Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Volume 3 Review

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inside the pull bag. Hey, I'm Kyle Higgins writer

of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, and you're listening

to Mighty Morphin March here inside the pullback

Hello, and welcome to the pullback. This is episode

343 I'm of course TFJone Mike joining me once

again for Mighty Morphin March is Steve Megatron.

Hello, sir. Yo You know what the sad thing is

technically you're the skull to my bulk even

though neither one of us are Have very much bulk

and skull ish predispositions. So you mean we're

not morons? Well we can be, but in general let's

hope not. Yes, yes and once again, thank you

to Kyle Higgins for the introduction as well

very very awesome I'm hoping to have him on here

after we complete this as I said in episode 341

Had him he was the first interview the pullback

ever did back in 2013 when he was writing for

Batman Beyond and Nightwing and all that at DC

Comics So I'm hoping we can get him back on here

again after we wrap up this five episode spotlight

for the Boom Studios Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

comic volume three and yeah same as last week

Kyle Higgins actually it's a little different

Kyle Higgins on writing illustrated by Henry

Presetta chapters 9 and 11 and 12 Jonathan Lamb

did chapter 10 colors by Matt Herms and Joanne

Lafuente Ed Dukeshire on lettering as well and

We start with a countdown because Rita's basically

I Promise this won't go further than this, but

I have to make this joke Rita's basically the

trump of the entire world in this in the beginning

of this like Surrender and bow to me no matter

what so we have the black dragon we have the

the the Megazord fight because we have all the

other Rangers in the Green Ranger costume but

in their own swords and they're all facing off

against the black dragon the whole point of this

is hey we can face anything together this also

goes into later you know Billy's quest and the

way Billy is and his character which again as

I said last week I love how Kyle writes this

to the point of each issue or each part of the

arc, one of the characters gets their own, not

necessarily development, but spotlight in exploring

who they are and all that that entails. It's

interesting to see Billy and Goldar interact

with each other because we didn't really see

that a lot in the show. It was usually either

Jason or Tommy or anybody else other than Billy.

Yeah, pretty much was I mean it I will say that

they've kind of fleshed him out a little bit

more And and honestly like out of the villains

might probably one of my favorites was Goldar

Even though at times he could be a bumbling idiot.

I I still rather enjoyed the character himself

so Anytime I've seen him I Get happy that that

he's gonna be used Instead of just kind of disappearing

into the ether and never seen again, you know

like later on in Power Rangers Yeah, very much

so it's It's so cool to see him and it's so interesting

to see a different side of him like Billy's not

the most clued in kind of kid in the world kind

of guy and you know, there's one point where

You know, Goldar says, um, you weren't supposed

to answer - Oh, it's rhetorical! Okay. So, Billy

convinces Goldar to transport him out of the

Dark Dimension. As we go back to the Rangers

fighting the Black Dragon, because Billy has

figured out that the Black Dragon is actually

mechanical. and it's got an access hatch and

you can get in there so technically the black

dragon is a giant zord that can you know morph

his size large small whatever and which is funny

yeah and this issue 9 here is the issue we finally

get to meet who's pulling the strings behind

the black dragon crisis on infinite earth what

um yeah kind of it's a even though technically

future future alternate dimension something it's

we we're not sure uh we know but the characters

aren't sure and uh yeah it's uh lord dragon who

is this Power Rangers looking character that

has the combination of green and white for a

uniform with a gold helmet with white on it with

a red kind of Lord Zed you know eyepiece kind

of thing red visor I should say and as soon as

I saw this I think I had already had the white

and green ranger Funko Pops I'm like funko better

make a lord draken and they did i even have him

he's over on my shelf somewhere but i love the

design of lord draken i think it's absolutely

amazing that they did this very very very cool

it's a nice combo between the two uh suits because

i always found myself to enjoy i mean i liked

the green ranger but i always liked the the white

ranger more yeah i did too i mean i love the

green ranger for what it was i love you know

obviously the the the gold shield and whatever

else and love the dragon sword the dragon dagger

but i was like sabba yeah i I loved Saba, and

we'll be getting to that here. I love Saba, I

love the White Tiger Zord, and the White... Oh

my god, the White Falcon Zord. I'll have to see

if I can still find that picture. I have a picture

of myself at my mom's in 1995 holding the White

Falcon Zord toy in my hand. Like, it was just...

It was just a thing. So, our... universes Billy

and Tommy have been transported to Lord Drakon's

world and they're like um where are we what's

going on and as we continue we have starting

off the next issue some sort of it's a dream

of Billy's it's some sort of flashback kind of

thing because obviously he and Tommy are are

you know captured right now but again this is

what I was saying about you know each character

getting their own thing and Billy has never really

been a man of action he's always been I don't

want to say the geeky nerd kind of guy but let's

face it that's what he was he was always the

brain of the Power Rangers kind of thing and

between him and Trini and all that and this first

part about him going on the hero's quest and

and running this simulation of of you know finding

a way to defeat this and the fact that he's done

it 64 times and it hasn't really changed um i

love how they did that this issue basically spotlighting

the entire thing on billy and he is the smartest

one of the group i mean right look what he helped

them do during the zeal time yep absolutely because

he was unable to become a ranger yeah that's

right yep as we continue I love the the issue

11's main cover is done by Jamal Campbell it's

basically a Planet of the Apes cover with Tommy

and Billy and the you know buried Megazord with

the sword sticking out of the sand. I love that

cover. The cover is so cool. So we start off

with all of the other Rangers going back to their

parents. Everything will be okay. Tommy and Billy

will be alright. We gotta find them. We gotta

find them. we go back to Lord Drakon's world

and our Tommy and Billy and they get stopped

by the Ranger sentries or whoever they are with

the black power suit. Yeah the black power suit

And apparently Lord Drakon has imposed a curfew

and they're out past curfew and Tommy foolishly,

not really, but looks like he pulls his jacket

back to reveal the dragon dagger and then all

of a sudden the black sentry is like, I need

backup now, these guys are armed and dangerous,

yada yada yada. So they dive into the river.

Sounds like a win. Yeah, really. Not really.

Not really, no. We get Rita and Goldar and she's

going to let Goldar prove himself once more.

We have the other Rangers figuring out how the

black dragon was made that it was made out of

former like the exact former parts of the Dragon

Zord and all of that we get Tommy and Billy discovering

this underground place and Billy's like I think

I'm just gonna stay up here. So Tommy goes down

there Billy almost gets caught by well, he does

actually get caught by Lord Dragon But who does

Tommy find in this hidden underground chamber?

Saba! It's Saba. I do love how issue 11 ends

with Lord Draken revealing himself to be this

world, his world's version of Tommy. of the character

things that that's going to entail as we go further

so yeah evil Tommy good Tommy Saba has been you

know revealed and We get the tiger zord be it

so briefly we get the falcon zord the falcon

zord flies them out of there I was a little bummed

to see the tiger sword go away so quickly Yeah,

I was too. Did it really show him to get destroyed

or was it just him getting into the fight? I

Think it was I thought it was him getting into

the fight because Lord dragon says What does

he say? He says no, I'm not I'm better than you

take them to He says something about, you know,

don't let Saba call out or don't let Saba do

this. So that's why I thought that Saba was summoning

the Zords, like whether they were destroyed or

not. Yeah, he said something about that they

only appear to be destroyed. Yeah. Yep. And we

get more with Saba. and and tommy and billy in

the story of that we get you know the story of

how lord draken became lord draken with you know

his choice in he chose to go to read instead

of zordon which is a sad but it shows it shows

what could have happened had he gone that direction

exactly As it progresses, we see that we have

a fight between all of the Rangers and that.

We end up with Lord Draken having not only his

helmet, but Jason's helmet as well. We see this

epic battle on this side of the world as far

as he basically destroyed these Rangers. it ends

with him basically saying, you know, why don't

you all, oh no, it ends with, you know, that

part of, you know, Saba explaining the story

of the backstory. And then somebody shows up

and says, why don't you all explain who you really

are? Dun, dun, dun. I think the story is progressing

very well. I love... how Kyle has taken what

we know and created such a cool story out of

it. The fact that Sabah had been trapped all

this time and all of that, I think that is super

cool. And, you know, we come up against, you

know, the coinless and who are they, what's going

on with that, and it leaves again us on, you

know, kind of a cliffhanger here for that part

of the story. It's also kind of interesting too

because You know you don't know who those people

are yep Absolutely again, it's all about mystery

and intrigue with this and I absolutely dig it

I'm probably going to say that you know This

is easily one of my favorite comics uh... in

the last five years i can see that it's it sets

up something that the show didn't but it also

kind of explores that other you know it the realm

of you know the what if universe and that's cool

i think that's interesting again this whole you

know like you said earlier or last week you know

crisis on it's kind of thing and whatever uh...

basically you know coming up we all know everyone

knows at this point what the shattered grid was

so we're not going to spoil it here but you know

we can at least mention the fact that you know

the morphine grid is like you know infinite earths

where you know on various planets and various

times and various whatever are all these teams

of rangers and Lord Draken has a plan to deal

with that because he wants all the power. Mm

-hmm. Mm -hmm. And if Lord Draken gets all the

power, people, there ain't gonna be much to be

able to protect us. No. Volume 3, absolutely

love it. I'm probably gonna give it a four and

a half out of five. What about you? I'm gonna

do the same just because it sets up more. I'll

give it a four out of five. I really don't know...

Like I said, I don't give things typically a

five. It's close, but it's... I know that the

next one's gonna ramp up pretty heavily with

what's going down. Oh yeah. Very much so. I...

I love that Kyle is writing this. I love the

way he is writing this. I know he only actually

goes up until the Shattered Grid ending. part

of the event and then somebody else takes the

mantle. I think it's Marguerite Bennett that

takes the mantle after Kyle's done on his run.

And I understand that that's part of comics.

Each creator leaves their mark. Each person leaves

their mark on it. And sometimes they come back.

Sometimes they don't. I don't think there would

have been anybody else to have done this that

I would have paid more attention to. Because

again, I'm a Kyle Higgins super fanboy when it

comes to the man's work because he's just So

damn good at what he does whether it's licensed

properties whether it's his own stuff that he

creates like cowl and all of that and everything

else Just absolutely love it. I hope everyone's

liking these episodes here inside the pull bag.

I know We've been kinda short on them, but when

you have almost nothing but good things to say,

and it's not about not being critical of it,

I mean, there just isn't that much here to be

critical of, because I personally feel that the

story is written so well and it's so different

than anything we've ever gotten before, and the

art is the same way. There's... Okay, so... I

like that they keep the likenesses of the humans

as much as possible, but they take their own

creative elements with it. Right. But the rest

of it's pretty true to form. Yeah. I mean, the

ranger suits are true to form, the zords are

true to form, the accessories like sabba and

the dragon dagger and all of that can be true

to form because I assume that's part of the Power

Rangers license, but I'm sure they would have

had to have gotten the likeness rights if they

were actually going to have people draw... full

-on likenesses of Jason David Frank, of Thuy

Trang, of Austin St. John. I'm glad they look

like them, but I understand why they don't. That

they aren't a direct, you know, drawing version

of what the people looked like. I mean, you know,

Tommy from our universe, he's got the long hair,

he's right now he's still wearing green because

he hasn't become the White Ranger yet. I'm sure

he kinda looks like what Tommy looked like but

as I said it's not a direct thing which like

you said offers you know artist interpretation

of you know figuring out how it's done so absolutely

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