Hello again, class! I hope you’re ready to stalk two ponies as they go about their daily lives and call it “studying” as we enter our next Season 8 Homework Assignment! Today’s comic is based on The End in Friend. This episode makes a good point: despite my apparent tendency to draw the two together in my artwork frequently, Rainbow Dash and Rarity really haven’t had too many episodes together. To rectify this, we have this cool episode about opposites attracting and using differences as an advantage in difficult situations, a message I have always enjoyed in multiple forms of media. These two aren’t as big of opposites as, say, Dash and Fluttershy or Rarity and Applejack, but the concept’s still there. …And of COURSE G.M. Berrow, writer of this episode known previously by the Brony community for writing FiM-based storybooks, would write an episode where the solution to the problem is reading storybooks. That’s funny to me.

When Rainbow chastised Rarity’s critique of Daring Do’s action scenes due to the fact that they both knew that Daring Do was real and the stories were based on true events, a thought crossed my mind that I knew I wanted to make the basis for this comic: What if Shadow Spade is also real? What if her stories are actually stealth autobiographies just like Daring’s, and the only difference is the Mane 6 just don’t know about the other one? Furthermore, what if Daring and Shadow are ALSO friends sharing a dynamic similar to Rainbow and Rarity and still getting along despite their differences, further cementing this episode’s moral and putting R&R’s arguments in a new perspective?

…I don’t know if any of this is funny, but I wanted to get the idea out there. And now I want to read a real book series chronicling the adventures of Shadow Spade. Daring Do already has one, and honestly I think I’d be more interested in seeing her mysteries than Daring’s temple raids.

Hope you all can appreciate a wide range of literature and media… and people, too! On to the next episode!

Daring Do, Shadow Spade, and My Little Pony belong to Hasbro and DHX.