| My Little Pony: Kenbucky Roller Derby #1 | |
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| Issue №: | 1 |
| Published: | January 17, 2024 |
| Writer: | Casey Gilly |
| Artist: | Natalie Haines Matt Froese (inks, pp. 15-20) |
| Colorist: | Heather Breckel |
| Letterer: | Neil Uyetake |
| Editor: | Riley Farmer |
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| Credits • Gallery • Allusions | |
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My Little Pony: Kenbucky Roller Derby #1 is the first issue of IDW Publishing's My Little Pony: Kenbucky Roller Derby comic miniseries. In this issue, Sunny Starscout, after getting rejected from the local roller derby team, sets out to form her own team - with retired derby legend Tracy Tailspin as team coach.
Summary[]
Sunny Starscout tries out for Maretime Bay's roller derby team, the Sandy Shore Slammers, of which Misty is a member. However, due to the other team members' abrasive personalities and their captain expecting the ponies trying out to already know certain moves and maneuvers without teaching them, Sunny gets rejected and subsequently ridiculed. She meets up with Pipp Petals, who treats her to ice cream to cheer her up.
As Sunny angrily rants about how differently she would lead a derby team, Pipp gives her the idea of starting one. With the help of Izzy Moonbow, Sunny puts up flyers advertising tryouts for her new roller derby team; the Sandy Shore Slammers discover the flyers and vandalize them. Sunny is demoralized to the point of nearly giving up, but Pipp has another idea to recruit retired roller derby star Tracy Tailspin to be the coach for Sunny's team.
Sunny and Pipp travel to a remote location in Equestria, where Pipp admits that she sent multiple messages to Tracy Tailspin but received no response. Lost and hungry, they wander onto an apple orchard and try to eat some apples, but Tracy, the owner of the orchard, appears to stop them. After Sunny and Pipp explain why they have come to see her, she agrees to hear them out and serve them some food. Before deciding whether to accept the position as coach for Sunny's roller derby team, Tracy tests Sunny's resolve by having her skate on her personal derby track.
With Tracy's guidance, Sunny's skating skills quickly improve, but she still stumbles here and there because of how the Slammers treated her. Tracy tells Sunny to remember what she loves about skating and to push away all other distractions; Sunny recalls skating with her father Argyle Starshine when she was little, and she is able to skate much better and faster. Tracy agrees to be Sunny's coach if she can assemble a full derby team in two weeks.
The next day, Sunny, Izzy, Pipp, and Zipp Storm meet with more prospective team members, but only a few individuals show up: a mare with severe allergies named Sniffles, a clumsy mare in glasses named Oopsie Daisy, and a group of Pegasnails. Nearby, the Sandy Shore Slammers eagerly wait to watch them fail.
Quotes[]
- Sunny Starscout: Sunny Starscout, you have been skating since you were a filly! There is nothing to be nervous about! Remember what Dad taught you? You can't go fast right away. You've gotta work up to it... But once you do? You're going to fly.
- Captain Buck: Crossovers are an essential move for any derby skater! You should all know these!
- Misty: She's still trying. That has to count for something!
- Flank the Tank: We're a team of winners, Misty. Winners don't try anything. They just do it.
- Misty: Oh, so you were always great on your skates?
- Flank the Tank: What can I say, I'm an athletic prodigy.
- Flank the Tank: Better luck next time, #4!
- Tina Two Bits: Yeah, like maybe next year!
- Sunny Starscout: Captain Buck kept saying I should know the moves, but I didn't! I didn't know anything!
- Pipp Petals: They expected you to know them without teaching you? How is that even fair?
- Sunny Starscout: If I were team captain, I would've had diagrams showing the practice drills! I would've tried to help if anycreature was struggling! [...] And the numbers! How hard is it to learn names? If I were team captain, I would've been welcoming! I would not have just stood there and let my teammates make fun of the newbies!
- Pipp Petals: It sounds like you want to start your own roller derby team. So why don't you?
- Izzy Moonbow: I can't wait to deploy my raccoonicorn party the next time we play Garbage and Gargoyles.
- Flank the Tank: Should we tear down the rest?
- Tina Two Bits: I've got a better idea. Let's make some edits.
- Sunny Starscout: This was all a mistake... Even if the Slammers hadn't wrecked Izzy's posters, I bet nopony would've shown up. Why would anypony want to be on a team with me?
- Pipp Petals: Sunny, you're smart, you're kind, and you're fair. That's exactly how a captain should be. And I think she could teach you everything else.
- Sunny Starscout: You did ask her if we could come, right?
- Pipp Petals: I, er... um...
- Sunny Starscout: Pipp Petals, don't make me give you the Starscowl.
- Tracy Tailspin: Slow your roll, Pinkie. I'm Tracy Tailspin, and you're in my orchard.
- Pipp Petals: --and Sunny would be an amazing captain, just like you were! She just need some help with the technical stuff.
- Tracy Tailspin: Let me make one thing clear. I was not a good captain... but I'm a great coach. I had to learn the difference the hard way.
- Pipp Petals: You know what I'm gonna say, right?
- Sunny Starscout: That I love skating, and I never questioned myself until those mean ponies got in my head. That I have this once-in-a-lifetime chance to learn from an expert, and it won't be the same with her as it was with the Slammers. Deep breath. And that I should trust myself to show her what I'm made of.
- Pipp Petals: Couldn't have said it better myself.
- Sunny Starscout: So what if I wasn't right for the Slammers? I'm gonna be right for my team, whoever they are.
- Tracy Tailspin: You can learn the moves, Starscout. I just needed to see that you had the determination--that's something I can't teach.
- Sunny Starscout: Pipp, call Tracy. Tell her I quit. These. Aren't. Skaters.
- Pipp Petals: You're being rude. Remember how it felt when somepony said that about you?
