BOOM! Studios is launching a brand new Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #1 in 2026. This new Mighty Morphin Power Rangers series is part of a three part strategy for the Power Rangers franchise. Given the success BOOM! Studios has had with the original team it is not surprising that they are starting off with the Mighty Morphin squad. What makes this new Mighty Morphin series intriguing is that we will be seeing the original team back together as adults. That is something we got in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always, though for many reasons we only got Zack Taylor and Billy Cranston being heavily featured. Let’s see what happens when the original team reunites as adults in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #1.
CREATIVE TEAM
Writer: Marguerite Bennett
Artist: Andrew Lee Griffith
Colorist: Joshua Jensen
Letterer: Ed Dukeshire
MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS #1 SOLICITATION
“It’s been ten years since the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers turned in their morphers and went their separate ways. But now they’ve been called back to the legendary Command Center to face a new, terrifying form of a familiar foe: Rita Rabiosa.
They may not be teenagers with attitudes anymore, but are they still the same heroes they once were?
New York Times-bestselling comic book writer Marguerite Bennett (Bombshells, Batwoman) jumps into the Command Center, joined by industry veteran artist Andrew Lee Griffith (Transformers, G.I. Joe), to usher in a new era of Power Rangers, making it perfect for new readers and longtime fans alike!” – BOOM! Studios
REVIEW
Growing up watching the original series there will always be a certain sense of nostalgia for Power Rangers that will be easy to tap into. That feeling is there right away when you open Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #1, even in 2026. The problem is that once you get past that initial excitement, the nostalgia quickly starts to wear off. And when that happens, you’re left wondering whether going back to the original five Rangers was really the right move. Based on this first issue, Marguerite Bennett and Andrew Lee Griffith don’t quite give a convincing answer.
The big reason this how quickly open Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #1 loses the momentum behind its premise because of its approach to the reunion. It feels like Bennett is leaning heavily on readers already having a strong attachment to these characters. At the same time, she’s trying to pull from the original show’s continuity, including Once & Always, while presenting a new Power Rangers continuity. The result is a comic that uses a lot of familiar elements without ever making the overall continuity feel fully settled or clear.
More than anything, the comic comes across like it was written with a cliff note understanding of these characters. It feels less like a story from someone who really knows the original team and more like something built watch a compilation of highlights on YouTube from the first season. Because of that, there’s a certain heart missing from the storytelling that keeps it from really clicking.
To Bennett’s credit, she does a solid job capturing Billy, Trini, and Zack. Those three feel like believable older versions of themselves in their post-Power Rangers lives. Jason and Kimberly, though, come off much flatter by comparison. Their dialogue feels more generic, and that makes the team dynamic sound off whenever all five characters are together, which is the entirety of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #1.
That awkwardness carries over into the action scenes too, especially when the team fights together as Rangers again for the first time. You can really feel how much the comic wants to tap into nostalgia, to the point that the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers theme plays for no real reason. Instead of landing as a fun callback, it just makes the whole action sequence feel even more forced. The way the Zords are summoned doesn’t help either, since it comes across as a strange choice that feels rooted is writing a dub version of Super Sentai rather than having watched a full episode of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
The one part of the story that really stands out is Tommy Oliver not answering Billy’s call to reunite the team. The final pages leave us wondering if Tommy deliberately ignored Billy’s call to return to action. Based on the tease we get, it’s possible Bennett is hinting that Tommy is somehow stuck in the past or maybe utilizing things established about Tommy’s history during Dino Thunder. Either way, hopefully the series doesn’t drag out the mystery too long and uses it to add something meaningful instead of just creating drama for the sake of it.
On the art side, Andrew Lee Griffith does a good job aging up the original Rangers while keeping the spirit of most of the characters intact in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #1. There’s a real sense that this world has moved forward since the last time we saw the team together. That said, the redesigned Mighty Morphin suits are a letdown. They lose a lot of what made the original costumes so memorable, trading that charm in for a grittier look that doesn’t really feel like an upgrade.
FINAL THOUGHTS
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers #1 misses the mark because it leans too heavily on nostalgia to do the heavy lifting. That becomes obvious pretty quickly, as the nostalgia quickly dissipates and is replaced by wondering if this was really the best way to tell a reunion story with the original Power Rangers team. It doesn’t help that a lot of the dialogue and style choices feel awkward, with several attempts at nostalgia failing in its attempt to create hype. Hopefully the series works through all its problems quickly, especially with two other Power Rangers comics arriving soon to compete for fans’ attention.
Story Rating: 3 Night Girls out of 10
Art Rating: 5 Night Girls out of 10
Overall Rating: 4 Night Girls out of 10
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