Combo Rangers

Combo Rangers
The five main Rangers in their Revolution era. From left to right: Lisa, Ken, Fox, Kiko and Tati.
Author(s)	Fabio Yabu
Launch date	1998
End date	2005
Publisher(s)	Editora JBC Panini Comics
Genre(s)	parody, manga, super sentai

Combo Rangers is a series of Webcomics created in 1998 by Japanese-Brazilian author Fábio Yabu. It is clearly based on Super Sentai series (having started off as a parody, then developing more serious storylines, though without losing the comic vein), featuring five main rangers (Red, blue, green, pink and yellow) and an extra, white one. Also, they are led by O Poderoso Combo (The Mighty Combo, whom the Rangers call Tio Combo, or Uncle Combo in English), and fight against several forms of evil. They are self-nominated "the ones who fight in the name of love and justice". Combo Rangers have won the HQ Mix Award three times.

The story is set in a fictional city called Cidade City (literally "City City"). The city is located in a fictional universe called "Yabuverso" (literally "Yabuverse"). Initially, Poderoso Combo was the responsible for saving the city and the world from all kind of evil, but his powers were harming his health, so he was forced to retire. Therefore, he has recruited five kids (all of them were about nine years old) to battle against General Monte, who was coming from space. As time passes in the real world, so does the time in the story, meaning that all the characters grew up. In the last season, they were featured as teenagers. Also, beyond being superheroes, they have also to handle with school, home and family, while trying to keep their superheroes lives in secret. They are not the only superheroes, though: they are members of ASH, the Association of Super Heroes (Associação de Super-Heróis) which is home to several other superheroes.

The series was featured on the net until 2003, when it was cancelled. It was also printed as comics in 2000. In 2004, Yabu decided to stop writing the comic, to focus only on his book "Princesas do Mar" (Sea Princesses). The book has been a success and therefore Yabu has released two sequels.

In December 2012, Yabu ran a crowdfunding project on the website Catarse.me to release a new Combo Rangers story as a graphic novel. The funding was successful and the book was released in 2013 in Brazil.