Talk:IDW comics/@comment-26840581-20160112205838/@comment-1031724-20160311021607

Yes and no.

They're not quite canon to the show due to inconsistencies, but I'd say they're set in a parallel alternate reality like all the realities at the end of the animated Spiderman.

Inconsistencies I found being:


 * In Fiendship is Magic, Amore's cutie mark is a snowflake, while the Journal of the Two Sisters (as fully written by a writer of the show, Amy Keating Rogers) says her cutie mark is a crystalline heart like Cadance's.


 * Also in Fiendship is Magic, Chrysalis knocks a dragon into the lava, causing the dragon great pain and possibly killing him. While Dragon Quest shows dragons to be completely immune to lava.


 * In the Nightmare Rarity arc, Nightmare Moon is established as a separate entity from Luna, one who came from the moon and convinced Luna to let her demonically possess her. While in the episodes Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep and The Cutie Remark Part 2, Luna and Nightmare Moon are confirmed to be one and the same.

I know I've said this before but newcomers might not have read it, plus he asked.

But if you want them to be canon to the show, you can try to find a way to make them fit in, it probably won't be as crazy as some of my headcanons