@Niggoslav_Krawczyk  
Oh, I’ve seen that wonderful tool.  
Give me one.  
I need it.

@Jerkface Hey, I’m a generous sort, I’ll even provide the fireworks!  
 
 
What a work of art! Be a crime against humanity not to use it to dispose of the detritus to humanity!

@Niggoslav_Krawczyk  
Oh.  
Oh my.

@Itsthinking  
I’m saying your lot are hypocrites and are blind at the fact that you are the opposite of the horseshoes.You re only okay with political messages in MLP when it attack target pre-approved by the mobocracy/majority.I’m sick and tired of the shift to mindless ess-jee-doubleya bashing that goes so out of control that when something is even slightly left leaning,the usual supsects come out whinning disingenuously that they dont want politics in MLP.Correction,they dont want politics that challenge their stubborn minds

@TexasUberAlles  
And yet, I cannot criticize their headcanon.

@Itsthinking  
relationship with criticism  
Translation: “Refuses to kowtow and apologize for damaging your tender headcanon and daring to write something of which you, personally, disapprove”.

@Itsthinking  
That’d be one hell of a Pay-Per-View. Also, one would be gay/lesbian, one bisexual, one asexual, and one straight.

@DanielTepesKraus  
I’d pay to see that. Hell, I’d pay someone to draw this.

@Itsthinking  
To be honest, “aggressively diverse” makes me think of a white guy, a black guy, an asian woman, and a hispanic woman, all in a cage beating the crap out of each other.

@TexasUberAlles  
“Aggressively diverse” is something I’ll be laughing at as a description for anything.
 
Here’s a good depiction of the average IDW writer/artist and their relationship with criticism:
 

@Jarkes  
He writes an aggressively diverse comic book that fscks with fairy tale tropes; I’m sure blocking obnoxious randos is pretty much a reflex at this point.
 
@Itsthinking  
critique  
Riiiiiight; disapproving responses to the issue were about 10% “critique”, and 90% “”.
 
…Thanks for that “incredibly racist” line, though, I’ll be laughing about that the rest of the night.

@Minus  
I honestly would take the moral of Dragon Quest over this. In an attempt to root out what he perceived as racism, he was incredibly racist. He absolutely deserves it and should be reminded of it at every possible opportunity until he stops and apologizes.
 
@Jarkes  
He wanted asspats. His brain got confused when he had a group of people critique him.

@Minus
 
Personally, I didn’t have a problem with the issue, but the way Whitley handled the criticism (blocking pretty much everyone who complained even if they weren’t raging, even blocking Horse News’s twitter for the article in question even though the article was actually kind of neutral for once), and the fact that he does seem to have a bit of an ego (“most socially conscious comic”? Really?) didn’t really help his case.

I bet someone could make a comic to address the issues with Feeling Pinkie Keen, and you’d still all shout SJW. What is so SJW-esque about correcting a moral? I never saw the dragon quest episode in a racist light, but I’d be pretty scummy to oppose Hasbro making sure that viewpoint is crushed.
 
This comic just feels like a sequal to that episode. They were both about race, and they were both good with good messages. Race is a real thing that affects us constantly. The only reason racism exists is ignorance. So why the unrelenting desire to kick someone off the staff for wanting to talk about race and educate the kids the comics are aimed at? Until Jeremy Whitley starts recolouring characters to “add diversity” he’s not an SJW. He’s just a normal decent guy. Hate the ones that deserve it please.
 
Also, it’s just really nice to have a bigger variety of dragon characters in teh franchise now. Ones you don’t automatically dislike.

@Princess♠Molestia  

 
we all fall from grace at one point or another.

@TexasUberAlles  
No, that can’t be; everyone’s opinion is quantifiable fact. It’s just that some facts have more truthiness to them.

@Telaros  
Or,alternately, none of the comics you’re bitching about were objectively “bad”, and you’re confusing your opinion for quantifiable fact again.

@Itsthinking  
Yeah… I won’t lie. I just gave that issue away. Just hoping he can pull off a better Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon. Ordered both normal and variant of Friends Forever #16.
 
Comics get such a bad rep. They could really use a bit of quality control, the shift from quality from the Luna and Celestia micros to the first Friends Forever was a huge middlefinger to fans.
 
But I finally found an issue that made even that one shine like a irredescent pearl – FIENDShip #3 The Sirens…
 
I appreciate having Whitley on the team more each day I look at the cover. Seriously can’t believe they pay Anderson to write those. Though I’ll put equal blame on the lazy art direction. Either the writing was so bare minimum the artist struggled to make anything out of it, or by heavens those two should just not be paired together ever again.

@Jarkes  
It was okay. It sure as shit wasn’t as bad as the Luna/Spike FF.

@TexasUberAlles
 
And the Sombra Fiendship issue; even some of the usual hate squad actually rather liked that one.

@Background Pony #3018  
Spike has been living like a pony the entire series. He sleeps in a bed, lives inside a house/castle, entertains himself with pony entertainment, and has mostly or all pony friends. He doesn’t horde things (unless he lets himself get out of control), and or anything else we’ve seen dragons do. The dragon code isn’t a code that dragons obey, but a code that he made up for himself that he calls the dragon code because he’s a dragon.
 
The moral was that even after learning a bit more about how his kid lived, he didn’t like it, and prefers to live like he always did, like a pony. It doesn’t ever have to be mentioned for it to be true.

>mlp comic  
>politically conscious
 

 
What weird ass bizarro land have I entered!!
 
…I wonder if political debates are done by kids show hosts here. Hmmmmm.

@TexasUberAlles  
I thought that part of the comic made no sense before I knew anything else about Whitley.

@Itsthinking  
hahahaha This is what I mean about how hilarious you are; that’s how hard you have to stretch to justify bitching about a comic just because “a guy who doesn’t spend as much time complaining about women and minorities as you do” wrote it.