After 10 exciting issues filled with stories that seemed larger in scale or depth than what the show had to offer at the time, IDW decided they wanted to address those critics of Shining Armor and Princess Cadence who felt they had no character. And they told a two parter story centered from two different narations. But was it as good as everything that came before it, or was it just the first disappointment from the main series of comics?

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Everyone else is getting in on it after "School Daze", Equestria Daily is even holding a poll to find out who the best student is. So I'm going to do the same. Obviously, this list is the result of my personal opinion, so please respect it. And I have a feeling I'm gonna be coming back and updating this list at some point. Either during the mid season hiatus (assuming there is one, which there probably will be) or after Season 8 ends.

6. Sandbar

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Well, things didn't go quite how the IDW staff had hoped. Another rough winter on the East Coast of the United States caused a shipping delay, which prevented Friends Forever #38 from shipping out to close out the series, and so when this new series debuted the Friends Forever series had yet to wrap up for good. But a lot of people were understandably anxious and uncertain about this new series coming in to take the place of Friends Forever. So, was this first issue of Legends

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As 2016 progressed, and the show was going through its sixth season, the comic series was going through another bad year. The main series had started off fairly strong, but by mid 2016 it was clear that the same problems as always were back, and with "Ponies of Dark Water" proving to be a disappointment, no one was looking forward to the "Trump v.s. Hillary" parody that would come out after it. Meanwhile, the Friends Forever series was puttering along, bobbing up and down in quality from issue

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With 2014 ending and still no word about the end of the hiatus, the comics faced the unprecedented challenge of holding the fandom and satisfying its craving for pony content while Hasbro was busy weighing its options in the wake of parting ways with Discovery over The Hub. The main series opted for a two parter touted under the premise of giving Applejack some love, but left fans feeling disappointed with the route it took, meanwhile the Friends Forever series was recovering from the dud that

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In something of a hiccup due to shipping and scheduling conflicts, the Friends Forever series actually didn't end before its successor, Legends of Magic came out in April of 2017, just as the show was coming back for its seventh season even as attention was focused on the upcoming movie. With Friends Forever #37 being an insanely mean spirited issue with Rarity and Trixie (made only worse by the fact that had it been a few months later and incorporated events from Season 7, it

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As the IDW comic series was devoting its main series to an unwanted "Trump v.s. Hillary" parody just before the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the Friends Forever series was on borrowed time with the announcement that come Spring 2017 it would be replaced with Legends of Magic. With the issues having bobbed up and down in quality for a while, and the last three catching flack for their stories (though #31 was praised for its artwork), this issue faced the task of keeping interest in

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There are some new episodes to add for Seasons 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6, as well as a bunch of episodes from Season 7. Here's Version 3, in case you want to see what Season 6 episodes have already been added (you can go from there to Version 2 to see the ones for Seasons 1-5). Like always, this list is the result of my personal opinion, and I mean no offense to anyone at Hasbro or DHX.

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This had to be done at some point, and as far as I know no one else has yet done this. Sure, we've got people saying who their favorite pillar/legend is, but no one's been saying anything about how they'd stack them up overall. So, unless I'm somehow mistaken, allow me to start a precedent. Of course, as always, this list is purely the result of my personal opinion and is in no way official.

6. Mistmane

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With the movie finally being released in theaters, Season 7 of the show wrapping up, and the main series comics deciding to devote an issue following up on "Secrets and Pies", the Legends of Magic series decided to change things up a little. The first six issues had been mostly self contained, just Sunburst reading about the different legends introduced to us in the comics and the show. From here onwards until their final issue this past March (their annual in April involved an AU with

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It's been quite a while since I reviewed a Friends Forever issue, it's still really saying something when IDW has not found a long term successor to it and that of the secondary comics series it is still the one that has lasted the longest (from the beginning of 2014 until early 2017). Like always these reviews begin with a retrospective of what was unfolding in the comics and the show at the time. The show was on Summer hiatus again, leaving the comics to bridge the gap as they always do. The

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The IDW Comics were puttering along as 2018 progressed and the leaks for Season 8 kept on coming. It seemed like nothing could revive the floundering main series, not even a concept of a disguised Princess Celestia. And meanwhile Legends of Magic wrapped up (complete with a disappointing annual) and then the beginnings of the Ponyville Mysteries comics that had nothing to do with the chapter books (which coincidentally wrapped up by the middle of the comics run) was rushed in as its

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As the leaks and speculation continued and the IDW main series continued to putter along, word had come out about the next "replacement" for the secondary comics line, after an annual in April Legends of Magic would wrap up for good and be replaced by a five part series based on the Ponyville Mysteries books, a move that fans were not entirely delighted by. With the Legends of Magic series winding down, was this penultimate issue able to keep the narrative going or just throw everything

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With 2017 drawing to a close the Brony fandom was settling in for Season 8 when word got out that several episodes from Season 8 had been leaked online in finished animation format but lacking background music, spoilers began to run rampant even though the episodes that did get leaked were mostly lower-key ones (though the game changing "Molt Down" did get leaked) and little did anyone realize this was only the beginning of Season 8 in terms of leaks/early airings. Anyway, the IDW comics

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To be honest Fallout Equestria: Code Red is my first story, I do enjoy writing and hope to improve with feedback and other such things. Code Red was more or less base on my general experience with Fallout growing up, I also hope to have elements from Fallout 4 in this story.

First and foremost, I wanna thank all of you who sent me well wishes and support on my birthday as I was prepping for the colonoscopy. The prep went about as well as I expected and the procedure itself (once they got around to me, which was longer than expected) went fast (at least it felt that way due to the anesthesia, it was very fast acting). Since then I've been mostly sleeping better, though still not the greatest. And as for the diagnosis, I had to wait a whole week but I found out I

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And so it is that the reviews of the official comics from IDW come to a close on this account, at least for the time being. If I ever manage to get a copy of the continuiously proving elusive micro series comics I want to review, or King Sombra's Fiendship is Magic issue then the reviews may briefly return. But until then this is it, especially since the comics' main series run is coming to a close just as G5 is on the horizon. By this point, "Season 10" had pretty much been up, down and all

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There's quite a few developments to talk about here first and foremost, so let's get them all out of the way. First is some sad news, Russi Taylor, the voice of Minnie Mouse for over year 30 years (possibly over 35 years) as well as the voice of the original Huey, Dewey, and Louie, and several characters on The Simpsons died today at the age of 72. Interestingly, she was the wife of the late Wayne Allwine who voiced Mickey Mouse from 1983 to a handful of posthumous roles in the early 2010's (he

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After receiving some advice on my user page sometime around 4am (if timestamps are to be believed) from Czar_Yoshi, I have decided to get y'all's opinion on the SciTwi Shimmer series format. In Yoshi's advice, it was stated that having the beginning of the titles (i.e. Book-x) may be off putting. I can understand what they mean by that. On the flip side, for nearly a year anyone that has that liked/favorited the series has probably become accustomed to seeing SciTwi Shimmer-Book x pop up on

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