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ApplelightLimited Ahoy hoy! from In the skies above. Since: Oct, 2011
Ahoy hoy!
#251: Jan 11th 2013 at 1:00:58 PM

@ CDRW

Comixology has digital copies for dirt cheap.

My fanfic outline. RIP Posey
Sereg Since: Jun, 2010
#252: Jan 11th 2013 at 1:24:40 PM

I need to try Comixology again.

Anyway, the cats they fed off of don't exactly look healthy. I see that somepeople on derpibooru are calling them "carekittens". I like both names so far, but would appreciate a canon one.

Seraphem Since: Oct, 2009
#253: Jan 11th 2013 at 1:34:54 PM

I like Lovecats, just for the Lovecatian Horror pun

Calnos The Jossed from Nowhere Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
The Jossed
#254: Jan 11th 2013 at 2:30:21 PM

The Lovecats...yes...and they are led by...Princess Josie! Long have they oppose the Diamond Dogs, led by of course King Bowie, and by oppose I mean "FRIENDSHIP them so hard they left their own mines" and... Work with me people! I need more music puns! There is fanon to inspire!

ADDITION: Just realized the green-armored changeling is in Issue #2. Chekhov's Changeling?

Also, before I forget, Issue #3 is apparently coming out the 30th, not the 16th, and its not a delay. Curse you, Internet sources that said otherwise!

edited 11th Jan '13 10:03:56 PM by Calnos

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SpaceJawa UTINNI! from Right Here Since: Jan, 2001
UTINNI!
#255: Jan 11th 2013 at 11:32:41 PM

Carecats - potential stealth setup for a carebears crossover? O_o

ApplelightLimited Ahoy hoy! from In the skies above. Since: Oct, 2011
JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing
#259: Jan 12th 2013 at 2:27:00 PM

You know, for little girls. tongue

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ApplelightLimited Ahoy hoy! from In the skies above. Since: Oct, 2011
Ahoy hoy!
#260: Jan 12th 2013 at 2:36:49 PM

Big question...has something happened to the girls, or is that a bunch of changelings only putting half their backs into it.

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Calnos The Jossed from Nowhere Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
The Jossed
#261: Jan 12th 2013 at 2:53:35 PM

Remember that Covers Always Lie, though this is the first cover to actually have Chrysalis and changelings on it (though changeling shadows could be seen in the Katie Cook covers for Issue 2). Note the lack of a Twilight changeling and then read the Issue 3 preview on what Chrysalis intends to do to Twilight.

I'm thinking it might just be a cool cover. But yeah, totally a little girls' comic.

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JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing
#262: Jan 12th 2013 at 3:27:56 PM

I'm guessing it's just to look cool. Maybe foreshadowing, given Chrysalis' plan, but I doubt it depicts a literal scene from the comic.

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Seraphem Since: Oct, 2009
#263: Jan 13th 2013 at 7:12:32 AM

And it is offical, the Pony comic kicked ass

news article on it here

On the best sellers of 2012, it was #90 by number of copies sold, #61 by money made. And the single best selling comic in the entire history of IDW's publishing And that's just issue 1

edited 13th Jan '13 7:15:41 AM by Seraphem

BornIn1142 from Estonia Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#264: Jan 13th 2013 at 9:59:05 AM

Kind of a marred achievement considering they used and abused the multi-cover marketing gimmick to an ridiculous degree to get there. It was a tactic straight out of the 90s.

Seraphem Since: Oct, 2009
#265: Jan 13th 2013 at 10:25:46 AM

Except for different reason, then it was because they convinced everyone that having every cover would be great and get them money in the future because they' be collectors items.

Here, well It's because yes they knew it would work, because the covers were just so damn awesome and we bought them just for the art.

And just wait to see how the average sales go now that they are reducing just how many covers there are.

Calnos The Jossed from Nowhere Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
The Jossed
#266: Jan 13th 2013 at 11:01:54 AM

I mentioned before that we actually got off easy with 19 covers for the first issue. IDW put out 100 variant covers for Godzilla: Kingdom of Monsters #1. To be fair, most of those had a template of "Godzilla crushing the store you bought it from", but Matt Frank still had to draw every single store being crushed.

On the other hand, Godzilla was their best seller before ponies. Go figure.

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SpaceJawa UTINNI! from Right Here Since: Jan, 2001
UTINNI!
#267: Jan 13th 2013 at 11:05:12 AM

Considering that they had a second printing, I'm wondering if the comic would have ranked higher if the issue hadn't first released near the end of the year.

JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing
#268: Jan 13th 2013 at 11:21:39 AM

Yeah, the multi-cover thing is standard protocol at this point.

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Seraphem Since: Oct, 2009
#269: Jan 13th 2013 at 11:27:49 AM

And as said, that is with only being out for a month. one of the best selling ones was Justice League #1, and MLP had, before it even released, half the number that is had after two weeks on the shelves.

Badwolfwho She is a brutal war machine from Stardust Road Since: Aug, 2009
She is a brutal war machine
#270: Jan 14th 2013 at 6:29:00 AM

Finally got my Issue 2. Rainbow has the best faces. Woody Spider is great, (that was a reference to Toy Story right? The "Imma cowboy! Howdy howdy howdy!" bit). The spiders in general were great really, I loved Fluttershy's expressions through that part.

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JakesBrain Since: Jul, 2010
#271: Jan 14th 2013 at 7:36:12 AM

I think the "Howdy howdy howdy" thing was first used in The Far Side, and most of the other uses of the phrase are references to that.

Calnos The Jossed from Nowhere Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
The Jossed
#272: Jan 14th 2013 at 6:58:39 PM

Cover update! Midtown variant covers for Issue 4 (The end of the current arc) and Issue 5 (the start of the second Story Arc) are interesting. Its an Idiosyncratic Cover Art that includes The Crystal Empire, Crystal Mane Six, CMC, Spike, Derpy, Time Turner, Vinyl Scratch, Lyra, Bon Bon, and Wife Tossing (Again).

They'll do anything to promote the Crystal Empire, won't they? :P

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SKJAM Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Baby don't hurt me!
#273: Jan 15th 2013 at 10:05:13 PM

In case you wondered what My Little Pony comics looked like back in 1986: http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/4192696.html#cutid1

Calnos The Jossed from Nowhere Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me
The Jossed
#274: Jan 15th 2013 at 11:04:41 PM

We've come a long way.

I mentioned it in the main thread but it may have been overlooked (considering how fast it goes), but there's an Expanded Universe character page if anyone feels like contributing to it.

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BornIn1142 from Estonia Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Faithful to 2D
#275: Jan 15th 2013 at 11:38:53 PM

Why does this page even exist? Most of it is completely pointless. No other character page tries to document every single character that exists in a franchise, no matter how irrelevant and insignifcant. There is absolutely no excuse to fill out a cast page with characters like "a stallion" that don't even include any tropes.


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