"Heir To Darkness" is a disappointment

Okay, yeah, I found the comic for free and, guess what? I hate it!

-I don't give a fuck if Ecliptor "trained" her, he was NEVER a dick to her

-Why is he training other kids

-Uh. He told her her parents served Dark Specter? Uh. Um. No?! I... I really... I don't know about that. It's an interesting twist I GUESS but I'm still not down with this

-She and Divatox are the same age and trained together? Oh okay yeah nope

-Clippy does some "lol the master isn't ashamed of me after all" bullshit and I hate it

-Oh wait lmao "Dee" isn't Divatox. Sorry, she's some other random child. I APOLOGIZE. This is still dreadful.

-Karone DID NOT HAVE FRIENDS. She didn't know what it was like to have friends. She was ISOLATED FROM HER FUCKING PEERS. That was explicit.

-They give more "screentime" to these random OC children than to the actual characters in the actual show.

That's why I can't stand these comics. "I have the coolest character evar". I DON'T CARE. They're not canon. Keep it separate or don't pretend it's the same story.

-Clippy never calls her anything but "My Princess" (except "My Queen" in C2D). The comic kinda got it semi-right but then on the same page he calls her "My Lady" and those aren't words that man ever said to that girl.

-This was the biggest waste of time.

-Fuck the comics.

-"I want to make it edgy!" SO DO I. But you have to keep SOME THINGS THE SAME or it's just generic bad teen comic nonsense.

-I would never. Ever. EVER. Try to introduce my OCs to actual canon PR stories. They do not belong there. The reader does not care about your OC.

-I PROMISE YOU. The reader does not fucking care about your OC.

When the franchise is this old and there are literally hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of characters across decades of media, you use one of those characters, or you fuck off.

-I HATE THE COMICS SO MUCH.

I always saw the bad guys conquering most of the galaxy as being straight up lightning in a bottle right place right time. I don't know if they had a plan or not. I genuinely don't. All the pieces came together but only because of a LOT of luck and power.

UAE whatever, these people were NOT organized. Astronema was a FLUKE that was NOT SUPPOSED TO WORK. She was not part of an organized child soldier program. Darkonda kidnapped her FOR FUN and decided to dump her with E because he's a troll. It's like sending a pizza to his house.

I swear to god, nothing in that comic has anything to do with the actual show. And that just shows a complete lack of creativity. If your story can't work in the setting of the actual show, then it needs to be fixed. I FOUND THIS OUT! I used to write whatever BS came to me! Whether it fit the show or not.

"What I'm writing is so cool!" Fine. But guess what? It's not possible or likely. It takes practice. But you're writing in a universe that works like a 1998 kiddie show. Because that's what it is. That universe doesn't grow up with you.

Let me say that again.

THE UNIVERSE OF THE SHOW DOES NOT GROW UP WITH YOU.

The show stays the same. Forever. You can write an endless amount of quality content in that universe! Look at Harry Potter. But the show will never ever exist in 2021.

So if you can't figure out a way to have things that could plausibly happen in the context of the show, happen in your story, then it needs to change. Or else present it as something else, AU or whatever.

Having multiple old fandoms has really hammered this point home.

Ugh. I'm still so annoyed. It's just, YOU ARE A GUEST in this show's universe. You don't get to dictate how things are. You don't get to fuck around just because "we never saw what happened". WE HAVE A PRETTY DAMN GOOD IDEA WHAT HAPPENED. And it wasn't this.

I hate the comics.

This is why I stay out of the fandom. I'm sure most people think the comics are fine, or an improvement on the show. Because the show is "corny children's schlock from the 90s".

Yep. It is. Challenge yourself to tell a good story anyway. It can be done.

IT CAN BE DONE.

If there was ever a brilliant scene or moment or frame in all the episodes of the show, it proves it can be done. And you can do it, too. In a respectful way that honors the original content for what it is.

Oh. Also.

Karone as a, like, 11-14 year old still went by "Kay". Because. Like. Her name.

NOOOO. Absolutely not. If you kidnap and brainwash a person so they forget their entire past, wouldn't you think one of the first things you'd do would be change her ENTIRE name?!?!

If you're about to look me in the eye and tell me that only a COUPLE YEARS or possibly less, prior to PRiS, that Astronema knew her real name to that extent? That she has known her name was "Ka-" THIS WHOLE TIME? This girl is not stupid. She'd figure it out.

That's why "I am Astronema" was so impactful. She has been Astronema for like, what, 10+ years. THAT IS WHO SHE IS. She learns she's Karone, and she's like, "I only have these super old, vague memories of being that person and having that name".

I just can't imagine calm, big-vocabulary, voice of reason Ecliptor would:

-Receive a child to raise/brainwash/LIE TO ABOUT HER ENTIRE PAST

-Find out her name is Karone

-Be like, "Yeah, okay. Let's call her 'K' for short lol."

That's assuming Darkonda even KNEW HER NAME

I don't think Darkonda knew her name. Or gave a shit. He obviously found out at some point, but I just don't think he cared at that time.

I would not be a bit surprised if he kidnapped Karone because he planned to sell her as food. Or eat her himself. These are ALIENS, MAN.

Ugh. Also, let me be clear (to the nobody reading this) that I do not stand by some of the shit even *I* have written anymore. Huge chunks of Too Great A Leap would need to be thrown out if I wanted to do it over. But, yeah, I just... the child soldier thing, just, no.

I actually think it would be awesome (and maybe someone already covered this) if a big part of the UAE's like, propaganda, is against Zordon for using child soldiers. Most of these entities are millennia old. It would be hilarious if they were appalled by such actions !

I get the cleverness of them raising child soldiers to fight child soldiers. Super clever, I won't lie. And, you know what, there are certainly characters I could see having that background and it would be cool. Like... villain school, involves "Fighting Power Rangers" lessons

Considering it comes so naturally to all these people. DEFEAT POWER RANGERS might be a high school class. That would actually be really funny. Like, Rito and Elgar are cutting 5th hour Defeat Power Rangers to go hang out behind the dumpster (his sister's future house) and smoke

But I just. Cannot. Get behind. Astronema. Having. Constant. Contact. With. People. Her. Own. Age. And. Making. Friends. With. Them.

Everyone she knew was older than sand. She was the only child among 10,000+ year old people/monsters. I believe this in my heart.

This is honestly part of why she's so awkward around the rangers. She's been isolated and forced to stand up for herself to a bunch of much much much older people. The only person who ever had her back was, guess who? Someone much much much much older than her

Who then gave his entire LIFE for her sake again and again and again.

I'm just saying.

Also, I don't agree that she and him weren't running around doing minor crimes to survive. They totally were. I thought that'd be what the comic was about!

Look at the cover! She and he are wearing cloaks and posing in badass fighting styles. They were absolutely, without question, a badass fighting duo like Bonnie and Clyde. Just the two of them. Like the song.

The song being "Wind Beneath My Wings". I'M SORRY.

I should just move all this to a private DW post. Literally no1curr. But I'm lazy.

Just know. I will die on this hill. The hill of everything I already said.

(Also, yeah the art in the comic is good, I have no complaints about that. I'm just posting my shit here as verification that I've been a fan for a gazillion years and I somewhat know what I'm talking about X_x)