Merry 200th strip!
Only one day late! a New Year’s miracle!
SO big news, I’m showing at TCAF (the Toronto comic art festival) this year! That means my goal for the upcoming year involves a lot of making stuff to sell at TCAF. I’ve been resisting, but everyone has been wearing me down and my goal for next year includes getting a MGDMT book together! Annnnnd, They’ll be an extremely limited run, but I’ve been working on these (which I guess you’d already know if you follow my twitter)
Annnnnd, I’m also pleased to announce the completion of this short pitch comic that I’ve been chipping at forever! you can read the full thing over here on my Tumblr. It’s been they type of project I’d take of the shelf and chip at for a day every here and there, but this Christmas break I hunkered down and booked it until the whole thing was finished.
ANNNNNNDDDDDD MOST EXCITING OF ALL with that Nicky pitch comic off the table, I finally have the opportunity to focus all of my non-work non-MGDMT energy on my pet project, Platinum Black. I don’t have a firm release date, but I am hoping to have this comic up and running off the ground within the next year. It’s the project I’ve always wanted to make, and I think I’m finally in the position to seriously work on it!
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR THE FUTURE OF MGDMT? Well, I have no plans to stop making it, so I’m going to keep trying to juggle both as long as I can, but I guess only the future can say for sure. I GUESS WE’LL SEE! INTO THE FUTURE! Hopefully 2014 shapes up to be as exciting a year for art as I want it to be. Happy New Year, everybody!
Well then, looks like we’ve got the punk age of Power Rangers.
And I couldn’t care less, never liked the show.
And now you know how the power ranger system worked. Keep sending them to be slaughtered until one of the groups actually succeeds.
To be fair, Power Rangers was based off of the footage of a Japanese show that was actually pretty good called Super Sentai.
Let’s hope they never touch Kamen Rider.
They did, look up Masked Rider.
Besides, Power Rangers DID get good starting season six/In Space when it started making its own plots (not that this lasted too long, mind, pretty much just In Space, Lost Galaxy, and RPM, which are all mostly American original plot and coincidentally among the best written), and season seven/Galaxy was actually more popular in Japan than Gingaman, the sentai it took footage from.
And there was some cool stuff in some of the other seasons too. Like Jungle Fury. RJ rocked, and fie on thee who say any different.
When you say good, do you mean good for power rangers or I-would-go-out-of-my-way-to-watch this, good?
Good for a children’s program featuring people in spandex beating up people in rubber suits: Good, within the context of what can reasonably be expected in something targeted at minors and assuming the ability to tolerate silliness. RPM is impressive in part because of just how much they managed to get past the its-for-kids level of censorship (i.e., nuclear war killing off most of humanity)
Comparison here is good relative to the original Super Sentai, not good relative to non-objectively-silly series.
RPM was also well written, considering its source material is arguably one of the most lighthearted Super Sentai series to date. in comparison, it’s as if they took all the footage from Adam West’s Batman, and made it into the Dark Knight trilogy.
>>Let’s hope they never touch Kamen Rider.
There have already been 2 Kamen Rider series that received the Power Rangers treatment. The first is Saban’s Masked Rider which used footage from Kamen Rider Black RX, and the other is Kamen Rider Dragon Knight which was adapted from Kamen Rider Ryuki.
To be fair, the second Kamen Rider adaptation was, from what I’ve heard, fairly faithful, if perhaps too faithful (i.e, dropping censorable events instead of writing something new and interesting).
The first, Saban’s Masked Rider, was a nightmare of poor footage cutting and wacky sitcom antics.
The show they took from is Zyuranger, and it’s pretty interesting. Within the first couple of episodes you get an upshot of a japanese girl in a skirt and see her panties as well. I don’t know if I’m allowed to link stuff on here, but the youtube link to the English Subbed episode is here. /watch?v=70biN2nrmhY
This installment of the mgdmt comics has been the most amusing to me, unlike any other comic I didn’t just smirk and internally think, “that’s nice” (or whatever else to the same degree). I laughed out loud at this. Thank you.
I like how “pretty interesting” translates into “you get to see a girl’s panties and here is a link to it”.
LoL look, its the generation Y version of the power rangers!
Right. Because teenagers weren’t douchebags 20 years ago.
“Attitude” meant something completely different in the nineties; Sonic also had attitude and he brought us Sonic Says.
Yes dear, that’s the joke.
Now I’m imagining Jared meeting Sonic and all the confusion that entails, all while Commander is sparring with Knuckles in the background
Attitude didn’t mean anything in the 90s. It was one of those buzzwords that were thrown around by marketers thinking that was what everybody wanted.
“Attitude” meant eating pizza while wearing shades and skateboarding, if TMNT has taught me anything.
yeah, seeing the “teenagers with attitude” line actually got the TMNT theme song (the one from the 80s) in my head.
From what I remember, attitude meant “ridiculously watered down slight abrasiveness coupled with a healthy respect to authority. Also, skateboards and 80s clothes even though it was the 90s”
Sonic wishes he had this much ‘tude!
Congratulations on 200 strips! I’ve enjoyed every one (except maybe the Animal Crossing jokes I don’t get but that’s my problem). And after following Dagget and Blue since that OC tournament thing, I am extremely excited for Platinum Black! I can also honestly say this strip is the most hilarious thing I’ve seen all year.
(especially funny because I kind of recall this happening in the show in some episode? Be careful what you wish for, Zordon!)
Wait, it’s Wednesday and there’s a new MGDMT strip? Who are you and what have you done with Coelasquid?
I loved the crap out of the original Power Ranges, but honestly they really didn’t have that much attitude. Hell, one of them was a nerdy bookworm, the type of person where attitude went to die in those days.
what he should’ve asked for was raditude.
You my friend are an unappreciated genius of this time.
Oh god, the memories. :D
Hahaha! Sure brings back memories. I remember every children in Indonesia at that time (including me) likes to sing “Go! Go! Power Rangers!” XDDDDDDDDDDD
I never buy the huge MegaZord, but i did buy the MegaZord plastic model (which is also poseable, like Gundam). Too bad those toys are gone now… =_=;;
Please tell me I’m not the only one having bad thoughts with the red ranger saying ‘meet my friends behind the bleachers’, knowing that the original actor ended up doing gay porn.
except he didn’t, and is actually a Military Paramedic serving over in the Middle east somewhere.
So, turns out, people will /totally/ just go on the internet and tell lies.
It took me less than five minutes of research, not restricted to Wikipedia and 4chan, to find out that the dude went from Power Ranger to Martial Arts Instruction to EMT/Firefighter on the East Coast of the United States. Not a Marine, but also a very admirable thing.
That said, what, really, would be the problem if he had done gay porn at some point? This is a thing people do, which is comparatively harmless. You don’t have to be into it, but it turns out that most of the time actors turn out to be pretty normal people who do things people do. As with most people, some of them go on to be more awesome than others.
If you find there is someone you admired who did a thing you found to be less than admirable and you found this unsettling or disturbing, perhaps it should be taken as a lesson not to pin your cognitive stability on a trumped up false ideal built around someone you don’t actually know who was filling out a role in a story that isn’t real.
Sounds like you’re making quite an assumption and being fairly judgmental about it yourself. I was not casting any judgment with my post, and if you read more in to it than I intended, I’m sorry you took it that way. Gay porn is just a thing people do (regardless of whether or not the actor actually did it). It’s not my thing, but hey, what ever floats your boat. Even if that isn’t the case for what actually happened, it’s been floating around the internet for a while, and the thought just struck me as funny.
Just a rumor, same thing as “Pink Ranger being a pr0n actress”.
That one isn’t a rumor, it’s wishful thinking.
Amy Jo Johnson must lie in bed awake at night, terrified at the unknown but tremendous number of little boys who discovered attraction to females via her in spandex.
Or proud, could be either one depending on the way her mind works, nothing really wrong either way. Still. Huge number.
The second Power Ranger, the Australian chick, was way hotter than the first one. Not just for the accent, but for the fact that she didn’t grate on my nerves every time she opened her mouth…
Congrats on 200! Many more to come! :D
Love the expression in panel 2.
First hope 2014 goes how you want it.
Second, I’m guessing Zordon must have given the Rangers and attitude adjustment since they later managed to become a good team and save the world.
Sassy teens with sassy Jojo lips. (I’m sorry, I’m on a JJBA binge recently)
Wait a minute. You can hire teenagers at a temp agency?
Sure, as long as they’re old enough to work.
Checking, they’re (unusually tall) freshmen in high school, so, probably age 14; they’re in California, which according to the State Department of Industrial Relations allows up to 3 hours employment on schooldays for 14-year-olds.
Not that Zordon is probably paying them anything.
To be fair, physically they were all in their 20s
They repeated the same grade for several years.
Also, congrats on your 200th strip, coelasquid!
Of the original cast, Amy Jo Johnson and Austin St. John were 18 when the show started. The Rangers were originally written as seniors, with the final episode originally taking place on prom night until the massive success had them back track only having the remaining graduate in season 5, Power Rangers Turbo.
This is a great joke. It is the kind of joke I wish I had thought of.
“Teens with an attitude” translates pretty much into “any old teen will do”.
Without the commander’s colors on it that sculpture looks kinda like Blade from Sin Episodes Emergence.
So if the commander provided the teens, what sort of agency provided Bulk and Skull?
Cause I want to see behind the scenes at that agency.
I always liked Bulk and Skull more than any of the Rangers. The Rangers were all squeaky clean and dull. They did charity work and if one went so far as to say damn, the others would probably stop what they were doing and giggle at the naughtiness of the word. Bulk and Skull at least had personalities and didn’t seem like they had a stick up their arses half the time.
Well, they were kinda one-dimensional personality-less comic relief assholes at first, its just that they had the unique trait of having character development into being likeable, if still comic relief, people over the years – of only by virtue of having more time to develop.
That bust of Commander looks like it’s made of chocolate.
It’s monster clay, it’s a waxy oil-based clay that behaves like Plasticine when it’s warm and wax when it’s cool
That’s one thousand percent less delicious sounding.
I… I like the idea of a chocolate Commander. Yum.
And maybe a gummy Mr. Fish.
Mostly I just love this comic. Ahh, Power Rangers. Those were the good old days…
That final comic in the comments, Platinum Black, looks a lot like Digger.
Meant in the very best way possible. I love Digger. Hope this one gets off the ground.
Never even heard of it.
Digger is a graphic novel which ran as a webcomic by Ursula Vernon for 10 years and won a Hugo in 2012. It is now finished and in print. It had a similar black and white wood block type look. It is also one of my favorite comics.
Before I forget, the page of your comic looks awesome. You are very talented.
Just pretend I flailed at you sorrowfully for about five minutes? Digger is glorious and if you have a chunk of time to spare, I recommend diggercomic.com.
(So good. I love it lots.)
Surreal; just the other day, almost exactly this thought occurred to me. Synchronicity!
This is especially funny to me because my 2 year old nephew has recently fallen in love with this show and I have been watching it with him
This is even funnier if you remember that the Green Ranger became an MMA fighter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_xTibNUftE
Indeed…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_David_Frank
Dial B for BADASS!!
Heh. It made me laugh in so many levels.
But in my mind those were emo. :3
I find it funny. But in my mind (at the time, mind you) Lara Croft and the Witchblade were the yellow and pink rangers.
Congradulations on 200! Here’s to 200 more!
*Gazes into the future
*Spies an exhausted, burned out, webcomic author susceptible to con funk.
*Comes back to present and hands out hand sanitizer, homecooked food, and soft pillows.
I believe I actually had a 17 year gap between watching Power Rangers episodes. It always was and shall remain a slightly ‘odd’ show to me. I mean, Beetleborgs, surely that’s where it was at.
Ah, and congrats on the brave 200th, C.
When I first saw the bust I almost thought it was Jack Cayman from Anarchy Reigns. Then I remembered what page I was on xD
Sweet, I love it when I get to pick up new stuff at TCAF! :D Free comic convention is one of the big perks for moving to Toronto.
So I’m curious, if you actually get a MGDMT book together, what’s the general price range estimate(s), if you have an idea yet, and please tell me it can be gotten online! I’m all time sharing the jokes from this comic with friends and they love hearing any new materials from it, so I’d love to have a book to share with them showing just how great this actually is. Unfortunately though, work dominates my life and doesn’t leave room for traveling to awesome places to get awesome things ;~;
I’m not sure a book is really doable as the majority of the cast are characters who belong to other people since they’re from video games and such. It’s one thing when it’s just a webcomic, another thing entirely when you start actually selling them.
It’s parody, it’s the same reason comics like Awkward Zombie and Penny Arcade have books.
Thing is, in the show Zordon never asked for teenagers with attitude, that only happened in the opening credits. He just asked for teenagers, in an overly complicated way, but still just teenagers.
The real question is, why did they recruit Kimberly? Zack, Jason and Trini were all martial arts experts with positive attitudes and Billy was a friendly super genius. Kimberly was neither.
They had a fifth coin they needed to hand out if they wanted to complete the power weapon and megazord, and she both happened to be standing near them in the Juice bar at the time and wearing clothes that already matched the colors of the fifth coin.
Lets just be glad Bulk wasn’t wearing his pink shirt and/or standing closer to four you mentioned at the time.
Watching the intro again, it looks like Kimberly was an accomplished gymnast (it shows her doing a back-flip on a balance beam). With all the jumping and flipping around they did, that was probably a good skill to have.
Oh this made me laugh out loud once I got to the second-to-last panel.
Congrats on 200 strips. Loved each of them.
the red ranger has so much attitude he can smoke through his helmet
i love it
And just reread all the comics
Damn I love this webcomic
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!
I love sentai and Kamen Rider, myself, and never got into the US Power Rangers, but I remember the “teenagers with attitude” line coming from what appeared to be the Kree Supreme Intelligence, and how odd that juxtaposition was… :)
awww…. it makes me remember my son as a little kid proudly rnning around wearing nothing but his “power ranger” underwear and tank top!
I.. My brain read them in their MightyMorphinP voices. I can’t stop chuckling. This was too epic.
*shove the jar*
Okay, put ’em in…
Damn right.
Heh. I noticed that this is a reflection of real life, not just how “teenagers with attitude” are, but how a prospective employer sometimes has no idea WHAT they really want & wind up asking for the wrong type of people for the job they want to have filled.
For example, my dad was an Industrial Engineer (retired) but wanted to take a temp job being offered by some manufacturer. An ENGINEER is the person who figures out exactly what kind of equipment is needed to set up a new line of manufacturing; they then acquire the equipment & design how & where that equipment needs to be set up in order to start the actual manufacturing. The employer ASKED for an Engineer, but really needed a TECHNICIAN or a MECHANIC to get an old piece of equipment up & running.
Platinum Black looks totally boss, do it do it do it!
Every strip you make is pure hilarious perfection. I wish this could be a TV show but I bet the copyrights alone would kill a man.
The sad part is that this would still probably be a better Power Ranger’s Plot than some of the more recent Power Ranger Series, not counting RPM of course.
To be fair, Zordon DIDN’T ask for teenagers with attitude.
He asked for five overbearing and overemotional humans.
Go Go Power Rangers!
*Wicked guitar solo*
Ron Wasserman is a hero of men.
you just need to add jack cayman in here as he and the commander would get along so well (i.e. not the emo anarchy reigns jack but the one from mad world) heck the re almost doubles except for color scheme and a few symbols and the arm. you could just mke him as seen as say canada guy or sten the qunnari.
Now that I see the sculpted bust, the similarities in visual design with Hellboy are smacking me in the face.
Ooh, I dunno. Mike Mignola’s work might be a source of inspiration, but his Hellboy has a lot more jaw, and a lot less nose.
http://extrafabulouscomics.com/comic/67/
Just bein’ that guy.
To be fair, the yellow ranger wouldn’t have had a cell phone in 92 or whenever the original power rangers aired.
Makes more sense and is much more funny than the entire run of Power Rangers. With less chance of inspiring idiot kids to kick each other in the guts in the school playground.
Zordon’s face in the top right panel just kills me.
As someone who literally grew up with Power Rangers (seriously, the show came out the same year I was born, and thanks to my cousin I was watching it pretty much from the time I could sit upright and stare at stuff), this is a particularly awesome, funny, and memorable strip for me. Your webcomic was the first one I ever discovered, not long after I graduated from high school in 2011 – which was good, because after the whole fustercluck of emotions I went through upon graduation, a comical, machismo world featuring all my favorite video game characters like Manly Guys Doing Manly Things was exactly what I needed to take my mind off fears of the future, if only for a short time.
It’s been nearly three years since I first discovered MGDMT. Life is wonderful, and all my fears ended up being unfounded. Yet I still come back to MGDMT every week to see what kind of rampage Kratos goes on next, or what shenanigans Jared and Mr. Fish might get up to, or how many new ways Commander Badass and his family can warm my heart until it melts.
Three years, and I’ve never missed an update. Three years, and I’ve never been disappointed. Three years, and I’ve never seen a comic that didn’t at least make me chuckle a little bit. Three years, and I’ve never forgotten about Commander Badass, Jared, Mr. Fish, Jonesy, Sam and June, Kratos, Nier, Canada Guy, Ganondorf and Link, the Big Daddies, Sten’s constantly growing horns, hipster Arishok, hipster Syndrome, geeky Duke Nukem, overly attached AM, and all the other funny, touching, and completely awesome things that happened over two hundred pages of machismo punchlines.
I never really commented much on here, because I didn’t know if what I had to say was worth saying. But I feel like that whole spiel up there was.
Sooo…yeah. I guess the takeaway is “This is awesome, always was awesome, and always will be awesome. In Marlon Brando’s name, OOH-RAH!”
I’m waiting for Saban to get Kyoryuger, just to see if they do the Kyoryu Change.
Go to 5:53.
Forgot the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPldwYwWjS4
For your viewing pleasure. Scorpion versus the White Ranger.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap8r3AA0PIk
Merry 200th strip!
Are those chocolate commanders? Can we eat the commander?!
Nevermind, I see that it is not. Nevertheless, a chocolate commander would be awesome.
One possible answer is he meant APTITUDE not attitude.
I’m a big fan of Power Rangers despite knowing how bad it actually is and this strip is one of the few to make me laugh out loud.