Friends Forever #31 Storytime

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>>28181264
Thanks for the dump as always. Looking forward to the Richard stuff, nothing else.

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>>28181323
Damn

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>>28181315
Sara's stuff is great. I just wish I could figure out how to rip these things with the same quality as that one Pinkie comic. That one was pretty much perfect.

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>>28181332
If only one thing is remembered from IDW's MLP, it should be her work.

Also, is the sun alive or something?

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>>28181384

>>28181352
> Last panel

Oh God, Fleecs is still tracing from TV screencaps.

>>28181313
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>>28181345
these look pretty badass

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>>28181396
How do you know? What episode?

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>>28181400
RD's reaction looks traced.

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>>28181407
See, this here >>28181400 is another tracing (From the Flim Flam's debut episode no less)

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>>28181423
That's all of it. Hope you enjoyed it /mlp/!

Link to archive:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/m4b3rzgg1d1g9w7/FF%2331.rar

>>28181367
made me giggle

what a pointless, boring comic

How would you rate Friends Forever #31 out of 10 /mlp/?

Richards' art was the highlight for sure.

>>28181439
6/10 for art alone. Frankly cannot see this one selling too much. Story was basically nothing no, cliche "conflict" that was maybe one or two sentences between characters.

>>28181439
Bland story, unfunny jokes, rushed ending and dumb "moral"

Awesome drawings if we ignore Fleec's pages though.

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Later this month, or early next month, we should get Comic #45 concluding the Ponies of Dark Water arc:

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic #45
>Thom Zahler (w) • Tony Fleecs (a & c) • Sara Richard (sc) • Thom Zahler (ric) • Heather Breckel (colors)
>“Ponies of Dark Water Part 3” Chaos reigns over Ponyville as normal ponies across town turn evil! It’ll be up to Spike and the Cutie Mark Crusaders, with the help of an unexpected ally, to save the day!

>>28181423
This writing and dialogue is actually really good. I love that they remembered Celestia exists and acknowledge that she could fix all of this in an instant.

Also the running gag of them not hearing the last part of the sentence before RD flies away is golden.

Tony Fleecs wrote this? What other issues has he written?

>>28181439
Justapony/10

Thanks man

>>28181452
That comic couldn't keep its own continuity from one issue to another. Not expecting much.

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>>28181452
Next month we get Friends Forever #32 featuring Fluttershy and Daring Do:

My Little Pony: Friends Forever #32
>Ted Anderson (w) • Jay Fosgitt (a & sc) • Tony Fleecs (mc)
>The shiest pony who’s ever shied, Fluttershy, meets the most adventurous adventurer ever: Daring Do! When the two embark on a perilous journey together it may be up to Fluttershy to teach Daring Do the meaning of bravery!

>>28181439
8/10

Comfy story, excellent gags and funny, thoughtful dialogue. I'll definitely be picking this one up if I see it in my comic shop.

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>>28181458
In the books we get Starlight Glimmer and the Space-Time Suite on August 30th:

My Little Pony: Starlight Glimmer and the Secret Suite
>G. M. Berrow (Author)
>A original My Little Pony chapter book featuring one of Twilight Sparkle's most notorious pupils!

>>28181453
>I love that they remembered Celestia exists and acknowledge that she could fix all of this in an instant.

Shame she's just shipbait for IDW.

>>28181458
I don't think I could pick a more unappealing match up if I tried. Fosgitt being on the comics is pretty goddamn shameful.

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>>28181464
Lastly we get The Dragons on Dazzle Island next month, this time I'm sure of it, on September 6th:

The Dragons on Dazzle Island
>by Mary Jane Begin (Artist)
>Rarity's entire order of rare island gemstones has been canceled because the Great Dragon Migration has brought dragons to Dazzle Island! But all hope is not lost as Fluttershy and Spike travel to the island and explain to the dragons why they need to move. When our heroes reach Dazzle Island, they discover that it'll take more than a few words to resolve Rarity's problem!
>Ready your hooves as you travel with Fluttershy and Spike to confront new dangers, help a fellow pony gain her cutie mark, and learn the true power in hugs!

>>28181270
Weird how I could still know that Tony's the artist from looking at this thumbnail

>>28181290
cheeky fourth wall joke

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>>28181453
>What other issues has he written?
I think this was his first. The rest are here, but I need to update this chart sometime.

>>28181470
Okay, now this I'm looking forward to. Begin's art is trippy as hell but I like it.

>>28181439
8.5/10
Rainbow crow and buffaloes backstory was great writing and adventure part were alright I feel pleasure to read this

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>>28181480
The writing was almost better than the art.

Why is he not writing more issues? The fuck? Take him off of art now. An issue written by him and illustrated by Brenda. Price or Mebberson would be fucking nice.

>>28181453
Hello, Illustrious Q

>>28181496
Yeah, I wish that could happen. He can write pretty decently, he'd be a good asset.

>>28181496

I guess he wanted to try and do an entire issue himself.

Fleec's is weird there are times when his art is really good like the Tirek comic and others where it's utter shit like the EQG specials.

>>28181458
>Fosgitt
what a shame

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>>28181298
>Did you mean to smoke signal Applejack? She's the one with the three apples
>And then Applebloom has an apple too now but hers is in a... like this shield thing?
PUT THIS MAN ON THE WRITING TEAM NOW

>>28181458
>Fosgitt
And any potential this comic had is now gone.

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>>28181345
>all that explanation and then
>So you guys want me to fly up to the sun and bring back more fire?
Why is Dash such a stupid pony?

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>>28181458
>Fosgitt

I liked it. nice story, and good art.

I do kind of wonder if dash giving a lock of her hair was supposed to have some sort of importance though :/

Seems kind of random.

>>28181587
How he stays employed when he's so hated by the customer base baffles me.

>>28181401
Not him but yeah, I recognize when he traces. It's reminiscent of Traceponies way back.

>>28181597
He half asses his comic work and then does decent commissions.

>>28181439
6/10

Great art, story's a bit meh. Like the bonding the two had at the end.

So yeah, it's an FF.

>>28181430
The same Little Strongheart who's forgotten by literally everyone was actually pretty interesting.
And Dash was very good as a more classical protagonist. She probably got more to do in this issue than in the last two seasons of the show. And the interaction was fine. FF is not supposed to be anything special so this one was way above average.
Rainbow Crow is like Thunderbird I assume?

Last month's sales figures are partially out.

#44 sold 14,974 copies despite of all the blatant shilling.

Can you remember when the comic selling 24,000 copies was seen as a low sales number?

>>28181597
>Baffled why he's still there

Not really. Greg Land still "draws" for Marvel even though he's controversially disliked for being an unrepentant tracer, Ramondelli does stuff for IDW despite having less than stellar style than the other artists.

Fogsitt must come cheap, or that they don't really care because his style sells to toddlers.

>>28181650
>despite the blatant shilling

what?

>>28181591
It's a bird so I guess she liked the unusual color and wanted it in her nest.
I like how she gently complimented her mane. First time anyone said something like that.

>>28181510
>Fleec's is weird there are times when his art is really good
That's when he blatantly traces from TV screencaps.

>>28181650
Still decent sales.

Not to be a shit starter, but I found this to be awful. Certainly not the worst yet, but the writing was so exposition heavy and the 'action scenes' were barely worth the panel space. It makes you wonder why they are even there. The 'lesson' was also very heavy handed even for a kids comic which also brings notice to the word choices. Sure fancy words like luminance sound good in a legend style retelling, although I think the writer meant to put luminescence and got autocorrected, but who in the target audience is going to know that word?

I had to stop reading it about half way, then read the other half after seeing a bunch of people saying it was actually good. Frankly, I don't see it.

>>28181670
Honestly without the few pages of good art there wouldn't be much. Fleecs textwalled a bit.

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>>28181400
Sick trace, Fleecs. Flip, and no one notices right?

>>28181648
>And Dash was very good as a more classical protagonist.


Kind of wish we could get that done more; her best episodes are ones like wonderbolt academy where they treat her in a more "normal", nuanced light and she gets to act kind of mature.


Too often the writers default to being lazy and cranking up her cuntness to maximum, like 28 pranks later.

>>28181674
Yeah, Sarah Richards easily made the best part of the comic (pages 5-9)

>>28181452
Second cover looks sick as fuck
>>28181464
going to buy physical copy of this!

>>28181990
>going to buy physical copy of this!
If I weren't storytiming all of them I'd likely buy physicals instead. I know that Daring Do collection, which I still sadly haven't finished reading yet, is really nice looking in that chest.

>>28181663

The Tirek issue with Young Tirek and such, there's nothing to trace from, he just drew solidly. he can totally do it if he puts the effort and time in, it's just he doesn't for a lot of issues.

>>28181708
>not knowing the difference between trace and reference

The lines don't match up you tard.

>>28181439
++ interesting lore with good art
++ rd being herself (silly listener, hardly to learn after mistake)
+ lampshade hanging (why not applejack though? the shield thing on apple bloom cutie mark)
- the FF is about interaction between showcased two characters and there was hardly any, not to mention the conflict which was HARDLY existing
- deus ex machina with crow, it could be something corny about friendship as always
- tracing!!!

shitManIdontKnowImJustAdog/10

>>28181345
>>28181339
Aw shit, I love creation myths like that. Crows are awesome.
I wonder if this is an actual legend in some way, it feels too authentic for Tony Fleecs to have come up with it himself.

>>28181384
>that elephant
ha, toyline callback!

>>28181439
7/10. Characters felt a little flat, but some nice jokes and the flashback sequence was gorgeous.

>>28182401
Sup Jerkas.

>>28182401
You can't tell me he's suddenly able to draw so accurately like that and then fuck things up on the next panel, especially Little SH's legs which were supposed to be thin and pointy while Fleecs drew them almost exactly like a pony's.

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>>28182678

>Already page 10

Ded comic
Ded board

>>28181674
If IDW ever makes another art gallery I'd bet we'll see that whole sequence of art in there minus the text and bubbles.

>>28183829
It's more that everyone has lost interest in the comics, and we all know it'll just become a circlejerk going over the points against IDW a hundred times, there is nothing new.

>nein

> people not realizing the crow asking for a hair and giving dash 3 feathers is a subtle LORD OF THE RINGS reference

>>28185008
Maybe people just don't care?

>>28185008
A comic built on rnothing but lame jokes and eferences is a crappy comic, mang.

8/10

>>28183097
Is that a yes?

>>28188591
Excuse me friend, but it appears you accidentally put your 2 0's on top of each other.

>>28181367
IWTCILSH

>>28190410
Better an story where nothing will happens than an bad ending. I think is neat when characters notice RD's rainbow hair, like in the cookies episode.
So 5 for art and 3 for simple story.

>>28190812
These comics tend to do best when they're simple, small stories. I don't think there's been an adventure arc that everyone's actually liked so far, but stuff like the micros, some one shot comics, and certain Friends Forevers have done pretty well.

>>28190845
Yes.
The only issue that I have with some comics are wall of text ruining the page like this >>28181423 .
Thats why 3/5 for story.

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bump

just

>>28181344
Might be. If you read the Celestia chapter book, it actually shows us Celestia's daily ritual of raising the sun. And afterwards..

"Gratias ad solis ortum," the princess recited as she bowed deeply to the sun. "Thank you for allowing me to guide you, and thank you for another day of light."

>>28194758
As much as I love the books, sometimes (like with this one) like the comics, and wish they deliberately connected them at times, I doubt that's the case here. Nice observation though.

>>28193717
wat

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>>28193717
Thanks for the memories of better threads from long past, anon.

We may be dorks, but we were the cool dorks at one time. I miss those times.