Earlier this week BOOM! Studios and Hasbro announced a new series set in the world of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers franchise. Ranger Academy will for the first time explore the training gifted teenagers with attitude go through to become Power Rangers. The new ongoing series comes from the creative team of writer Maria Ingrande Mora, artist Jo Mi-Gyeong, and colorist Fabiana Mascolo.
Here’s how BOOM! describes Ranger Academy:
13-year-old Sage lives on an isolated lunar colony with her adoptive father, but her days on the farm will change forever when she comes across a wreckage with wounded passengers, people from an academy training to be something called… POWER RANGERS. For the first time, discover the amazing school where Rangers are made!
Along with a main cover by Miguel Mercado, Ranger Academy #1 will also be available with variant covers by Jo Mi-Gyeong and Ejikure.
Ranger Academy is the first comics work for writer Maria Ingrande Mora, whose young adult prose work includes Fragile Remedy and The Immeasurable Depth of You. It’s the latest Boom! Studios work for Jo Mi-Gyeong, who has worked on a number of previous Power Rangers titles for the publisher, among other projects.
In a statement announcing the series, Mora, Mi-Gyeong, and editor Dafna Pleban described working in this new corner of the Power Rangers universe:
“It’s such an honor to introduce Sage and her friends to a new generation of Power Rangers fans,” said writer Maria Ingrande Mora. “Jo is a dream to collaborate with, and her love for these characters is clear in every panel and expression. Welcome to Ranger Academy!”
“Creating the details of this new world for Ranger Academy was a lot of fun for me. If there was anything more enjoyable than that, it would have been to portray the characters’ rich sensibilities and expressions of emotions,” said artist Jo Mi-Gyeong. “I hope everyone will love them just as I fell in love with them.”
“Ranger Academy is what you get when Power Rangers meets My Hero Academia,” said series editor Dafna Pleban. “Teenage angst, romance, super powers, and high action adventure! It is my new favorite Power Rangers series, hands down.”
Check out Mi-Gyeong and Ejikure’s variant covers for the first issue, as well as an unlettered preview of the issue, below. Ranger Academy #1 is due out in stores and digitally on Wednesday, October 4th.
