IDW Comics - Story Discussion (Spoilers)

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@Kiryu-Chan  
i think it;s just the first issue though

Why I do feel this Transformers will have the same cheesy behaviour from their 80s cartoon?

@[Ω]  
Because the comic actually looks fun?

@Kiryu-Chan  
Wasnt complaining tho

@[Ω]  
And its G1. Almost has been.

Rarity and Arcee are very wholesome, though I think their segment dragged on a few pages too long.

Just something I thought about, if Shadow Lock is Stygian’s descendant and the latter now lives in present day, would Shadow Lock ceased to exist? Or is the time stream already broken but not too broken?

@Phoenixflambe  
Lock is fine, Stygian must of had children before turning.

@Phoenixflambe  
The Pillars and Stygian were sealed away. No time travel was involved. Whenever Shadowlock was born, Stygian must have already conceived before he became the PoS

@Glimmer74  
@Kiryu-Chan  
Good theory, although there seems to be supposedly no implication that that’s the case.

They… gave Whitley a story with a shitton of characters to add.
 
No wonder they all look straight out of an OC creator gone haywire. Everyone is special.
 
So, who’s taking bets on which of those will end up being Whitley’s pet Mary Sue this time around?

@Poison Trail  
Which story is this? Not the Transformers crossover?

@Background Pony #03C9  
the first “episode” of season 10

@icey wicey 1517  
Thank you.
 
I just did look at it and I have to say, AJ is coming off very badly in it.

What is up with these Zebras? The designs are, hoenestly, pretty darn bad. Like, NüChangeling level bad.

@Background Pony #D8EC  
th two horned ones?
 
they are Abadas. They are unicorns from African mythology, except they have two horns instead of one.

@icey wicey 1517  
Weren’t unicorns the result of nobody drawing a picture of a rhinoceros?
 
Also, RIP my ability to follow the comics ever again…

Ugh, Chrysalis is totally out of character in the Transformers cross over. She’s worried her latest plan is a little too obvious.
 
…she would never be that self aware.
 
Starscream on the other hand heads straight to Rarity so he can look sufficiently fabulous when he betrays Megatron. That feels a lot more legit.

@Philweasel  

 
…honestly, in both the show and comics, she just isn’t the best at thinking things through due to her massive ego.
 
After all, she underestimated Twilight, and outright lost in a fight, due to underestimating the way Twilight’s finesse would help her leverage a power boost they both had (the comet), and prodding her into resisting by gloating about what she was going to make Twilight do to her former friends.
 
I like her character for what it actually is (a sadistic narcissistic egomaniac whose style does her a lot of favors), but “really considering consequences” or “good at hindsight” isn’t part of that, and she lacks the self-awareness to consider that she has that as a character flaw, should work on that.
 
Even at her best in the show (To Where and Back Again), she failed to brief her minions on Starlight Glimmer’s name and title as Twilight’s pupil (when she literally lives with two of the kidnapping victims), confirming she knew that in the next part, in addition to how awful more than one of the impersonators were, and she chalked her S8 failure on “servants always fail you in the end,” ignoring how it was fundamentally flawed as a plan (“evil clones use the Elements of Harmony against originals”), or her lackluster leadership.
 

 
…she also likes to use brute force when available, on all accounts, be grandiose, which is an underlying reason why “slit their throats” doesn’t cut it in her eyes, and she doesn’t see anything wrong with this, if she’s even consciously aware of thinking like that.

…so, as a procrastinating MLP comics noob, any comics in particular I should read?

@AC97  
The Friends Forever line is my favorites and has plenty to choose from, though I’d go with #3, #6, #11-13, #15, #17, #23-26, and #36. For the main series, most of the one-shots are harmless fluff. Equestria Girls has some pretty bad luck, all but one of the comics featuring EQG is pretty bad, except for March Radness which is actually pretty good. Legends of Magic I actually hear is really good and some of the other side stuff is pretty good like Ponyville Mysteries, and Feats of Friendship. Fiendship, only the first two comics are pretty good, the rest are pretty blah. Other than the first few arcs, most of the arcs in the main series are pretty bad, save for a couple of exceptions like Manehattan Mysteries. MLPxTransformers is off to a promising start

@Kiryu-Chan  
ALso Nightmare Knights is a good one.

@Background Pony #5D88  
Haven’t read that one, but I have heard good things about it

@AC97  

 
Strange, isn’t it? Changelings are naturally inclined to stealth and deception, yet Chrysalis disdains both. Sometimes I think her becoming queen had to be a mistake.
 
 
@AC97
 
Main series 1 - 10, 21 - 22, 42, 64, 65, 67, 68, 70, 71, and 80  
The 2014 Annual  
Micro issues 3, 5, 7, 8, and 10  
Friends Forever 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, and 9  
Nightmare Knights and Legends of Magic was decent.

@Background Pony #5D88  
I love Nightmare Knights.