The second issue of this second miniseries from Hamilton Comics is the only issue in this run to feature one full-length story as opposed to being split into two stories. Unfortunately, even in this format, “The Yesterday Bomb” is a story that still feels rushed.
The plot of the book is fairly straightforward; Lord Zedd concocts a bomb that sends the Power Rangers and their Thunderzords back to the age of the dinosaurs and now they have to find a way to make it back and stop Zedd’s evil robot to wrecking havoc on the city. In theory, it’s not a particularly bad story and does have the makings of something that could’ve been spread out over a couple issues. In execution, the plot does come off as feeling a bit rushed and while I don’t care for the decompressed style of storytelling in comics that span several issues, there are times where I wished they had turned this into a two-part story.
Al Bigley returns for penciling duties while Sparky Moore handles the inking. I honestly wished that it were the other way around simply because Moore is the better of the two artists. A lot of the complaints that I’ve had with Bigley’s past work in these books are prevelant here; everything comes across as hastily drawn and a bit of a mess. Somehow, the art in this issue might actually be worse than Bigley’s previous outings, with one frame in particular depicting Billy as an older gentleman rather than a smart looking teen. I want to say that this book either predicted or inspired the means by which to write off David Yost from the series in the future, but that’d be giving this book too much credit. But, yeah, the art here is pretty bad; quite possibly the worst I’ve seen.
All in all, The Yesterday Bomb is a neat premise on paper, but the execution leaves much to be desired.
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