Uhhhhhh.... okay..... let's do this. Whether you're a brony or not it doesn't matter. I got a voice and I WILL have it heard.
My Little Pony Comics 1/Miniseries 1
I own all the issues available to-date (all four of them) and I'm 75% impressed with it.
One thing that's very obvious is that the art isn't very impressive, The graphics on the show are like 20% better than the graphics here and if you read the entire comic and you're a huge fan of the series, you would be very disappointed.
<- How is this not adorable?
So yeah. The highlight of the story is that the main character Twilight Sparkle (no Twilight Saga jokes please) is assigned by her teacher, Princess Celestia, to go and take care of the literary archivist of the royal library. The archivist, Summer Mane, had broken her leg and had been unable to do any work on her own.
Coincidently, Twilight herself is a librarian and she's always wanted to see the inside of the royal library so she decides to go to the library to take care of her. When she arrives and meets Summer for the first time Summer isn't exactly pleased with her and tries to shoo Twilight away, but through some clever bluffs Twilight gains Summer's trust and is allowed in. Essentially the whole comic shows Twilight reorganizing books and helping Summer around the library. In one of the panels they even reference Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" in there, there's actually a lot of pop-culture references in this one.
So near the end, Summer decides to go out on the town for a little exercise. While she's gone Twilight explores around more and eventually ends up in Summer's office. But suddenly Summer returns and tells Twilight to get back to work. After MORE rearranging of books, Summer tells Twilight to leave and tell Princess Celestia that she doesn't anyone to look after her. After a poor attempt at getting the reader to cry, an obvious twist comes into play.
Turns out Summer Mane is actually a famous author named Jade Singer!!...
You beat me to it Keanu. See Jade thought that because her first book was so great that if she continued in her work she would have to have the second book live up to the first's legacy. I understand why she would feel that way but that's no excuse for closing yourself off from the world. Seriously Twilight's the first pony in like...ever to see her and know her true identity.
So yeah, Twilight says she would like to be Jade's friend and that she doesn't have to be afraid of the outside world anymore. Later, in another really bad coincidence, Twilight gets a letter from Celestia saying that she and Jade were really good friends several years ago and after the first book came out Jade became really distant. So she thanks Twilight for getting her friend back out in the open and gives her a pass for the assignment.
<-Jade's cutie mark.
And there ya go....
So my final thoughts are;
the story's totally predictable, written badly and kinda cliche
the art style is mediocre and sloppy
and it seems like a bad fan-fiction rather than a comic.
I didn't really enjoy it but I'm such a nerd that I had to get it anyway. If you're curious about the show and want to waste $2.99, be my guest. (You probably won't)
As for the Main Series.
<--JESUS!
I thought this was My Little Pony not Tales From the Crypt! No no that was a bad joke and I should feel bad I know.
So unlike the miniseries, the mane series (there it is again) takes place on the same continuity as the show. Here it takes place after the second season and before the third season.
So it starts out with the Cutiemark Crusaders,
(Applebloom-Yellow earth pony,
Sweetie Belle-White unicorn,
Scootaloo-Orange pegasus,)
camping out in the back yard of Fluttershy (another mane character [okay I'll stop] of the show.)
They're trying to get their cutiemarks in Zoology by studing the plants and animals of the area. Unfortunately while doing this they get fillynapped (yes that's what it's called) and the comic cuts to the next day.
And now our focus is set on the Mane 6 (that's not a pun that's actually what they're called). The ponies of Ponyville, except our six heroes, seem to be acting like zombies for some reason. The six friends run from the herd of "undead" ponies and hide in Twilight's library. While there they look up some of Twilight's notes to find out what could possibly be going on.
They theorize that the ponies had been replaced by changelings.... (Changeling description here)
....and head out only to discover that their theory is correct.<-It's the eyes it's gotta be the eyes!
So after some battling and annoying jokes, we see the antagonist of our story.
QUEEN CHRYSALIS! QUEEN OF THE CHANGELINGS!
<- Ain't she a doll?
So guess what happened to the Cutiemark Crusaders.....
Yes, Queen Chrysalis has kidnapped the Cutiemark Crusaders and now it's up to our six heroes to save them.
So they travel through Equestria.... .....end up getting separated.....
And we get some backstory on the story arch.
And that's all I can really tell you. So far only three issues are out so the arch isn't complete. That and I don't want to spoil it. Teehee So yeah my opinion on this is....
The art work is pretty good, the story isn't half bad and this darker tone that the comic takes is a tone that the show would be better off with. I think each issue was totally worth buying and personally Queen Chrysalis is my favorite villain in the series, (my last favorite villain was reformed during the third season), so I'm glad she's getting some attention.
For you non-bronies out there reading this, if you're curious about the series and want to see what it's like, at least get the comic, there's only three issues and I still think it's better than the show. (Especially since the third season is now over and we won't be getting a new episode until after summer.)
So concludes my first review, and don't worry not all my reviews will be on MLP comics. There'll be more comic reviews on other series and some game and movie reviews. So I hope you learned something and until next time, see ya.
