Justice League Power Rangers #2 Review

Writer: Tom Taylor / Artist: Stephen Byrne / DC Comics, Boom! Comics It’s often hard to balance the tone of two separate properties combined, as few align perfectly and one usually concedes to adopt the tenor of another, making one feel disingenuous or faulty, a guest in someone else’s home. The exception, in this case, are two franchises old enough to have had countless enumerations, allowing to just pair the tones that best line up like matching a pair of socks in a stuffed drawer; they don’t have to be perfect, two socks just have to be dark enough to match. In Justice League Power Rangers the iteration of the Justice League is light enough to match the kitschy cheesiness of the Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers and makes for a series that can be easy to hate for those who hoped for something more serious, and easy to love for those who take it for what it is: a 6-part series that’ll follow the standard crossover formula as light, funny imaginings of what would happen if one team fought another. You know the drill: someone will cross dimensions on accident. The two teams will meet. They’ll fight from a misunderstanding. The bad guys form a plan. The good guys realize their misunderstanding, that they’re all good guys, just in time to team up and stop the bad guys’ plan. It’s simple, cliché, and with a crossover like this, who cares, it works. In issue #1 we see Batman vs Zack, and then the steady build of additional team members joining the fray. The best appearance has be to …