So big news here; to reflect the change in cast, Kimberly is replaced with Kat in the Pink suit… and this is done by taking the totally generic looking Kimberly character in the comics and painting her hair blonde. Voila! New Pink Ranger! Clearly, these colorists have learned their lessons from the ninja swapping trick of Mortal Kombat exceptionally well, but I digress.
Sadly, I only wish I were joking because the Rangers are such one-note characters (even more so than on the television show, which may shock some folks) that if you had kept Kim in there, it wouldn’t have made much of a difference in the long run. This is quite telling when you open up the book and see the first page, where you see Kim’s head recolored as blond.
In any event, the first story has the Rangers fighting Pudgy Pig and that’s it. It’s just straight up ten pages of straight up Ranger action with some Ninjazords tossed in for good measure. For what it’s worth, it’s an accurate depiction of Pudgy Pig. Marvel might recycle some old monsters a couple times, but at the very least, they do them justice, unlike the Saga series by Hamilton.
The second story, also the second story in the series to boast the distinction of being drawn by legendary illustrator Steve Dikto, features a generic pimply-faced nerd getting picked on and accepts an offer by Rita to be made big and strong, only to be turned into a monster instead. The tale is nothing special, but unlike Dikto’s first Rangers story, the artwork here is much better; less overly cartoonish and more semi-realistic.
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