Power Rangers Returns to Dinosaur Theme

It's arguable that the height of Power Rangers' popularity in North America reached its peak during Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, so it's no wonder that Bandai is looking to revisit its Dinosaur theme for the 37th entry in their long-running Super Sentai series, Juuden Sentai Kyoryuger.

Bandai's president is actually blaming the dark tone of the last series, Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters for its sub par market performance, so Juuden Sentai Kyoryuger aims to take the series back to a more upbeat, lighthearted format with lots of music and "ridiculously" powerful heroes.

The Kyoryugers are composed of Red, Blue, Green, Black and Pink with Pink being the only female hero and no Yellow included for the first time since 1986's Dengeki Sentai Changeman. This team will pilot five mecha, which form a three-piece main robot with one main body piece and two arms.

Papercutz to Publish First American Power Rangers Comic since 1997

Europe has been enjoying an original Power Rangers comic strip since the early 2000s, but America is only now getting its first Power Rangers comic book since the 1997 one-shot from Acclaim.

The new Power Rangers comic book will be released by graphic novel publisher NBM through their PaperCutz imprint, and will feature original stories made for the comic, instead of adapting episodes from the Nickelodeon series.

The first volume, entitled Power Rangers Super Samurai: Memory Short, is planned to have 50 pages, and will be out in both hardcover and paperback versions on June 27, 2012. The story will be written by Stefan Petrucha, who has written a series of Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew graphic novels for Papercutz in the past.