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Delicate as a Flower Page8

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My Little Pony- Hasbro
Turning Hearts- :iconswanofwar:
Quick Quill, Honor Bound, Wind Ryder, Candy Corn- me
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+ 1 and 2 have good depth and balance here in the scene. Pose-wise I like how you did the tucked ear in the second pane as a touch, and also the running pose captures a good sense of motion.
- The position of the front legs is a tiny bit high; typically equines won't raise their step like this unless they are on rough or brushy ground. Here we're on the flat, so our rug-pony wouldn't need to do that. Back hooves look about right. This is tough because sometimes you don't know what you did wrong until the pose is already down. It's easier now, because I'm not looking at it when it's only halfway drawn.

+ Storytelling is clear here, and the lines are pretty solid. Existing expressions are done quite well.

- I feel like the way you filled the panes leaves the pacing a little bit awkward. You could potentially get away with the same number of frames but choosing different content for some of them. We spend a really lot of time on her getting up to the door and knocking (4 panes -- reaching the house, approaching door, knocking, waiting). The stallion opens the door within 1 pane (we don't get to see what he's doing inside) and we have our resolution 1 pane later. Do you see how that doesn't flow really evenly for the reader as such? The main reason in my opinion this is so noticeable is that we don't get to see an intermediate expression on our rug-pony's face before we snap to the resolution -- inotherwords, what does she look like as the door is being opened? What does the stallion see on her expression befor she notices him? Is she looking away, or down? Does she look guilty or more like she's reciting a prayer in her head that he be there to answer?
Also it's a little unclear without a few more hints why she's so anxious (lip-biting) that he be home. It would follow a bit better imo if we had some clues that he was planning on leaving the city or something like that.
This is minor but also the placement of the panes in this feels a touch cluttered in this one, like with the really close sorta tangent with the knocking pane and the final split pane which ends up just looking like a partially thickened line.