The Power Rangers comic has been a revelation for fans of the classic Mighty Morphin Power Rangers series. And at SDCC, the team behind the comic got to talk about their take on the franchise, as well as what Boom Studios has allowed them to do:
“BOOM! really gave us the time and attention to care, and I think you can see that in the product,” Jason Bischoff shared. “They’re amazing. They give it their all.”
“The idea behind the book is that it’s kind of our own thing. It’s the Mighty Morphin Rangers we all know and love, but I wanted to make it a more modern series,” writer Kyle Higgins explained. “In comics, we don’t have [the limitations of the show]… I didn’t want to write the Rangers as I remembered them; I wanted to write the Rangers as they made me feel when I was eight.”
“Power Rangers to me has always been about inclusion,” he said. “Exploring that through the lens of a new Ranger joining the team let me explore that without retelling an origin story.”
“The cool thing about this book and about the property in general is it’s a team book, and what interests me about a group of friends,” he shared. “It’s just playing off of those iteration, and paring up unlikely Rangers… that’s the stuff that I like to do. I’ve described it to people like we’re doing ‘Archie’ with superpowers.”
“It allows for some quiet, intimate moments,” he added.
You can read more from the panel here.
