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no more .pdf comics

it is 2025 and fascism rules america

no one has time to extract all the images and convert your bullshit stupid idiot .pdf file to a .cbr file. my goodness.

we used to have a country

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Honestly the Power Rangers comics are in this fascinating place where they are now a long-running series, based on one of the longest-running western (sort of) superhero shows ever made.

So reading them is sometimes like,

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I'm sure there's some legal bullshit reason for why none of the Power Rangers in the comics look like their real life counterparts, but uh

Billy: Scholarship Edition

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I will genuinely check it out!!

Yeah sex is OK but have you ever made it through a shit comic book run just to see the quality skyrocket the second a new writer slides in?

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Rob Liefeld has genuinely been such a barrier for me getting into the broad X-Men franchise lol.

Yeah sex is OK but have you ever made it through a shit comic book run just to see the quality skyrocket the second a new writer slides in?

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My boyfriend posted his, so I figure I could post the collab we did together!!

Leo was done by @mubbyjo

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Power Rangers Recharged vol. 2

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Another of the many improvements in the Power Rangers comics over the show:

One thing I hate about MMPR is that, OK, after Lord Zedd puts Rita Repulsa in a jar and punts her off into space, she returns, love potions him and marries him. Then they just regurgitate unfunny "I hate my husband/wife" jokes for a season.

In the comic she shows up, rips his face off, basically kicks him off the moon, and resumes her role as the series primary antagonist.

10/10 no notes.

Power Rangers Recharged vol. 1

I love how Rita has had a DC villainess redemption arc dangled in front of her repeatedly, and every time she's like no I fucking love being evil actually. Honestly it's as fun to watch as prequels Palpatine.

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Not to be super annoying about a character only I like but

Finster wearing a lot of jewelry matters to me and I'm glad at least one of his earrings survived his Dan Mora redesign, even if it has shrunk a lot.

If you watch the show, his glasses actually connect to his earrings behind his ears. I've always thought that someone asked themselves, OK, how would a weird fairy leprechaun dog tree boy with big puppy elf ears wear glasses? And then, how would he, as someone obsessed with art, make that fashion?

I think because his design is really hard to understand because the toku costume doesn't communicate fur well, artists opt to simplify and streamline him a lot. imo it's a consequence of using hard plastics when what they're attempting to convey is a terrier face. Especially in how his 'fur' forms these big fluffy eyebrows.

And a lot of his more interesting design elements, like big overdesigned glasses-earrings, end up getting abandoned for the sake of his silhouette.

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Power Rangers Recharged vol. 1

I love this dumb petty little asshole so much

How dare you get in my spaaace reeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

he's the ideal man

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I am kind of annoyed that

1. They decided to redesign Rita Repulsa, and

2. Dan Mora took her ridiculous pointy knife tits away.

They were her best feature.

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Yeah sex is OK but have you ever made it through a shit comic book run just to see the quality skyrocket the second a new writer slides in?

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So Kimberly and Matt is imo one of the more interesting relationships in superhero comics not because they have any romantic chemistry or are even together, but because Matt was originally Zack and Trini's friend. Zack and Trini kinda hated Kimberly (she had a very rough Karen Moment at Zack's workplace), and tolerated her because of their friendship with Matt. Then her becoming part of the Power Rangers instead of Matt isolated him from his friends and led to him being left behind.

He spirals and, after being abducted by aylmaos, ends up constructing a weird conspiracy that puts him at the center of all the Ranger phenomena, when he's actually just consistently in the wrong place at the wrong time, due to his relationship with Kimberly. And finally, because the Rangers have a secret identity clause on their powers, they kind of just let him suffer with it.

Billy orchestrates Matt becoming a Ranger and now they're all buddy-buddy, but he actually works as a compelling will-he-won't-he loner/potential betrayer in the mix because much of the original team did fuck him over. He was dating this girl who, due to proximity, put him in danger while keeping secrets from him, Lois Laning him without him being made of Lois Lane material.

Plus and most importantly, when fuckin boys write Kimberly, they kind of reduce her to Ideal Girl status. When women write Kimberly they seem to wanna problematize the fact that she did some very dumb selfish teenager shit, allowing her to actually be a complex human being with flaws instead of an object. It's rad.

Power Rangers Recharged vol. 1

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Power Rangers Recharged vol. 1

Parrott leaves and so returns

THE WHIMSEY

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we gotta write more women like this

Power Rangers Recharged vol. 1