At this point the Rangers considered early retirement.
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #3
Hamilton Comics (August, 1995)
ARTIST: Sparky Moore COLORIST: Summer Hinton EDITORS: John Clark & Gary Leach “Bad Attitudes” WRITER: Michael T. Gilbert “Gray Skies” WRITER: Mat Gertler
In the first story, Zedd wants to launch a Zord of his own but he wants the Rangers out of the way first. Squatt suggests the “tude-tick” which will turn the Rangers bad. In fact, they turn out so bad that Zordon strips them of their powers until Alpha finds it among their costumes. They heal the Rangers, and since they’re now good again they easily take out the Octozord. The whole “Rangers turned evil” thing was done better in the first season. Plus the Rangers run around Angel Grove without their helmets while “evil” and thus blow their whole identity. I think is my least favorite of the Hamilton stories not only for the continuity errors but because it’s not that great a story.
The second one is a bit better, but not without its missteps. Goldar suggests using the aerophants, a flood of tiny, winged elephants, to cause chaos in Angel Grove. The Rangers can’t deal with so many until they get the idea to use bats (flying rodents and you know elephants are supposed to hate mice), which chases the little buggers out of the city…and to some other city to cause chaos. Maybe they’ll show up in Crossworld City and be the VR Troopers’ problem? Also, why did the Rangers thing using the Zords would help? Did the artist just want to draw the ThunderZords some more? This is slightly better than the first story but not much.
While the other issues have had something going for them, this one really doesn’t. I can’t recommend it, even to Ranger fans. Even if you ignore the fan-nitpicks what you have left are just not that good.
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