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Angel Grove

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I am on Holiday. I started this holiday working on my novels, but got distracted. I started watching Mighty Morphin power Rangers again. I have also been reading through my Power Rangers Comics.

Somewhere along the line I decided to put all of them into one continuous timeline. I started with the TV Episodes, then I layerd on the Hamilton Comics, Marvel Comics, Image Comics, and Papercutz Comics. from the 1990sto early 2000s. Then I added the Boom Comics, which started in 2016.

A lot of people don’t remember the older comics. But they have good ideas too, They tend to be a lot more thematically similar to the show than the newer Boom Comics, which takes a bit more serious look at the Power Rangers.

I have organized the series isues and episodes up to Green With Evil which is the point Tommy The Green Ranger comes in.

There is a lot to look at up this point. So I started taking my digial comics, and editing some of them together to be that 1 comic now has 1 story in it. (Some of the stories were 2 or 3 comics long, and some comics had 2 or 3 stories) Then I looked at them, and realized that the books to be theoretically printable, (I won’t print them, I don’t want to be sued) would need filler pages. You see in order for a comic to be printed it has to have a page count that is divisible by 4. Typically a large piece of paper, like A3 can hold 4 “pages” of print.

Some of the comics did not fit in this format, and I always want to have a back cover, so i added some art of the rangers for back covers, then I started research, as I do. I looked at the shows, the comics, the Role Playing Game, and using AI, I compiled a list of businesses that would exist in Angel Grove City. (The fictional city the Power Rangers started in)

Then using, AI. I began to make print ads for some of these. They turned out good. Of course, once I got going, I just didn’t stop. I’m on Holiday, Might as well enjoy it.

So after all thatI thought I would share some of the Print ads made.
I give permission for anyone writing, or playing the Power Rangers RPG (A la Hyperforce) to use these, or make more. Just no claiming them as your own. They belong to GPT.
If you make some, I would love to see them.

Something Psycho This Way Comes – 25 years later.

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When I was in High School, I made some good friends. All of us were a bit odd. I had my ASD, another member had MS (multiple sclerosis). We had a goth boy who dressed in all black and wanted to be a vampire. This was the Buffy the Vampire Slayer era, not the Twilight Era, so big mean, demonic vampires, not sparkly lonely vampires.

We had a girl who was very vocal about her rights as a woman (shaved her head like Sinead O’Connor). And two “ordinary” guys. We all liked anime, and that was what tied us together. We were an unofficial Anime club at High School. But at that time, Anime was mostly unheard of. People didn’t connect Astro-boy, or Speed Racer to Anime, and so the only example people thought of was Sailor Moon. You can imagine this made us very unpopular. Tie that with our other unusual characteristics, we started calling ourselves the “Psychosix” (there were six of us to start with).

By college time, our numbers had fluctuated, a few people left, and other joined. By the time we finished college there was around 20 of us. We had a website (Psychosix.com) where we posted our art, our songs, our writings, and our comics. We had all created Original Characters to base our stories around, and it was just a way for us to express ourselves.

Over the years, the Psychosix has drifted apart mostly. I am able to contact about half of them, but don’t do so often. The other half have moved on with their lives, and are spread around the world.

I, being the pack-rat that I am, have most of the files on my back-up. And have decided to start re-releasing updated versions. (My Gateways novel I am working on is one of these).  When I use other people work, or art, I contact them if I can to ask permission.

Our member from Los Angeles, Fritters had made comics using sprites from an online avatar making system. I am taking those and using AI, fixing them up. (I know AI Art is not popular with a lot. I am not a great artist anymore, and time is not my friend, so please understand).

I will post these comics up as I finish them.

Each time I do, I will post a profile of one of the characters.

This week is “Robyn Goodfellow”

And the Comic is “Something Psycho This Way Comes #2.