IDW Comics - Story Discussion (Spoilers)

Poison Trail

@Jarkes

Never forget The Good, the Bad and the Ponies, which sole purpose was to set up a test to figure out if someone’s full of shit when they say they loved it.

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kleptomage

@Poison Trail
Aye, that one too.

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Background Pony #BD0E

@Jarkes
I’m guessing because of “Discord was always good” thing and Cosmos in general?

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Red-Supernova

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@Anonycat
Which have wore out their welcomes. Why fans tone those elements down a bit more than the paid writers and artists is beyond me.

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Poison Trail

@Background Pony #6934

Derivative villain (“Discord’s Evil Ex) coming off right after arcs featuring Alternate Dimension Discord and Personality Flipped Discord.
Whitewashing of all of Discord’s evil actions, setting him up as a selfless hero that sacrificed his reputation for no reason other than making sure Cosmos wouldn’t come back…. wait, what?
Horrendous pacing, with the first 4 (if you count the doublesized premiere as 2) going by the motions of a villain’s plan working effortlessly and heroes being completely useless against it, using the whitewashing aspect as filler in vain for all the redundancy.
Final issue, which started off with a breath of fresh air thanks to the decision of having Cosmos merge with her captives and with the plan not relying on Discord pulling off a Deus Ex Machina like one would expect ended up being bogged down with excessive references. It’s like Andy was given carte blanche to do a “Chaos battle” and interpreted that as throwing down a bucket list of memes and movie callbacks he’s always wanted to do. Even when given a setting his art style excels in, he still manages to pull you right out of the experience and shatter suspension of disbelief.
Did I mention the issue ends with her being dumped on the moon, juuuuust so they can bring her back if need be? For fuck’s sake.

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Background Pony #BD0E

@Poison Trail
I’m just wondering why bring her back since now that she’s drained of her magic and is no longer powerful, she’s just nothing now.

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kleptomage

Luna should go up to the moon and finish Cosmos.

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Background Pony #BD0E

@kleptomage
Or send her to another part of the galaxy so she’ll never bother them again.

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kleptomage

@Background Pony #6934
Fuck that. Sealing evil in a can never works. So many problems in the show and comics are caused by leaving villains for someone else to deal with. End them the first time and they will never be a problem again.

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Kiryu-Chan

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This arc just reaffirms that the comics just cannot handle big adventure epics, and should just stick to small one-shot stories

@kleptomage
Looking forward to the “Non Pegasus Wonderbolt” issue with Rumble and Scootaloo myself. One of the very few things I feel the comics have over the show is that, unlike the show they usually handle the Wonderbolts really well, even in shitty comics like Wings over Yakyakistan, they actually feel like a group of friends.

Which ones is the Pencils one?

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Background Pony #BD0E

Also can we just agree that Cosmos was a dolt for not noticing they were destroying her source of power at the last second?

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Anonycat

Okay, I guess.

@Prowl
Nightmare Rarity was a well executed arc despite some obvious problems like the writer not fully understanding the way The Elements of Harmony worked.
Regarding Cook’s stories, by now we all have seen that perhaps her biggest problem is how she tends to make them be all about her own characters, and how she insist to smash the reader’s heads with the notion that her own characters are more special than the ones from the TV show. Whitley had the same problems and Hasbro is supposed to have asked him to stop that, but evidently Cook is still able to keep doing it as much as she wants.

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kleptomage

@Prowl
That’s true. The comics have usually handled the ’Bolts better than the show.

Pencils is drawing the next issue in the main series about hiding a party from Mayor Mare.

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RogueBadnik

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@Prowl

This arc just reaffirms that the comics just cannot handle big adventure epics, and should just stick to small one-shot stories

The most largest arc was the first arc with 6 issues, which its fine, if you plan to do an adventure plot. I dont know why suddenly they reduced it to 3 or 4 issues. I know this is not Marvel or DC and their long 6-8 issues, but they did it in the start! Why not doing it again? And why I do feel only IDW does this kind of thing?

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Kiryu-Chan

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@E-123
I don’t remember the first arc being six, in fact I remember it being four like most of the others

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Anonycat

Okay, I guess.

@Prowl
It was just 4 issues long.

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RogueBadnik

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@Anonycat
@Prowl
It was four? Damn, then why I had in mind it was six?

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Red-Supernova

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@Prowl
Can you give me some examples?

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Kiryu-Chan

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@Red-Supernova
Both of the Friends Forever with Spitfire and Soarin are some of the best in that line(if you’re willing to ignore the art for the Spitfire comic), Art Of The Gazeebo Repair for Fleetfoot, the Wonderbolts have their own stint in the GoH Annual(though again bogged down by the art), and despite some dumb bullshit in Wings over Yaktakistan(like Spitfire saying the WBs aren’t fighters) they still feel better handled in there than the majority in the show.

I might be missing more but those are the big ones that pop in my head

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kleptomage

@Prowl

GoH Annual(though again bogged down by the art)

The ~~golden power loader~~ Armor of Friendship was so bad it was funny.

I was very disappointed that the part with Shining Armor riding giant Spike was drawn by Fosgitt.

Expectation:

Reality:

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Philweasel

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@kleptomage
The GoH Annual is FUCKING AWFUL.

…and I’m the appologist who hates being negative about anything.

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Wiimeiser

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@Philweasel
It would have been so much better if they hadn’t given the job to Fosgitt. If every video game dev put in as little effort into game development as he did into being MLP-accurate, every game ever would be Fallout 76.

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Kiryu-Chan

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I don’t hate Fosgitt’s artstyle like most do, but it reaaaaally wasn’t suited for action pieces in general, especially with something pretty much geared towards action like the GoH annual

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Anonycat

Okay, I guess.

@kleptomage
I thought this comic was going to FINALLy be Spike’s big moment of glory. Instead I got Fosgitt’s art, lots of color gradients and a script with less weight than a dried spider.

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RogueBadnik

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@kleptomage
Well, yeah, this comic was awful from the beginning since it only exist to sell a product, and it was its only main focus of it. This was so bad because the “BUY OUR TOYS” was so obvious.

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