Mighty Morphin #8 has released and it’s got some very interesting implications. Ryan Parrott, Marco Renna, Walter Baiamonte, Katia Ranalli, Sara Antonellini, and Ed Dukeshire are telling an incredible story over at BOOM! Studios. You can purchase your copy of the comic from your local comic shop, comiXology (affiliate link), or wherever you like to buy comics.
I’m going to pick up where the preview leaves off. We have Aisha using the Griffonzord to save Tommy and they’re able to even things out. We also get Tommy saying that he thinks Aisha might be a better leader for the Rangers than him. Then we go over to Promethea with the other Rangers, Matt, Grace, Zedd, Goldar, and more. Zedd once again explains that he will provide peace and leave if the Rangers provide him with Zordon. The Rangers refuse and start fighting the bad guys with Kim and Candice taking Zedd on. Matt’s been itching to do something this whole time, but Grace has him wait and then as the fight is happening, she finally tells him to move. We’ll come back to the next part later because it’s kind of huge.
We go back out to Aisha and Tommy fighting giant Putties and they’re struggling a bit until Matt shows up with the Dragonzord that Billy has made some modifications to like claws and what appear to be longer arms. Once the giant Putties are out of the way, Matt’s able to destroy the energy shield. This of course ruffles some feathers with Tommy saying that Matt went along with Zedd just so he could take all the credit in the end.
The other Rangers are fighting and Kim is doing a decent job of handing it to Goldar so he requests that Grace get her troops involved. She agrees and says “Banana Bread” which I guess was a code for attacking the putties and Goldar. This leads to a full retreat of everyone with Zedd capturing Candace. He says that he never wanted Angel Grove nor Zordon, just to show the city a life without Rangers. He was playing a psychological game the whole time so now people won’t want the Rangers which is very cunning. Zedd has plans for Candice, and I’m worried. He says he’s going to “enlighten [her] on the true nature of the universe” and I’m concerned.
The army then angrily agrees to leave Angel Grove to the Rangers and then we have Bulk and Skull doing Ranger Station again. They ask people what it was like in “Monster Grove” and the people aren’t all that mad and then there’s an interview with Matt about what happened. Their podcast ends though with Skull asking for help in finding Candice and it’s very sweet and heartbreaking to see him like this. I do also want to say that I love the panel of Rocky doing some art thing with his sister. It’s such a tender panel.
OK, let’s go back to that part I skipped. During all the fighting, Matt contacts Billy who was back at the Command Center. This conversation explains to Zordon that Billy has been going behind his back to help bring about the new Green Ranger and he’s not happy. Now that people know he was involved, Billy’s lost a lot of trust and that’s going to have some big ramifications. Could this go along with my theory that Parrott is planning on skipping the Ninja powers and going to Zeo? We have the Eltarians talking about the Zeo Crystal, Billy probably has to exit soon because there is now 0 trust between him and Zordon and possibly the other Rangers. Another question I have is if we’re going to see the Orange and Purple Rangers make appearances to help recover Candice? I think that could be awesome. Of course, I trust Parrott and am very excited to see where we go from here. He’s done an awesome job of playing around with the world of Power Rangers.
