Godzilla vs. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers II

Godzilla vs. Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

by Cullen Bunn, Baldemar Rivas (illustrator)

The King of the Monsters and the defenders of Earth take on villains from both their worlds in this crossover clash for the ages!

Worlds collide a second time as everyone’s favorite kaiju meets up with Earth’s mightiest warriors once again to take on the most fearsome monsters from both sides of the multiverse, with Rita Repulsa egging them on! This one has it all: SpaceGodzilla! Clawhammer! Tentacreep! Rita Repulsa and Astronema have caught the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and Godzilla in a sprawling space-time scheme that targets alternate versions of the Power Rangers. If our Rangers and Godzilla want to protect themselves and the multiverse they're going to have to take on their most dangerous foe yet, Rita’s secret weapon – The Psycho Rangers!

Writer Cullen Bunn and artist Baldemar Rivas team up for an all-new, incredible cosmic adventure that has to be read to be believed!

Collects the five-issue crossover event.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Tv, Science Fiction

128 pages, Paperback

First published February 4, 2025

About the author

Cullen grew up in rural North Carolina, but now lives in the St. Louis area with his wife Cindy and his son Jackson. His noir/horror comic (and first collaboration with Brian Hurtt), The Damned, was published in 2007 by Oni Press. The follow-up, The Damned: Prodigal Sons, was released in 2008. In addition to The Sixth Gun, his current projects include Crooked Hills, a middle reader horror prose series from Evileye Books; The Tooth, an original graphic novel from Oni Press; and various work for Marvel and DC. Somewhere along the way, Cullen founded Undaunted Press and edited the critically acclaimed small press horror magazine, Whispers from the Shattered Forum.

All writers must pay their dues, and Cullen has worked various odd jobs, including Alien Autopsy Specialist, Rodeo Clown, Professional Wrestler Manager, and Sasquatch Wrangler.

And, yes, he has fought for his life against mountain lions and he did perform on stage as the World's Youngest Hypnotist. Buy him a drink sometime, and he'll tell you all about it.

Visit his website at www.cullenbunn.com.

Reviews

[Khurram · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fast-paced book of muliversal monster mayhem. This book has good artwork and a bit of a plot, but it is all about the action really. It is the B action movie formula of going from fight to fight.

The White Ranger is on the run through the Multiverse. With Rita and Godzilla following closely behind. Unfortunately, so far everywhere he has arrived, it has ended up destroyed, and the Power Ranger of that world captured. Who ate Rita's new powerful allies? Can the White Ranger find dome allies of his own? Who side will Godzilla take?

This book could have been a lot better if some more details were filled in in the action/fights scenes. There were many panels I did not know who was hitting Who and which side was winning. The book follows the usual Power Ranger formula, so any fan can guess how it ends. However, it is still entertaining. I was also glad that the book contained a bit more of Godzilla's lore, monsters, and series as well. The book finishes with a varient covers gallery.

[Adam Martin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not as good as the first volume but still fun

[NerdyReader · Rating 4 out of 5]

The art could have been a little more up to par (some panels it was hard to tell what was happening). BUT overall, a fun read if you're a gan of either or both!

[Wolverinefactor · Rating 2 out of 5]

Fun story but my god the art is hideous. Everything looks like it’s was taken with Vaseline on the lens. It’s smeared and goopy, hard to see any details because they literally don’t exist. Rivas is an artist I’ll be avoiding like the plague

* I know I have a Batman beyond in my TBR with his art I’m praying it’s better….

[Dan · Rating 4 out of 5]

My thanks to NetGalley and IDW Publishing for an advance copy of this universes colliding crossover bringing together two of the most powerful Japanese exports in entertainment in one graphic novel.

I first discovered the power of Godzilla when I came home early and was flipping the channels on television, waiting for my cartoons to start. Channel 9 in New York was in the midst of its Monster Week and I came across my first taste of Kaiju, a flavor that I have never gotten tired of. I have no memory which one. Godzilla was fighting, and crushing tanks and cities. That was more than enough. My brother was the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers fan. I had the idea from Battle of the Planets and Voltron cartoons, and Shogun Warriors toys when I was young, but he was the one that discovered them, and was soon hooked. I knew they were edited shows from Japan, but still there was something about the show that was kind of addicting. That one would keep coming back to, even after flipping away. Never would I have thought that these two tastes would come together, legally that must have been a nightmare. Nor that they would be having a second team-up and yet they have and the consequences of their actions might end everything in Godzilla Vs. The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers II written by Cullen Bunn with art by Baldemar Rivas.

The book starts with a bang from the very first panel. The White Ranger has found himself on an Earth that looks much like his own, except it is not. The city around him has been destroyed, but not by the Ranger's usual foes, but by the King of all Monsters Godzilla. The White Ranger has found himself in a universe not his own. Before things get hot between them, they are attacked from all sides by familiar creatures determined to bring the Ranger down. Rita Repulsa and Astronema have created a very wicked plan, a plan to capture the Rangers of all the multiverse, and use their power to control everything or destroy it. Rescuing the trapped Rangers from different worlds is only one of the tasks set before our heroes, with a larger task being how to deal with an angry Godzilla. Joined by allies, and sometime enemies Godzilla and Power Rangers fight to free the entire multiverse from falling into darkness.

The story hits hard and keeps going. Full disclosure, this is the section adventure and I must admit I did miss the first one, so much might be explained in the first collection. That said I had no problem following along and picking up the story. The idea of a multiverse is a little played, but works here as one can get different forms of Kaiju and different rangers. The stakes slowly grow with the addition of a Godzilla ally, a character that makes perfect sense for the story. There are a lot of throwbacks and familiar characters, some that might take a few seconds to remember, but that is part of the fun. The art is big, brassy, bold and boomy, with lots of fights, lots of destruction, and a lot of fun backgrounds. This must have been a lot of fun to illustrate. Though drawing all those Rangers must have been tiring. The art really works well here, and complements the story well.

For fans of both this will be a lot of fun. Readers of the first book will have a better grasp of what is going on, but like I said I caught up pretty quickly. Good story + great art = lots of fun. Go Go Godzilla.

[Chris Lemmerman · Rating 3 out of 5]

The Power Rangers start hopping universes as Rita tries to destroy them all across space and time, and Godzilla's along for the ride.

If you've read the TMNT/Power Rangers crossovers, you've read this. It's the same idea (sans dimension hopping) as that, and that one did it better. I like the idea, but it doesn't feel very adventurous at all. The best part for me was Rita and Astronema's constant bitching at each other, which was very funny, but Astronema didn't even need to be there aside from to introduce the Psycho Rangers.

The artwork's all over the place as well. Rivas tries to portray action by blurring limbs and stretching things out, and it doesn't work the way I think they want it to. Sometimes it's hard to tell who or what is who or what.

You can probably add another half star if you're more than passingly acquainted with Godzilla and his friends/foes than I am. Aside from the big guy and Mothra, I had like, no idea who anyone was, and while it doesn't really matter to the grand scheme of things, a little more explanation might have made me care a bit more.

[Anthony Wendel · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book is the sequel to the previous crossover between Godzilla and the Power Rangers. Frankly, I think they should have just stopped with the first one. The book itself is fun enough, especially with the appearance of Jet Jaquar but everything else just feels off. The story uses too many multiverse Power Rangers to the point Godzilla feels like a side character in the book. The art is inconsistance and feels rushed at times to the point there was one panel I stared at for almost five minutes trying to figure out what action was taking place. This volume really doesn't make me hope for a third crossover between Godzilla and the Power Rangers.

[Ben A · Rating 4 out of 5]

In my review of the original crossover, I'd written that it starts on page one and you're already out of breath and that in a sequel, I might of liked to see a little bit of a slower pace. That didn't happen. It was once again a huge amount of story tightly jammed into a smaller package. Oh, it was super fun and the ideas and depth of the worlds we played in were excellent but it felt a little too much like a race sometimes. I really enjoyed the sprint to the end though.

Special Thanks to IDW Publishing and Netgalley for the digital ARC. This was given to me for an honest review.

[Cuchillo Lope · Rating 4 out of 5]

I do agree with other criticisms that it is a bit rushed and the art is a little muddy at times, but I was grinning like an idiot the whole time. I call this kind of crossover stuff “toybox crossovers” because it feels like when I was a kid and made my Godzilla toys fight my Power Rangers. It definitely scratches that itch of nostalgic fun, even with its cons. Plus, it had my baby boy Jet Jaguar! Fun nonsense.

[Joseph · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun story overall with some cool moments for fans but the artwork is really rough. The artist seemingly tried to make it more stylized with the fighting scenes but ultimately it felt rushed, lacking detail, very messy and iconic weapons like Saba look like generic pirate swords.

[Scott A. Love · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you like part one, you'll like this. It takes the concept and pushes it to crazy places in the most fun way.

[Elle · Rating 3 out of 5]

(DNF - pg 51 book expired)

[Brandt Anderson · Rating 2 out of 5]

Unfortunately, the art was bad in this one.

[Mark NP · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Power Rangers merge with Kaiju to battle the Psycho Rangers and their own Kaiju counterparts. Another fun installment of the multiversal Godzilla crossover saga. Well done!

[Chris · Rating 3 out of 5]

Step down from first volume as this went into the WEIRD lore of Godzilla. All his monster foes have crazy backstories like mothra having mini pixie magic twins? Left it open for a third volume.

[Mutant Mike · Rating 1 out of 5]

You dig on multiverses? Yeah, I’m kind of sick of them too. There’s just way too much going on here—too many concepts—and it desperately needed a few more issues to give the story some breathing room. While the previous entry at least stuck to the 'Mighty Morphin' cast, this one crams in a ton of later-season fan service, which didn’t do much for me. I also thought the art, while not bad, was a bit of a downgrade from Freddie Williams' pencils in the first one. This time around, it feels more manga-inspired, with plenty of action lines and rubbery, dynamic poses, which I guess suits the breakneck pacing. The White Ranger flat-out does the Naruto run in one panel.

Edit: I just realized that by sheer coincidence I read this on Godzilla Day; a holiday I didn't know existed until just now.