Kyle Higgins Talks How He Started Writing Might Morphin Power Rangers for BOOM! Studios

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Kyle Higgins in getting to write Power Rangers
Kyle: [00:07] In 2012, Bryce Carlson who's the managing editor at BOOM! He and I were chit-chatting and Bryson and I are really good friends. And we actually went to Chapman together but didn't know each other. We met like six months after Chapman. And so, we were chit-chatting and I said to him, I was like, “You know what BOOM! should do, they should do a Power Rangers, that should get a Power Rangers license because like that book could be really sick, like you do it as a modern superhero book and there’s no budget and you can really take advantage of and really build out like the mythology in ways that they couldn't on the show with preexisting footage and things like that”. [00:43] And he's like, “funny you say that”. He's like, “it's come up and we’ve talked about it”. And so, we like kind of went back and forth on this for a few minutes, I was writing Nightwing at the time, so this would have been 2012. And then, Papercuts announced they got the license and I remember thinking like, “oh, that's, I mean, cool for Papercuts but that was a bummer because that would have been fun. [01:06] But I didn't know how serious BOOM! was about it or anything. Fast forward to 2015, and all of a sudden, this press release goes out with these incredible single images from Goni Montes of the Power Ranger helmets and each Ranger holding a helmet. Yeah. So, those all went out and it was announcing that BOOM! had acquired the license, I was like, “oh, man”. Just from those images alone, you knew, like oh, this could be a hot series. Really hit, and I knew everyone at BOOM! socially for years, and so, I knew what, I knew they would really get behind something like this, like on the marketing side because you really need that for a book like this, especially if you can try to compete with big two superhero stuff. [01:57] And so, I emailed Bryce, I was like, “hey man, who do I got to kill to write a pitch for a backup”, because I figured they already had their team locked in. And he wrote back, he's like, you know, funny enough, he's like, “we're looking for a main writer and your name's come up”. And he’s like, I was like, “well, we chatted about this back in 2012”. He was like, “I know, that's what I've been telling people”. So, I was in Wisconsin, I was writing this, I wrote this pitch and I remember showing it to James Tynan and he thought it was really cool. [02:25] And then, and he was like, “BOOM! usually like to do [unintelligible 00:02:27] arcs, you may want to think about that”. I was like, “that's smart”. So, I kind of reconfigured for that. And basically, it pitched out, here's how I would do the book and I told them. When I turned it in, I was like, if you guys like this and you’re interested in this direction, like sweet. If you're not or suppose I’m not, then I'm not the guy for the job, like; this is how I would do it, this is what I think it should be. And that's kind of like it's anything kind of other than this is a little bit of a nonstarter for me from an interest level. [02:56] And when I say nonstarter, I mean like anything that's like diametrically different. If they’d said we want this to be set in the 1990s and to fill in, in between episodes, you know, stories in between episodes and fill in holes and continuity, I would have said no; no, thanks. And I mean, like there is a little bit of that in the book, like just from the standpoint of like we're technically in continuity but it's a little bit more of like a remakes, like you got to kind of squint because it like takes place in 2017 or 2016 or whatever, takes place modern day. So, it can't be the 90s and they have cellphones and things like that, but like big story beats we still have to like hit. [03:34] Or maybe if not hit, we have to be aware of and kind of work within, so, there is an aspect to that a little bit. But, you know, obviously, we've done some crazy stuff here. Ryan just wrote a line in the Free Comic Book Day issue where Kim is asking Trini if she should swipe right on that.