Talk:My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (comics)/@comment-29981995-20181121203713/@comment-29981995-20181124102018

Well, I'm even more confused now: this image from Andy Price seems to depict a female character, either a dragon or a really demonic-looking Alicorn. Maybe Cosmos' chaotic nature includes changing shapes? Anyway, I was actually expecting/hoping that the issue would kick of a multi-issue story. Not to knock on double-length issues, but it seems weird to have that as part of the main series rather than as an annual edition.

For that matter, we haven't had an arc of more than two issues since From the Shadows, unless you count Legends of Magic and now Nightmare Knights. But it was really only the latter half of Legends that was a single cohesive story; the first six issues were more random episodes from each Pillar, with Star Swirl's being the only one that really ended up being important later on due to what happened in the annual. Ponyville Mysteries didn't really have an overarching plot either; it was essentially "The Cutie Mark Crusaders solve mysteries Scooby-Doo style". I kind of miss the longer stories; some of them were pretty good.