A thread to discuss My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and the tie-in media.
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Edited by Mrph1 on Aug 26th 2024 at 10:24:26 AM
I dunno, I still like a decent amount of D Cs comics. They admittedly have... issues socially, and they're lagging a bit behind in a lot of ways, but their stuff in and of itself is still decent.
Birthright: an original web novel about Dragons, the Burdens of Leadership, and Mangoes.Hellboy and its spinoffs are the only ongoing comic series I'm interested in.
I don't really follow comics, so I can't really comment on that.
As for Scoot's parents, I think it's just a case of "we have more important things to use our time for." Yeah, it would be cool to see them in the background at some point, but I can't really fault them for not bothering to do so when it isn't really relevant in any meaningful fashion. The only point in the whole show I can think of where there their absence could be counted as even remotely conspicuous is in "Flight to the Finish" and even then, their presence would raise more questions than could be addressed in the episode without derailing it.
In "Sleepless in Ponyville", she presumably asked her parents if she could go offscreen, and given the fact that the trip is chaperoned by three adults, they said yes. Same deal for "Flight to the Finish" and "Equestria Games". She's going along with the Mane 6, who have saved Equestria multiple times by this point. If anything, Scoots is safer going to the Crystal Empire with them than she is in Ponyville without them.
The TL;DR version is that there are very few points in the show where it makes sense to take the time to introduce them, and the writers figured that it wasn't worth the trouble.
Reaction Image RepositoryI'll laugh if it turns out to be like Thunderlane and Cloudchaser or something.
Reaction Image RepositoryNo, her mother was a hamster and her father smelt of elder berries!
edited 22nd May '14 5:27:57 PM by Insano
Allurand and surrounding world loading, 28%...Scootaloo created herself, for she is the goddess. :P
As for the marvel versus DC thing, I like the DC characters, but Marvel seems to be (slightly) more progressive, and less prone to reboots. The Tangent Comics thing was my idea for a Mutants and Masterminds thing (or a fanfic).
http://h0useb0und.tumblr.com/Yeah, They only kill them off if they are a woman that has the gall to get hitched. Since marrying a superhero turns them old and makes them die.
Unless Quesada sees you as a mother figure, then anything it takes to keep them alive is perfectly fine.
But yeah on the whole Marvel handles things better then DC. With a few exceptions. But the worst ones are rather old by now.
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I know, right? Seriously, at times it feels like DC has killed off more characters then The Walking Dead {Which alongside with the FIM comic is one of the very few comics I still read} or any other actual Anyone Can Die series.
edited 22nd May '14 5:54:01 PM by marston
Yeah, when I do read comics it's almost always in compiled volumes rather than issue-by-issue. The large volumes of spinoffs that make continuity a pain don't help either.
Reaction Image RepositoryI haven't had too much of a problem with that, with one exception... Batman family keeps on fucking dying in an issue of something else, and I refuse to buy those series because I don't want to encourage it.
Birthright: an original web novel about Dragons, the Burdens of Leadership, and Mangoes.I only read older collections of stories because I don't have the money to buy issue after issue of 20 to 200 different series.
http://h0useb0und.tumblr.com/

True, though the whole Superior Spiderman thing is rather..... divisive. But other then Spidey, yeah doing way better then DC. But given how bad that place is self destructing, not a hard thing to do.