The Power Rangers Will Face Godzilla in a Brilliant Comic Crossover

IDW Publishing is a grasp of bringing two beloved franchises collectively in comics kind. It’s created crossovers between Batman and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, G.I. Joe and Street Fighter, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Doctor Who, and Transformers with… just about everyone. Which is why I’m shocked—shocked—to find that it’s taken IDW till 2021 to dream up what often is the smartest crossover of all time: Godzilla Vs. the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

To be honest, I by no means considered the crossover both, till IDW despatched a press launch asserting the five-issue restricted sequence, which will likely be revealed with Mighty Morphin Power Rangers comics rights holder Boom Studios, and will likely be written by Cullen Bunn with artwork from Freddie Williams II. But it’s stunningly apparent looking back. Japan’s most iconic heroes taking up Japan’s most iconic monster? A color-coded quintet who’ve been defeating large monsters eternally because of their huge, combining robotic, the Megazord? These franchises have been completely made for one another.

I ought to make clear that whereas the Power Rangers idea is inherently Japanese—in any case, it’s primarily based on the iconic tokusatsu sequence Super Sentai—the comedian miniseries itself is after all pitting the American characters from the beloved U.S. adaptation of the ‘90s against the Big G, which we know because the crossover is Rita Repulsa’s fault (after all). Here’s the official synopsis:

“When Rita Repulsa uses an ancient artifact to transport herself to a universe without Power Rangers, she finds herself in a world with aliens, kaiju, and… Godzilla! Hoping to annihilate this new foe, Rita hurls her own terrible creatures into battle. But she never expects that the Rangers have followed her to this alternate reality, pitting the Dinozords themselves head-to-head with the King of the Monsters!”

Honestly, I don’t even care if the comedian is any good when the primary concern arrives in March; I’m simply completely happy to know this match-made-in-nerd-heaven goes to exist. And if Japanese Godzilla rights holder Toho isn’t already exhausting at work on a live-action crossover film between the 2 franchises, it must get on it ASAP.

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