Since 2016, the Power Rangers have been living well over in the world of comics. A variety of creative teams managed to tell some fun stories over the past eight years, but with the original saga now effectively over , that means the entire slate’s being wiped clean across the board. And what better way to fill in the gap than with a new comic and some new blood? Ahead of the weekend, IGN helped Boom pull back the curtain on Power Rangers Prime, a brand new comic by Mighty Morphin writer Melissa Flores and Iron Fist artist Michael Yg that aims to provide a “completely new start” to enter Rangers enterprise.
The book will focus on Lauren Shiba (the secondary Red Ranger from Power Rangers Samurai ) as she’s being hunted by a squad of Eltarians. While her exploits eventually lead her to Angel Grove, Flores said the city is “not [the way] we remember,” further punctuated by a lack of Zordon. As for other Rangers, she was tight-lipped, though she did reveal characters from Power Rangers Megaforce and Power Rangers Jungle Fury would make appearances.
“They will show up in different ways, not the ways maybe you expect them,” said Flores. Prime gives her and Yg “the entire zeitgeist of Power Rangers ,” and she fully intends to take advantage of it. “We look at every single character of Power Rangers , not just in Mighty Morphin , but all over the place.
” How Lauren interacts with those characters depends on their feelings on the Rangers in general, and the gen.