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My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic #98—Cover A: Akeem S. Roberts
Celeste Bronfman (w) • Akeem S. Roberts (a & c)
When a painting brings up memories of the past, Celestia and Luna must confront their fears in order to move on—which means coming face-to-face with the kraken, that terrible creature that attacked their ship so long ago! But things aren’t always as they seem in Equestria…
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My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic #98—Cover B: JustaSuta
Celeste Bronfman (w) • Akeem S. Roberts (a) • JustaSuta (c)
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Celeste Bronfman (w) • Akeem S. Roberts (a & c)
When a painting brings up memories of the past, Celestia and Luna must confront their fears in order to move on—which means coming face-to-face with the kraken, that terrible creature that attacked their ship so long ago! But things aren’t always as they seem in Equestria…
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic #98—Cover B: JustaSuta
Celeste Bronfman (w) • Akeem S. Roberts (a) • JustaSuta (c)
*Retailer incentives:
Order 10 copies and get one free variant cover by Robin Easter!
Now that’s a surprise! Roberts, who is almost unknown here as an artist, has a good style that fits very well here, especially considering that he had not worked on the ponies from the MLP in the past. A little too simple and meant for a younger audience, but a pretty good start for an artist who can take extra work of less importance.
Regardless, it’s easy to see that all Roberts needs is experience and confidence over time.
Nightmare Moon isn’t exactly the result of Luna using dark magic and ending up like this(and some force fully corrupting her), she is basically a split personality born from Luna bottling up her negative emotions. Like how she’s upset she’s in Celestia’s shadow but is unable to speak up about it at all, having to hold it all in.
So its not exactly voluntarily choosing corruption, she was basically forced to kept her mouth shut till she snapped with a split personality emerging to carry out what she wanted. And sadly the actual issues that led NMM to happen weren’t really resolved honestly.
It still messes up Luna’s potential if some outside force corrupts her fully instead of her actual dark powers happening and dealing with a split darker self born from her pain and loneliness and bitter emotions.
The show could have touched on Luna having to embrace her darker half and dark powers to protect Equestria and such. Like showing that darkness isn’t always evil there.
About “Nothing More to Sea” was Spike with the girls too when they stopped the kraken or just left out hard again?
True. But as seen with others who had become corrupt and ended up as villains, it is clear that the magic in the Ponyverse seems to have the same destructive bipolarization as the Force in the Star Wars universe, in that one ended up choosing corruption through own voluntariness, and thus fell into a dark abyss. Nightmare Moon was not the only one to experience such a fall, and the show has shown that there is a mysterious outside power that will complete the corruption of the individual. They are not taken over by others or forced against their will - they voluntarily accept corruption and become evil. Like how Shadow pony occurs and how Celestia
s frustrations manifested in Daybreaker in the dreams. This corruption can be removed with friendship and determination when the individual himself is weakened in his / her beliefs that made him or her "evil". As with the force users in SW, these could become very fundamentally different from what they were, and end up being very ruthless and power-hungry creatures with no inhibitions. Interesting, that with "The Journal Of The Two Sisters". If Celestia and Luna were born as alicorns, that at least explains why we would have seen the foal Luna as alicorn. Considering how Flurry Heart was born as an alicorn by her mother who is also an alicorn, it may mean that the royal sisterss mother is also an alicorn. And from “My Little Pony: Under the Sparkling Sea” we know about King Leo, who rules over a kingdom called “Aquastria” in the sea. The IDW comics have revealed that the sea ponies existed as a separate people, which cannot be compared to hippogriffs from the movie. Understandably, the hippogriffs had, after all, used the magic of transformation to transform themselves into sea ponies, yet retain certain traits that set them apart as forearms, not found on the original sea ponies. The hippogriffs seemed to prefer sailing on top of the waves rather than swimming underneath in contrast to the sea ponies, revealed in the show.Lauren Faust has left a story, “Nothing More to Sea” about how Twilight and her friends saved the sea ponies and the sea life from the evil Kraken.
The ones she “vaporized” were just dream constructs, which is part of Luna’s duties(that got swapped with Tia’s) which is to dispel nightmares before the pony’s psyche is damaged.
So I don’t see why Celestia would turn into Daybreaker for just vaporizing essentially fakes in a dreamworld though.
Exactly. And for that, we see Nightmare Moon return along with her real sister, Daybreaker. No wonder why Celestia didn’t became her when she vaporized her along with Nightmare Moon.
What do you mean exactly?
The Nightmare Moon we saw in that is just a fake, its part of a dream Starlight had.
As for the bottling up part, pretty much it was kind of happening there but it also happened with the Tantabus episode. That episode showed Luna keeps stuff underwraps since till that episode, we didn’t know she was essentially self-harming herself mentally with the Tantabus this whole time.
You mean that also happened in the season seven episode, “A Royal Problem”?
No it isn’t.
I just said the writers confirmed about NMM being a split personality born from Luna bottling things up than being a “symbiote” there. They freaking said it in a Q&A.
Who cares. “Nightmare Rarity” is canon. It might be possible that the Nightmare Forces also create Daybreaker.
Wished they also touch on the potential Nightmare Moon and Daybreaker there.
Like touching more on those dark powers for Luna and those destructive powers Celestia has.
Before someone mentioned about the Nightmare Forces, that arc is essentially retconned due to the writers confirming NMM is more of a split personality(spawned from Luna bottling everything up) than a “symbiote”.
@nightshroud96
If they show us their parents I hope they have a nice design and I’m curious to know what their names were and especially what kind of cutie marks they had.
Who knows if they too had the ability to move the sun and moon …
I hope they explain Luna and Celestia’s parents and what happened to them.
Like why are Luna and Celestia the only natural alicorns out there?
So if they born alicorn that is mane their parents are alicorns too i hope they a royal or something
I completely agree with you.
Hopefully it doesn’t end up being “they get defeated and need others to save them” there.
Let the sisters get a win on their own, like really let them show off their power there.
The retirement bs really gave them a terrible sendoff(especially for Luna given the issues of she didn’t rule for much long) and how much of a bad sendoff they got in the finale.
Hopefully season 10 would try to do Luna and Celestia better justice.
@Background Pony #FF68
Hopefully the sisters would get to prove themselves(and hopefully it doesn’t end up being “Luna is in Celestia’s shadow”)
@camellialicious
Just discovered about that book lately.
Not sure if King Leo is canon honestly.
Or maybe they could have their own way of integrating him and Aquaestria(or whatever that place was called in the book) into the continuality there.
@camellialicious
I sure hope its not like “the sisters aren’t born alicorns” there.
The Journal Of The Two Sisters confirmed they were natural-born alicorns and while some of the book got goofted up, some bits was still in canon like the whole “unicorns having to risk losing their magic to move the sun/moon before the sisters came into power”
As much as I wish it was, probably not. Please let the kraken have that name.
Obviously Celestia and Luna were too young to confront a monster like Kraken, who could be Squirk from G1 - and we know from G1 that Squirk was a fearsome opponent, who could be very intimidating for two untested ponies. The story of this can be very informative and interesting, but the embarrassment of Sherron can be overcome here. For what I see of his work is not inspiring.
Does IDW have problems with the artists? It seems that they can not renew the gallery of the artists without losing a lot of quality. Andyprice, Pencils and Fleecs are becoming irreplaceable, others like Forstner are doing well, but are not yet “adult” compared to the “big three”. It might not have been so smart to have so many issues in such a short time with Season 10 and Transformers Crossover.
We can only hope, but … Disney in Italy has the same problem as IDW, where they could switch between artists on different projects, sometimes superb, sometimes very bad. If it is only possible to create 48 pages in a few days with high quality … in Europe an artist could spend several years on the same amount!
Why would they?
It’s one of the most basic creatures they could feature.