Playing with All of the Toys: Interview with Ryan Parrott about Rangers and Turtles Crossover

Boom! Studios was kind enough us to let us sit down with Ryan Parrott, the current architect of their Power Rangers comic and more pressingly today, his most recent crossover event: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Versed in both comics (MMPR / TMNT / GGPR / Death to the Army of Darkness) and TV (Chance / Revolution), Parrott happily shared some insight into the weird 1990’s fever dream of a crossover.

BNP: So, let’s start with the big question that’s been on my mind since I read the issue: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Where did this wild mash up come from? Parrott: It came from being like… a 10-year-old kid and having both those action figures and wanting to play with them. I think I managed to convince my parents to buy all of them. And even some of the odder ones, like Detective Raphael and Deep-Sea Diving Michelangelo. I had all that stuff. I wish I could put all of that into the comic books. I think the two groups have a lot in common and fit together so well. It’s a match made in heaven. And so, I actually called my editor to ask if I could do this crossover, and they were already working on it. I just begged to write, and I just got very lucky that I called at the exact moment they hadn’t had a writer. I would have lost my mind if I couldn’t have been a part of this. It just seems like a natural fit, and I’d do 100 issues of this crossover.

BNP: What are some of the challenges of working with established…