Ryan North

Another little collection of Adventure Time comics. This one features an issue of mini-comics supposedly written and drawn by various characters, which was fun. (Well, most of them were fun. Lemongrab's was just kind of disturbing, but then, it would be, wouldn't it?)

Then there's the main story, in which a bad guy keeps eating Finn's memories, and we get glimpses of his future -- or rather, one of his futures, as it's an alternate one to the future we actually saw in the show -- every time he wakes up with no memories. Which was fairly nifty, and full of action and Adventure Time-y weirdness.

Man, it's been just long enough since my binge-watch through this show that these comics are now starting to make me feel nostalgic for it.… (mehr)

It always brings a smile to my face to revisit the world of Adventure Time via this comics series, and that's true of this one, too, but that having been said I think it maybe didn't work quite as well for me as the previous ones.

As usual, there's a short one-shot here followed by a longer story. The one-shot is just... weird. Yes, even by Adventure Time's weird standards. There are dinosaurs (which very much bring to mind Ryan North's Dinosaur Comics in some downright surreal ways), and narration from sentient gemstones, and Ricardio for some reason?, and an art style I don't especially love. It does have some decent stuff about Marceline and Princess Bubblegum's relationship, although I found my eyebrows raising a bit over how strongly they are described as friends who are buddies who are really good pals, yep, yep, yep, until I realized that, oh, this was actually published before the cartoon established them as something a bit more than that.

The longer story features Finn and Jake exploring an old factory of some kind and finding a machine that turns them into ghosts. They try to be helpful ghosts for their friends, but it doesn't go well. Ghostbusters are called in, and next thing you know there are ghosts everywhere. This one felt a bit rambly, maybe, like it could actually have been three different episodes of the show. It's also maybe a smidge too on-the-nose with the moral lesson of the story. But it does still have some fun moments and bits of entertaining dialog, anyway.… (mehr)