if you watch a lot of television then this comic will make sense to you
it is a reference to a television show called “power rangers”
where people would “range” using their “powers”
TELEVISION!
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LOL
power ranger? isnt it goku?
Haha XD SS Fletcher! =p
Lol, I think they’re being ironic?
But I wonder what is his power level.
It’s over 9000! Sorry… couldn’t resist… ;p
dragon ball reference, actually (said in a friendly-and-non-pretentious-for-my-knowledge-of-this-stuff way)
power rangers would have..used a giant multi-coloured robot to open it
the “knowledge” says i spent a lot of my childhood at home… ¬¬
Now that’s when the powers really helpful. =)
Yeah, I thought it was Goku too…. and I don’t remember the power rangers doing that… but then again that was like 14 years ago…
I think it’s more like Dragonball than Power Rangers, but who cares :)
@wtf… dude, c’mon that’s obviously optimus prime
DBZ powers.
Dear wtf?,
Sarcasm is a beautiful thing.
With love,
your mother
I thik that is more of a Dragon Ball thing not power rangers I mean the hair and the glowing it is so DB.
Yeah, i thought he’d gone super saiyan…
omg! power rangers?? shame on you xD
hahaha .. is goku being a super sayain!!
but doesnt matter! the today comic rules!
wow wtf? *face palm*
Goku is my favorite Power Ranger. He wasn’t all stereotypical like the nappy black ranger.
I always thought Goten was the best Power Ranger. Not a lot of other people liked the 4th season of Power Rangers though. Too many damn turtles with bandanas.
Lol classic DBZ background in the last panel
I’m glad Fletcher was able to unlock his Jedi powers.
ITS OVER NINE THOUSAND!!!!!
this is made of win, when i was reading it i caught the beam in the corner of my eye and was expecting to see shoop da woop, but was pleasantly suprised :D
I loved the blue power ranger with the sword, he kicked ass.
He just went super ranger!
Absolutely all over this comic - f-ing class.
its not the power rangers, its dragon ball z
wtf? got it right.. This isn’t a power ranger reference. It’s a Goku in Dragon Ball Z reference… Again there is nothing tying this strip to the power rangers…
Not Power Rangers. That is Goku in Sayajin mode (it is not PR), from Dragon Ball Z.
Ka-me-ha-meeeeeeee HA!
I didn’t know Fletcher was Spiderman!
power rangers? really?
Power Rangers eh? Written by Akira Toriyama, follows the adventures of Goku and is better known as Dragonball? Hah! Still a funny pic…
I love power rangers, my favourite episode was the one where they captured monsters and fought eachother with them. Nice reference :thumbsup:
Uh. That’s DragonBall NOT power rangers. Don’t insult Dragonball you may never get your credibility back.
ITS OVER 9000!!!1!!!one!!!
Are those flames or just sexy He-man-looking hair. Or wait, Fletcher IS He-man!
LOL.
Fletcher = Broly! It reveals so much! Especially that if Copernicus gets really angry he can just hurl him into the sun.
Hey, hey, hey. I know I’m the first person to point this out buuuuuuut, that’s not Power Rangers, it’s DBZ n00b!
Yeah, I know it’s a part of the joke but I don’t think the other people got it so I need to point that out.
Also, the fourth panel would have been better if he said, “I’m a firing mah lazar!”
WOOOWW hahahahahahaaha. That is funny man.
I would have enjoyed this comic by so much more if I knew wha-wha-wah-what it’s all about.
Dudes, chill… It’s totally obvious that he said “Power Rangers” for the sake of irony. Obviously he knows what “Dragon Ball Z” is… -_-”
ughh…so many people just don’t know the meaning of sarcasm
i wouldn’t bother to list them all as there are so many. To those people *face palm*
Obviously the Power Rangers thing was a joke, I’m pretty sure fletcher knows what DBZ is. Also last panel fletc is effing RIPPED
to Shadowslayer, double *facepalm*
I can’t believe that fifty people would rather say “HEY LOOK AT ME I’M REALLY BAD AT UNDERSTANDING WRITTEN HUMOR, DUR DUR DURRM DURP DUURR**” than “Oh my god Fletcher is sexy as all hell when he’s ripped — you could lick ketchup off of those abs”.
**This is a thinly-veiled reference to everyone that said “It’s not Power Rangers, it’s DBZ; and here’s hoping that the guy who said it was Power Rangers ISN’T actually such a huge idiot that he mistook DBZ for Power Rangers, because OH MY GOD I don’t think I could stand that”.
PS: How did the Power Rangers theme go? “Power power, power range, power rangers GO”?
Oh my god Fletcher is sexy as all hell when he’s ripped — you could lick ketchup off of those abs.
Fletcher got all ripped and sexeh!
haha hee hee ho he! must be depressing to see how many stupid people read your strips and that this one is the most discussed! I hope this will teach you about using irony! if you want to receive even more comments. just skip the comic next time and simply write: “this site here, which you are visiting right now, is obviously explosm.net…”
You people are f-ing idiots. Its obvious what he did. Yes he’s a Super Saiyan, yes he said power rangers insdead of dragon ball z. GET OVER IT! ARGH! /facepalm
Wow i got so frustraited reading those idiots that i had to stop half way and didnt see the posts aftercomplaining about the 10-14y.o’s haha
“if you watch a lot of television then this comic will make sense to you”
Obviously is the Pink Power Ranger charging his kamehameha on one of the episode where Naruto apears to open the ketchup….. NOT!
HNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGG!!!!!
holy butts that is a lot of comments!
it was entirely deliberate; i know full well that goku is a saiyan and that power rangers have weird suits and huge animal robots
i was going for a “hilarious mix-up” gag, but apparently DBZ is the wrong thing to make light of D:
Actually I believe this is an Ultraman reference, who was from the Korean TV show ‘Transformers’. His signature move was the hadouken.
Honestly, I can’t tell if the OP is joking or not about the ‘power rangers’ though…
nevermind… i somehow missed that there were 50 other comments. (i could only see 2 when i posted)
IMA FIRIN’ MAH LAZER
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goku? SAIYAN?!?!
i thought it was sailor moon. ò_Ó
i thought it was dragon ball Z, you know, kaaaaa mmeeeeeee hhhaaaaa meeeeeee HAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
Roflmao loving this comic. Thanks to explosm for linking me here <3
Its dragon ball stupid. They transform into super sanyan warriors. notice golden hair
And here I was thinking “oh he’s just going to get a massive hernia, followed by me being disappointed”. Haha, but really, it’s epic! Gotta love DBZ :D
Yep it’s dragon ball !
His 6 pack is disturbing, yet… HOT.
looks like fletcher collected all of the chaos emeralds.
DRAGON BALL Z IS SERIOUS BUSINESS.
Also, i love how he still has his tie on.
too bad some people who check out this site(and therefore claim to have a sense of humor) don’t get the joke…
but what the hell
It’s a reference to “Constipator Traitor”, where that guy gets time lapses and kills his friends whenever he gets an alimentary blockage.
Hey….
I LOVE THE FRESH PRINCE OF BEL-AIR
I remember when Will shot up a flash of light to help wimpy Carlton open up a bottle of ketchup!
Good times.
Silly feeble-minded americans.
Here in future, we have tapped into the unlimited might that is pop-open ketchup containers.
uhhmmmm this isnt power reangers i think it is draggon balls zero :/
OMG!
I HATE when that happens, I’ve had to go all super three times this week!
Pecking order!
That’s a Kamehameha dumbass
ohmygodthisissoawesome!!!
i smell bacon
Pretty sure it is about the Oil gusher
pretty sure that’s from thundercats!
Hell Yeah!!!
WUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Oh wow, I did not see the power rangers being mentioned anywhere near that comic XD
DRAGON BALL WHAT!? LOL :D
it’s obviously a Haduken and he transformed into Ken, or Chun-Li or something.
i like how ChicoBlue has two links in his name
fuck
i love that and also everything he makes
Holy hell thats some impressive abs.
Cool acid trip remix mang
Psh clearly it’s the new anime Heroman! (yes that is a real new anime.)
first
I poop on this thread. My dick is so hard. it’s DBZ.
dude its not power rangers its dragon ball z
@lalo
you best be trollin
And thats what you call epic power up AARGGGG XD power of grey skull o wait wrong cartoon hahha lol
I like it when the silly people don’t get the joke. See, cause it’s not power rangers; it’s and avatar reference. So obvious. =P
Everyone correcting the comic creator on his false pop culture referencing are stuuupiiid. =)
wow its a dragonball reference
DBZ sucks. i mean seriously.(it really does)
It’s obviously Yu-Gi-Oh. duh.
Guys, stop making DBZ comments. Obviously that is what he was going for. He was just gnomeing you.
FinDude says: 2010/05/19 at 6:08 am
Silly feeble-minded americans.
Here in future, we have tapped into the unlimited might that is pop-open ketchup containers.
Funny, is it not, my un-american brother? Here in america, we have anything we need at a moments notice.
That fool can’t open a bottle of ketchup without transforming.
I don’t need to open the bottle. The ketchup just jumps out from sheer terror.
LOL ! Fletcher’s a Super Saiyan :)
Wait a sec…. Hmmmmm, I’m almost 110% positive that’s a Dragonball Z reference!
Heheh.
Oh, those Rangers. They’re so wacky. My favourite one is the yellow one. I think his name was Pikachu.
IT’S OVER 57 VARIETIES!!11!!!!11
WHAT FIFTY-SEVEN????
HELL YEAH!!!!!
i officially love fletcher :D
It’s over nine thousand!!!! D:
Haha, I can do it without super saiyan, I only need Kaio-Ken x4.
how are they suppose to get the hot dogs ready if fletcher destroyed the whole town.
WAT THIS IS DRAGON BALL Z DAMNIT POWER RANGERS DHIT FOEVAH
SUPER SAYAN……. ITS OVER 9000
ITS OVER 1!!!
umm
mainly its 9001 but its still OVER 1
WHAT 1!!
SSJ 4 is my favorite
You opened it in only one page :O
bad DBZ imitation xD
The guy’s got dragon balls of steel!
Go go power fletchers!
…and I had a Dragon Ball Z dress up ad underneath the comic.