My Little Pony: Adventures in Friendship Volume 1

My Little Pony: Adventures in Friendship #1

by Ryan K. Lindsay, Barbara Randall Kesel, Thomas F. Zahler

The magic of friendship continues in this collection of adventures! Featuring one-shots on Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy, plus a team-up issue with Rainbow Dash and Trixie, these stories drawing from the series Pony Tales and Friends Forever have never been collected together - until now!

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Childrens, Comic Book, Fantasy

76 pages, Hardcover

First published December 16, 2014

About the author

Ryan K Lindsay is an award winning Australian comic writer who has worked for a variety of publishers.
He has partnered with artist Eric Zawadzki to produce: ETERNAL through Black Mask Studios, and HEADSPACE, with Sebastian Piriz, through Monkeybrain Comics/IDW.
He has partnered with artist Sami Kivela to produce: BEAUTIFUL CANVAS through Black Mask Studios, DEER EDITOR through his own ‘Four Colour Ray Gun' imprint and a handful of Kickstarter successes, and CHUM through ComixTribe.
He was selected as a participant in the DC Writing Workshop group of 2016.
His other comics include: Aurealis and Ledger Award winning NEGATIVE SPACE with Owen Gieni through Dark Horse Comics, GLOVES with Tommy Lee Edwards in the Vertigo CMYK anthology, as well as EIR with Alfie Gallagher, INK ISLAND with Craig Bruyn, and STAIN THE SEAS SCARLET with Alex Cormack through Kickstarter for ‘Four Colour Ray Gun.’
He's written/edited analytical texts, including THE DEVIL IS IN THE DETAILS: EXAMINING MATT MURDOCK AND DAREDEVIL through Sequart, and has had essays published in Criminal, Godzilla, Sheltered, Strange Nation, and Crime Factory.

He is Australian and when not being a family man he hones his writing skills by sacrificing blood wombats to the outback spider fight clubs.

Reviews

[Kuroyuri · Rating 4 out of 5]

Chapter 1: Cute! This was definitely written with the adult audience in mind. A lot of the dialogue meaning will go right over kids' heads. Also the PNN reporter is a funny character, and confirms that there's TV in Ponyville?

Chapter 2:

I hope Princess Celestia will appreciate the symbolism inherent in the chaotic juxtaposition of my cutie mark melded into a transformative spiral representing the process of personal maturation as experienced by an introverted artisan!

How have I never read these comics before 😂 Seeing Fluttershy's artistic side was fun!

Chapter 3:

The crown is magic. It won't let her leave the city while she wears it. And she can't take it off... unless we diamond docs starts to lose faith in her as our queen. True executive power is, of course, derived from the people. A chief executive serves at the pleasure of the electorate.

Leave it to Diamond Dogs to deliver a profound political statement in my kids pony comic haha. Rainbow Dash and Trixie were an unlikely but entertaining duo.

[Emily · Rating 3 out of 5]

The art enhances the the understanding of the story because of the different facial expressions and emotions portrayed in the illustrations help the readers fully understand what the characters are feeling and the plot line.

[Kate · Rating 5 out of 5]

A story about knitting art!

[Cassi · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book seems to be written for bronies. There are various jokes that are self-aware, and some I didn't get (so the little kiddies probably wouldn't either), but the artwork is superb and the characterization is great. It's also unbearably cute! :D

[Janice · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars

[Margaret Steward · Rating 4 out of 5]

This covers issues that are also covered in volumes of "Friends Forever" and "Pony Tales", so if you've read all of those, this contains nothing new. Nice to have the comics in hardcover, though.