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I am super uncomfortable with cross scaling the comics and the show given the repeated statements of the two being different timelines, the contradictions between the show and comic (Hell, the comics are even AT LEAST a year and a half farther in events than the show, seeing as Darkest Hour ends in "year Three" of MMPR, at a time the rangers still have their thunder powers, when they should have Ninjetti powers by this point) and a lot of other issues.
Again, just the ton of evidence of them being two continuities but maybe the same multiverse:
Kyle Higgins (So for the more continuity minded this could almost be considered more of a branched, different continuity?
I mean, if you really want to get into it you can just consider it an alternate universe. But it’s more of an alternate timeline.) Melissa Flores (Link here, where she states Hyperforce, which is canon to the Boom! Timeline isn't canon to the main universe) and Simon Bennett ( "The only time comics were taken into consideration/referenced was when they were designing the Morphin Masters. The comics are otherwise completely separate from the show" Jyuuki collects and is reposting info from Simon Benett's Twitter Live). Simon Bennet again in a since deleted tweet
and a third Simon Bennet comment that the comics are "completely separate" from the show, as well as the events of Once and Always contradicting the Omega Rangers, then why do we have comic stuff in the profiles?
Even doing some research, in the comics themselves, Boom!Zach meets Show!Zach in Forever Black (Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers 2017 annual.). They don't meet Tommy until nine months have passed since Arrival day, (The previous issue said a year, but they pushed it forward in GOGO 22) (more proof, everyone aged a year between Go Go #1 and Go Go Power Rangers Forever Rangers, where Jason meets Tommy for the first time at the end) where it's only a few weeks in the show, in issue 102, Day of the Dumpster was Three years ago in the comics universe, where, if it was following the show, they'd be midway though year 2, Kim is still part of the team when they should have Cat right now and have their ninja powers by the time of Darkest Hour, Rita having her redemption arc before even marrying Zedd in The Wedding, Tommy, Kim and Billy experiencing the Metallic Armor in Season 2, when they had no idea what it was in Master Vile and the Metallic Armor.
One major part of this is both the show and the comic treat each episode as a week (The comic has the Pudgy Pig fight as "six weeks after Arrival Day" and it's the 6th episode of the show), excluding multiparters which happen same day/over the course of a few days in one week. 60 episodes in Season 1, 52 in Season 2, 43 in Season 3. 155 episodes.
So, take away the multiparters that take place same day: (Island of Illusion 1-2, The Green Candle 1+2, Return of an Old Friend 1-2, Doomsday 1+2, Rangers Back in Time 1-2, Hog Day Afternoon 1+2) and the ones that take place in the same week ( Green with Evil 1-5, The Ninja Encounter 1-3, The Power Transfer 1-2, The Wedding 1-3, Storybook Rangers 1-2, Wild West Rangers 1-2, Stop the Hate Master 1-2, A Ranger Catastrophe 1-2, Changing of the Zords 1-3, Master Vile and the Metallic Armor 1-3, and Aqua rangers of Aquitar 1-2,) gives us a total of 130 weeks, about 2.5 (2.49) years right at the start of Zeo, which fits as the series starts mid-school year. Even if we went with the full 155 weeks, that's only 2.9 years
However, they're still in Thunder powers in the comics "three years" after arrival day, which is an issue.
So, using the Comics timeline
MMPR Season 1 covers at least a year and "several months" as MMPR "Green No More" happens several months after an entire year has passed, meaning they got their Thunder powers sometime, and all of Season 2 takes place sometime over a two year expanse, since 3 years have passed since Arrival Day according to the flashback to right before Arrival Day is three years ago and they don't even have their ninjetti powers.....which leads to the sliiiight hiccup of ALL OF SEASON 3, including the Alien Ranger Saga, and ALL OF ZEO needs to happen in less than a year for the comics timeline to keep going with the show's, since the Rangers graduate in the beginning of Turbo. Billy Gradiates mid-Zeo "a year early" and he's explicitly the youngest, which fits the timeline established in the show but causes problems in the comic.. That right there is a big hiccup but we have more problems.
The Green With Evil Saga is supposed to take place over a relatively short time in the show, only a few days. However, we explicitly have it taking place over at LEAST two months in the comic.
And then we have our biggest hiccup.
Namely, Matthew Cook. Man CANNOT exist in the Show's timeline at all for two good reasons.
In Green No More, Tommy sends the Dragon Zord to sleep at the bottom of the ocean and loses his powers.
In Return of the Green Ranger, they say the Dragonzord's been dormant since Tommy lost his powers and Evil Tommy tells it to awaken, energize itself with evil, and Zordon says "The green ranger is attempting to call on the sleeping dragonzord."
So, The Dragonzord has been sleeping since Green no More.
Then how is Matthew Crook using it? Matt gets his powers AFTER Green No More, which we know since Green No More happens before the Power Transfer, and Matt premieres when the Stone Canyon Trio are already rangers.
Then at the end of Return of the Green Ranger, Clone tommy sends it back into the sea, which would be great....except ROTGR happens AFTER the Wedding and Rita and Zedd are very much not married at that time.
There are a few statements of it being canon to the show, namely this one from Ryan Parrott("If you look at moments in Go Go, when you saw the Pudgy Pig, when he arrived? Same lines of dialogue. I use those as sort of like marking posts. The way that I look at it is I think that they are all canon. I think they are a part of the TV series and the comics are the same line and they sort of intermingle together. I feel like they sort of line up that way. They are kind of linked … they all fit into the same timeline. Yeah, you could probably get really picky with all, but I just felt like you love the show, I love the show. I don’t want to be in that point where I’m saying, “Well, this happened, but this didn’t.” I want to pay tribute to it the same way that you do.") , and this one from Jason Bishoff, and the comic referring to the show a few times, but again, compare that to the difference in location and dialogue between the show and the comic in the Pudgy Pig fight, the flashback to Jason vs Tommy (different clothes and Tommy is armed) and the problems I listed before.
Sure, some of them can be dismissed as just narrative expansion or pacing, but uh....GWE can't take place over the course of months as Tommy goes immediately from the ritual to destroying the Command Center, then straight to the fight against the rangers, then the rangers find the command center. THAT'S the time period between the "Seven Months after Arrival Day" and "Nine months after Arrival Day" we're working with. And the Matthew Cook stuff's pretty big. And of course, the different time periods and COMIC ZACK MEETING SHOW ZACK.
I'd also conders Simon Benett's three statements higher priority than Jason's one because of the contradictions and the fact at that time, Simon was the head of all Power Ranger's stuff and Jason had been let go for a long time when he made that twitter statement.
I can see it canon to the multiverse, but it's too different to cross-scale feats.
Again, just the ton of evidence of them being two continuities but maybe the same multiverse:
Kyle Higgins (So for the more continuity minded this could almost be considered more of a branched, different continuity?
I mean, if you really want to get into it you can just consider it an alternate universe. But it’s more of an alternate timeline.) Melissa Flores (Link here, where she states Hyperforce, which is canon to the Boom! Timeline isn't canon to the main universe) and Simon Bennett ( "The only time comics were taken into consideration/referenced was when they were designing the Morphin Masters. The comics are otherwise completely separate from the show" Jyuuki collects and is reposting info from Simon Benett's Twitter Live). Simon Bennet again in a since deleted tweet
and a third Simon Bennet comment that the comics are "completely separate" from the show, as well as the events of Once and Always contradicting the Omega Rangers, then why do we have comic stuff in the profiles?
Even doing some research, in the comics themselves, Boom!Zach meets Show!Zach in Forever Black (Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers 2017 annual.). They don't meet Tommy until nine months have passed since Arrival day, (The previous issue said a year, but they pushed it forward in GOGO 22) (more proof, everyone aged a year between Go Go #1 and Go Go Power Rangers Forever Rangers, where Jason meets Tommy for the first time at the end) where it's only a few weeks in the show, in issue 102, Day of the Dumpster was Three years ago in the comics universe, where, if it was following the show, they'd be midway though year 2, Kim is still part of the team when they should have Cat right now and have their ninja powers by the time of Darkest Hour, Rita having her redemption arc before even marrying Zedd in The Wedding, Tommy, Kim and Billy experiencing the Metallic Armor in Season 2, when they had no idea what it was in Master Vile and the Metallic Armor.
One major part of this is both the show and the comic treat each episode as a week (The comic has the Pudgy Pig fight as "six weeks after Arrival Day" and it's the 6th episode of the show), excluding multiparters which happen same day/over the course of a few days in one week. 60 episodes in Season 1, 52 in Season 2, 43 in Season 3. 155 episodes.
So, take away the multiparters that take place same day: (Island of Illusion 1-2, The Green Candle 1+2, Return of an Old Friend 1-2, Doomsday 1+2, Rangers Back in Time 1-2, Hog Day Afternoon 1+2) and the ones that take place in the same week ( Green with Evil 1-5, The Ninja Encounter 1-3, The Power Transfer 1-2, The Wedding 1-3, Storybook Rangers 1-2, Wild West Rangers 1-2, Stop the Hate Master 1-2, A Ranger Catastrophe 1-2, Changing of the Zords 1-3, Master Vile and the Metallic Armor 1-3, and Aqua rangers of Aquitar 1-2,) gives us a total of 130 weeks, about 2.5 (2.49) years right at the start of Zeo, which fits as the series starts mid-school year. Even if we went with the full 155 weeks, that's only 2.9 years
However, they're still in Thunder powers in the comics "three years" after arrival day, which is an issue.
So, using the Comics timeline
MMPR Season 1 covers at least a year and "several months" as MMPR "Green No More" happens several months after an entire year has passed, meaning they got their Thunder powers sometime, and all of Season 2 takes place sometime over a two year expanse, since 3 years have passed since Arrival Day according to the flashback to right before Arrival Day is three years ago and they don't even have their ninjetti powers.....which leads to the sliiiight hiccup of ALL OF SEASON 3, including the Alien Ranger Saga, and ALL OF ZEO needs to happen in less than a year for the comics timeline to keep going with the show's, since the Rangers graduate in the beginning of Turbo. Billy Gradiates mid-Zeo "a year early" and he's explicitly the youngest, which fits the timeline established in the show but causes problems in the comic.. That right there is a big hiccup but we have more problems.
The Green With Evil Saga is supposed to take place over a relatively short time in the show, only a few days. However, we explicitly have it taking place over at LEAST two months in the comic.
And then we have our biggest hiccup.
Namely, Matthew Cook. Man CANNOT exist in the Show's timeline at all for two good reasons.
In Green No More, Tommy sends the Dragon Zord to sleep at the bottom of the ocean and loses his powers.
In Return of the Green Ranger, they say the Dragonzord's been dormant since Tommy lost his powers and Evil Tommy tells it to awaken, energize itself with evil, and Zordon says "The green ranger is attempting to call on the sleeping dragonzord."
So, The Dragonzord has been sleeping since Green no More.
Then how is Matthew Crook using it? Matt gets his powers AFTER Green No More, which we know since Green No More happens before the Power Transfer, and Matt premieres when the Stone Canyon Trio are already rangers.
Then at the end of Return of the Green Ranger, Clone tommy sends it back into the sea, which would be great....except ROTGR happens AFTER the Wedding and Rita and Zedd are very much not married at that time.
There are a few statements of it being canon to the show, namely this one from Ryan Parrott("If you look at moments in Go Go, when you saw the Pudgy Pig, when he arrived? Same lines of dialogue. I use those as sort of like marking posts. The way that I look at it is I think that they are all canon. I think they are a part of the TV series and the comics are the same line and they sort of intermingle together. I feel like they sort of line up that way. They are kind of linked … they all fit into the same timeline. Yeah, you could probably get really picky with all, but I just felt like you love the show, I love the show. I don’t want to be in that point where I’m saying, “Well, this happened, but this didn’t.” I want to pay tribute to it the same way that you do.") , and this one from Jason Bishoff, and the comic referring to the show a few times, but again, compare that to the difference in location and dialogue between the show and the comic in the Pudgy Pig fight, the flashback to Jason vs Tommy (different clothes and Tommy is armed) and the problems I listed before.
Sure, some of them can be dismissed as just narrative expansion or pacing, but uh....GWE can't take place over the course of months as Tommy goes immediately from the ritual to destroying the Command Center, then straight to the fight against the rangers, then the rangers find the command center. THAT'S the time period between the "Seven Months after Arrival Day" and "Nine months after Arrival Day" we're working with. And the Matthew Cook stuff's pretty big. And of course, the different time periods and COMIC ZACK MEETING SHOW ZACK.
I'd also conders Simon Benett's three statements higher priority than Jason's one because of the contradictions and the fact at that time, Simon was the head of all Power Ranger's stuff and Jason had been let go for a long time when he made that twitter statement.
I can see it canon to the multiverse, but it's too different to cross-scale feats.
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