Hello, all, and welcome to the first of my IDW card blogs. According to the majority of those who answered my earlier input request, going through these chronologically would make the most sense, and I’m inclined to agree. Thus, we begin with the first four issues of the comic and a storyline that might just get invalidated by the Season 6 finale. Of course, that’s just speculation. Let’s proceed to what we know for sure.

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Thank you for your patience. Philadelphia is hardly getting banished to the moon—heck, I didn’t even open Call Up Emrakul to Help during the Un-Known event—but it’s still kind of appropriate that a book starring Luna ended up getting delayed because I was out of town.

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We return once more to Maretime Bay. The shorts have been on a slow but steady upswing as the writers figure out the characters; let’s see if they can maintain that momentum.

Dumpster Diving

It’s kind of funny to have a pony named Neptune when, according to the founding myth of Athens, Poseidon created the first horse in a bid for the city’s naming rights.

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With the Daring Do trilogy complete, this week begins my look at the “Princess Collection,” a tetralogy of all the alicorns but Flurry Heart, each paired with a season. We begin with Celestia; let’s see how G. M. Berrow treats the sun queen:

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I’m in an interesting situation right now. There are six remaining Tell Your Tale shorts. The next IDW issue is out. We’d have a solid month of G5 content if the next installment of Make Your Mark didn’t premiere on a Monday for some unfathomable reason. Still, that’s four out of the next five card blogs involving Maretime Bay and environs. Time to start Sunnytember, I suppose.

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It’s funny. Because Treehouse rushed out the episodes over the course of about a month, I have access to all of Season 2 of Pony Life. Still going to rotate content while I have it to rotate, but I have quite the backlog for this. Let’s start digging into it.

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We now come to the novel I put off last week. It does present a truly rare opportunity: A chance to flesh out Cadence. We got the story of her ascension in the novels, after all. Let’s see what this one offers.

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And we’re back to Chaos Pinkie’s fever dream of a universe. Let’s see what there is to be seen.

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We return to Pony Life this week, and all the madness that that entails. Let’s see what’s cooking in the land of physically improbable head-to-body ratios.

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This one is… interesting. And unexpected. I had no idea this existed until Polychromatic sent me a rundown of all of the material, but here we are. Let’s see what this entails.

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Looks like that Leap Day hypothesis carried some weight. The long-form episodes should be interesting in their own right, but we’re not looking at one this week. Let’s see what there is to see.

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And we’re back to Pony Life, if increasingly behind. Well, it’s certainly one way to get a backlog. Let’s take a look at what we have to work with.

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Remember how I said it felt like the zebra homeland story is missing a chapter? That’s because it is. Turns out the Free Comic Day comic was the real Season 10 premiere. However, that’s just one issue, and this is still a card blog as much of a review. So, on the cusp of one contest’s deadline, we’ll turn to another.

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Bit of a schedule change-up this week. I was going to finish up the movie prequels, but it is two days before Christmas, and there are some animated shorts to cover as well. Capper and Tempest can wait for a week; time for some holiday cheer.

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Happy Halloween! We’re skipping ahead a bit on Rainbow Dash Presents given the holiday. Somewhere Only We Know is a disquieting story at times, but not really scary. Besides, what’s Nightmare Night without Luna?

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This week, we take a dip into metahorror. And the scariest thing of all is that I had to make an unscheduled addition to today’s material!

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A few things to cover as we ring in 2023:

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As the title implies, we're closing out the overview of Minty Root’s work with a pair of music videos and an expanded Anthology short.

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15.ai is both a triumph of machine learning and a power too great for mortal men. With just a few minutes of sampled audio, it can produce fairly convincing sentences in that voice. And part of its training data was Friendship is Magic.

Yes, with Rainbow Dash Presents exhausted, we turn to a much more recent fan episode, one voiced synthetically. Let’s see how it turns out.

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This week, Rainbow Dash nearly ruins everything by being impatient, indifferent, and inconsiderate.

Why do I feel nostalgic?

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