Welcome to an all new edition of Parlay Points, the complementary comic book blog to the ODPH Podcast! On this edition, it’s a new era beginning from the fallout of “The Eltarian War” in the world of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers! Ryan Parrott & Marco Renna have left & we have a brand new creative team of Mat Groom & Moises Hidalgo starting their ranger run with Mighty Morphin’ #17 from Boom Studios! Let’s not waste another minute & jump into this issue, shall we?

Mighty Morphin’ #17 (Boom Studios) — Mighty Morphin’ #17 - On Sale March 9th
Creative: Mat Groom, Moises Hidalgo, Raul Angulo & Ed Dukeshire (Cover: Inhyuk Lee)
Credit: Boom Studios

*** POSSIBLE SPOILER WARNING ***

After the events of The Eltarian War, our heroes are left without a home. The command center is no more. Zordon is back to being an entity instead of walking around. This is a low point for the team. With no center, Earth is extremely open to attack. With that knowledge, there is an idea of how to fix this problem from the Mighty Morphin Squad. It’s one that might be impossible, but there is no time to delay on that. Plans move pretty fast, but not everyone will be involved with this plan directly.

As the team heads out with a quick stop to Promethea to see an “old friend”, one stays behind and with very good reason. However, danger doesn’t let said character get settled in to defending the earth by themselves. A new threat has made their intentions known. After the first shot is fired, the stakes are raised very quickly. How will this play out while the team is away? Is their plan coming together fast enough? And what happened with the Moon? It’s a brand new jumping on point. Trust me when I say: read it for yourself & you won’t be disappointed!

Groom hits the ground running pretty quickly here. Obviously, with the Eltarian War fallout, the team would be picking up the pieces from the events that just unfolded. The idea of how to fix their biggest problem here is very creative. It almost like an “Oceans 11” vibe to it for how this plan is shaping up. Stakes are high and Groom really drives that point home. The moments with Rocky and his family was a great chance of pace from the other stories happening in this issue. The action sequences with Rocky dealing with defending the Earth will have readers excited to see what happens with the latest threat to the Mighty Morphin team. Seeing the next phase in their plan was a perfect way to end the issue.

Speaking of the action, Hidalgo did a great job making those panels fly off the page. For anyone who thought this would be a calm issue after the Eltarian War will be happily mistaken. I really enjoyed how the battle was presented in this issue. Where the team is going for their mission had some great visuals to match it. After this issue, the creative team really has something special in the works & there is much to look forward to in this run.

Overall, Mighty Morphin’ #17 is a great issue for new readers to jump abroad & current readers will be very delighted with what’s going on here. There are some very engaging stories in the works and you’ll have to make sure this run is in your pull list each week at the LCS. Excellent issue.

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MIGHTY MORPHIN' #17 (BOOM STUDIOS)

Ken M