To celebrate the enduring legacy of the Power Rangers, Boom! Studios is kicking off the year with Shattered Grid. It’s the first Power Rangers event for the series since the publisher started pushing out monthly issues of the superb series written by Kyle Higgins and drawn by talented artists such as Hendry Prasetya and Daniele Di Nicoulo, which opens with tragedy.

Buckle up true believers, because Zordon’s finest warriors are about to meet their match and then some, when a mysterious new Ranger unleashes the Ranger Slayer, in this first look at the beast in this cover from Saban's Go Go Power Rangers #10.

Five teenagers with attitude, able to command a fleet of mechanical Zords that happen to be able to combine into an even bigger weapon of monster-punching destruction, what could possibly stop them? After 25 years, we may finally have an answer to that question which humanity has aksed for precisely the length of time needed to read that opening sentence: …

Lord Drakkon is staging a counterattack across all of Ranger time and space in 2018’s Shattered Grid event that ties into the 25th anniversary celebration of the franchise. Clearly, it's going to take more than just five teenagers with attitude to stop him. It's going to take 25 years of Power Rangers to halt the greatest threat facing the morphin grid.