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Power Rangers: Drakkon New Dawn

Written by Anthony Burch and drawn by Simone Ragazzoni, Drakkon New Dawn details how the Ranger Slayer manages the World of the Coinless now that she's been elected Queen, and the legacy that Drakkon left behind when he died. It's a direct follow up to the Ranger Slayer oneshot.

And I won't lie, the entire thing felt like a waste of time to read.

I just couldn't get into this one. The pacing was sluggish, Scorpina is out of character, and don't even get me started on the retcon this story throws in.

The retcon being that Drakkon did not infact kill Jason in order to steal the White Light from him, but rather tortured and sealed him away in a maximum security prison that no one knew about.

Not only does this totally undermine alot of the dramatic weight that the original Coinless arc had, but it also raises the question of exactly how in the heck Drakkon even managed to take the powers from Jason to begin with and, if he had the ability to do so non-lethally, why didn't he also in turn just steal the Red Powers while he was at it?

The comic is full of really eyeroll inducing and forced drama too, which doesn't help the pacing in the slightest. This whole thing could've easily been two issues long, especially given how much stuff I didn't like ultimately stemmed from the third and final issue. Case in point:

These are probably the worst Ranger Suit designs I've seen since the 2017 movie. They don't even qualify as Ranger costumes! They're basically Marvel/DC Wannabe suits that look really ugly ontop of that.

The plot's nothing to speak of, the character interactions are middling, and the action beats are nothing to write home about either. I just couldn't get into this one at all and it made everything feel like such a drag. It feels like a Power Rangers story presented by someone who doesn't get what exactly makes PR, or the genre it comes from, work well to begin with. Like Simon Bennett.

Yeah, this story was not for me.