He’s still mad about being replaced by a dragon.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Vol. 2 #2
Hamilton Comics (July, 1995)
“The Yesterday Bomb” WRITER: Jack C. Harris PENCILER: Al Bigley INKER: Sparky Moore COLORIST: Summer Hinton EDITORS: John Clark & Gary Leach CREATIVE CONSULTANT: Cheryl Saban
Zedd uses bombs hidden in monsters again, only this “time” bomb sends the Rangers into the past along with the Thunder Zords. After fending off a T-Rex (seen in a Friday Night Fight), Billy comes up with the idea to use the Thunder Zords’ power to reopen the time rip to send them home just after they left. The problem is they have to leave the Zords behind. Luckily, Zordon followed the theme of this issue and built them to last, even over the millions of years they’ve been buried by eroded sand. The Thunder MegaZord is able to defeat the reconstituted monster and the day is saved again.
What they got right: Someone remembered kids can read a full issue comic. Congrats. (Although Marvel will do it worse than a five-page backup, but we’ll get there eventually.) And it’s a good story. Where Harris may fail at the particulars of the series (speaking of things I’ll be getting to), he tells a good story. I’d say Power Rangers can’t do ancient dinosaur time travel, but Time Force found a way. As Lord Zedd’s plans go, this is a pretty good one. And the theme of building things to last is something we all wish businesses would follow.
What they got wrong: Those particulars I mentioned. Harris still thinks the Rangers need Alpha to teleport them places, which hasn’t been the case since I believe the second episode. At least the characters improved, but the Tigerzord still doesn’t get to go into “humanoid” robot mode. It also might have been neat (although it would have needed a longer story) if they could have met all of the dinosaurs their original powers were based on, and not just the Tyrannosaurus (Red Ranger’s original dinosaur symbol).
Recommendation: A rather good Power Ranger comic that’s worth picking up.
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