Talk:IDW comics/@comment-15629929-20140520181613/@comment-14703963-20141127032125

Well since the entire franchise is owned by Hasbro they are the one's who really make the decisions, both the writers for the TV show & the writers for the comic books have to present their ideas to Hasbro before they can be officially made, if Hasbro approves of it, be it episode or issue, then it becomes official, and I believe that Hasbro wants both the show & the comics to be canon with each other because they're both part of the "Friendship is Magic" generation, the comics simply tell stories that couldn't be made to fit in the cartoon's episode-length time frame, so they're pretty much a bunch of untold sides of the story, and due to the fact that most most 4-year olds are still only learning how to read, the comic books are more focus on an older audiance, so I believe that the Comics are Canon to the Cartoon, it's just sometimes to find the canon-links you need to pay close attention, analyse material, do research, factor in various machics & theories, basically use the scientific method and you can find the canon-links eventually, and unless the writers of either the cartoon or the comics say anything otherwise, I'm sticking with my beliefs.