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Mighty Morphin' Volume 2

I think I figured out Ryan Parrott's' thought process when it comes to this story.

It's all an attempt at being more edgy, while failing to do anything actually fun, smart, or meaningful along with it.

As someone who never sided with the fanbase that demanded that Power Rangers become darker and edgier, I kinda need more than just swear words and infighting, here. Overall this arc just comes across as pretentious.

I can't help but feel a sense of laziness here too, because there's a noticeable amount of typos and other mistakes throughout the volume. Combine that with the story turning Matt into a massive hypocrite and I nearly checked out really fast. And of course, it's all under the banner of Jerk Sue Grace Sterling.

And there's no excuse here. Matt was a character created and written by Ryan Parrott for Go Go Power Rangers. His entire thing was feeling cheated because of how his friends kept such a major secret from him. So to not have him called out for doing the exact same thing, under the oh so convincing argument of "Because Grace says so" seems like a major misstep.

But the biggest misstep, and the part that set me off the most was this. Now, some of you might not even get what this panel is even supposed to signify, so allow me to break this down for you: Aisha and Candice are currently doing a stealth mission to reclaim the White Tigerzord, hence the initials WTZ. And by itself, cut off from greater context, calling the Zord "WTZ" doesn't seem like that big of a deal, right?

Ha ha, wrong.

Because "WTZ" is what Grace and her cronies refer to the Tigerzord as. Not only has Aisha nor any of the other Rangers ever abbreviated the Zords' names before, but it is incredibly out of character and unnatural for any of them, much less Aisha, to do so. It leads me to believe that Grace is Ryan Parrott's' waifu because he figured he could use her to push whatever elements into the narrative that he felt like, but didn't bother to check for consistency of any kind. Or at the very least his editor sure didn't.

And again, pointing out the flaws in your own narrative doesn't justify anything. Grace having knowledge of events she couldn't possibly know about(Matt escaping the moon), doesn't justify anything. The pretentious nonsense about keeping secrets doesn't actually mean anything to anyone who's ever experienced a superhero story like, ever. This entire thing makes me believe that Ryan Parrott was a big fan of Brian Bendis' run on Superman more than anything. I just really, really am not jiving with the direction that the comics are going, and it's making them alot harder to sit through.