'Power Rangers Hyperforce' Returns In A New One-Shot Comic
The comic follows up on the livestreamed tabletop RPG left on a cliffhanger following the franchise's sale to Hasbro
As if having the franchise’s 30th anniversary special Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once and Always released on Netflix on Wednesday didn’t make it a fantastic day for Power Rangers fans, this news made it incredible: BOOM! Studios has announced a new one-shot series Power Rangers Unlimited: Hyperforce #1.
As part of the anniversary celebrations, the one-shot picks up where the HyperRPG livestreamed tabletop RPG, which ran from 2017-2018 left off, having been on a cliffhanger following the franchise's sale from Saban Brands to Hasbro. It’s being written by Melissa Flores, who was Director of Power Rangers Content at Saban Brands when the series originally ran, was the show’s biggest advocate and is now writing the main line of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers comics at Boom!, with Meghan Camarena, who is also known as Strawburry17, who played Pink Ranger Chloe Ashford, and voiced original Pink Ranger Kimberly Hart in the Battle for the Grid video game. Like Flores, Camarena had already broken into comics prior to this by co-writing the 12th issue of Image Comics’s Radiant Black alongside Kyle Higgins, who was Boom! Power Rangers’s earliest mainline writer and a Hyperforce guest star. Her Radiant Pink miniseries with Flores began in December, building a “MassiveVerse” for that comic company.
Hyperforce was a completely original team, and it also starred then-incumbent Ninja Steel Blue Ranger Peter Sudarso as Red Ranger Marv Shih, Andre Meadows of Black Nerd Comedy as Blue Ranger Eddie Banks, voice actor Cristina Vee as Black Ranger Vesper Vasquez, Paul Schrier, the TV series’s Farkas “Bulk” Bulkmeier as Yellow Ranger Jack Thomas, and technically a recurring guest, Dino Charge Blue Ranger Yoshi Sudarso as Joseph "Joe" Shih, the Time Force Silver Ranger and Hyperforce Green Ranger. The show and team was also part of the 25th anniversary “Shattered Grid” comic event storyline, even having the late Jason David Frank play Lord Drakkon. The season also saw appearances from RPM Gold Ranger Mike Ginn, In Space Red Ranger Christopher Khayman Lee, and second Mighty Morphin’ Yellow Ranger Karan Ashley.
The artist on the book, which has a release date of July 19, is Frank Sabbatini. The standard cover art comes from Kayla Valerio who previously did the The Death Ranger issue of the line, with variants from fan-favorite artists Goñi Montes and InHyuk Lee. The comic will give the story the resolution in the making for the last 5 years.
Source: ScreenRant