch before so what is it really like.

What am I gonna? What am I gonna compare this

to? It isn't like It isn't like Superman getting

a I don't want to say red kryptonite, but whatever

Kryptonite color that isn't green that kills

him that actually gives him different powers.

This isn't like that. When they morph, yes, they

get super strength and they get the traditional

stuff, but they're still martial artist fighters.

It looks much better having the Turtles fight

the Rangers in the Ranger suits versus having

the Turtles fighting a bunch of martial artists

from Angel Grove without the Power Rangers suits

on. Why are these mutant turtles trying to beat

up these kids? Yeah, what do these kids do? We're

just trying to drink our juice, man. Yep. Oh,

and then the final panel of page one, the turtles

are fighting the Power Rangers and they're shouting

their catchphrase at each other. It's just...

Oh, and it's not the final panel. I was surprised.

No. Yeah, no, it's not the final panel. Uh, yeah,

so we get through this fight and the, the, the

first chapter, the first issue ends on shredder

where he says, uh, Oliver will bring me what

I require and the power Rangers will be mine

to command. Yeah, that's, that's the, this shredder

seems a lot like the IDW shredder to me. more

so. But that's what you do when you're boom studios

and you get to modernize an old property like

that. Shredder is just he's as perfectly sinister

and terrifying as he is in the IDW series. This

is not the man you want to end up with any kind

of superpower or mega technology. Nope. So we

get to the second chapter, second issue here.

And the reason why I keep saying chapter is because

in the actual trade paperback, they do chapter

one, two, three, four, and five. They don't just

say issue, they say chapter. So yeah, we get

New York City, they're all fighting with their

weapons, that opening panel with the The banter

with the weapons is hilarious. I love it. It's

exactly what you would expect from the characters,

but given more reality and more depth and more

character, it does kind of make me wish I were

reading the Boom Studios Power Rangers. I might

have to go start finding some trades. Cuz it's

yeah. Okay. Yeah, the IDW series is what I would

want from my Ninja Turtles as an adult and I

think the boom studios is what I can get into

for the Power Rangers as as an adult Yeah, absolutely

and It's just so good. I don't want to spoil

any of the boom Power Rangers stuff for you,

but There are plenty of stories that that are

in there that first, I believe, what is it, the

first, yeah, the first 30 issues are just all

amazing of that first boom run. Yeah. And when

I say, I hear people talk about the turtles wanting

them to be more mature. And I think when I hear

that, I hear them saying more adult, more cursing

or violence or anything. And I don't need that

from my properties. I just want it to not treat

me like an idiot. Yeah, and this comic does not

do that. It is wonderfully respectful of the

original property while making it a wonderful

tone. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, the tone is great.

You know, yeah, just because we say adult doesn't

mean we need to hear some schizophrenic lady,

shit, fuck, damn, fuck, shit. Like, you know,

we all doesn't need a curse. Leonardo doesn't

even take anybody's head off. I mean, if it's

something that. If it is something that. Works

like if something happened to Raph in this. And

he's you know already gone under the sewer but

you have somebody you know walking on the street

above the sewer great and you hear this loud

ass damn well we know what that's referencing

because hello you know it's fine if it's a reference

and yes when we say adult we mean not just. Nineties.

Four kids. Kitsch, K -I -T -S -P -H, yeah. And

this whole series and the five issues that I've

read of these Power Rangers and with the crossover,

I like this as a book that my kid could read

as well. So yeah, it's not adult like that. It's

adult like, I don't feel insulted and it's still

appropriate enough for my kid. Yep, exactly.

So we get this whole thing between Karai and...

And all that and We get to one of the best homage

shots in the book and this is just silly though,

but for me Where we end with you've done. Well

Tyler the oh, no, that's what it is I'm sorry.

It's not it's not karai. It's Tommy and his buddy

Tyler I I've been reading the boom studios thing

for a while and this came right before they switched

into the new current series So yeah, I don't

know anything about Tyler. Yeah, but I put it

together. He was in this book like, okay, thank

you each other and Yep Yeah, so right as that

panel ends we get you know bright, shiny New

York with a giant Channel 6 building. I'm like,

oh, that works. At least it's Channel 6 and not

Channel 3 or Channel 5 or whatever. Well, this

is another thing that I didn't connect the time

does cement in the animated universe, mentioning

Irma at Channel 6 with Vernon. Yep. Yeah, absolutely.

The April and Kimberly being friends angle is

not something that I would have considered or

thought of if I were asked to write this, but

it's a really good angle. I think it works well

because I think that they can compare notes.

And the general notes that they will probably

be comparing is, you know, Oh, those guys, they're

just a bunch of gut. Like, you know, I, I'm currently

watching through the 87 series, like I said,

and I'm up to like season five. Like I'm on the

second Leatherhead episode. It's the one where

it's Leatherhead meets the rat King. So it's

the one with Leatherhead and the rat King in

it. And I've watched enough of the 87 series

now. Even though I didn't really remember it

much from being from being a kid back then. Or

I can say this April and that April are pretty

much the same April because I hear. Renee Jacobs'

voice in my head. I almost said Judith Hogue,

but it's not, that's the movie. But you know,

I can hear Renee Jacobs in my head when she's,

and I can hear Amy Jo Johnson as Kimberly, you

know, so yeah, it works very, very well. And

that's the cool thing about this crossover is

that almost everybody has somebody like Donnie

and Billy are talking and you know, Zach and

Mike are paired off, Tommy and Jason. I'm sorry,

wait, Tommy and Raph, because they like to fight,

a little crankier. I think Leo is really the

only person who doesn't get anybody. Yeah. I

suppose he and Jason can relate to leading and

how difficult that is. Oh, they do. That's right.

No, later they start swapping swordsmanship.

Uh, tips. Yep. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's

a panel here coming up where, where Jason says

she studied whatever it is. And when I goes,

which is why with your sword, you should be using

a bull, she can write a attack. Yeah. So, so

yeah, they have that, that pairing kind of, you

know, to, to look forward to and. And yeah, I'm

just I'm loving this because I think it's so

fun. And like you said, the art is simply amazing.

So good. And as this fight kind of concludes

here, we go to the Moon Palace and I can I can

hear that voice. I mean, it's that this was another

thing for me to and You know, being just passingly

familiar with the Power Rangers, hearing Rita's

dialogue, reading Rita's dialogue, coming out

in that voice. It's not just the ha ha ha villainess

that she is from the show, but she's just as

scary as Shredder. And the fact that they can

make such a wacky character, this bizarre laughing,

humorous character from the old show so vile

and sinister again, like I respect what they

did. here in this book, and I would expect to

find it in the rest of the Boom Studios stuff

as well. Yeah, it's very interesting. I need

to get you into the Boom Studios stuff, where

it started, because like I said, I don't want

to give too much away for you because I don't

want you to be spoiled on it. It's a very unique

take and it's very refreshing and it's it's very

interesting and Well, I I think I might know

where you're going and and I don't I'm gonna

sort of take a guess that this there is something

By some of her references I can kind of tell

that she has a similar origin to what happened

in that newer movie They did the like the weird

reboot where maybe used to be the old Green Ranger

And kind of, kind of, sort of, but not really.

Uh, I would have to, yeah, no, no, no. Um, so

now what I do love is at the end of the, the

moon palace panel, as you see Rita's face after,

you know, you know, she tells, you know, them

to follow her. We see before we go to the next

panel and see, well, look at what we got here.

We got us some trespassers, Bebop. Mighty rude

of them, ain't it? Oh my God, Bebop and Rock

City in the Power Rangers world. Oh my God. It's

like, I wasn't surprised to see them there. Like,

they totally fit. Yeah, they totally fit. And

it's awesome and fun. And it's just, it's so...

Again. It's a mixture of everything, but with

them specifically with how they look and how

like I can hear. I can hear him and Barry in

my head. I'm like, this is cartoon. Yeah. Yeah.

This is cartoon bebop in Rock City. And I love

it. I think it's hilarious. These guys are even

uglier than we are. I can hear that. I mean,

like, I know, I know these voices so much. And

then I think it wouldn't be a spoiler for our

listeners because they made a toy, but I don't

care what you possess. The Dragon Power Coin,

return it to me. Oh yeah, sure he can. And Shredder

whips out the Morpher and gives us a green Shredder

Ranger, which works so much better than it should.

Yeah, it really, really does. And I had known,

obviously, that they were going to be doing the

toys. I think we all did, obviously, if you had

read the comics or not. But I mean, it's turtles,

it's rangers, it's whatever. The design looks

much better in comic form. They do, yeah. The

toy is great. And this is how we end the second

chapter here. I have the turtle toys. I bought

all five of them or they release them in two

packs the quality of those toys is top -notch

and I think it's the same studio who makes the

I know the Marvel Legends scale Power Rangers.

They're great figures. They're absolutely wonderful

and I thought I should have had the shredder

one by now, but my big bad toy store order is

says September like oh man, I'm gonna wait that

long for the shredder. I need all of them They

don't look like the comics, but they're good

figures. They're okay figures. They don't look

as good as they do in the comic though. The comic

is beautiful. Yeah. Again, the colors and everything.

I love the way the story progresses because you

have the Power Rangers fighting their own villain

to start and then the turtles come in and then

they have the whole good guys fight the good

guys fight and then they both realized that they're

both good guys and then you go to the bad guys

and you know you have the the the capturing of

the good guys by the bad guys and then the bad

guys are going to introduce everybody to everybody

and we get a shredder green ranger and and i

i also as uh as an outsider coming into this

love to see shredder and rita going to toe going

toe to toe Um, she was always a passive villain.

I don't remember her ever really getting her

hands dirty, but here, you know, we've got lightning

vortexes of energy and she's just throwing him

around and he's throwing her around. I like to

see her as this kind of villain. Yeah. In the

show, in the original Power Rangers, the three

seasons, Rita was always, you know, I'm going

to throw my lawn down at the ground and make

my monster grow and and you know, I think the.

I hate this term. I really hate it, but hot take,

folks. I really think the evilest thing she did

was trick Zed into marrying her on the show.

I really think that was the most evil thing she

did, but. But Rita in this series, man, holy

crap. She's scary. Which makes sense that Shredder,

yes, who is also creepy and terrifying to me

and those horrible things like, oh, man, these

two. And it doesn't, you know, in the in the

turtle series, it doesn't go the way that it

went with. Krang and the Shredder. Krang and

the Shredder met in the Turtles series and were

like, nope, this isn't going to work out. We're

both too power hungry. I'm out of here. But these

two are just demented enough to fight and want

to see who ends up losing. Yep. And she just

assumes that the Shredder is some fool because

we start the third chapter here in the technodrome.

You fool, you've corrupted the dragon power coin.

I merely bent it to my will as I do all things.

Which is such a Shredder line. I love it. Oh,

yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Absolutely. Anybody who's

only ever known the Shredder from the cartoon

hears like, yeah, that's totally Shredder. And

they're like, what are you talking about? He's

a Kmart villain. Like, no, no. Read the IDW series.

Yes, yes. Yes, read the IDW series. And I will

say, and I don't know what was going on, but

Again i'm gonna reference the fact that i've

been watching through the series there are a

number of episodes where it is not. James avery

as the voice of the shredder really there are

a good number of them where the voice acting

is completely off however i did find out that.

When it isn't James Avery, it's usually Dorian

Harewood who does the voice of the shredder in

the animated series. Now, I'm not saying that

James Avery isn't there. He is, but he is not

the voice of the shredder in every single episode.

Why are you typing on my podcast? I'm sorry.

I'm looking up who Dorian is because I've never

heard of him before. Oh, he's done. You know

him. You know who Dorian Harewood is. He's done

plenty of stuff. Okay, yeah, totally. All right.

Yeah, so But yeah, no, so yeah, but yeah, you're

right. I mean, you know, I read those lines,

you know, I bent it to my will I hear either

James Avery or the original movie shredder for

me totally Yep, absolutely. Oh that line. Oh

his whole image. I love that Yeah, absolutely

And so yeah, so we get to more of this battle

here and. We see Rita and shredder. Going after

the turtles when we see them, what the heck are

they doing here? So yeah, so we get that with

bebop and rocksteady and all that. And then we

get back to Tyler versus Tommy and. Their debate

over. who abandoned who, and why Tommy can't

reach him. Tommy's captured at this point, of

course, because Schrader has his morpher. I was

entertained by the turtles and Power Rangers

hanging out in the turtle lair, and Michael Angel

is convincing Zach to try all of these crazy

pizza toppings, all of these animated series

pizza toppings. Mean, I guess I watched the series

but this makes me want to get to know this Zach

the boom studio back. He seems Like an interesting

Yeah, honey character more funny than he was

in the show. I think even Yeah, I mean he's he

is a very good interesting character and his

story leads to a whole bunch of other things

as well And yeah, I mean I'm just I'm just loving

this. And we got to comment on it every single

time, folks. Any time that we do, for those of

you who are listening to this on the Power Rangers

podcast episode feed, every time we see Splinter,

we got to comment on it. You know, I didn't look

this time. I didn't really study. It's not bad.

It's not dog -like. grotesque rat like. It's

very, out of all of the turtle designs, it is

very modern version 87. Yep. For those of you

listening from the Power Rangers podcast side,

it is very difficult to draw a rat and make it

look not like a mouse. And so the designs for

Splinter wind up looking a lot like a dog with

pointy ears. Um, because if you give him round

ears, it just doesn't quite look right. And so

we, yeah, that's, that's, we should rate all

of our, uh, splinter, like put them in order

from most rat to least rat and from best looking

to worst looking. It's a very difficult thing

to do. And I've tried to draw it. It just, it's

very hard. And we get, uh, we get the, um, So

we get that and then we go to the command center

where Zordon is telling them about, what does

he say? He says, we can't get a precise lock

on Tommy's location, but we'll teleport you as

close as we can. So we have Jason and Zach, we

have Leo, and then we have the Morph. Do they

always make a big deal about it in, I mean, does

it get like a panel or a page in the Boom Studios

comics whenever they do this? Oh, the more. Oh

yeah. It just, I mean, it's a full yeah. It's

always a. Like at the very beginning of this,

you saw it when they morphed. So that was kind

of a smaller morph panel. This morph panel is

very, very big. And yes, it always does get a

really, really nice big pop off on, on, on each

on the page that it happens on. That's so cool.

Very cool, very cool. And the one person out

of all of this, I was not expecting to show up,

shows up. Casey? Really? That surprised me. At

this point, I'm forgetting who exists and like,

what Casey? Casey, what are you doing here? This

were like the happy days or something the audience

would be applauding. And then he'd have to stand

around and wait for the audience to die down

before he delivers his line. Remember me? Yeah,

absolutely. He's He's hilarious and it adds a

whole new layer to the thing and it's just, this

comic is very fun. Yeah, you're right. He shows

up and then it's another character for the Power

Rangers to relate to, to react with. And this

comic is about relationships. More so even than

the Ghostbusters one, the relationship thing

that was happening in the Ghostbusters was just

incidental. And fun and clever and neat, but

this is how do these characters all interact?

It's like a study. It's a case study in how these

two universes would interact. Yeah. Yeah, exactly.

And so, yeah, we get Casey and and all that and

more battle and more fight and more everything

and send down your monster and. And as we come

closer to the close of this, it just... I may

have a rather radical suggestion. So we get to

pick our own colors. Have the Power Rangers crossed?

Have they done any other crossovers? Because

like this... Just begs the question of like who

do we want to see with the ranger color? Like

what do we get? Oh, who else can we give the

powers to because yeah, that that's a that's

a panel that says oh, nope I've got to read that

next I've got to read the next one Yeah, I'm

not not too sure on that one I don't think that

Power Rangers Ghostbusters would work as well.

No, I don't think so either. I know. Power Rangers

Turtles, great. They do have, oh, what is it?

It's not Power Rangers Godzilla, is it? Or is

it Godzilla Tur... There's some new thing out

now. Yeah, there's some new thing out now about

Godzilla crossing over with... I think it's...

I don't remember, but anyway. Yeah, I saw it

on the shelf today, but that's okay. Find out.

We'll find out. I got to know now. Yeah, I'm

just trying to see if I can find an article that

lists, I mean, you put it in Power Rangers crossovers

into Google, it's going to pull up all of the

- Yeah, the television show ones. The television

show episode. Oh, there was a Justice League

Power Rangers one back in 2017. Oh, that's interesting.

Cool. It is. It's Godzilla Mighty Morphin Power

Rangers Comet crossover. That's what it is. Yep.

Godzilla and the Power Rangers have to cooperate

to beat one of Rita's monsters. Yep. There you

go. I'm not like I said before on the on the

pull bag and I've said at other places The closest

thing I get to Godzilla ever and it's not that

I dislike it. I just I've never had you know

Just never had any interest in it. But the closest

thing I come to is Austin Powers and gold member

It's Godzilla Due to international copyright

laws. It's not but it is we should still Yeah,

so but yeah, no Power Rangers Godzilla Godzilla

Power Rangers and chapter 3 here ends on what

I just said a moment ago with Mikey asking if

they get to pick their own colors Like I said

so far folks. This book is just so damn fun And

yeah So and then and then the opportunity to

Purchase Ninja Turtle Power Ranger action figures

was it just it was it was insane I can't believe

that that was something I could do They look

great right next to my Star Trek Ninja Turtles

Yeah, absolutely So since the power Rangers have

been depowered Issue four or chapter four in

the trade starts with the Rita's monster in New

York. The turtles have to step up and defend

it, but I don't think they foresaw the fact that

they're turtle rangers now and they get their

own morph page. Yes, they get their own morph

page, but I don't think Raph really understood

what it meant choosing his color because. Red

in the Power Rangers universe, unless it's Tommy

as green or white, but red is usually the leader.

So having Raph kind of step into a leader role,

sort of, because he's the Red Ranger. Yeah. And

I noticed that in the dialogue that there is

this weird kind of confusion among the turtles

in this part. I mean, like the Morphin page puts

Leo as Blue Ranger in the center. Um, and, and

it does make sense as to the colors that they're

getting. Like maybe April should have been the

yellow ranger, but that would have meant Mike

would be pink and, you know, okay. Uh, maybe,

but no, uh, Don is the black ranger. April steps

in as the pink ranger, which is way cool that

she was brought in. And I, I do kind of advocate

turtle or April being kind of a fifth turtle

in that way. I don't like. I don't like seeing

damsels in distress. I know you're a part of

the team. Let's go. Like Princess Allura, let's

step up and kick some butt. Leo's Blue Ranger

and Raph, yes, is Red Ranger, but they do make

some talk about that, I think. Yep. Yeah. Oh,

man. And the other thing from this issue that

I did not expect to see. Like, okay, so the Power

Rangers are depowered. The turtles have the morphers

and they're the superheroes. Now, what do you

do with the depowered Power Rangers? Splinter

gives them this beautiful, inspiring speech about

being just as important and you're still Rangers

because the powers chose you. You don't need

the powers. Your adaptability, camaraderie, trust,

focus, be silent in the night and be ninjas and

they get they they don't get ninja turtle costumes,

but they they step up as ninjas and I think that

is way cool Now this is also another homage though,

even though I think you know, you're right You

were absolutely correct and you know saying that

Splinter's speech is inspiring and you know it

for it, you know because they are martial artists

They can also be ninjas. This also goes back

to the movie because they get the ninja zords

and they get all the stuff and they get the cool

ninja suits and Adam just has to be a frog I

guess. That's a reference this Captain America

does not understand. You've seen the 95 Power

Rangers movie right? Yeah I don't remember that

part and I saw it recently too. So when they

do the morph sequence when they get when they

when they go to um Fatos or whatever the planet

is that they go to get the new power. And Dulcea

goes through and says, you know, Kimberly the

crane, Aisha the bear, Billy the wolf. And you

pan over to Johnny Young Bosch and in this deadpan

sound, he says, you know, she looks at him and

says, Adam, what's wrong? I'm a frog. And the

Dulcea character says, yes, like. you know, a

frog that becomes a handsome prince once you

give him a kiss, you know, kind of thing. And

she kisses him on the forehead and he feels better

about himself. And then you pan over to Tommy

who was like, you know, and Tommy, you are the

winged Lord of the skies, the ninja Falcon Zord.

And I'm like, yep, that that's on brand that

works. But yeah, Adam was never thrilled that

he was the frog, but then he realized, oh, hey,

being a frog is kind of cool. It ain't easy being

green. Oh So yeah, so we get to you know They

go through the whole morph sequence and we get

to the like you said where the Rangers could

still help with being ninjas and we get this

whole battle sequence and I love Jason. You're

right, creepy Dr. Villain. This will hurt quite

a bit. Yeah, the Caucasian Baxter Stockman is

what cemented it for me as, oh, animated. Yep.

Because it's the only time he's been white. Yep.

Absolutely. And sometimes, like, I wish by issue

four, chapter four, This whole Tyler and Tommy

thing, I wish they would have switched either

Tommy's uniform or Tyler's uniform because while

I love purple, purple is one of my favorite colors,

I will die on that hill. There's just a little

too much purple sometimes when you're seeing

Tommy and Tyler fight in this issue. and I mean

there we only see like a panel or two of them,

but If it were important for me to know which

one was which they would tell me and I was reading

that and and a panel coming up a panel or two

coming up I just let it go I'll figure it out.

Yeah For a minute there. I kind of had Justice

Lords Batman vibes where there's a scene in the

Justice League two -parter here after where,

uh, Lord, uh, our universe, Kevin Conroy, Batman

and the justice Lord's universe, Kevin Conroy,

Batman. It, you know, you that in the shot, they

only ever show you either our Batman or the justice

Lord's Batman, but it makes it sound like he's

having a conversation with himself. And it's

just, it's so freaky, weird and awesome. We get

the. Power, we get the Turtle Rangers Power Blaster

formation panels here. Oh, that's neat. Yeah,

this is very awesome. The accessories in the

Ninja Turtles figures, it doesn't tell you anywhere

in the manual or the back of the package that

the weapons connect, but the weapons connect

and they hook together to make the Turtle Blaster.

You have to figure it out because it's not easy.

But it's cool. Yeah. I, I wouldn't expect them

to make it easy for us. Yeah, not at all. So,

but yeah, I mean, again, all, you know, as I

was reading this, as I was preparing for the

show, and even with us going through this, all

is I see is fun because this was just so fun

and so interesting. And We've had so many, and

dark things can happen. I don't, you know, I'm

not gullible. Dark, evil, you know, things can

happen in, in movies, cartoons, comics, whatever.

But there's just a lightheartedness to this when

you're having the Rangers and the Turtles interact

with each other, that is just kind of really

refreshing. I kind of need I think I need to

reorient how I think about comics because when

I buy everything Ninja Turtles because I always

regret not doing that. And so I bought this and

I read this and I don't remember being excited

by it or turned on by it. I half read it, but

I'm always thankful for the second read through

that I have to do before we podcast about it

because I appreciate it. more. I'm paying more

attention when I'm looking at it with a critical

eye. And and I think this needs to be the way

that I read all of my comics. I mean, the way

I see it is for you specifically, and this is

just my personal opinion, you know, whatever

it is, it is what it is. But you're a guy who

buys comics because you want to number one collect

them. But you also number one want to read them

and read the story for yourself. Meanwhile, I'm

the one over here saying, Hey Joe, let's podcast

about this because I only podcast. I only read

comics for podcasting. Like I've had this trade

in my. Comicsology or Amazon or whatever the

hell it's called now. I've had it in there for

a good number of years. Whenever it got released

originally, I've had it since then. So like I've

been waiting for a few years, like I, cause my

thing is. If I had read this before we were ever

going to do an episode and then we weren't going

to do it until let's say six months from now,

six months from now, me would be saying to you

throughout this episode. Yep. I remember reading

that. Yep. I remember reading that. Oh, this

is where this happens. This is where like I would

have art. So for me, I have to do that immediate

like. fresh take. Like if I've read a number

one and I want to do an episode on, on that issue's

number one, I have to read it. I have to go grab

somebody, whomever it is and say, Hey, what time

can you podcast? And how, how I normally do it

is when I'm reading to get the story is I will

read it to get the story on my second read through.

I will, um, I will tell them I'm trying to say

here. I will pay attention to more of the details.

I will pay attention to more of the art. Like

we've said throughout this last hour or so, you

know, this art is amazing and this art is great.

And the story is wonderfully written and whatever

else. But my second view of this was, okay, I

know what the story is. I know what happens.

I need to focus on. Those those morphins the

more sequences and the more splash pages and

how it's all brought together kind of a thing.

So that's why I end up reading it multiple times

either before during or after a podcast is because

I want to make sure I have more than enough you

know to go around to say hey you know. I enjoyed

reading this the four times that I read it or

whatever it is like I'm not just reading it like

I will never if there's a comic I have read that

I do not like. I will just set it aside like

okay I feel like I kind of wasted my time on

that but I'm not gonna sit here and make somebody

else waste their time and then wait and then

waste both of our times trying to record a podcast

on something. I don't have time or any energy

left for negative review style things. There

are plenty of other people on the internet that

can do a negative comic review. I ain't got time

for that. But that's why my pull list is so small

because there's just so much that I'm like, oh

man, I can't carry that burden. But my pull list

is so light, it would not cost me much to pick

up Power Rangers in trade a couple of times.

Yeah, no. I mean, the trades are out. I'm sure

I can find you the ones you need to read, the

ones you want to read. So, hey, that's completely

up to you. And because I've started you in so

late on this, you already have, well, the first

original Boom Studios comic series for Power

Rangers only ran for, I think, 55 or 57 issues.

So, I mean, it isn't like, it's not like, oh,

it's Batman number 475 or whatever. Like, 80

years, 90 years of Batman, really? So, but yeah,

as we get through chapter four, issue four here,

man, this battle. Wow. It doesn't stop. Nope.

I do. And I love how this uh, issue ended again.

Uh, we have the Power Rangers dealing with, I'm

sorry, the Power Ninja Turtles, the Turtle Rangers,

the Rita villain, and then in Central Park, Bebop

and Rocksteady get the Rita treatment and they're

the big Kaiju, Bebop and Rocksteady. It's like

step number 13 of things that I know or call

happening. And it totally should have happened.

This need to happen. It's so good. Yeah. You

know what? You say what you want about the sidekick

villain characters where some of them aren't

that great and some of them are amazing and whatever.

Bebop and Rocksteady both in the 87 series and

This is obvious. Their interpretations here in

this crossover are based on that, more so on

the bop and rock and music culture of IDWB, bop

and rock city. But both of those versions are

absolutely amazing. Yep. Which is another, it's

an amazing thing since Eastman and Laird did

not like those characters that they made up for

the TV show. Absolutely not their favorites,

but. they've been done and redone with, again,

yes, the love and care of somebody who respects

the property that they've been made into amazing

things and they are fun and amazing in this book

as well. Yes, absolutely. So we kick off issue

five with more of the battle in New York City

in Central Park. Because the turtles showed up

in the Megazord. Yep. It's hard to make that

Megazord look cool because In that old show,

it was a dude in a big cardboard suit, but the

artist made this actually look pretty amazing.

This is neat. I mean, it's very geometric, like

the cardboard Megazord was. I don't know how

you draw this. I don't even know how you draw

it without some kind of really good looking model

to manipulate in front of you. Have they ever

made a good model of that thing? Probably not,

because it always has to do something or fit

a human inside of it. But this looks great. This

is Voltrony looking legs. It's so cool. Yeah,

and that's the other thing. Like you said at

the beginning of this, and like you just said

now, and that was my thing. Uh, in, in the nineties

was when I, when I first saw this, I was like,

Hmm. Okay. When I first saw that Megazord sequence,

I was like, this has every feeling of Voltron

to it. And you know what? I don't dislike it.

It's not a bad thing. I don't know if there is

an actual. I, what is that? Uh. Ascension Project

Dino Megazord $170 from GameStop. I don't know.

I'm sure there are some sort of something out

there that has, you know, the Megazord be just

like a statue or something. I'm sure that there

are plenty, but yeah, you're right. I mean, this

thing that I'm looking at. It's from Hasbro.

It's the Ascension Project Dino Megazord action

figure. Like I said, it's $165 .99 on GameStop.

But if you want just to leave it, like you want

to get it, combine it, and just leave it as the

Megazord, it looks pretty damn accurate to the

show to me. I am confident that that is the toy

that they used for the model of the drawing.

looking at the saber tooth leg where the wheel

is. And then my favorite panel, the kaboom, kaboom,

kaboom with that huge foreshortened view from

the yellow foot all the way up to the head. That

is, that's so hard to draw. I know foreshortening

those weird geometric forms like that, that extremely,

it's so hard. It's so well drawn. Yeah. Yeah,

the art in this is amazing. So, but yeah. Let's

see here. Several times throughout this issue,

this series, Donatello has called out some of

the funny Power Ranger things like, so are there

clothes underneath their spandex now? Or the

one thing that I did not... See called out that

I expected to be called out was shredder playing

the flute through the helmet with a faceplate

We're not gonna ask we're not gonna you know,

nope we can't but I'm surprised I didn't Yeah,

I'm surprised that I'll tell her to either but

you know, yeah, that would have been a good job

I mean, they have made that joke in the past,

though. I mean, because, you know, seriously,

like, you really can't blow, you can blow on

that flute, but you're not, you know, you're

basically just putting it up to your mouth and

pressing the buttons and the buttons is what

makes the sound. Oh, I got it. I guess. I guess.

I don't know. That's my new headcanon. Thanks,

Mike. I, I could be wrong. I don't know. I know.

Hell, it totally makes sense. Even 13 year old

me always saw Tommy or whomever was in that suit

in the Green Ranger suit in the show when he

would just, you know, he would hold it up and

he would start playing the buttons and I'm like,

Oh, okay. So he's not actually. Playing that

instrument with his breath and his vocals and

actually playing the instrument He's just playing

the instrument with his fingers because that's

just a toy word. That was exactly how the I guess

I you know, I don't know these things. I don't

like It's just a comfortable way to hold it.

Yeah, there you go Another delightful thing that

I noticed as the Megazord falls down is how the

turtles' pupil -less eyes show up through the

helmets, which you don't usually see when it's

just the regular human Power Rangers under there.

But that is neat, and it makes me want to go

over into the other room and look at the... Power

Rangers, the turtle toys to see if they had eyes

on those figures as well. But that can wait until

after we're done recording. You all can look

online where there's some find out. Yep, absolutely.

Yeah, I only, I mean, okay, yes, I said I read

this four times before we started doing this.

But really, that four times was to get, like

I said already, every aspect of the thing but

now that I'm thumbing through this I'm like and

there's a panel here close to the close to the

end of of the battle where We have shredder morphing

with dragon sword and it goes through and you

know, we see him and oh No, it's Tommy morphing

into dragon sword and he's like it's over shredder

And we get this panel of Shredder where he says,

I will die before surrendering to you. There

is so much purple and I'm not complaining here.

There is so much purple and there is so much

gray gunmetal for the helmet and whatever on

Shredder. I'm like, hey, movie Shredder did make

appearance in the comic. Oh yeah, there we are.

Have a D powered that yep. Yep, the D power trader.

Yep. Yep. Yep. Yeah Of course Rita's gonna double

cross him like like Rita does you're gonna take

me to those other people in your other dimension

and like sequel Oh, yeah, like I'm surprised

it hasn't happened already honestly We're gonna

review this and people are gonna listen to the

review and they're gonna go buy the trade and

then it'll say oh wow There was enough interest.

Let's make that And look I I don't mind having

some choco puffs on my pizza. I I don't even

mind the idea of, this is at the very tail end

of one of the first 10 episodes where, I think

it's actually one of the first five, where April's

like, give me a slice of the bananas and sausage,

will ya? I don't even mind that, but I am sorry,

Michelangelo and Zach. Grasshoppers, bananas,

and coleslaw. No, I veto that one. And we have

a nice little moment between Kim and April. We

get moments here at the end with with everybody.

Yeah. And I think that's really, really awesome

and fun. Because I think a normal comic would

have ended it by now. But we get the afterglow

in the conversation of them sharing and still

more relationship building. Yeah, absolutely.

You know, I just I think we could We could have

a shared universe here. The Power Rangers can

exist in the Ninja Turtles universe. Let's do

it. I mean, if Venus can exist, so can the Power

Rangers. I am confident. You know what? Let's

let's hold off on spoilers, but I think I think

it's going to be all right. I think we're going

to be redeemed. Yeah. Yes, after 24 years she

finally gets into the comics I Tweeted and I

tweeted at Sophie and got a reply and I'm just

ecstatic. So You should save that. So yeah at

the end of this the Like you said everybody's

doing relationship building and the very final

panel is Raph versus Tommy Let's figure out,

you know who the who the better fighter is That

is so cool. Yeah. And gosh, I Jason David Frank,

is that his name? The Green Ranger? Yeah. I again,

I don't pay attention, but you can't help but

see how excited he is to be there for the fans

and how excited he is about the character and

the sincere love and how much he's willing to

share with everybody. And I see that energy coming

out in this version of Tommy. as well, the Tommy

who wouldn't be afraid to let somebody fight

him as the Green Ranger who's like, this is my

life, man, we got to see. Raphael would do that

and Tommy would help him out. Yeah, no, absolutely.

Yeah. And that's the thing, like he is, if you

look at the Power Rangers and you look at the

actors and they've gone on and done other things,

but I mean, Power Rangers, You look at Jason

David Frank and yes, he's been in other things.

Yes, he's done other things, but he is there.

There is, it's one of those things where you

can have an actor that can, like a lot of voice

actors take Maurice LaMarche, for example, Maurice

LaMarche can voice from inspector gadget all

the way up to whatever the brain from, from animaniacs

or, you know, whatever. Uh, you know, grumpy

in, in the 70, like Maurice has a wide range

and we know him as multiple things. And then

there are people just in general who are enacting

who, you know, them for one fit, like just, you

know, them for one thing. And that's the one

thing you love that they do because that's who

they are. And with Jason David Frank. I personally

believe, obviously, he has embraced that with

his ranger past and everything else and he loves

to, that's why he's doing his whole film thing,

Legend of the White Dragon. It's this Kickstarter

thing that they did a couple years ago and they

got the funding finally and they're going to

be doing this whole unique version of Power.

It's not. He can't actually say it's Power Rangers

and it's not actually the characters of Power

Rangers, but it's in that style kind of thing.

You know, there's a whole arc that you'll, you'll

end up reading in the, the first 30 or so issues

of the Power Rangers comic where it's from issue

25, 25 to 30 is shattered grid. And they did

a Shattered Grid trailer and they did a Shattered

Grid short film to just kind of tease the whole

thing, to, you know, tease the whole event and

everything else. And he came back and he got

in the suit. Cause that, the Shattered Grid storyline

basically is, and this isn't spoiler, it's kind

of a spoiler for you, but. It's an evil Tommy

from a different universe kind of thing. Like

what would have happened if he took a different

path kind of thing. But it's, it's so fun. It's

so well done. The same thing here with, with

Power Rangers, Ninja Turtles, Ninja Turtles,

Power Rangers. I absolutely love the story. I

think it is so fun. Uh, at the back of the trade,

we also have a cover gallery, which is basically

just all the various Power Rangers helmets with

the various like. like each of the turtles holding

each of the colored helmets. So we had various...

Good Lord, there are a lot of covers for this.

There are a lot of covers. That was difficult

for me buying a single. Yeah. I was like, wait,

because they're not numbered on the front? Yeah.

I mean, I think you have to go... I don't even

think it's numbered on the back. I numbered the

boards in the back so that I could actually tell

what issues were which. Yeah. I do love, though,

that we get... all of the turtles holding the

red, the pink, the yellow, the blue, the black,

the green, and then you get Shredder holding

the yellow, the blue, the pink, the black, and

then Shredder holds the green, red, white, and

then he also holds what is Draken's helmet as

well. No, this is fun. This is so good. In the

trade, we also get character gallery designs

from from the artist. And it's just it's so good.

It's so fun. Everybody should check this out.

It's just an enjoyable, enjoyable thing. Yeah,

I'm going to buy it in trade and make my kids

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for us. We really enjoyed it. We love the story.

I love the twists with shredder and Rita and

Like you said a moment ago at the end to set

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next time we'll be hearing nothing but pat frailey

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awesome because there's always something next

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Yes. So what would you rate this zero to five,

sir? You can't have this much fun and not rate

five. The art is fantastic. The writing is fantastic.

The pace was fantastic. The density, I'm completely,

I'm totally impressed. Yeah absolutely i am also

going to give it a five there is nothing in here

that gave me pause there's nothing in here that

gave me the heebie -jeebies there's nothing in

here that i try my best not to be the. Annoying

fanboy that will be like. that's not how it's

supposed to be done or that's not what that planet

was called or whatever. You know, I try my best

not to do that. And yeah, fives all around. Absolutely

love this. So folks, coming up next in episode

479, as I mentioned at the beginning, we've got

myself and my buddy Jesse Raz doing the final

arc, the aftermath, the volume 14, which is issue

50 to 51 to 55. of the Boom Studios Power Rangers

comic series that will air in April. I wanted

to keep it to Mighty Morphin' March, but sadly

that just didn't happen and that's OK, but it'll

air in April. And yeah, what do you got going

on, sir? Anything? Well, it seems like the pandemic

is kind of wearing down, so I'm hoping that we're

going to have a Geek Stuff garage sale this year,

assuming we don't mutate some new Bored variant

of this coronavirus, but we'll be outdoors selling

nerdy stuff, and I'm sure there'll be a bunch

of the Power Rangers stuff there. But I don't

know. Did I tell you? I can be found on Twitter

now at Joe Read Geek. I actually know how to

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going through the Geek Stuff Garage Sale Facebook

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of me now, but yeah, if you can't find me through

those two places, that's Mike. Yep. And he'll

put you in touch with me. Absolutely. All right,

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