Adventure Time Presents: Marcy & Simon #1 BOOM! Studios / KaBOOM! Slimm Fabert (artist), Mike Fiorentino (letters), SJ Miller (colors), Olivia Olson (writer) January 16, 2019 When the Adventure Time team announced that they were going to release a six-part miniseries about Simon Petrikov and how he’s been handling being himself again after a thousand years…
An Adventure Time Fan’s First Look At “Marcy & Simon”
Adventure Time: Marcy & Simon Boom! Studios Slimm Fabert (artist), Olivia Olson (writer) January 2019 This review contains spoilers for the Adventure Time finale. Good news for fans of Adventure Time! Since the series ended in September, Boom! Studios just keeps announcing more Adventure Time comics, so we can continue getting our fix of what’s…
Adventure Time’s The Beginning of the End Crashes Through Ooo’s History
Adventure Time: The Beginning of the End BOOM! Studios Ted Anderson (writer), Whitney Cogar (colorist), Marina Julia (artist) October 23rd, 2018 When this miniseries first started coming out in May, several months in advance of the long-scheduled Adventure Time series finale, I knew it was going to be an emotional ride. With a title like…
Beyond the Adventure Time Finale: Season 11 #1
Adventure Time Season 11 #1 Ted Anderson (writer), Meg Casey (colorist), Marina Julia (artist), Sonny Liew (story) BOOM! Studios October 10th, 2018 This review contains spoilers for the Adventure Time finale! As a long time fan of Adventure Time since season one, the finale last month was a bittersweet event for me. It’s a show…
Adventure Time Vol. 13: Genuinely Mathematical
Adventure Time Vol. 13 Christopher Hastings (Writer), Ian McGinty (Artist), Maarta Laiho (Colors), Mike Fiorentino (Letters) BOOM! Studios December 26, 2017 Adventure Time Volume 13 is an epic story involving dungeons, space-time paradoxes, personal sacrifice for the greater good, and a look into the past. It starts with a visit to Finn’s childhood dungeon that his adopted dog-father…
Adventure Time Comics #17: Don’t Forget The Teeth
Adventure Time Comics #17 Derek Laufman, Michael Morici, Pat Shand, Jeffrey Brown (Writers), Christopher Mitten, Spencer Amundson, Jeffrey Brown, Derek Laufman (Artists), Cole Closser (cover) kaBOOM! November 15, 2017 A new collection of Adventure Time shorts has emerged, each tale separate from the others in subject matter, but all still in possession of the heart…
Petulant Parents: Adventure Time #69
Adventure Time #69 Delilah S. Dawson (writer), Ian mcGinty (artist), Maarta Laiho (colorist), Mike Fiorentino (letterer) BOOM! Studios October 4, 2017 One of the things that makes Adventure Time unique is the way it treats the history of its characters and their intricate (usually dark) pasts. My favorite example is Marceline the Vampire Queen. In the…
Adventure Time Issue #68: Dealing with Ageism
Adventure Time #68 August 31, 2017 KaBOOM! Written by Delilah Dawson Drawn by Ian McGinty
ESSAY: Disability and Language in Adventure Time’s “Bonnie and Neddy”
The seventh season of Adventure Time brought its audience back to a Candy Kingdom facing big changes. An exhausted and frustrated Princess Bubblegum handed her throne over to the selfish, air-headed King of Ooo, and left to build a new life in the middle of nowhere. In the midst of the first true regime shift…
Geek Parenting: Finn from Adventure Time Costume, Semi-homemade Style
So you have a kid who wants to cosplay. Or maybe they just want a really cool Halloween costume. Or maybe they just like to play dress-up as their favorite characters. Whatever the reason, they’re looking to you (as the coolest parent on the planet clearly) to make it happen. But…what if you’ve never made a costume before?…
Review: Adventure Time: “Food Chain”
Adventure Time “Food Chain” Directed by Masaaki Yuasa Cartoon Network “Hey, have you noticed we’re birds now?”
INTERVIEW: Exaheva Talks Interactive Storytelling and Queerness in Still Heroes
Brussels-based artist Exaheva recently released her interactive digital comic Still Heroes, a tender story of self-discovery that experiments with reader agency in visual storytelling. Readers follow main character Emeline’s struggles after her superhero group suddenly disbands and she finds herself lost for direction. Though seemingly a superhero narrative, Still Heroes touches on intimate experiences with…
