Lots of Ranger-on-Ranger dialog on page four here...
The first panel wraps up the gag from last page on how Stickboy knew who the "mysterious" Lavender Ranger was.
The second panel has another God awful pun in the same vein that the Rangers and monsters tended to toss around on the show.
And then the bottom half of the page is the zord summoning gag.
Now most of the time the Rangers don't do a lot to summon their zords, just throwing your arm up and calling them is usually enough. But the second season, at the height of the franchise's popularity, was different. The Rangers would do these very strange martial arts/aerobic routines while summoning their zords. It looked ridiculous (even in the context of the show) and was something I always joked about back in the day.
Curiously enough I never figured out why it was like that until I was watching some episodes as reference for this comic. I watched the ending of Green With Evil, which ended with all the Rangers (including the newly joined Green Ranger) doing melodramatic martial arts routines while giving speeches about how awesome they are. It's not uncommon to do stuff like that to add melodrama in anime.
And next I watched them summoning zords in season two...and it's the exact same sequence! They just took them flailing their arms around while making a speech and dubbed the zord summoning dialog over it! The motions they use had absolutely no significance to summoning anything, it was just footage reused out of context. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is early Power Rangers in a nutshell.
So anyway, next up is page five when we finally get to see a giant freaking robot!
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