New Official IDW Comic: My Little Pony: A New Generation! Return to Canterlot!

[eventyraren 180]

https://www.equestriadaily.com/2022/02/new-official-idw-comic-series-announced.html?m=1

So this just appeared. The first G5 IDW comic. What are your thoughts? Will you read it?

[Toastypk 923]

I love how they look!

And I'm interested to see what happens, based on that synposis!

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I knew Canterlot still existed! But does that mean the show won't go back there?

 

Edited February 16, 2022 by Toastypk

[Misty Shadow 7,813]

They've already announced G5 comics? Right on!  Now Season 10's abrupt ending is somewhat more justified. 

Also chuckling at poor Hitch getting squished in that art, but it's at least amusing. I also love the idea of them exploring parts of the G4 world, I just hope we don't have anywhere near as much confusion with continuity between the comics and the show like we had with G4. 

[Ganondorf8 11,259]

Makes sense that they would announce this given that G4 is pretty much over at this point. I also suspect they're going to start over with Issue #1 of this new series as opposed to continuing on the number convention of the previous one. This means starting at Issue #103.

[Megas 27,550]

Hate to be that guy, but given how the recent Generations mini-series was handled and how it treated something as huge as bringing two generations of MLP together(spoiler alert: it was very bad), I'm having very low expectations for this. But I'd love to be wrong

[Tom Gallagher 33,581]

I thought Zepheur Heights was Canterlot the whole time.

[Evil Pink One 13,505]

11 minutes ago, TomDaBombMLP said:

I thought Zepheur Heights was Canterlot the whole time.

Nahhh.... I think it's more on the gorge place

[Hellfire428 34]

I’m exited for this, i hope the comics are good.

[Steve Piranha 29,414]

14 hours ago, CloudMistDragon said:

 

Also chuckling at poor Hitch getting squished in that art, but it's at least amusing. 

I don’t know, I’d love being squished like that by cute ladies 

[Evil Pink One 13,505]

I sense the sunny and Izzy shippers....they are trembling.... While the sunny zipp shippers are thundering...

Edited February 17, 2022 by Kujamih

[Ashen Pathfinder 16,161]

Canterlot; you say? So, an actual city still in use, abandoned, or in ruins? Color me intrigued!

[Reality Check 629]

Return to Canterlot, huh? That sounds kinda interesting to be honest.

Also, I'm kinda hoping that Sunny will mention it as a part of his dad's research, heck maybe for the other places in G4 as well

[Steve Piranha 29,414]

I must say it’s rather strange for them to be led to Canterlot. That implies they are outside the known Equestrian lands from FIM, AND the show won’t go too deep into FIM 

[Splashee 28,560]

That's a long title for a comic!

[TransPirate 121]

On 2022-02-17 at 9:47 PM, Splashee said:

That's a long title for a comic!

It actually seems to just be called My Little Pony

[Landi 600]

I didn't think that there would be any more MLP IDW comics after generations was finished, so this was a surprise to hear. The synopsis doesn't seem too out of the ordinary, but the possibility of Canterlot making an appearance is very interesting. It makes me wonder what other G4 locations will be visited throughout G5 and what they are like now. That being said, my expectations aren't very high due to the terrible "Season 10" comics that came out after the series ended and ended up souring my opinion on MLP IDW comics as a whole. Hopefully these comics can surprise me in a good way.

Edited March 6, 2022 by Landi

[Skylight Scintillate 1,973]

Return to Canterlot? Huh, that's weird. I could have sworn that they said that Zepher Heights was built on the same mountain as Canterlot. Well this certainly is interesting. I'll have to keep my eye on this.

[Evil Pink One 13,505]

On 2022-02-19 at 10:07 PM, TransPirate said:

It actually seems to just be called My Little Pony

Might be copying manga titles... Long titles are in apparently....

[HereComesTom 2,262]

What kind of makes me skeptical of this, is how the IDW comics didn't seem to really in continuity with the G-4 show:  King Sombra had a completely different comeback and resolution in the comics than he did in Season 9 of the show---the two stories were completely contradictory.  So even if they give us hints or even outright answers to what happened to old Equestria, there's a chance that the show's writers won't care about it and will contradict it.

With that context in mind, I kind of predict that, in the IDW Comic, we'll get few answers and more questions---IF they do it right. 

If they want to be cheap about it, then it'll turn out at the end of the story that they never made it to Canterlot at all at any point, and the title will be a deceptive cop-out to sell copies to lore nerds like me who want to know what's going on!

[DivineMist1000 71,353]

Does this mean… Celestia and Luna?! 

[Miss 6,222]

Hmmm......this sounds more like it should be an actual episode rather than a comic. 

Now I'm skeptical about everything. 

[Photon Jet 5,491]

If the characters from Gen 4 aren't going to be featured in the comic series, who'll be in charge as ruler of Equestria?

[Courageous Thunder Dash 7,824]

Heya, added more to your original post. Make sure you add a little something of your own rather than just have people rely on the title. Thanks!

This looks like a really great read! It may even give insight on what happened before the movie!

[Dark Horse 12,955]

Interesting! I wonder if Canterlot is still inhabited by ponies or some other creatures, or perhaps even abandoned entirely?  Could be like a legendary 'lost' city that no one has seen fit to reclaim. A city frozen in time from a by-gone age. Would be pretty neat to see them explore familiar settings in a dilapidated state.

[The Nth Doctor 661]

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Well, that raises some interesting implications