Parts XXXVII and XXXVIII
Some notes on Parts XXXVII and XXXVIII:- Part XXXVII went through a few story restructures before it was finalized. Initially, Edward was supposed to get angry at Apple's death and blame the robot for his own actions. This avenue would have added a heftier page/part count to the story, which is something I didn't want to do.
- I decided that Part XXXVII would be the proper time for Edward to fully snap out of his psychosis. By having the Dragonzord act on its own, it allowed me to subtly allude to the the coming reveal of the true villain of the story - which occurs in the last panel of Part XXXVIII.
- I decided early on in the production of this story that Robot was never going to be the true villain of the tale, instead shifting that role Edward. However, while checking out Power Rangers episodes for content reference, I began to see that Zordon always seemed to be more in control of events than he ever let on. This lead me to pontificate on whether or not he was as benign and helpless as the show's creators would have you believe. (It also was strange that he would entrust the total control of these gigantic, transforming, destructive robots to random teenagers that dont even have driver's licenses. Therefore, it stands to reason that someone as smart as Zordon would have a backdoor access to these machines.)
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