Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

Kyle Higgins is hands down one of my favorite authors and I am SO onboard for this reboot. He nails the characters while also improving on them. Yes please, more of this!

Probably more of a 3.5 but willingly rounded up for nostalgia.

Look, I grew up with Power Rangers. I mean, Mighty Morphin was one of my staple shows as a kid. The funny thing is, though, I took a long break until Dino Charge came out, because it saw the return of the original sixth ranger. (That restarted my love for all things Power Ranger and I have now bought many, many seasons on dvd.)

Fast forward quite a few years and this comic confirmed what I discovered upon rewatching the first two seasons of Mighty Morphin: Tommy Oliver is not a team player. Oh my gosh, I grew to hate him in the series and having such a focus on him in the comic was not fun for me. (Hopefully, once his head gets on straight, it will quit being the Tommy Oliver show, but I don't hold out a lot of hope for that.)

I do like that there is some added depth that the show couldn't/didn't delve into. In this first omnibus, we're dealing with Tommy and his mental instability from being controlled by Rita, but there's also some distrust headed his way from Zack, Billy feeling out of place in a team of fighters (let's just ignore the show and how the super nerd Billy suddenly became as good a fighter as martial arts instructor Jason) and the whole problem between Jason and Tommy with the later not listening to the former.

(If Jason isn't the best red ranger, tell me who is. He is everything a leader should be, and I still say that.) (Note: I firmly believe he is the best red ranger, but he is not my personal favorite. Mostly because my personal favorite red rangers aren't the best leader material.)(And they're kind of goofy.)

I don't like the forcing of the Kim/Tommy thing, but I do like that she is very chill about it - as opposed to her show counterpart. Trini is as awesome as she always was. And that's all I have to say about our yellow ranger.

Not a bad first outing and I do hope that each of the other characters will get a chance to shine. (And that Zack will get some much needed character development.)