You'd think a series about teenagers in colourful costumes fighting aliens from space
wouldn't be overly complicated... but here we are! WOOF WOOF! Hey guys, it's me Marcus aka the
Maddogg and we're back with another video! These power rangers titles that have been released by
boom studios are some of the best single comics that i've read in the last five years which
isn't too much of an achievement because of the fact that i haven't really read a lot of single
issues in that time however this is a series that's only gaining more momentum and with that
momentum is coming more series so you had mmpr you had go go power rangers you had a pink ranger spin
off you also had mighty morphing and then power rangers you've got anniversary specials you've
got annuals and all of it just gets a little bit confusing but don't worry by the end of this video
are hopefully able to clear up exactly what you need to buy and how you can collect that whether
it be in trade paperback deluxe edition or even if you're going to go down the single issue route
but starting it off we can't really talk about how to collect something if we don't know what we're
collecting in the first place and this is going to be everything that boom studios has released so
far but kicking it off we've got the main mighty morphing power rangers series and this went from
issue 0 to issue 55 there was three annuals and there was also a shattered grid finale this is
the mainline series i think anybody that's trying to get into power rangers should start with but
admittedly if you're looking on where to start with power rangers i did a video last year when
this channel was really young because talk about every starting point that you can imagine give
or take however due to the success of mmpr boom studios released gogo power ranges which was a
32 issue series that ended late last year and there was two specials in back to school and
forever ranges but those were the two main power rangers comic series that were being released
until 2020 at which point both of those ended and we had two new series you had mighty morphine and
you also had power rangers and at the time of recording this video there's been 12 issues for
each so far i'm also going to throw power rangers universe in here which is releasing next month so
you might be able to jump on with that it says it's a limited series but admittedly i think
because of the concept it's got the potential to run for quite a long amount of time and right now
you might be thinking to yourself that's only four series it's not too complicated what's
this guy with a poor excuse for a movember even talking about and i kind of have to agree with
you on that last part but then we get into the one shots in the limited series and kicking it
off we've got mighty morphing power rangers pink issues one to six i believe this was the first
of the limited series that were released and it follows kimberly after a time during mmpr season
three you've also got a six issue crossover with the justice league that isn't really in continuity
you've got the mighty morphin power rangers 25th anniversary special teenage mutant ninja turtles
mighty morphin power rangers issue one to five which is responsible for giving us those amazing
toys from hasbro you've got the ranger slayer one shot the dragon new door mini series power
rangers unlimited air to darkness and edge of darkness and so far they've also published four
original graphic novels the first is power rangers aftershock which is set after the 2017 movie which
not a lot of people watch it doesn't look like we're getting a sequel and there's probably going
to be more power rangers that are featured in this short video than there was in that two-hour movie
you've got solo the dragon which follows pretty much everyone's fan favorite character except for
well myself because mine's worse from time force and it follows him in his time after being a power
ranger and you see what it's like when he's going into the older stage of his life you've got power
rangers the psychopath which features the in-space rangers coron and also the psycho rangers which
if you're not sure who they are make sure you watch those episodes and the latest one that
they've released is power rangers sins of the future and honestly this book's about 20 years
too late for me because it follows the power rangers time force team after the time during
the wild falls crossover so now we're going to be moving on how you can collect all these series and
there's three options and it really depends on how deep you want to get into it but we're going to go
through these options in order of attractiveness because first up we've got these beautiful deluxe
editions yep these are the ones that most people in the collected edition community are drawn to
and so far we've had five released the latest one only recently came out and i know that the channel
sponsor organic prize books did an overview of it and if you're attempting to pick this book up
or any other i'd definitely recommend checking them out because they don't even need the power
to protect them because of the fact that they package the books so well they've also got fast
shipping and great customer services and if you use code woofwoof you'll get two dollars
off your order and kind of similar to the fact that power rangers never seems to end you can
use that code as many times as you like but these deluxe editions only really tend to focus on the
main mmpr line because volume one which was also called year one collects issues zero to twelve
year two collects issues thirteen to twenty four and the annuals for 2016 and 2017 shattered grid
which was the third volume that was released was the first one to really mix it up because it had
mmpr issues 25 to 30 and also the shattered grid finale alongside the free comic book day issue
number one which now that i'm thinking about it i didn't include that on that list earlier and
it also made me a bit confused on how they're planning on collecting all these series because
of the fact that it has go go power ranges issues 9 to 12. now that's because of the fact that this
was an event and those issues do directly tie into this but then we've got the fourth volume which
was beyond the grid it's a little bit thinner than all the ones that have been released so far and it
collects issues 31 to 39 and also the anniversary special and the fifth volume that was recently
released was necessary evil part one which collects mighty morphin power rangers issues to 47
and go go power rangers issues 21 to 28. now it's already been announced that there's going to be
a volume six that's going to release i think may next year and this contains the remaining issues
of both of these series so you've got mighty morphing power rangers issues 48 to 55. you've
got gogo power rangers issues 29 to 32 and you've also got the ranger slate one shot now previously
speaking and being completely shallow this is the best looking way to collect this series and it
does also contain all the covers and i'm not too sure if the trade paperbacks do that and it also
collects the main story arcs of this series which we're going to touch on a little bit later in this
video so if you don't really want to get invested into the majority of the power rangers universe
and all the comics that are coming out then i do recommend picking up these five hardcovers if you
can't get your hands on them but that brings me on to the two downsides of collecting the series
in this format and the first point is that these are quite difficult to get your hands on currently
yes there's been a few reprintings over the years and i do think that because of the popularity of
this series they will come back into print again at some point but that day isn't today
but the second problem we're collecting the series in this format and i've touched on it
already but there is a massive amount of these series that isn't collected in deluxe edition
yes the main mmpr line is covered in this but if you're also collecting gogo power ranges you're
gonna be missing issues one to eight issues 13 to 20 alongside mmpr pink the justice league and tmnt
crossovers and the countless other mini series and one shots that i spoke about earlier now i'm
not really too concerned about mighty morphine and power rangers and that's the reason why i haven't
mentioned that they're left out i think when we get to a volume seven of these hard covers we'll
see exactly what they're planning on doing with that series but in terms of the outlook for gogo
well it's not looking too great but if it is that you did eventually want to have all of these
series in the same format then it isn't possible to have that for the deluxe editions and none of
us know what the future holds and who knows maybe boom studios will publish gogo power ranges in a
separate deluxe edition kind of similar to what everybody's been asking for for about three years
now but there are other ways that you can plug those gaps which brings us on to the second way
to collect this series which is in trade paperback all of the main mmpr series has now been collected
into 14 trade paperbacks which admittedly have quite a steep cover price considering the fact
that some of these collections only have four issues and you will also need to pick up the two
volumes of mmpr the lost chronicles because this collects the annuals and also some of the specials
so those 16 trade paperbacks in total will collect the equivalent of what these six deluxe editions
well alongside 4 trade paperbacks worth of gogo power rangers but they are going to be 4 random
volumes because gogo power rangers is going to be collected in 9 trade paperbacks in total issues 9
to 12 which was included in shattered grid is i believe volume 3. and the remaining 3 trade
paperbacks for this series is what's going to be included in the necessary evil hardcovers so if it
is that you wanted to get these deluxe editions and then just plug in the gaps with the random
volumes of gogo power rangers you'll need volumes one and two and volumes four five six and if you
do decide to collect the series like that good for you but please do not tell me because it's just
going to bug my ocd to no end the current ongoing series of mighty morphine and power rangers are
also collected in separate trade paperbacks and so far they've had two volumes released but i believe
that they've got plans up to volume 4 already and you can also collect all three issues of
dragon new dawn in a separate volume and there's also been trade paperbacks of the pink rangers
solo series the justice league crossover and the crossover with teenage mutant ninja turtles so if
you did want a comprehensive way of collecting this series and the trade paperbacks is pretty
much the only feasible route at this point but there is one major downside to getting this in
trade paperback and that's the fact it's just not as nice as the deluxe editions and that's
something that you're gonna have to weigh up would you rather something that looks nice on your shelf
or just something that's complete the third option if you want to collect this series is of course
the single issues now you heard at the beginning how many different ones that you'd have to collect
and especially if you do want all the variant covers like i did when this series first came
out you're gonna have a difficult time but you know if that is the route that you want to go down
good luck to you i hope you do manage to find every single one and also if you do manage to
get every issue it's impossible to get [ __ ] over by any kind of collected edition except with the
original graphic novels but you know you can pick them up separately now the last thing that we're
going to talk about is the reading order for this series because it's something that i wish i would
have done in some of my previous how to collect but it's all well and good saying that oh you can
get this in this format and that in this edition but what if it is that you don't need to buy them
anyway so the first way that you can read this is in the order of release these issues came out in
a particular order and there was probably a reason why mmpr started before go go so you might be okay
just reading them and then going back to gogo at the time when that was released but that is
a way that you can read this and also you'll get all those crossovers and mini series at pretty
much the right time the second reading order that we're going to look at is chronologically
which i imagine most people will probably want to follow and the only reason why this is possible is
because of ryan parrott's tweet that he sent out in september which i can't lie was super useful
in the creation of this video so i'm gonna leave his twitter link in the description down below but
looking at this chronologically you would have to start with gogo power rangers so issues one
to twenty and also the two specials is set before tommy was part of the team so you can read them
before you start reading mmpr and you're probably wondering if that's the case then why issues 9 to
12 included in shattered grid i'm not going to spoil too much here but it is a tie-in but it's
not necessarily set in the same timeline however after issue 20 and go go tommy does join us the
green ranger at which point you can jump into mmpr you can go straight forward and read issues 0 to
30 and also the shattered grid finale and that will bring you up to a point where you can read
the rest of gogo power rangers so issues 21 to 32 because at that point in the story tommy's the
green ranger and is also in the team and you're probably thinking that i'm saying tommy the green
ranger a lot but that's because the fact that this is power rangers and that series really does not
survive without him which is a shame because some of the best series just don't have him in it and
then after you're done with gogo power rangers you can read mmpr issues 31-39 which was beyond the
grid but admittedly and i don't think that a lot of people will agree with me but if you've got no
real knowledge of who the power rangers are beyond these comics then i'd probably skip these next
chunk of issues and honestly as much as i love power rangers in space and zeo and lost galaxy
and some of the other series that were included in this this is the slowest part of this series
and if i'm being honest i'd probably have a bit of a palette cleanser if i was you and i'd read
some of the crossovers like with the justice league and the teenage mutant ninja turtles at
this point and it'll also just give you a nice bit of a reprieve before you get into necessary evil
because you can now read the rest of the mmpr run you can go from issue 40 to 55 and just
enjoy this series as the white ranger comes into it ryan's tweet then recommends that you read the
ranger slay in one shot and also drak a new dawn it's particularly important that you read them
before you jump into the two new ongoing series of mighty morphin and power rangers and that'll
pretty much have you caught up because that is the main continuity except for the crossovers
that i talked about that's just for a little bit of fun but if you wanted to catch up to the point
that we're at today then that's the route that i'd recommend going down and stuff like power
rangers pink and the original graphic novels are specific to certain points in time for the tv
show continuity it's only going to be accurate to the point when this video is filmed because
i don't know what series boom studio is going to announce in the future maybe they'll finally
let me do my gold ranger mini series that i've been talking about but yeah if you're watching
this video three years from the time when it was first made there's a high probability that this
isn't accurate anymore and yeah if you're watching a video that was filmed a few years ago of course
the information isn't going to be accurate that's like going back to a supermarket and complaining
that food's out a date because you brought it three years ago and then forgot about it in
your fridge but that's a video and if you could do me a massive favor share this way you can so
that hopefully this channel won't completely die out but also we can get more people reading power
rangers i should hopefully be back with some new videos soon but if you enjoyed this one give it a
thumbs up and if you didn't why did you get this far but yeah i guess that's the video and until
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