10 Surprisingly Good Licensed Comic Books

Depending on your age, your experience with Power Rangers will vary slightly. It is a TV show that changes nearly every aspect between seasons yet somehow every episode remains as familiar as the last. Earth is under threat from an alien menace, and a group of teenagers get powers and giant robots to defeat them. Lather, rinse and repeat.

The property itself is a Japanese import; a Super Sentai team used primarily to sell toys. (Lots of toys, in the case of the Power Rangers franchise.) Bandai first introduced the characters to western audiences in the nineties, and this version is the one most fans think of when they think of Power Rangers.

Although there had been Power Rangers comics for years, fans never took them seriously. That all changed when Kyle Higgins took over the book at Boom Studios.

Higgins’ would go back to the introduction of the Green Ranger into the franchise and start building the characters, their world and his grand story from that point, laying the groundwork for his Crisis on Infinite Earths like story arc Shattered Grid, a tale that would see a pan-dimensional army of evil rangers led by a despotic white ranger threaten all existence.