BOOM Studios Changing The MMPR Comics Game Again… again…

I don’t know if you’ve heard, but BOOM Studios is doing another major arc in their long-running Mighty Morphin Power Rangers comic book. And when all is said and done, things will never be the same again.

Again.

It seems like every time I write about the current line of Power Rangers comics, there’s almost always a negative slant towards it. I often wonder why I’m devoting much thought to a series that I do not actively follow or pay much attention to. Every once in a while, somebody asks my thoughts on the current comic and my only reply is to say that I don’t read ’em. Outside of the occasional graphic novel – which tend to be hit or miss – I largely ignore a series that left me with a sour taste.

For those wondering, I was on board with the series when it first started up back in 2016 and I thought, for the most part, it was promising enough. A new take on the original Mighty Morphin series, slightly reconfigured to fit in with modern times (but is still in line with the original continuity – or so they say…), and certainly the writing was a step above the Power Ranger comics that had come before, which were largely simplistic and sometimes inconsistent with the material it was adapting.

About eight or nine issues in, we’re dealing with alternate universes and evil versions of characters. Next thing you know, the focus is more on original characters that feel like they were pulled from the worst dreggs of the fanfic litter and less on the title characters – even then, it’s mostly on the Tommy worship because the guy who writes this stuff is good buds with JDF and that’s as far as I’ll go. Then Shattered Grid became a thing; the less said the better. And then we’ve digressed from the OG Rangers to this hodgepodge crossover group taking place in some alternate dimension and that’s when I decided, “I’m out.”

I’ve tried giving the comic a few more tries… but it’s the same rubbish as before. Hey, we’ve jumped ahead to the second season and we did our Ranger swap… LET’S BRING BACK EVIL TOMMY FROM THE DARK DIMENSION. Fuck off. Then they split the series into two… Mighty Morphin kept things on Earth, while Power Rangers followed our Omega Rangers (aka – the other half od OG Rangers who didn’t go that peace conference after all.) We have another game-changing event leading to issue 100.

And now we have yet ANOTHER major comic event coming up posed to change the game once again… and as I’m checking the previews for these things, I wonder whether they’re going to be upfront about this being its own thing rather than try to gaslight everyone into thinking that this is perfectly in line with the TV show canon, which is pretty fucking stupid at this point… because I fail to see how you’ve got this uber-Rita or Mister Vile or whatever she’s called having unlimited power, but she eventually gets defeated and her plot for revenge is having Zedd fall in love with her and marry her?

Like I’ve said, I tried… TRIED to give it another shot, because they got a new writer on board and I’m sure she’s talented and all, but I’ve read a couple issues and I don’t know what new thing she brings to the table. It’s a variation of what I’ve seen before. New threat on the table, more focus on the uninteresting OG characters than the people that this comic is supposed to be about, Drakkon is a thing once again, more shit about the multiverse, who else can we turn into a Ranger and whip up some shit design?

Is it really sad that the only Power Rangers comic that I’m looking forward to is the one that Pinky is writing up? And I’m waiting a whole year for that… and, by the way, if that thing ends up sucking, don’t think I’m going to shy away from that… but yeah, this current crop of Power Ranger comics… happy to see it still going, happy that it’s got a fanbase to support it, but I don’t care for it myself… do I really need to go back to the fanfic well for my PR fix until Cosmic Fury hits? Do I have to do this shit myself even? Let’s hope not…

Don’t get me started on Lord Zedd was done dirty post Z-wave. It’s embarrassing to even contemplate.

Outside The All-Elite Bubble

For anyone curious, I have not watched AEW’s Double Or Nothing PPV from last month (or was it the month before?) I did watch the Forbidden Door PPV… or rather the replay of Forbidden Door. And only because I was told that Tony Khan actually got the rights to Final Countdown for Bryan Danielson to come out to in his match with Okada. I’ll have full thoughts on the show… eventually, but I thought it was just fine.

I’m sure someone is reading this and having a conniption fit over my not glorifying this show as the greatest thing ever… but anyone who knows me knows that I don’t watch New Japan and thus do not have the New Japan hard on that certain folks in the wrestling bubble would have. And also, I have not been keeping up with as much AEW as I would like… life stuff and all that jazz.

I have also not watched a single lick of the new Saturday Night Collision show, thus killing Punk’s brilliant theory on how I’m watching no matter what and I didn’t. I’ve heard good things about the show, but when I heard Collision was only going to be on the TSN streaming app, I said, “Fuck it.” Because the last time I tried the TSN streaming app, it was a total clusterfuck of an app and I gave up on. Now apparently, I’ve heard that TSN did air replays at midnight, but you know what? I ain’t watching shit at midnight on a Saturday night and I haven’t DVR’ed a single episode of the show either, if that’s the case. That’s why I don’t talk about Rampage or those Battle Of The Belt shows; cuz it’s only on the app and that app is fucking horrible.

Even Dynamite… I haven’t been keeping up with all that much. Just didn’t have the time and you know the funny thing, the more time passes, the less inclined you are to go back to something… I’ve been dealing with some family stuff, some personal stuff, and like I said, there are also technical bits I needed to work on. I just didn’t have the time, so Forbidden Door ended up being the first proper AEW show that I’ve seen in a while. Why that show? Because I wanted to give Tony Khan a couple bucks and help him pay Europe for the use of Final Countdown… that was it, really. As soon as I heard he actually got the rights to Final Countdown, I’m like, “Yeah, I gotta get this show.” So, there you go.

I have yet to play the Fight Forever video game… reviews have been generally positive, but I’m debating whether I’m gonna go for the Switch version or go full-blown PC version… also I’m debating going all in now or waiting for a price drop… we’ll see. WWE front… tonight’s Money In The Bank. We’ll see if I can catch, but if not… oh well.

WWF Unforgiven 2000

Yeah, we’re skipping a couple PPVs here. Most notably the King Of The Ring, Fully Loaded, and Summerslam PPVs… because we’ve already touched on those years ago and there’s not much I could add there. But to bring you up to speed, Rock won the title back at KOTR, which was largely a bad show and retained at the much better Fully Loaded show as well as a pretty good Summerslam card. Even so, the quality of these shows do not compare to the excellent cards that opened the year and we’re reaching the point where the cracks are starting to show and maybe this year isn’t looking so hot.

Fortunately, we’ve got the return of Strone Cold Steve Austin to WWF television after a long hiatus due to neck surgery and also who ran him over and such.

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State Of The Blog – July 2023

Happy Canada Day.
This is just a quick update, as I’m presently undergoing some technical issues that’s been slowing things down considerably, but for what it’s worth, the road to Review #1000 is on track. The schedule might be out of whack here and there, but it’s going to happen one way or another.
Aforementioned technical issues has also pretty much cancelled this month’s edition of the DTM-Cast. I’ll see about doing one at the end of the month, but worst case scenario is a new episode is coming around Labor Day weekend in September. I’ve got some stuff recorded, but then shit happens and plans change. Anyway, we’ll see on that front.
In the meantime, there’s 21 Years Ago In TNA that’s going on for a bit, a couple classic WWF 2000 PPV Musings and of all the recent PPV/PLE/POS shows that took place this past month, the only one I’ve seen is the Forbidden Door one last night… so somewhere along the way, there will be musings on that.
That’s about it. Later.