My Little Pony Tales Volume 2 Review

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Hello. Bonjour. Aloha. Good morning. Good afternoon.

Good whatever you want it to be. And I don't

even want to know. Mine mine would probably be

a microphone, but I don't even want to know what

your cutie mark would be I don't know The only

reason why I even saying was folks is because

we are here Continuing Feenship is friendship

February talking about my little pony ponytails

volume 2 this has four stories in it The Cutie

Mark Crusaders, Princess Celestia, Spike, and

Luna. Cutie Mark Crusaders, the story is by Ted

Anderson, art and colors by Ben Bates, yay. For

Celestia, the story is by - Was that a good yay

or a bad yay? No, yay. I love Ben Bates. I couldn't

tell. You're like, yay. No, no, no. It wasn't

a question mark, yay. It was a good yay. Yay,

Ben Bates, yay. Trying to get through all this.

Celestia is written, wow, written by Georgia

Ball, the Transformers robots in disguise comic

writer right now. Art and colors are done by

Amy Memberson. Love her stuff. Spikes, yeah,

I gotta get her. We gotta get her for an interview.

Oh man, especially after all those gym covers

she did when the first two issues came out. Anyway.

Spikes is stories by Rob Anderson art and colors

by Agnes Garbowska She's another one. That's

really awesome with art and covers and stuff

and Luna's story is done by Katie cook art by

Andy price colors by Heather Breckle and Yeah,

you'll you'll yakutay look is it you'll yakutaki

right I'm not sure I apologize, but he did all

the littering again Maybe he should just switch

his name to Takei. No, no It's just a bad Sulu

joke folks come on So the cutie mark crusaders

we start off with them And again, you're gonna

have to help me, because I never really paid...

Even though I've seen the episode from season

one with them trying to find their cutie marks,

who are the other two besides Apple Bloom? So

we got Scootaloo, who's the Pegasus, and Sweetie

Belle, which is Rarity's younger sister. Okay,

so Sweetie Belle is the one in the pink and the

white and the purple, right? Yeah, that's Sweetie

Belle. And what's the other one's name? Scootaloo.

Scootaloo, okay. Is she anyone's anything? No

one knows who parents are, she hasn't used them.

She just loves Rainbow Dash. She wants to be

Rainbow Dash. She follows her and she tries to

be everything like Rainbow Dash. Yeah, so Scootaloo

is bored. It's only been summer vacation for

a week and I think we've already run out of stuff

to do. How is that even possible? It seems to

happen a lot with kids during the summer So Sweetieville

We've already tried about a zillion ways to get

our cutie mark so we know we're not cutie mark

filmmakers cutie mark Rochers cutie mark jugglers

Seems like we've never tried. We've tried just

about everything in Ponyville by now cutie mark

accountants, cutie mark architects, cutie mark

silversmiths, cutie mark... They just really

just want their cutie marks. Yeah, yeah. So they

do everything. So then we gotta get out of Ponyville.

Come on, girls, we need to change the scenery.

Where the hay are we? Well if the sun's over

there and it's quarter past lunch, and we came

from back that way or maybe that way Maybe we

should have gotten a map maps are for wimps workers

saders. Yeah, she's definitely Rainbow Dash She

wants to be Rainbow Dash. Yeah, yeah So there's

a rumble in the forest and they well I know what

is that skipping stone What happens at Avalanche?

Well, they fall down, yeah. I think it's just

like the onomatopoeia and the visual that they're

falling down. So they find some kind of gem and

know she's not truly outrageous. I see what she

did though. Yeah, I know right. We should get

your sister to tell us what it is. Hey, yeah,

Rarity knows all about gems. She's doing a fitting

for twilight right now, but I'm sure she'd be

happy to help us out. Oh Boy rarity oh God look

at what she's get twilight in those colors are

so not flattering to twilight at all. Oh see,

but we've learned this before Before she used

to make stuff which she thinks they would like

but then she learns that there's stuff that they

like, that they wanted, even though she doesn't

approve of it, but it's what the customer wants.

Yeah, I know, but I'm just saying that I don't

know how Twilight wants those colors. It looks

like green and gold threw up all over the thing.

Yeah, I'm not a big fan of it either. This is

a neat gem. Let's see the refractive indexes.

Where did I put my Skrullometer? Yep. Skrill

-o -meter. Girls, I'm afraid I've never seen

a gem like this before. Gem, you say? You know,

I skipped lunch. I forgot Spike eats gems. Yep.

And he ruins a lot of things because of it. And

Spike's like, this looks pretty... Well, that's

no gem. It's a... It's a Mimicker! Creator, Equestrian,

Mimicker, Glovalous, Improvalous. And I love

how it looks like a D and D guide. Mm -hmm. And

it almost looks like a 12 -sided dice that's

been, like, stuffed. Yeah. And I love it. Side

A, Side D. It's so cute! Yeah, it is kind of

awesome. So they figure this thing out as a is

a mimicker and it can change into whatever it

wants and The general gist of the story here

is the cutie mark crusaders have it do everything

they want instead of what it it's basically Yeah,

it basically is a I don't want to say it's a

repeat, but it's basically the same thing as

what happened in rarity's episode With the gowns

and everything else very much So they end up

You know, not necessarily being friends with

it. They end up using it for all the stuff they

want to use it for. I do enjoy the art here.

I think the art is really, really cool. Like,

Apple Bloom used it as a tote bag. Oh, I know.

They turned it into so many cute little things.

Yeah. Absolutely. Do they ever... And I don't

think this will be a spoiler, because I don't

want you to tell me if they... I want you to

tell me if they do or if they don't, but I want

you to tell me what it is. Do they ever get their

cutie marks within the context of the show or

no? Yes, they do. Okay, good. It takes a while.

It takes a while. Yeah, and that's fine. I just

don't want the show to just be constantly, oh,

we still need to... So as we go along here, they

each use the little changeling. Furniture, paper

towels, musical instruments, all this stuff.

You okay, Imp? Because they start calling it

Imp, and I swear, all's I can think of is Hordak's

Imp from She -Ra, the little blue dude. Oh yeah?

So she was a young vinegar, she's probably tired,

and they all start fighting over her. And Imp

just kind of goes off on her own. because they

all fall asleep. Good morning, Winona! Oh! Winona's

a little much better. I love Winona! She's so

cute! Good morning, Winona, and another Winona!

So they're having a try all kinds of stuff, like

I said, and the lesson here is, you know... She

needs to do what she wants to do, not what they

want her to do. They basically overuse her to

the extreme, like with giraffes. Yeah, they make

her into so many different things. It's crazy.

At this point in the story, they're all, you

know, they're still making her into all these

different things and eventually she will get

You know, she gets fed up, she gets angry, she

gets mad. She also gets sad because if you look

at those three panels where she's doing the pee

pee pee pee pee. She at the end of it, she starts

crying. Well, she's exhausted. She's yeah, she

doesn't know what she really is, because she's

a she's you know, you know. You feel sorry for

what which should seem like a like an inanimate

object. Oh no imp we gotta go after her quick

she's heading towards the market the market but

today's the flea market I Do love that This wide

splash page of the different stuff at the flea

market They pretty much nailed what a flea market

is supposed to be even for Ponyville. Oh, I know.

I mean you got everything Mm -hmm You've got

the kids fighting Yeah, yeah, they always fight

And Scootaloo's we had her turn into too much

stuff. I mean she turned into everything we asked

her to Yeah, we kept asking her turn into stuff

we wanted. Did we ever ask her what she wanted

to do? Isn't it kind of obvious when they get

into the library here Where she is? She's right

in the center, right? Oh, well, yeah. Yeah, cuz

she already turned into that Yeah, the horse

head And also I can think of his horse head from

Zelda at this point You know anytime you think

of a horse head I just think of Godfather Make

her an offer she can't refuse So they all want

to apologize to her and they find her and We

end with the cutie Marcus haters writing to Princess

Celestia Saying that they're gonna let it grow

in her own pace and maybe when we're all a little

more mature we can be friends again Until then

she'll be waiting for us in her home Which is

where? Is it back in that cave? It's back in

the cave, yeah. Okay. Yeah. I like this one.

It's fun. I think the episode where they're actually

looking for their cutie marks is better than

this. But they're always... See, this is probably...

I kind of got worn out with the teamwork procedures.

Did you? Yeah, and so this is a cute episode

because I really like the imp. Imp. Imp? Imp.

There we go. Imp, yes. Yeah, I really like that.

But it seems like with the cutie mark crusaders,

this is good because it's something different

besides them looking for their cutie marks. They're

actually having fun with something that they're

not constantly trying to get their marks for.

And I appreciate that. I really do. And like

I said, you get feelings for what's supposedly

an inanimate object. It's awesome. Mm -hmm. So

up Nick. Oh, what would you give the cutie mark

story? I would give this a four Give it a three

and a half Scootaloo as much as I like rainbow

desk rule or just kind of bugged me a little

bit a few times So we get to princess Celestia

story here and They're having the grand... They're

having the... Pony School Grand Gala or whatever

it is. We see... Who do we see here? Which one?

Which panel? Who are these? It's a little less

exciting, perhaps. The two ponies on the panel.

The one that's yawning and the one that's...

They're new to... As far as I know, they're new

to the comics. Okay. So we have Celestia addressing

everyone to the Royal High, that's what it is,

the Royal High Tea, not the Grand Gala, Royal

High Tea. Heaven forbid all the pony fans just

lash out at me for calling this the Grand Gala.

Oh my god. So this is the Royal High Tea, this

is basically freshman, it's basically like a

freshman orientation kind of thing. for the school.

The parents bring their kids to kind of get to

know the teachers. Yep. And the story becomes

a story of Princess Celestia and Inkwell, who

is the oldest teacher at the school. Yeah, and

the kids are to the point where they're starting

to make fun of her, you know. because she's not

as spry as some of the other teachers and she's

got some old stories. I like her myself. I think

she's awesome. Yeah, I mean, she is. She reminds

me there was a, I don't know, I don't know. I've

been trying to Think of this story since I did

this book. When I was in elementary school, I

read a book at some point or another where...

The really good teacher the teacher who was always

nice to all the students and everything else

and the students Just took advantage of that

all the time in the story She it is revealed

throughout the story at least at the end that

she turned into the bad Substitute that they

had one day when she's when the good teacher

was out And I can't think of the damn I think

I think the teacher's name was mrs. Nelson or

something, but I can't think of the damn book

it's been driving me crazy i know it's not wayside

school i know it's not um i know god it's driving

me nuts um i don't remember uh i don't remember

it so we have inkwell um here and the kids are

all like you said laughing at her the kids because

Celestia shows up they all get their little angel,

you know, they I Know their ears aren't devil

horns But when they're hee -heeing and snickering

at an inkwell, I'm like, hey, and then the halos

appear and I'm like, yeah They look like the

powerpuff girls Look at a yeah very powerpuff

girlish. I love it. Yeah, and they kind of I

mean you can tell which one's which I was on

the left, Bubbles is in the middle, and Blossom's

on the right. Green, red, and blue. If they were

male, they would be the Rowdy Ruff Boys. Don't

forget your rewards go to the wary. Let's see,

so... The next page, there's a cameo which I

absolutely love. Which is? Snape. They got Snape!

Snape is in the very first panel. in the left

-hand side. The pony with the scowl on his face?

That is Snape. Look at his hair. Look at his

expression. He's got the black cloak. That's

Snape. Snape. Who the hell is Snape? What are

you talking about? Are you serious? From Harry

Potter? Oh, God. I haven't watched those damn

movies. I haven't read those damn books. Everyone

knows who Snape is. He's the best character.

I don't. I don't, and I am blissfully ignorant,

and I do not want to know. Don't even tell me.

Oh, you hurt me so, man. Oh, I'm a snitch girl.

It's nothing new. Nothing I haven't done before.

I'm not kidding. That is so Snape. Kudos. Okay.

Whatever you say. You're you need help I don't

well In other areas probably yeah, but not in

this case. No, I am perfectly fine being blissful

on Harry plopper Let me ask you something so

inkwell She kind of reminds me of isma. Do you

know who isma is? No how the Emperor's new group

mm -hmm she's oh the villainous I don't I didn't

know her name but yeah I know sadly oh my gosh

this is so Harry Potter cuz there's Snape again

and there's true Lonnie next room yeah I didn't

even notice true Lonnie oh my gosh I'm freaking

out here you just don't get it oh so many Harry

Potter references I love this Would have been

much happier if it was mojo Jojo So everything

goes to hell in a high basket here the high tea

is ruined And then you can't say the chef doesn't

look like Gordon Ramsay Gordon who? Yeah, I know

who Gordon Ramsay is. I just don't watch Hell's

Kitchen or whatever show he does now. You can't

tell me that does not look like Gordon Ramsay.

That's Gordon Ramsay in pony form right there.

I love it. I guess. I don't pay that much attention

to the guy, so I wouldn't know. Oh my gosh. I

will make references to almost every panel here.

Let's see how many you get, okay? So later on

this on this page you get Carter from welcome

back Carter That's funny can't you see it please

tell me you know that show I guess I know welcome

back Carter. Thank you. Okay? The giant explosion

is just awesome The explosion of real food come

to life looks like a bunch of chocolate Oh, because

there's a bunny, yeah. Dang. That's a little

too literal, people. Like, seriously. A giant

golden rabbit screaming and then it explodes

and chocolate comes out of it. I love it. It's

just way too literal. I love it. So much fun

stuff. Yep. Flying bananas. Lying bananas oranges

and apples. Oh my and because of this incident

Princess Celestia doesn't really want or no the

the parents don't want their kids going to the

school You know Is that pony that's apologizing

oh god, I don't know which pager on Princess

Celestia, I'm so sorry, if the students stay

home, what's going to happen to the school? The

yellow pony with the pink hair? I know that's

not Apple Bloom. Oh no, that's the pony that's

in this issue, why can't I think of her name?

I don't know either. Oh crap, I apologize. No

class to teach means no school to teach in. Maybe

one of us shouldn't hang up before we all have

to. So Princess Celestia needs some alone time

talking with Philomena, her pet phoenix. That

was a crazy episode. That was a fun episode.

I love that episode. Where they're like, oh my

god, we killed Princess Celestia's pet. Oh my

god, she's going to banish us. That was a good

one. I like that one. So we get to this flashback

story that Princess Celestia is talking about

What happened in the past here and Basically

inkwell comes out and saves the day pretty much

here. Yeah. Yeah, which she was a young young

pony And there's a bunch of g1 references here

is there? Oh, yeah. So, the other unicorn that's

with them. Mm hmm. Um I want to say Moon Dancer,

Moon Dancer from G1. So, you're the expert here.

I wouldn't say expert, though. But then you go

to the decks panel and you got my favorite. Yay!

Firefly makes an appearance and I love it. Awesome.

Yep. So you have this great pony war and I love

the art here on Celestia Well, it's just so well

done it almost if it wasn't You look at the big

splash page where it says where she says we push

them back until they crawled into the shadows

that formed them you look at this big splash

page and It's so much reminds me The way Livio

does his transformers like we're in dark Cybertron

and Livio did a few issues And he had that real

slick look to all the robots. That's what this

reminds me of It's gorgeous, you know, absolutely

So kind of let me go back here so back to young

ink well Page she kind of looks like Betty Johnson

a little bit love it and we have on the bottom

little inspirations of g1 ponies so on the bottom

where you know the one that says bang on it okay

so you got surprise the white and green hair

with her green hair she was the inspiration to

pinky pie you have glory who is the inspiration

for rarity and then you've got like a little

uh firefly who is inspiration for Rainbow Dash,

so. So much goodness in that little panel. Yeah.

Inkwell, she almost looks like Twilight. Yeah,

she has like a Twilight feel. Well, I mean, just

- The first panel on that page, she just looks

like Betty Johnson to me. Just got the Betty

Johnson look to her. So as we go along... She

says, oh She talks about Princess Celestia's

offer to teach at the school And You know, they're

all fawning all over Inkwell here. She's probably

tired of telling that story You ponies really

want to hear about that? Of course. I heard it

was as big as a mountain Oh God, oh my god. I

just realized it inkwell. She's cup The older

equal yeah, I can see that me We want to hear

a story told story Yes, coptel swoop, good part.

So this becomes whether they should force Inkwell

to retire or not. And Celestia is like, I'm going

to solve this dilemma by book. She has Raven

take a message. By a real decree, the pointing

teacher committee will assemble at Princess Celestia's

school for the gifted unicorns for a hearing

tomorrow night. Concerning the retirement of

my most senior teacher, Inkwell. I'll stand at

attention royal highness princess Celestia. I

don't know if that's the way real pony actually

sounds but Oh my god, they all sound different

No, look at the poem. Look at the announcer pony.

Yeah, that's what I said. It's Carter. Welcome

back Carter. Oh No, I was thinking Rio in the

70s He's got purple hair he's gonna I can see

real Real he's got purple. Yeah. Yeah, he's just

so real Don't you dare bring Rio into ponies

I Hope this fan. I hope there's fan art out there

somewhere real pachinko turning into a pony that

would be awesome That's hurtful for both fandoms.

No, it's not. You liked Rio in the comic, at

least. At least that's one good point. So the

whole thing here, as it is written by our bylaws,

the teacher may prove her competency by passing

a test chosen by me. by request of the princess

the teacher will transform this ugly disgusting

toad into a beautiful less disgusting toad and

inkwell just kind of stares at it and stares

at everybody's like what's taking so long if

she isn't gonna do anything is there cotton in

your ears to match that fluff in your head oh

boy we don't have Are you gonna use magic on

this ugly toad or not? What ugly toad? I'd love

this. I felt I would think well right there,

and I'm like aww The ugly toad right in front

of me, you mean this handsome devil? He's perfect

just the way he is. What? You put boo boo to

the floor. Bina, doesn't this remind you of something?

Reminds me of what? No, she asks floor - Oh!

Flora bunda doesn't mind you of something. That's

right. Okay. I didn't change the page. Sorry

Then all is I can think of is Celestia has turned

into hot rod. Doesn't this remind you of anything

cup? No, I've never seen anything like this before

I Love I love the flashbacks. They're so cute.

Yeah, the flashbacks are awesome And, uh, so

the flashback is, uh, Inkwell and Floribunda

or whatever her name is. There you are, Floribunda.

Don't you want to be in the school picture? No,

my braces make me look like the biggest nerd

in school. Oh, I don't know about that. You cannot

nerd me. I'm a seasoned veteran. Okay, maybe

not anymore. I love that she did that. That is

so sweet. I mean, that's true teacher's love

right there. Yeah, absolutely. Shining Lights,

didn't Inkwell help you overcome your shyness?

What is it you do now again? I'm a motivational

speaker, I'm so ashamed. She looks so cute. And

Inkwell, didn't Inkwell make you feel better

about carrying around your teddy bear? Which

I totally don't need anymore. He has it in his

little bag there, I love it. And it basically

turns into You know them saying what how equal

as all help them She helped me get over my fear

of clowns That's awesome right there So basically

they don't want her to retire. Yeah, they remember

she's done some good things Yeah, our relations

old friend, I'm glad you'll be staying on never

doubted it for a minute I Love it. I love it.

Yeah, it's just so cool. It's it's one of those

stories where it it's you know Treat it's a treat

others as you want to be treated story kind of

Would say out of all the spotlights of the ponies.

This is my favorite Really? Well, there's so

many references to g1 I mean, right there's so

many other pop culture references in here as

well I mean it it just and the moral of the story

and I just love inkwell. She's adorable. I Mean,

there's does she show up again in the in the

other comics or no, this is As far as I I'm a

little far. I'm a little behind on my comics.

So I don't know I can't say that but what I have

read No, so I absolutely love this. This is like

I said out of out of the ten micro series This

is my favorite I'd say Oh, they got firefly in

there. So yeah, they wouldn't So we end with

Princess Celestia confidence is a gift and I

hope they will would inspire and a little ponies

as well as long as she could But you know I couldn't

help but wonder had my old friend friends confidence

been shaken And we find the equals just asleep

You've earned your sleep well for tomorrow's

another school day. I love it. I like that the

toad is is in her hat Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. That's

that's awesome. Again, if you go back and reread

this, there's so much glorious things in the

background. So much fun. I love it. I just I'm

not a big Celestia fan. You know, she she's kind

of like Superman. You know what you're going

to get with Celestia, you know. So I really did

like the story. It was it was just really heartwarming.

I really appreciate it. Yeah, one of the one

of the alternate covers for this is her I assume

it's a photo. Oh, it's a photograph on the desk

It has to be yeah, it looks like it's a photograph

on equals desk with its Celestia spike and Twilight

sleeping on Celestia's wing. Yeah Actually Twilight

looks smaller there. Yeah, that's when she went

to school when she went to the pretty sure inkwell

taught Twilight so hmm all right so up next for

chapter 3 we have the gem eating spike now has

it been explained why the dragons eat gems is

it just that's just their food I mean look at

Lord of the Rings smog smog was obsessed with

gold so it's kind of just like Once again, there

is only one return and it isn't of the king.

It's of the Jedi or whatever So spike is is chapter

3 here and they're having spikes strike a pose

and that's a spike you wishes Oh, I thought it's...

Spike is... sorry. Spike is over there reading

a book. Yeah, and then Twilight and Fluttershy

playing with their pets. Yeah. Are you vicious

and angel? Karate cold style, impressive. Ah,

the hoity -toity. Very nice, Angel. That's certainly

going to impress the judges, especially Hoity

himself. Yes, work it, Owlicious. Sorry spike

are we making too much noise? Oh It's alright

Twilight watching everybody get ready for the

big pet show. It makes me miss Peewee, I guess

So they offered a they offer You know, Twilight

says, you do the right thing. We're sharing a

period of a while. The baby phoenix should be

with its parents. And there was that ice cream

incident. What ice cream incident? I want a story

about that. And Fluttershy offers that he can

go with her and Angel to the show and help practice.

Spike is going back into the house. I'll just

read my, hey, wait a minute. and he sees the

sea beasts. I love it. Did you ever have sea

monkeys? No. Oh. I had I had something that wasn't

sea monkeys. It was might have been sea horses

or I don't know. I had some sort of waterlogged

thing that you put it in the water and it wasn't

a it wasn't a real it was one of those. You ever

see the Phineas and Ferb episode where they're

trying to get x -ray vision and it's those old

comic book ads Yeah, it's like x -ray vision

glasses all you have to do is send this in you

know the old the old back of a and so they send

it in and they get the glasses and Phineas puts

them on and he doesn't actually see any x -ray

vision and it's just his his hand in front of

the thing and He says Ferb, let me see that comic

again. Oh fool your friends does not actually

give you extra and then they go and make actual

So that's kind of what What the counter reminds

me of so spike is basically the spike story here

is he goes overboard with the whole pet thing

yeah, he missed the pet that he left and and

the pony at Pony Express That's that's awesome.

Come on. It's it's awesome, but it's just Or

even funnier United States Pony Service. No the

Pony Express The Post Office started off as the

Pony Express so it works. Yeah, it's this room

blurry for a spike. That's me. Thanks Blah blah

blah hours of fun training time will vary blah

blah only feed them provided blah. Here's what

I'm looking for Add sea beast eggs to water and

let sit covered for three hours Wait till I show

the others three hours later fillies and gentle

ponies is prepare yourselves for the magic majestic

beauty of the Sea beasts Wow, that's really big

aquarium I think I can almost make out their

tiny heads. Look at the expressions on Twilight

and Fluttershy. Howalicious doesn't seem to care

and Angel, in his evil, is laughing. Angel is

evil, I tell ya. They must not be fully grown

yet. They need more time. So basically like I

said spike over does it he overfeeds them They

turn into these big giant monsters. He does like

he does a super he does a special growth for

his recipe Yeah They may not be magical pets,

but I bet this will make them Basically he gets

some steroids This is an anti -drug commercial

right here Blah blah will make for healthy magical

pet use recipes only for magical pets blah blah

super growth recipe yes and Spike doesn't he

doesn't follow directions like You should know

he's like a child he was yeah, it's it's graphic

sorry got the hiccups So So he tries to train

them Yes, yes Uh, yeah, that one was pretty bad.

Uh, great job. Having some more food. No, Spike,

that's not... feeding them is not gonna help.

Uh, as we see fit. Yeah, they then begin... Oh

my god. He's multiplying Michael Keaton's! It's

multiplicity all over again! I love that movie.

I need to see if that's on Hulu later. uh...

you can start now i think there's enough of you

and basically this just the he needs a bigger

aquarium they all get out they all basically

attempt to destroy the house it's like evolution

yeah it's pretty much an evolutionary tale with

these these little sea beast things and they

start talking the uh... they start growing more

And it's a thing of, you know, letting things

get out of hand. What is all that racket downstairs?

They've essentially built their own civilization.

It's crazy. It's evolution, like, sped up. I

love it. It's fun. You painted the walls? You've

got to be kidding me. You've ruined the floor,

too. And they start picking up language. How

am I ever gonna get this mess cleaned up in time?

Clean floor! Clean wall! It becomes a battle.

Between the floor people and the wall people.

The floor beasts and the wall beasts. You're

fighting? That's it. Or enough. I love it. I

like how some of the beasties made planes out

of books. Yeah, wings. Yeah, I love it. You know,

if there was a skull in his dragon breath, Spike

is pizazz. No, it's pizazz and pizazz. Well,

no, I'm saying the skull thing that they have

over in the gym comic. I know what you're saying.

no more fighting no more smoke i thought i raised

you better than this everyone back to their places

then nobody moves this is a disaster and spike

sees a little pony with his with her mommy and

basically spike learns the lesson they should

have learned earlier no shortcuts Okay, fellas,

it's time to get to work. You're smart. Your

big noggins make mine look small. Oh god. It's

Spike gets a new brain. It's Grimlock gets a

new brain. Oh, it kinda is, isn't it? Yeah. We're

gonna learn the right way, and I know you can

do it. Let's start at the beginning. As... Pony

Descartes said I think therefore I I am To be

or not to be So he starts teaching them which

is not exactly the best I don't think because

they start learning more and more And yes spike

doesn't like angel Oh no, they never really got

along too well. Stinky, stinky! And dragons!

And buffalos! It's so cute though, I love how

childlike they are. They just want to take everything

in, you know? They've all grown up. Oh, yeah,

the evolution is so cute. They're adorable. First

of all, it's learned much but so much more to

learn You're leaving right now, but you just

got here and you grew up so fast I hardly had

time to I mean So it's like being a parent spike

Best panel in this comic. Stinky, ah, perhaps

Spike can train you next. I love Fluttershy's

little look, and now Angel is so put off. I love

Angel at the end. He's so cute. I think you'll

be writing the letter to Princess Celestia on

this one Spike. Yes, I can tell her I raised

the best pets ever. Oh, poor Spikey. What would

you give the Spike story? This is really cute.

I kind of saw where it was going. I'd give it

a three and a half, but the little guys are so

adorable. They are, yeah. So cute. What would

you give it? I'll give it about the same. I Enjoyed

it. I thought it was interesting and fun and

so far And of course my memory kind of sucks

on this so you'll have to remind me so far I

don't remember too many episodes in season one

where it's just Spike centric. I think he has

one, but I can't remember now Yeah, I liked it

it gave more to his character You know it shows

the whole thing of going overboard and And all

that so I enjoyed it yeah, and finally up today

we have Luna I Love how this begins. I first

of all just love the cover. It's gorgeous with

the other cover The cover is amazing this might

be my favorite cover outside of the spike gem

cover That yeah with the other two princesses,

it's just beautiful. It's gorgeous and I love

the background because that's more like Queen

Kristallis is kind of like design Have you got

to Queen Kristallis? You have not yet. Have you?

Not yet. Not in season one. She's not in season

one. So yeah. Yeah, I am What I like about this

is how they started out almost like a movie Bobby

kernel presents a a and a and H production which

is basically The the create the creative team

Oh Starring in the day shift, which I assume

it's it. I assume it's the creative team Let

me go back and make sure that I'm right on this

When does Luna doesn't show up in season one

does she in season one? Yeah, she said the very

first episode first two episodes She's nightmare

moon and then when they calm her down she turns

into Luna. Oh Okay, that's why yeah Yeah, okay

an ancient ant yeah, it's it's Katie cook Andy

price Heather Breckle Neil Um, so yeah, basically

how they, how they go about doing this is like

I said, they open it up as if it's almost, um,

where did that? There it is. They open it up

like it's a movie and I just absolutely love

that. And it's like start, you know, Luna starring

in the day shift. Cause as we learn here, Luna

is. night person Yep, she she takes care of the

night And she's basically arguing with Celestia

saying that She's asking are you saying your

job is harder than mine And Celestia is like

no they're just different and Celestia here looks

with this art style. She looks so young She doesn't

look like the giant, older princess that she

looked like in her own book. I know it's two

different art styles, two different artists,

but it just looks like this happens, like...

Well, she has got all prettied up. She still

just woke up for the day. I know, but I'm just

saying... I'm just saying, the art style, it

doesn't look like the same princess, like...

It just doesn't look like the same princess,

Celestia, as we saw earlier. I know it's a different

artist, but... She just looks like a relaxed

Celestia. So Luna is basically goading her into

having them switch jobs. It's basically Freaky

Friday, people. Except they don't actually switch

bodies, they just switch jobs. Why does he remind

me of Jarvis? He's probably supposed to be like

Jarvis. He's a helper. It all comes back to Iron

Man, people. And I've seen this story a million

times. They did it in Justice League, they've

done it in other things. The overall premise

of the story is not that... original which is

fine I'm not complaining about it I mean I do

like seeing the story and I like seeing Luna

walk in Princess Celestia's shoes and then realizing

that they both have really really hard jobs because

I haven't to this point in the show obviously

seen how hard Princess Celestia works and this

is what's kind of showing showing you that as

Luna is going through her for both of them actually

showing you how Hard days are here. It's it's

tough being a princess I I love Luna so How exciting

to see so many ponies out and about during the

day the peasantry of our kingdom enjoying the

land thrilling? Let's not call them peasantry

princess. It's not endearing. This is a lot of

love it No, what about the serfs? no the peons

definitely not civilians sigh that'll work uh

because princess luna just she's very overprivileged

or that's the way that she comes off to me would

you say uh no because she you gotta remember

she was stuck in the moon for hundreds and hundreds

and hundreds of years i don't think she has any

privileges I don't know I'm saying her person

her upper crust part the way she's you know looking

at them as peasants and She's been gone for so

long times have changed, but she's still back

in the time of when things were a lot more prim

and proper She hasn't learned to get out of that

phase yet She kind of reminds me of Paris Hilton.

No, don't say that. No. No, I'm saying, like,

you know, this whole thing about calling them

different, you know, bad names and then let us

return to watching the civilians lead their simple

lives. And I'm like, yeah, that's such what a

rich chick would say. So Kivitz says, actually,

it must be off. You have to present for the Royal

Guard this morning report in two minutes. Two

minutes? Oh my god. Yep, busy busy day. Yeah,

the Royal Guard presentation, not exactly what

she hoped for. And the Royal Guards have some

crazy stories. Actually, not even some crazy,

more boring stories than anything else. I love

the panel. Goodness, no, it was just an o - Opossum

it gave a flash sentry over there quite the start

though it did And she's just so defeated Hang

your head. It's just just this it's like if you

could make a big sigh Yeah, absolutely So we

have this so we go to The next page here, the

next panel here, we have this strange pony in

a cloak running down a little alley there going

into the condemned building. What's the password?

Hoofacures. And it turns out there's a spa with

Celestia. It's been so long since we've seen

you. Welcome! Back to Luna, she's doing more

and more things. What's the next on the list

here? Let's see, it's... I think that meeting

with the kitchen staff went very well, don't

you? Would have been much better had you let

me sample the desserts that were preferred. I

know. Poor Luna, she just wants some cake. Nonsense!

Do you know how much sugar is in carrot cake?

Your glucose levels will thank me. He says and

now we have a meeting with the delegates from

the crystal empires winter snow day committee

I hope you like signing your name over and over

lots of official documents. I know I do So once

again boring boring boring paperwork for Luna

And we finally get to something she loves disputes

that sounds marvelous entertaining let us be

off and she doesn't at first it doesn't seem

like she's gonna fit in with this and of course

she does no need for dramatics I have my decree

we shall cut the cart in half both parties shall

receive a half and be happy wait no that'll ruin

the cart That all seems well and good, but there

are two of us. We can't cut it into two -thirds.

Oh It's um It's the story like since yeah, it's

flimmin flam No, no, no, no, not them it's Wheatgrass

and oh, yeah them too. Yeah Now you're talking

about flimmin flam. No not not flimmin flam That

was trickery though who was most upset about

the destruction of the card is the true owner

next So she has fun doing this for a while And

they go do something else here Well Celestia

is you know Waterfall bath because it's not a

mud bath Looks like a nice bath. I'd like to

have yeah absolutely So all the animals get out

Celestia is still relaxing and Luna has to Cut

the ribbon for the grand opening of a food mart?

She's just like, oh god, this. More paperwork,

more paperwork. I'm dead on my hooves. How does

Celestia lead such a hectic life? I'd rather

take on fully grown owlbear on my own than do

all that again. Does she do this every day? She

does indeed, and she does it with both grace

and dignity. Come along, lunch is a walk through

the entire castle away. A quick jaunt. We're

two, three, two, three. I can just hear that.

You do realize I'm normally asleep right now,

don't you? Oh, Piffle, you fell asleep for four

whole minutes during that presentation of the

award for best attendance at the School for Gifted

Unicorns. That should be enough pep to get you

through the rest of the afternoon. I can hurt

you. That's funny. I'd love that one. She's so

serious because I believe that she would actually

happen. Love the look on her face there Yeah,

it's very awesome At least she gets to eat for

once yeah So there is that We go to celestial

still relaxing she looks like she's having a

good time yeah Can we just skip the things in

the list that I find uneventful? No, Scythe.

And onward, what is the next one on the list?

Onward! Oh, it will be quite easy to find fun

in this. You're making an appearance at the Canterlot

Garden Society's tea party to mingle for a bit.

Mingle with the commoners? Yes, very fun. Let

us be off. Let's not call them commoners either,

shall we? Fine, civilians, let us be off. So,

high T doesn't exactly go well, sort of. I like

that she wants to play chess with the civilians.

With the civilians. As chess pieces, though.

That's awesome. Yep. And... The one she makes

friends with to play chess with, Meyer Rook!

At A1 takes your knight at A6, a foolish move

to leave it so open. Nicely coughed, citizen.

Ah, but now my rook may take yours, Princess.

A8 to A6. That move displeases me! The rage.

Princess, I'm back and found an extra pink highlighter

too. That'll make things extra fun when I'm going

over the itinerary for the evening's events.

What are you doing? I'm losing the battle, but

not the war do not fret I shall win in the end

She's like losing she no not at all She's sounds

like one of those people that likes to always

have the last word Oh, Celestia, your sister

would banish me to the moon if she saw what I

just did. Let's not use that particular illusion

again, shall we? Oh, sorry. My tournament, I

mustn't let the blue -haired unicorn win. Pardon

me, Princess, you were already losing. Yeah,

she's not one to give up so fast. Yes, await

my return. We will finish this. Celestia is done

with her primping and relaxing and all that.

I like how sparkly she looks. Yep, she looks

so great. She says, oh I bet Luna's doing marvelous

later. Are we done talking about doves? Oh yes,

now we need to go over choreography for the torch

lighting ceremony. I suppose our talks of dancing

and fire will be interesting. Not exactly she

um Fire shining armor all good. What's next on

the agenda? Well princess you wish to be rude

and cut this mini short. Yes. Let's do that Yes

We have another giant splash page of the What

is that it's the convention oh yeah that's awesome

though yeah it looks really cool yeah it really

shows off the kingdom it looks like a lot of

fun lions tigers and bears oh my and you know

the rest it says games of chance game of skill

the amazing sea show oh look it's got a little

shark in there featuring bruce the shark It's

house traveling circus There's so many fun things

here Luna's uh twitching at this point. She's

got fire. She's not exactly She's not having

a good time. No she throws out his watch that

was my grand ponies And I've silenced subordinates,

I don't think someone's was called for I love

the bats yeah the bats are awesome i have had

enough of this this pandemonium we're in the

situation and we will be dealing with it my way

but the list flomp so she's dealing with the

citizens she Let's see. Loot is dealing with

the citizens. Citizens, come forth and let me

bestow whatever agreements, endowments, gifts,

blah blah blah. You are here to come for a long

form. Form a line! So they all form a line. Reminds

me of Buk Buk. No, not Bok Bok. Buk Buk. Ten

guys form a line. We all line up. First guy comes

down, old weird Harold. Alright, now come in

and land. a piece of paper somebody threw a piece

of paper that's all that's an old um sketch from

a certain comedian that no one likes anymore

even though he is a monster she's handling all

that rather well isn't she she is it wasn't very

nice of you to pile all that on in her at once

you know nonsense she was clearly ready for some

advanced scheduling So she admits that I Had

no idea your daily routine was so difficult.

It is most unpleasant take back I do love the

whole sisterly thing and how they can they don't

even see I originally thought that They were

going to walk a mile in each other's shoes. This

really isn't a Freaky Friday thing, because Celestia

went off and had a relaxing day. Because Luna

still, she's got to control the night, so she's

got her night shift to do now. That's the best,

that's the best lesson right there. Come back

here, I want to go to bed too. Would you like

me to get you some tea? This tea is cold. Do

you think she'll ever come back? Like that there's

a coda because it finishes with the possum saying

the end but then there's like a coda Thanks to

all readers from all the creators of the micro

series Feeling I can do anything. I'm switching

you to decaf And it talks about Luna's night

being tired Yeah, no, I mean I like the story

I thought it was really cool I Love all these

covers the covers in the back. Oh, yeah, they're

fun. They're beautiful. Just I Mean spike versus

outalicious. That's awesome Yeah, Sarah Richard

did all those covers and they're gorgeous. Yeah,

the colors are just beautiful. Yeah, so Ponytails

volume 2 Luna Celestia spike and the keymark

crusaders Interesting stories I Think I know

enough now about these characters that I'm not

sure if I want to continue finding out more about

them Well, they go on other adventures and stuff.

Yeah, I know. The main group, you know, the core

group that we see in the cartoon and all that.

Main six. Main six. Yeah, sure. Get it right,

bud. Main six. Get it right. You know, them,

sure, absolutely a few of them. But I'm not too

sure about... About these four stories. I do

like these four stories I'm just not too sure

if I want to know like see more individual stories

with these these characters right away anyway,

oh I I could agree with you spikes spike is pretty

fun though. I do yeah spike is fun The other

like because the way I view like Trust me. I've

only seen the first season, but the way I view

Princess Celestia is that she's She's the royalty

obviously, but she's supposedly you can have

a story like the Luna story and show the princesses

and that's fine but I just always feel like she

should be someone that that Twilight writes to

that, you know or whoever right or writes to

her and tells of her adventures not necessarily

Putting her in the spotlight right away. And

again, I am by no means a pony expert at all

like Nicole is Oh, not really. I'm not really

an expert. I'm a big fan. You know what I mean.

Compared to me, yeah, you're the veteran here.

Well, Luna has a really good episode of when

she learns about Halloween. Oh, okay. Yeah, that's

a really fun episode. What season is that in?

I want to say two. Okay, yeah. Yeah, I gotta

get that season one episode recorded first, so...

Alright folks, that's gonna do it. Up next, coming

up next week, we've got The Villains. The whole

point of Feenship is Friendship February. We're

gonna be talking about The Villains micro -series.

Yes, I love The Villains, they're awesome! Do

I need to read anything before going through

that? I would say - Any kind of context I need?

Do I need to watch through Season 4 of the show

or anything? You need to watch the very, very

first episode in the 80s. Their main villain

that showed up in that returns into to here He's

also in one of the newer episodes, but I want

you to watch the original And everything and

oh yeah, you do cuz they've got the sea ponies

in there yeah, so It's really it's 22 minutes.

It's not bad. It's actually really good 22 minutes

of my life. I'll never get back. It's awesome

Really awesome, and then you can see like the

g1 styles and where they came from yeah Alright

folks that's gonna do it for us. Where can the

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