REVIEW: MY LITTLE PONY: FRIENDS FOREVER #19

Warning: may contain spoilers.

MY LITTLE PONY: FRIENDS FOREVER #19

Release Date: August 5, 2015

Writer: Christina Rice

Art: Brenda Hickey

Colors: Heather Breckel

Letters: Neil Uyetake

Editors: Bobby Curnow

Covers: Amy Mebberson (regular), Brenda Hickey (subscription)

After an unintentional coordination between one of Rarity’s dresses and the Cakes’ cake at a wedding, Rarity decides to start a business with the Cakes to become a one-stop wedding shop. The plan seems like a good one, until Rarity becomes a control freak and begins to overshadow the Cakes’ expertise, leading to a disaster in front of a journalist checking out their business.

GRADE: A. Rarity is the ultimate obsessive compulsive. She puts as much of herself into anything that she does, sometimes more than she or anyone else really has to give, and Christina Rice captured that perfectly. It made for a fun comparison between the maniacally ambitious Rarity and the pretty laid-back Cakes, and to a fun disastrous cake design. Brenda Hickey’s artwork with Heather Breckel’s coloring brought it all together to really make it feel like an episode of the series.

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REVIEW: MY LITTLE PONY: FRIENDS FOREVER #17

Warning: may contain spoilers.

MY LITTLE PONY: FRIENDS FOREVER #17

Release Date: June 3, 2015

Writer: Ted Anderson

Art: Brenda Hickey

Colors: Heather Breckel

Letters: Neil Uyetake

Editors: Bobby Curnow

Covers: Amy Mebberson (regular), Brenda Hickey (subscription)

Twilight Sparkle has a lot to do and a problem she can’t solve, which drives her close to burning out. She decides to find out how other Ponies handle such a load and settles on observing Big Mac as he handles his chores. Feeling it not enough, Twilight casts a spell to actually enter Big Mac’s mind and see what makes him tick.

GRADE: A. Twilight’s freakouts are an established part of her character, and are used to propel this story forward. What was unique was the larger focus Big Mac received in this tale, as he’s usually an incidental character in a story that focuses on his family or that leads to the farm. Ted Anderson handled all the aspects of Big Mac well, showing how everypony has many different sides to their personalities, even if they don’t always show them in obvious ways, and how those sides can work together to make one function. It was a fun, simple story wonderfully brought to life by Brenda Hickey and Heather Breckel.

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