Friendship is Card Games: My Little Pony: The Manga, Ch. 5 & 6 · 11:35am May 31st, 2020
And we return to sequential art with the next two chapters of the English manga, featuring Best Pony and some of the worst.
And we return to sequential art with the next two chapters of the English manga, featuring Best Pony and some of the worst.
A moment of silence, please, now that the first Great Headcanon Massacre of 2017 has reached those avoiding the early airings. The wavefunctions of Rainbow Dash’s parents have collapsed, and the end results…
Well, this actually explains a lot. Let’s take a look.
On the one hand, we got an apology for last week. On the other, the writers felt last week called for an apology. Say what you will about crazy, competitive, and crazy-competitive Twilight, at least she knows when and how to put it away these days.
This week, we hit levels of Twilighting that shouldn’t even be physically possible. Also, several ship names become canon, if not the ships themselves.
About a month ago, I told you all about AlexTFish's ongoing attempts to turn my various card blogs into a functional set. Well, now you can playtest with him! Details are in his blog here. I, for one, look forward to seeing just how my creations play.
This week, we wrap up the last available chapters of the OEL manga. The next volume won’t be out until December, so it’s Pony Life and IDW for the foreseeable future. But first, let’s wrap up Pinkie’s temporal misadventures.
This week, we approach one of the momentous events of the series from a much more twisted perspective. It’s time for a witchy wedding, folks.
Happy Pi Day! Very little Pinkie content today, sadly, but I've got a massive content rotation on the horizon, with IDW comics, the EOL manga, and even Season 2 of Pony Life. (Hey, I’ll take what I can get.) But for now, it's one more week of Sherclop.
Quick reminder, the submission period for Imposing Sovereigns II ends at this coming midnight! If your story is still in the submission queue when the clock strikes twelve, send me a PM with an image of it.
Now for your regularly scheduled horse cards.
This week, we’re winding back the clock a bit in terms of source episodes. There were hints of this Twilight’s delusions last week, but now we’ll get a better sense of the depth of the rabbit hole… but not a complete one. That will come in time.
We continue our look at the twisted universe next door, this time checking on some of the younger Ponyvillians.
Surprised? I’d say the comics never stopped being a thing, but given the entire industry’s virus-engendered hiatus, that’s exactly what happened. But they started being a thing again as of last month, so here we are.
Early-Installment Weirdness is always interesting. There was a mild example in the previous episode, with the Gala tickets floating in front of even the non-unicorns, though that could be some magic intrinsic to the tickets themselves. Here, it's more a case of Early-Installment Normalcy; I'm pretty sure this is still the episode where Big Mac has the most lines. It's a shame. I like it when he gets non-Boolean
When FoME asked for fiction to turn into MTG cards for his regular card creation blog series, this is what I suggested:
What about the original G1 series? You could design cards using the color pie, power level, and mechanics from the early days of MTG as an exercise. Alpha, Legends, etc. Like, of course ponies would have Banding.
Given how we’ve effectively come full circle with the IDW delays, I’m just going to put the Abyssinians off until the end of the month. For now, we’ve got a shiny new annual to discuss, along with a species nearly forgotten outside of the comics.
This week, it’s a two-part look at a noble but ultimately failed attempt to rid a world of a truly terrible Twilight. Let’s see how she ruins another universe.
Back to IDW, and we transition from dogs to cats as we turn to another branch of Twilight’s diplomatic outreach program. Let’s see what’s been going on in the strangely litigious kingdom of Abyssinia.
Well, this is awkward. I quietly shipped Quibbledash, but that doesn’t work too well when the guest VA brings in his actual wife and daughter. Let’s see just what’s in this torpedo.
I'm honestly surprised they didn't move this episode so it would air during the Olympics. Still, let's see what happens when ponies try to go higher, faster, and stronger.
This week, we begin our look at the comics that led up to last year’s movie. With any luck, we’ll get some answers that said film didn’t have time to address.