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Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (BOOM! Studios)
Power Rangers, Vol. 2
In order to save the universe, the new Power Rangers team must once again turn to their greatest enemy - Lord Drakkon - but after their shocking discovery, they need him more than ever!
LORD DRAKKON - FRIEND OR FOE? In order to save the universe, the new Power Rangers team must once again turn to their greatest enemy - Lord Drakkon - but after their shocking discovery, they need him more than ever. But a new enemy is rising, one tied to the secret history of the Power Rangers, and it will take every member of this new team to defeat them. But is Lord Drakkon ready to betray the New Power Rangers or is he truly on a path to redemption? Superstar writer Ryan Parrott (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) and fan favorite artist Francesco Mortarino (Firefly: Bad Company) continue the UNLIMITED POWER era, as the Power Rangers continue their new mission...and Drakkon takes the next step towards his secret goal. Collects Power Rangers #5-8.
LORD DRAKKON - FRIEND OR FOE? In order to save the universe, the new Power Rangers team must once again turn to their greatest enemy - Lord Drakkon - but after their shocking discovery, they need him more than ever. But a new enemy is rising, one tied to the secret history of the Power Rangers, and it will take every member of this new team to defeat them. But is Lord Drakkon ready to betray the New Power Rangers or is he truly on a path to redemption? Superstar writer Ryan Parrott (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) and fan favorite artist Francesco Mortarino (Firefly: Bad Company) continue the UNLIMITED POWER era, as the Power Rangers continue their new mission...and Drakkon takes the next step towards his secret goal. Collects Power Rangers #5-8.
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First published August 24, 2021
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June 7, 2023
If I was waiting for Ryan Parrott to start making bad Power Rangers comics then I’d be very disappointed right now. This book was close to perfect in the way it entertained me and kept my attention. The dynamic with the team getting along but also not trusting Drakkon is so fascinating. You don’t know if he’s going to become the next Blue Omega Ranger or if he’s actually just working a plot with former allies to eventually turn against this team and I love it! The way this book ties into the other series still is very, very good. The characters here struggling with saving an entire species and dealing with moral quandaries has me thinking more about this book than I probably should be. The threat facing this team is very huge and very real to them and as a villain, the execution of writing and art play so well together. And as per usual, Ryan Parrott throws in a shocking twist at the end of this volume that has me craving more PR comics. Reading this with a group of friends is awesome and I love talking about these books. But dang it, do I really just want to read all of these right now!
June 12, 2023
Having the rangers traveling the galaxy with the psycho Drakkon is a ton of fun.
The first half is them trying to fix their ship and it has a classic space western feel to it. But we learn about a hunter of the power rangers, what happened to her family as a child, and why she hates them so much. This is a solid fun story but it's the second half that really shines. The Rangers work together to try and save a race of aliens when the Empyreal comes down to rid their race from their planet. It's a intense battle, way more cooler and screwed up than I thought Power Rangers was honestly capable of.
This is easily one of the best if not best book in the series so far for me. A 5 out of 5.
The first half is them trying to fix their ship and it has a classic space western feel to it. But we learn about a hunter of the power rangers, what happened to her family as a child, and why she hates them so much. This is a solid fun story but it's the second half that really shines. The Rangers work together to try and save a race of aliens when the Empyreal comes down to rid their race from their planet. It's a intense battle, way more cooler and screwed up than I thought Power Rangers was honestly capable of.
This is easily one of the best if not best book in the series so far for me. A 5 out of 5.
October 28, 2025
Man, what a wild ride. Excellent pacing, character interactions, settings, and action carry this volume from beginning to end. This has some Star Wars vibes in the way the world and its inhabitants are presented. Trini kicks butt in this one and Astronema is such a fun and intriguing character. I hope that we see more of here.
May 13, 2022
Power Rangers does Firefly's the Train Job, in a way. Also, Astronema!!!
August 13, 2021
The hunt for the Empyreals and a way to defeat them leads Jason, Zack, Trini, and Drakkon to Omega - and into the path of two very familiar faces. What are Astronema and Ecliptor doing there, and are they friend, or foe?
Given that Power Rangers has been running for a very long time, it's at its best when it draws on that long legacy to enhance its storytelling. Given that the TV series mostly made it up as it went along, being able to have these stories told with hindsight shaping them makes things even better, so seeing the Omega Rangers run into Astronema and Ecliptor really made me smile. The pair enhance the plot without derailing it (they get their own PR Unlimited one-shot for that instead), and it gives me hope that Ryan Parrott has more continuity nods up his sleeve too. (The fact that I'd watched Power Rangers In Space for the first time recently when these issues came out didn't hurt either).
The Empyreal threat continues to grow, to the point that I genuinely have no idea how the Rangers are going to get out of this. I mentioned in my review for Mighty Morphin that the total difference in scope between the two series works really well, and it definitely shines here - the universe-ending threat against three (and a half, if you count Drakkon) Rangers really drives home the impossibility of the situation.
Francesco Mortarino continues on art too. The book is mounting in colourists, probably so that Mortarino can pencil so many issues without a break, but it keeps a consistent visual style throughout, so whatever these guys are doing, it's working.
Power Rangers is a perfect counterpoint to Mighty Morphin, and the pair continue to justify having two Ranger series on the stands. They're both extremely different, but they're both extremely good - and if you're a fan of Power Rangers In Space (and why wouldn't you be?) this volume will be an extra treat too.
Given that Power Rangers has been running for a very long time, it's at its best when it draws on that long legacy to enhance its storytelling. Given that the TV series mostly made it up as it went along, being able to have these stories told with hindsight shaping them makes things even better, so seeing the Omega Rangers run into Astronema and Ecliptor really made me smile. The pair enhance the plot without derailing it (they get their own PR Unlimited one-shot for that instead), and it gives me hope that Ryan Parrott has more continuity nods up his sleeve too. (The fact that I'd watched Power Rangers In Space for the first time recently when these issues came out didn't hurt either).
The Empyreal threat continues to grow, to the point that I genuinely have no idea how the Rangers are going to get out of this. I mentioned in my review for Mighty Morphin that the total difference in scope between the two series works really well, and it definitely shines here - the universe-ending threat against three (and a half, if you count Drakkon) Rangers really drives home the impossibility of the situation.
Francesco Mortarino continues on art too. The book is mounting in colourists, probably so that Mortarino can pencil so many issues without a break, but it keeps a consistent visual style throughout, so whatever these guys are doing, it's working.
Power Rangers is a perfect counterpoint to Mighty Morphin, and the pair continue to justify having two Ranger series on the stands. They're both extremely different, but they're both extremely good - and if you're a fan of Power Rangers In Space (and why wouldn't you be?) this volume will be an extra treat too.
January 16, 2024
So this is a weird thing to snapshot in a weird place, but I wanted to jot dot some context for my feelings before entering into my review proper on this. Apologies in advance.
I'm sitting here at home right now will my toddler naps in the next room. One of my dogs in sleeping over on the couch but has been perking up every time I get up and move around. Missing is her brother and my wife, who are currently at the emergency vet hospital a few miles away. She took our dog Woody in after 4-5 days have gone by without him eating. He's drinking water sporadically, but we knew these symptoms. He's a 12-yo chiweenie (just celebrated his birthday about a week ago) and we've had him and his sister River since they were 8-12 weeks old. They are our fur babies and an integral, albeit many times annoying, element of our family. We've also been through an absurd number of health issues with them -- both are on hypoallergenic food after weeks and weeks of traumatic vet visits with GI issues during their first year of life, and both have minor liver issues and massive dental issues (River is missing a few front teeth and looks like a hockey player). River also has some supposedly benign growths on her, but otherwise is generally in better health. Woody's liver issues have him on a protective supplement that's been challenging to find affordably since even before COVID. They both tend to get into garbage and food that they shouldn't no matter how hard we try to keep them from it, and Woody amassed enough in his small intestine as a puppy that we had to have an emergency surgery performed on him where he also lost 2 feet of intestine due to blood loss to that area. As such, we've felt like he's been living on bonus time for most of his life -- that surgery was rough, emotionally and financially, but he recovered. He continues to have episodes where he swallows enough hair and detritus that every 3-9 months, he vomits up a giant mass of gross stuff and sometimes ends up in isolation to prevent him from vomiting all over our room at night (they both sleep with us). Woody also had a toe amputated when a growth emerged in his nail bed around the first few months of when Enzo was born (it later turned out to be a benign growth), and he's had really bad back issues due to calcifications that grow in/around his spine, so about once a year, typically as the weather gets colder, he's had windows where he loses rear mobility for a 1-3 week stretch. Now, with the removed toe, he has symptoms of arthritis, meaning that sometimes he can't jump or run despite that not typically stopping him from trying. He's tough, stubborn, and loud, but these last few days, he's mostly been unusually quiet save for the gurgling of his tummy.
Currently, the vet has identified a foreign mass lower in his intestines, along with a tumor on his spleen and stones in his bladder. Their initial quote for surgery was $10-12k, with a cheaper option at around $5.5k. Our bigger concern is whether he'll recover fully or not, so we're trying to work through less invasive options coupled with the possibility of putting him down. It's a horrible situation and one I think my wife and I don't really know how to process emotionally, so I've been engaging with avoidance behaviors and reading, engaging with my students, and writing all this in an inappropriate place while my son sleeps.
We love Woody, and I just wanted to put that somewhere. I'd say it connects to Power Ranges in some weird way because the comics are all about family and I specifically started reading them as a way to distantly grieve the death of Jason David Frank, so I think it's weirdly appropriate that I'd be engaging in some grieving for my first dog as an adult by reading this very same comic.
I don't have a ton to say about this volume as a result beyond -- the art is solid, the story feels like it has sufficient momentum despite the first two issues really taking a side trip to introduce what, so far, seem like some inconsequential new side characters (mostly because they disappear for the final two issues), and I find this really hard to track given the story is, even in small ways, split across Mighty Morphin' and Power Rangers as co-existing narratives. The intro of the big bad to this series felt throwaway to me as a result, because I just didn't feel their presence in this issue despite their appearing in the co-existing Mighty Morphin' volume. Maybe just a downside of reading these in collected volumes?
I'm sitting here at home right now will my toddler naps in the next room. One of my dogs in sleeping over on the couch but has been perking up every time I get up and move around. Missing is her brother and my wife, who are currently at the emergency vet hospital a few miles away. She took our dog Woody in after 4-5 days have gone by without him eating. He's drinking water sporadically, but we knew these symptoms. He's a 12-yo chiweenie (just celebrated his birthday about a week ago) and we've had him and his sister River since they were 8-12 weeks old. They are our fur babies and an integral, albeit many times annoying, element of our family. We've also been through an absurd number of health issues with them -- both are on hypoallergenic food after weeks and weeks of traumatic vet visits with GI issues during their first year of life, and both have minor liver issues and massive dental issues (River is missing a few front teeth and looks like a hockey player). River also has some supposedly benign growths on her, but otherwise is generally in better health. Woody's liver issues have him on a protective supplement that's been challenging to find affordably since even before COVID. They both tend to get into garbage and food that they shouldn't no matter how hard we try to keep them from it, and Woody amassed enough in his small intestine as a puppy that we had to have an emergency surgery performed on him where he also lost 2 feet of intestine due to blood loss to that area. As such, we've felt like he's been living on bonus time for most of his life -- that surgery was rough, emotionally and financially, but he recovered. He continues to have episodes where he swallows enough hair and detritus that every 3-9 months, he vomits up a giant mass of gross stuff and sometimes ends up in isolation to prevent him from vomiting all over our room at night (they both sleep with us). Woody also had a toe amputated when a growth emerged in his nail bed around the first few months of when Enzo was born (it later turned out to be a benign growth), and he's had really bad back issues due to calcifications that grow in/around his spine, so about once a year, typically as the weather gets colder, he's had windows where he loses rear mobility for a 1-3 week stretch. Now, with the removed toe, he has symptoms of arthritis, meaning that sometimes he can't jump or run despite that not typically stopping him from trying. He's tough, stubborn, and loud, but these last few days, he's mostly been unusually quiet save for the gurgling of his tummy.
Currently, the vet has identified a foreign mass lower in his intestines, along with a tumor on his spleen and stones in his bladder. Their initial quote for surgery was $10-12k, with a cheaper option at around $5.5k. Our bigger concern is whether he'll recover fully or not, so we're trying to work through less invasive options coupled with the possibility of putting him down. It's a horrible situation and one I think my wife and I don't really know how to process emotionally, so I've been engaging with avoidance behaviors and reading, engaging with my students, and writing all this in an inappropriate place while my son sleeps.
We love Woody, and I just wanted to put that somewhere. I'd say it connects to Power Ranges in some weird way because the comics are all about family and I specifically started reading them as a way to distantly grieve the death of Jason David Frank, so I think it's weirdly appropriate that I'd be engaging in some grieving for my first dog as an adult by reading this very same comic.
I don't have a ton to say about this volume as a result beyond -- the art is solid, the story feels like it has sufficient momentum despite the first two issues really taking a side trip to introduce what, so far, seem like some inconsequential new side characters (mostly because they disappear for the final two issues), and I find this really hard to track given the story is, even in small ways, split across Mighty Morphin' and Power Rangers as co-existing narratives. The intro of the big bad to this series felt throwaway to me as a result, because I just didn't feel their presence in this issue despite their appearing in the co-existing Mighty Morphin' volume. Maybe just a downside of reading these in collected volumes?
December 22, 2021
I really like that the Omega rangers are staying in space. We get to see some of the Power Rangers characters that are more otherworldly. Astronema! SPD! Ecliptor! Jason and Zack have awesome disguise outfits on Onyx. The heist is fun. I'm kind of into Astronema and Jason together. Trini is the moral center of their group. There's some great moral dilemmas in this volume. Do you save a planet that has done bad as a whole, but is made up of individuals? Each character has their own perspective and opinion. The complexities are shown well.
I give this volume a 5/5. I love that these stories are not connected to the original tv show. Ryan has diverged us from the intended timeline and it's great. It's exciting that I don't know where this is going. The whole multiverse awaits.
I give this volume a 5/5. I love that these stories are not connected to the original tv show. Ryan has diverged us from the intended timeline and it's great. It's exciting that I don't know where this is going. The whole multiverse awaits.
March 5, 2024
The storytelling here is a lot worse than in previous volumes. Not sure if I will continue past this one, or if I'm getting burned out. The new character designs are really ugly and the theme is antithetical to previous volumes: where Power Rangers comics have thus far been about redemption and responsibility and optimism, this "Power Rangers" series seems to be about contempt for authority and "doing the wrong thing for the right reasons"--which I appreciate nowhere near as much. I feel like this has stopped being escapist children's media and turned into some sort of edgy fanfiction written for an entirely different audience; that is, not written for me.
May 5, 2025
Occasionally, the original television series would hint at events of a cosmic scale, but the results where always terribly disappointing. Now we have Rangers fighting Galactus like threats in space. This series continues to maintain a very tight focus on a small cast as things scale up to new heights. Characters from later seasons/series are brought in without distracting from the core team. The art remains surprisingly consistent, more so than most big two books.
April 29, 2022
This is the second volume of Power Rangers and finds the Omega Rangers continuing their fight to find the Yellow Morphin Master and hopefully save the universe from the Empyreals. They start to realize who is behind it as they also hope that Lord Drakkon won't betray them. Another fantastic volume!
December 30, 2022
Que esta pasando, los malos se vuelven buenos y los buenos malos????
September 13, 2025
cómo nos gusta un buen conflicto moral en el espacio
June 1, 2023
I’m continuing my trek through this series that I’m not really enjoying, but am on the hook because I’m a 30-year Ranger fan.
This second volume is just as uninteresting as volume one. However, I’m holding out for better things. Perhaps it’ll happen in volume three.
This second volume is just as uninteresting as volume one. However, I’m holding out for better things. Perhaps it’ll happen in volume three.
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