Uhh…
Wow, where do I start here? This really begs an outline done for a comprehensive review from Issue #1 where all was sparkly and new and cool and we couldn’t wait for more (granted we were in the middle of the longest hiatus the show had to date) but… somewhere along the way it lost something. This issue was a confirmation of it.
My immediate reaction is one of “Okay… I’m waiting for the story to start.” and then five minutes later going “That’s… it. Well, the art’s nice.” Art itself is not a saving grace to a bad story (see Double Rainboom as a key example of this), and Night of the Apples is right there with one of those bad concept B-movie storylines that doesn’t appeal to everyone. All in all I thought the pacing was rushed, the initial solution to the comic being comical to a point of disbelief, and leaving me wanting to see what the story for Issue #34 is going to be about, because I can already see the way they might play this out in Issue #33.
Honestly? I miss the Micro Series! True, there were a couple of duds (Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, and Spike), but it did the right thing: focus on one character and build their character using existing canon knowledge. The Friends Forever line is a good substitute and has not as of yet produced an issue I regretted reading.
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