"The things I have to deal with…"

Is G4 better than G5?

Trick question: It's neither better nor worse than G5 at the moment. It's too soon. It's a silly thing to say when G5 has few months in comparison to the content that G4 has received in ten and a half years.

Give Sunny and her friends one or two years of adventures, conflicts, contextual situations, secondary characters, villains, dangerous places, character arcs and themes that enhance the experience. Then we can make a fair comparison.

Anyway, this is a comic that I wanted to make for a couple of months and it was based on some arguments I've read that G4 was better than G5, even in september of last year, when the film was recently released in Netflix. I think it's an unfair statement so I wanted to adress it, especially when you have unmeasured expectations based on the experience you had with Friendship is Magic. The only thing that statement does is to alienate people and to create unreal expectations in G5. I don't want fanboys to suck all the fun out of this generation.

The funniest part of the whole process was drawing Twilight smoking a cigarrette. I love drawing annoyed characters who have to deal with a lot.

The dialogue from the 14th panel is based on sentences said to me by a couple of problematic fans I've met in the fandom, one in 2014 and another one in 2020. It's kinda creepy to meet people in a fan community who want everyone to follow the rules while they were being self-righteous. Someone told me I was just unlucky to meet them at that moment, but it's really hard to be honest when I met this kind of person.

In conclusion, Friendship is Magic is pretty good, I have good memories of my favourite episodes. But you don't have to compare G5 to G4 just to conclude that G4 is better when G5 has very few months. Since I'm the kind of fan who likes new things, this generation is an opportunity for the writers to create new characters, new worlds, new themes, etc.