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Now in the distant past we used to consider the comic book series canon, up until some tweets from Bobby Curnow and Jim Miller said otherwise. I present this tweet that explains the comics relationship to the show and their canon https://i.imgur.com/zoJzSzB.jpg. They are canon until contradicted by the events of the show. That means as long as the show doesn't shove it aside, any and all feats from the comics are fair game.
"But Jim Miller said the comics and show are separate!" Look at what Andy's saying there. Andy isn't saying the comics are canon. Andy is saying that Hasbro is calling them canon, as in the company that owns My Little Pony. The company Jim Miller works for? Look, I have no problems with Word of God around here, but in this case it's WoG vs WoG and between you and me Hasbro seems like a bigger God than Jim.
TL;DR Jim's word is rendered null by the words of the very company he works for.
Jim never even called them non-canon in the first place. According to him, he was misinterpreted.
"But Bobby also said the comics don't impact the show!" See above. Hasbro's word is worth far more than Bobby's.
And even still, that falls perfectly in line with the shows relation to the comics. They can be contradicted at any time. The comics that don't get contradicted can still be considered canon up until that point should it ever arrive. Based on their description, it seems a bit similar to Databooks getting contradicted by the canon; a bit akin to secondary canon.
"The show contradicts the comics all the time!" The show contradicts the show all the time, as acknowledged by Andy. To name an example: One minute you've got low tiers like Trixie messing with Ponies manes and the next manes are very difficult to cast magic on. Those comics that are retconned get retconned. This doesn't retcon them all, only the ones that specifically were.
Let me put this in easier to understand terms: Hasbro is claiming that the comics are canon until the show contradicts them yes? "Until the show contradicts it." Now what does this statement mean? Until. Until means that something has yet to happen. That means therefore, that the show has full authority to make an episode that contradicts the events within a comic, while making that specific comic non-canon.
So does a few comics becoming rendered non-canon automatically make the comics as a whole non-canon? Even with retcons as severe as Sombra? NO. Because the show is still following the logic established by Hasbro. Hasbro's logic remains not only uncontradicted, but followed. This is a non-argument.
"We cannot take an unofficial twitter tweet seriously" This isn't like an author claiming character A can destroy universes when they've only destroyed planets, or character A is superior to character B despite them never interacting, or vague statements about a character or technique being ftl. This is simply the guy making the comics telling us what Hasbro told him. Nothing more, nothing less.
Long story short: Context of the tweet is far more important than the fact that it's a tweet. To judge it's seriousness based soley on the fact that it's a tweet is intellectually dishonest. Honestly we need a reform of the WoG system as a whole, that doesn't judge bssed on source.
"But Jim Miller said the comics and show are separate!" Look at what Andy's saying there. Andy isn't saying the comics are canon. Andy is saying that Hasbro is calling them canon, as in the company that owns My Little Pony. The company Jim Miller works for? Look, I have no problems with Word of God around here, but in this case it's WoG vs WoG and between you and me Hasbro seems like a bigger God than Jim.
TL;DR Jim's word is rendered null by the words of the very company he works for.
Jim never even called them non-canon in the first place. According to him, he was misinterpreted.
"But Bobby also said the comics don't impact the show!" See above. Hasbro's word is worth far more than Bobby's.
And even still, that falls perfectly in line with the shows relation to the comics. They can be contradicted at any time. The comics that don't get contradicted can still be considered canon up until that point should it ever arrive. Based on their description, it seems a bit similar to Databooks getting contradicted by the canon; a bit akin to secondary canon.
"The show contradicts the comics all the time!" The show contradicts the show all the time, as acknowledged by Andy. To name an example: One minute you've got low tiers like Trixie messing with Ponies manes and the next manes are very difficult to cast magic on. Those comics that are retconned get retconned. This doesn't retcon them all, only the ones that specifically were.
Let me put this in easier to understand terms: Hasbro is claiming that the comics are canon until the show contradicts them yes? "Until the show contradicts it." Now what does this statement mean? Until. Until means that something has yet to happen. That means therefore, that the show has full authority to make an episode that contradicts the events within a comic, while making that specific comic non-canon.
So does a few comics becoming rendered non-canon automatically make the comics as a whole non-canon? Even with retcons as severe as Sombra? NO. Because the show is still following the logic established by Hasbro. Hasbro's logic remains not only uncontradicted, but followed. This is a non-argument.
"We cannot take an unofficial twitter tweet seriously" This isn't like an author claiming character A can destroy universes when they've only destroyed planets, or character A is superior to character B despite them never interacting, or vague statements about a character or technique being ftl. This is simply the guy making the comics telling us what Hasbro told him. Nothing more, nothing less.
Long story short: Context of the tweet is far more important than the fact that it's a tweet. To judge it's seriousness based soley on the fact that it's a tweet is intellectually dishonest. Honestly we need a reform of the WoG system as a whole, that doesn't judge bssed on source.
