Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Volume 6 Review

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welcome to The Pull Bag. This is episode 371.

I'm, of course, TFG and Mike. Joining me is Steve,

uh... Power Zordon -tron? Megazord? I don't know

what to talk... Yes, I'm the Zordon. I'm Zordon.

You're the Zordon -tron. That's what it is. You're

Bruce Box -like. Zordatron. Zordatron. Zordatron.

There you go. And Ryan and I have finished the

IDW Transformers universe. We ended that last

episode with Optimus Prime Volume 5. At some

point within the next six months or so we will

start the new universe. We're taking a little

break from Transformers because Autobotly April

and Autobotly August this year in 2019 basically

we ran the gambit across all of what IDW has

currently going. from the universe they just

killed off or not killed off but ended because

it's very you know ryan and i talk about this

all the time it's very rare that anything gets

an actual ending and the fact that they were

able to go out on an ending that they wanted

to go out on was really really cool But as you

can tell Steve is back and we are going back

to Mighty Morphin Power Rangers from Boom Studios

the main ongoing We are at volume 6 right now.

This is issues 21 through 24 of the ongoing series

This is the I guess prelude to shattered grid

written by Kyle Higgins illustrated by Jonas

Scharf with assistance by Jagadish Kumar on chapter

23, which is issue 23. Callers by Joan Alfuente,

letters by Ed Dukeshire. And this basically continues

the Prometheus story with grace and not Prometheus,

Promethea, I should say. Continues that and it's,

you know, a full -on lead -up to... What will

be one of if not the best power rangers event

in history? Which is shattered grid? these four

issues Talk about you know part of the plot is

you know Finster having you know human monsters

or humans that turn into monsters They transform

and transcend yes, they do and it's a sad thing

with this first monster because it's a What did

he call it a meow or something or it's basically

a nine -headed cat and they have to kill it nine

times It's a meowdra like a hydra, that's what

that's what it was. Yes. Yes. Thank you I love

I forget off top my head who says it and like

I was always more of a dog person It was Kimberly.

It was Kimberly. That's right. Yeah, it's Kimberly

in this trade. We see that, you know, we we learn

grace Sterling's past about you know last trade

we saw, you know her mission in 1969 to the moon

and all that with her team of Rangers back then

this trade we learn, you know, where she is today

and what she's doing and all of that. Obviously

most of this keep being kept from the Rangers.

Zordon is still missing. Zordon eventually comes

back. I love the art. The art's amazing. Oh yeah.

And it's pretty consistent with everything that's

come out so far. Oh yeah, absolutely. And Kyle's

writing is top notch. I love what he's doing

with the story. I think it's interesting. I think

this is just as good. If not better than the

original television series and this is creating

new stories that are. It has that little bit

of campiness slash humor to it at times, but

it's also a very dark and serious Rangers thing,

which is something we've craved for 20 some odd

years now, 25 plus years. Yeah. And it's, it's

been one of those things that. They're they're

giving a new life to that universe without and

still touching on the original crew which just

goes to show you the originals always do it better

Just saying yeah In most cases anyway most cases

So as we progress we get a lot of care again

what I love about the comics is like the TV show

hit on a lot of stuff but The comics what Kyle

is doing in the writing Hit on a lot more like,

you know Kim's feelings whether it's feelings

for Tommy or just feelings in general choice

or dad in that situation and You know have you

know coming from divorced parents and that kind

of thing or whatever? The fact that Finster is

trapped and Saba's got his own Agenda with that

I Really really dig it. I think it's fun. I think

it's interesting. I think it's refreshing like

for me to pick up a comic and be like hey yes

this is a franchise I know and love but I have

no idea where it's gonna go next whereas some

things which is good yeah because some things

lately have been like okay sure uh -huh So as

we progress through this we have some really

really cool battle scenes We have you know grace

still keeping stuff from the Rangers even though

they're supposed to be working together I Love

the art of each of them you of each of the main

Rangers using their weapons like Zach using the

power axe That was cool Billy having idea an

idea using the triceratops and and trying to

talk to the sheeple and saying no I'm the sheeple

listen to me and All of that. I thought that

was hilarious And again Billy going on this like

Little hidden mission thing. It's not a hidden

mission, but like he's wondering why You know

what's behind door number one? Kind of thing

And holy crap, it's Lord Dracon. Yeah, which

which is really funny when when they break that

down because To kind of see that They're harnessing

more or less His his energy. Yeah They're basically

harnessing it and siphoning it from him Because

grace wants morphin tech. Well, he is morphin

tech Yeah, he's hardcore morphin tech very much

so We get to kind of the the the final chapter

here where they because This read so fast, even

though there's only normally trades have five

issues, even though there's only Four here It

really reads fast and I've said this when we

did you know back in March of this year when

we did Mighty Morphin March for the first time

with the first five volumes the way Kyle writes

It's a story that flows so easily that you'll

be done with it in a matter of minutes It's like

oh, yeah, totally. I you know, it was very quick.

Yeah, and I It kind of reminds me of, I've told

you this before, when we did Altered Geek, lately,

over the last, I'd say, five, six, seven years,

I've all but stopped listening to podcasts. Obviously,

I started listening back in 2006, 2007, and then

I got into it and doing it, obviously, 2008,

with you and then obviously the network and all

that. But I haven't listened to, like, actively.

Wanted episodes of any show does I as much as

I want to support my friends and all that stuff.

I just I'm producing more than I'm Than I have

time to listen to stuff. Well lately I'm because

of life situations and whatever else I've been

trying to find some some escapes and I Found

the I found part -time nerds full -time dads

with Mike Laidman and Chris Blonsky Mike Laidman

formerly of this weekend geek so very very awesome

to reconnect with Mike I also found through another

buddy of mine, Terry Smith's Music Talks. And

the reason why I'm bringing all this up is to

tie it back into the fact that this reads very

fast. As of this recording, I listened to Terry's

latest episode, episode five, at 5 a .m. I kind

of started and stopped it for about an hour because

I had other things I had to do so I couldn't

actively listen to it. And by six 30, I was done.

It was a 51 minute episode. I was done by six

30 and I'm like, wait, what? Like it just went

so fast. And sometimes that's good. Sometimes

that's bad. And I think here in the writing with

Kyle, that's a good thing that you, you get to

it and you're like, Oh wait, really? It's over.

Come on. I want more. And then you obviously

want to go to the next volume kind of thing.

Um, and I just think that's a testament to Kyle's

writing and. How dedicated he is to telling these

stories in this specific, like this lead up is

amazing. Yeah, it's, I honestly had no idea where

it was going. But nonetheless, it was interesting

to see what they planned on doing with it. And

then having the tie in with Drakken, like I didn't

see that coming at all. What I didn't see coming

was the end of this trade even though I even

though I had read this I cuz when I had first

found out about this series I had read I Had

read up to issue 20 because that's the first

five volumes and then I read this and then I

eventually read through shattered glass Shattered

glass while shattered grid because I had to read

shattered grid And at the end of this, I'm like,

oh my god, he cut Saba's head off. What the...

Don't do that. Lord Drakkon's one evil mofo.

Yeah, he's a dirtbag. What are your other thoughts

after reading these four issues in this trade?

Well, one, I want to know what happened since,

you know, Saba's gone and I... Immensely sad

that he is because I like the character a lot

Sava is kind of like that one. I was always a

fan of the the white ranger. Mm -hmm me too Like

always like just hardcore fan of it and to see

him go out like that is just Hardcore oh, yeah,

it's sad I mean, Drakken basically, because,

okay, so, I know everyone listening to this probably

knows obviously who Sava is. He's the sword,

he's the controller of the Tiger Zord and the

Falcon Zord for the White Ranger. Well, Drakken,

who is an evil version of Tommy Oliver, basically

grabs him by the throat, obviously the hilt of

the sword, and just rips his head off and there's

like green blood coming out it's green energy

but it's like green blood coming out of the hilt

of the saber and just you know that final that

final page is just killer because he drops the

head on the ground and just that image of him

standing there cutting the hole in the wall with

the head on the floor, with that side of his

head on the floor and he picks it up and he's

like, eh, to be continued, bye. And I'm like,

oh my god, you've got to be kidding me. Yeah,

this was awesome. Yeah, they weren't kidding

you. Nope. They murdered him in cold blood. Yep,

they did. As we've mentioned before in our Power

Rangers episodes for this, this also does come

with the backup stories of the Further Adventures

of Squat and Baboo. I respect the creators that

worked on that and I think they did an amazing

job, but I have zero interest in reading the

Further Adventures of Squat and Baboo. Because

I don't want to squat in Babu on the comic. Yeah

kind of Sorry, that was that was the only way

I could say it nicely like it's just I don't

care about it We I know this is not your thing,

but we are an explicit podcast at least this

one still is on the Geekcast Radio Network So

there's so many more fun ways of saying something

that's offensive without actually saying it because

It's it's just that's why I used the squat in

Babu because it made sense At least it's not

a donkey Or a yak or whatever noise you use There

was a goat sound whatever same thing. It was

hilarious not really It was for me. Yeah, I think

I enjoy it. There's There's a whole bunch of

backup covers and very not backup but variant

covers I think one of my favorite covers is done

by Lucas Wernick. Wernick, there we go. Sorry,

Lucas. It's for issue 21. It's a Stanley box

variant where they've got the Rangers and they've

got Stan in Zordon's tube. So it's basically

Stanley is Zordon. I love that. I think that's

cool. Yeah, that was a nice nod. That was so

cool and so fun and so interesting. That's actually

a good nod, actually. Yep, very good nod. So

Rangers, I have something for you. With great

power comes great responsibility. Find my creations,

the Avengers and Spider -Man. And throw a little

mutant madness in there with the X -Men. Volume

6 of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers from Boom Studios

absolutely dug it. Thought it was great. Probably

going to give it a 5 out of 5 on the GCR Universal

scale for me. What about you? What are your final

thoughts after reading this, rating and all that

stuff? I'll give it a 4 .5 only because... One

like just I don't know the monster aspects like

I just don't I was more invested in the the Rangers

themselves instead of the the the fighting s

Like but that was more so because I just wanted

to see what happened I was like, okay enough

of this Like I just I just want to know what's

what the meat of the story is cuz like obviously

Billy Found out some and then you know, obviously

like Salva's doing his own machinations behind

the scenes and then really screws up So it was

it was very invested Yeah, I mean I kind of dig

the monster stuff a little bit in this more so

than I do in the show nowadays It depends on

what it is the whole sheeple thing I think that's

you know again. That was a you know kind of a

commentary on the times Back when this was originally

published kind of thing, but you know It's still

very very cool and There wasn't there has not

been a single thing yet with the original Rangers

that in the art that has Disappointed me. So

that's again why I'm gonna give it a five and

I just love Kyle's writing Because again, he

keeps us on our toes and keeps us guessing for

what's gonna happen next I Could see that yep

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372 and 373 are Star Trek slash Green Lantern

volumes one and two. Very, very cool. Very, very

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