“Yesterday’s” Comic> Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #5 (Marvel)

This cover matches my thoughts about the comic.

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #5

Marvel (March, February, 1996)

Zedd allows a living void to suck in the Power Rangers because it’s lonely. Funny thing is, just moments before the Rangers were mountain climbing in the park (don’t look at me, that’s what the art looks like) giving a talk about how happy they are to be friends that was so forced and saccharine that even I couldn’t stand it. And you know me, I wouldn’t flinch during a Care Bears marathon Also, Kat debuts in this issue…I think. I really don’t want to go back to last issue and check but I’m pretty sure this is Kat’s debut. Not that it matters because nobody except Billy ever gets a chance to have a personality in the Marvel run, if you consider big words and knowing science to be a personality, that is. Oh, right, the story. Ninja MegaFalconZord gets sucked into the vortex creature, Tommy leaves a communicator behind so it won’t be lonely and it lets them go to fight evil and be friends and stuff. Just so weak.

The second story starts with this:

Kat looks like she’s trying to look sexy while choking. Although the worst design goes to Peter, a boy who cries monster but with his longer-than-Tommy’s hair he looks more like a short adult. I think we all know this story by now. He tricks the Rangers (I’m not sure if he KNOWS they’re the Power Rangers or not) and then a real monster shows up, naturally looking like a wolf. (Admittedly for this art style it’s not a bad design.) Like Marvel seems to do, he grows giant-sized on his own, Rangers form the MegaZord (props for both stories not drawing the NINJA MegaZord as the SHOGUN version), and destroy the monster without the giant sword. Instead Billy suggests that they use sound waves due to canine’s sensitive hearing. Peter learns his lesson and the story is still lame.

The more I read Marvel’s stories the more I wish Hamilton kept the license. Sure, only one of their writers really understood how to write a proper Power Rangers story but at least they were decent stories and even the worst of their art was better than Marvel’s best thus far. I’m telling you, avoid this run. Which I probably shouldn’t say since I’m sure to try to sell them when I’m done with this series but as a proper critic what else can I say?