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Adventure Time with Fionna & Cake #1-6
Adventure Time With Fionna and Cake
Join Cake the Cat and Fionna the Human in this totally algebraic new adventure, written and drawn by Fionna & Cake creator and ADVENTURE TIME storyboard artist Natasha Allegri! When Fionna rescues a feral flame boy from a pack of wild fire lions, it starts her on a quest she’ll never forget… Don’t miss out on this sure-to-be INSANELY popular new ADVENTURE TIME mini-series!
160 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2013
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Natasha Allegri
88 books195 followersNatasha Allegri is an American writer, storyboard revisionist, and comic book artist. She is best known for her work as a storyboard revisionist for Cartoon Network's Adventure Time. She is also the creator of the comic book and animated series Bee and Puppycat.
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August 7, 2021
Adorei o quadrinho, Hora da Aventura vai morar no meu coração pra sempre. Ri alto durante a leitura, é óbvio. Queria que existissem uns 50 encadernados desse, hahaha!
PS.: Marshall Lee e Principe Chiclete são meu OTP, obrigado de nada.
PS.: Marshall Lee e Principe Chiclete são meu OTP, obrigado de nada.
June 15, 2015
What can I say? It was Adventure Time, gender bent, and awesome.
January 11, 2016
Take the best kids’ show on TV, gender-swap the entire cast (and not just physically, but make them characters in their own right) and make a comic book series out of it. Yes! Can we do that, please? Oh, you already did?? Can it be helmed by a team of female writers and artists... You did that too?! GIMME!!
When the Ice Queen captures a pack of adorable fire lions and endangers a fire elemental, Cake and Fionna come to the rescue. With a little help from Prince Gumball and Marshall Lee, as well as some interference from Lumpy Space Prince, the two best pals help revive the weakened elemental, trick the Ice Queen, and learn a valuable lesson about not exposing your hair to open flames.
Oh my glob you guys, this is totally algebraic! Fionna and Cake takes all the best elements of Adventure Time and gives them a good shake-up. I especially love the fairy tale elements, as well as the little personality tweaks that make the swapped characters stand out from their originals (the Ice Queen is way more badass than the Ice King ever was). For all those people who bitch and moan about changing the gender/race/sexuality of characters in beloved stories, let this series stand as an example of how AWESOME it is to shake things up and put a new spin on those tales. Guess what? It adds without taking anything away. NET GAIN.
When the Ice Queen captures a pack of adorable fire lions and endangers a fire elemental, Cake and Fionna come to the rescue. With a little help from Prince Gumball and Marshall Lee, as well as some interference from Lumpy Space Prince, the two best pals help revive the weakened elemental, trick the Ice Queen, and learn a valuable lesson about not exposing your hair to open flames.
Oh my glob you guys, this is totally algebraic! Fionna and Cake takes all the best elements of Adventure Time and gives them a good shake-up. I especially love the fairy tale elements, as well as the little personality tweaks that make the swapped characters stand out from their originals (the Ice Queen is way more badass than the Ice King ever was). For all those people who bitch and moan about changing the gender/race/sexuality of characters in beloved stories, let this series stand as an example of how AWESOME it is to shake things up and put a new spin on those tales. Guess what? It adds without taking anything away. NET GAIN.
August 11, 2016
I really wanted to like this more. It is enjoyable and interesting, but I found the lettering overwrought and distracting and that's a huge negative for me.
I also felt a bit like they kept insinuating possible relationships for Fionna to purposefully shut them down as romantic potentials. I like that she is feisty, independent and and much like Finn in stubborn stupidity at times. But I wish they would have just let her continue running around adventuring instead trying to define her by her non-interest in relationships with these people. I get their point. But it's almost as bad as making her super romantic about everyone.
And I guess my expectation for how much Kate Leth and Noelle Stevenson might contribute was also a bit of a letdown. Their parts amount to brief shorts at the end.
I also felt a bit like they kept insinuating possible relationships for Fionna to purposefully shut them down as romantic potentials. I like that she is feisty, independent and and much like Finn in stubborn stupidity at times. But I wish they would have just let her continue running around adventuring instead trying to define her by her non-interest in relationships with these people. I get their point. But it's almost as bad as making her super romantic about everyone.
And I guess my expectation for how much Kate Leth and Noelle Stevenson might contribute was also a bit of a letdown. Their parts amount to brief shorts at the end.
May 12, 2017
I liked the story. I liked the weridness. I liked the art. I liked the lettering.
June 26, 2014
Having gone through my Adventure Time phase in early 2013, I had forgotten how amazing the series is. Fortunately, these two comics (which I had somehow not read through in the last year despite owning them – I know! What was I thinking.) brought the colourful, magical euphoria that is the AT experience flooding back into my life within moments. Why did I ever stop watching this show?? I’m so far behind!
The two comics I have to thank for the revival of my obsessive love of the series are Adventure Time with Fionna and Cake (I think this is a ‘Volume 1′ as well, but lets ignore that and we shan’t get confused), written and illustrated by the glorious Natasha Allegri, and Adventure Time Volume 1, by Ryan North and a whole load of other people. Both are excellent, albeit in marginally different ways.
Firstly, I would like to emphasise that, if you (somehow) haven’t encountered Adventure Time before, do not begin with the comics. I’m sure they would still be fun to the newcomer, but the show just establishes the movement of the characters so well! The grotesquely morphing facial expressions, Jake’s (or Cake’s) tidal arm waving and shape-shifting – just the entire physics of the Land of Ooo. (Also, the show is just great!)
Vol 1 opens with the show’s opening high-five sequence and proceeds to a resurgence of The Lich, who once again wants to destroy everything. It then proceeds through quite a few pages of BMO being adorable and carries on in trademark Adventure Time fashion, pulling off jokes and characteristic movement seamlessly.adven
Fionna and Cake opens with Cake’s story about how volcanoes were created. Immediately there is the notable change of tone that’s present between all ‘Finn and Jake’ and ‘Fionna and Cake’ stories that I’ve seen so far, on screen or off. There’s less immediately wacky humour and silliness, and more drama and romance. Don’t get me wrong, it did make me laugh and was very fun and silly – but it was also just different. And I know, I know – regular Adventure Time also has a lot of romance-y things in it, and Finn blushing and Jake going on dates with Lady Rainicorn, but I don’t know, it just feels different somehow – like every character is always a love interest who is trying to play up to her. It’s a little exhausting and makes you (or at least me) feel like getting with Fionna is everybody’s end goal, which isn’t something that you get with Finn, whose main role is best bud and adventurer; Fionna is more adventurer and primary love interest.
Also, like I said, I have missed out on a lot of backstory over the past year (the last episode I saw, I think, was partly set in the world without magic) and so I don’t know what Ice Queen’s past is like – I can only assume that it is very different from Ice King’s. Ice King is a silly, mostly harmless, friendly guy with crazy wizard eyes and endearing princess-kidnapping tendencies. Ice Queen is a lonely villain who is actually quite malicious. Like most bad-guy lady characters in most things that exist.
But anyway, both comics stay true to the characters they portray (based on the show). The writing is engaging and fun, and there are a couple of adorable moments between Bubblegum and Marceline/Gumball and Marshall Lee that I’m sure the fandom just pounced upon (particularly a bit twenty-odd pages into F&C, which I may have squealed at).
Vol 1 is more of an epic-scale adventure story, while F&C is more about the characters (it starts off with Flame Prince getting into a whole lot of trouble and Fionna having to rescue him, then having to go get Gumball out of trouble, and then LSP). On the whole, I think I preferred the Fionna and Cake book - but only by a very little slice.
Also, both are good-looking books. Allegri’s comic retains the Adventure Time style that we’ve all grown to know and love, but her panels are less busy than Vol 1‘s and her lines often have a lovely charcoal-y feel. Vol 1 is true to the show and is action packed, with lots of nice background detail to keep your eyeballs engaged (plus some light green ‘hidden’ comments from the author/Marceline breaking the fourth wall at the bottom of many of the pages).
And, both come with a large collection of beautiful cover art at the back! It’s tremendous – seriously, maybe a quarter of each book is cover art? I don’t think I’m exaggerating.
All in all: these books have lodged themselves firmly in my heart-guts and you should read them both!
Check out my book review blog at www.thelittlecrocodile.com!
The two comics I have to thank for the revival of my obsessive love of the series are Adventure Time with Fionna and Cake (I think this is a ‘Volume 1′ as well, but lets ignore that and we shan’t get confused), written and illustrated by the glorious Natasha Allegri, and Adventure Time Volume 1, by Ryan North and a whole load of other people. Both are excellent, albeit in marginally different ways.
Firstly, I would like to emphasise that, if you (somehow) haven’t encountered Adventure Time before, do not begin with the comics. I’m sure they would still be fun to the newcomer, but the show just establishes the movement of the characters so well! The grotesquely morphing facial expressions, Jake’s (or Cake’s) tidal arm waving and shape-shifting – just the entire physics of the Land of Ooo. (Also, the show is just great!)
Vol 1 opens with the show’s opening high-five sequence and proceeds to a resurgence of The Lich, who once again wants to destroy everything. It then proceeds through quite a few pages of BMO being adorable and carries on in trademark Adventure Time fashion, pulling off jokes and characteristic movement seamlessly.adven
Fionna and Cake opens with Cake’s story about how volcanoes were created. Immediately there is the notable change of tone that’s present between all ‘Finn and Jake’ and ‘Fionna and Cake’ stories that I’ve seen so far, on screen or off. There’s less immediately wacky humour and silliness, and more drama and romance. Don’t get me wrong, it did make me laugh and was very fun and silly – but it was also just different. And I know, I know – regular Adventure Time also has a lot of romance-y things in it, and Finn blushing and Jake going on dates with Lady Rainicorn, but I don’t know, it just feels different somehow – like every character is always a love interest who is trying to play up to her. It’s a little exhausting and makes you (or at least me) feel like getting with Fionna is everybody’s end goal, which isn’t something that you get with Finn, whose main role is best bud and adventurer; Fionna is more adventurer and primary love interest.
Also, like I said, I have missed out on a lot of backstory over the past year (the last episode I saw, I think, was partly set in the world without magic) and so I don’t know what Ice Queen’s past is like – I can only assume that it is very different from Ice King’s. Ice King is a silly, mostly harmless, friendly guy with crazy wizard eyes and endearing princess-kidnapping tendencies. Ice Queen is a lonely villain who is actually quite malicious. Like most bad-guy lady characters in most things that exist.
But anyway, both comics stay true to the characters they portray (based on the show). The writing is engaging and fun, and there are a couple of adorable moments between Bubblegum and Marceline/Gumball and Marshall Lee that I’m sure the fandom just pounced upon (particularly a bit twenty-odd pages into F&C, which I may have squealed at).
Vol 1 is more of an epic-scale adventure story, while F&C is more about the characters (it starts off with Flame Prince getting into a whole lot of trouble and Fionna having to rescue him, then having to go get Gumball out of trouble, and then LSP). On the whole, I think I preferred the Fionna and Cake book - but only by a very little slice.
Also, both are good-looking books. Allegri’s comic retains the Adventure Time style that we’ve all grown to know and love, but her panels are less busy than Vol 1‘s and her lines often have a lovely charcoal-y feel. Vol 1 is true to the show and is action packed, with lots of nice background detail to keep your eyeballs engaged (plus some light green ‘hidden’ comments from the author/Marceline breaking the fourth wall at the bottom of many of the pages).
And, both come with a large collection of beautiful cover art at the back! It’s tremendous – seriously, maybe a quarter of each book is cover art? I don’t think I’m exaggerating.
All in all: these books have lodged themselves firmly in my heart-guts and you should read them both!
Check out my book review blog at www.thelittlecrocodile.com!
May 28, 2017
Not a huge fan of Fionna and Cake, but Flame Prince makes up for it. Illustrations are amazing, and it's a keeper due to it being quite rare to find.
August 10, 2017
Super cute!!
December 22, 2018
Oh man, I just loved this to pieces.
March 2, 2022
Bardzo urocze *-*
June 29, 2018
Adorable and funny. Win!
February 17, 2020
I think there's a few shows I should have been watching as a kid, because it's everything I desired. I'm talking about magical girl cartoons like Sailor Moon and Cardcaptor Sakura. As a little girl I remember liking fantasy but wanting something that reflected me more. I wanted to see more bows and lace. What can I say. I've always been a girly girl.
However the show I really would have obsessed over (and kinda do being 23 now) is Adventure Time with Fionna and Cake. While I love the original show, it's the genderbended episodes that stick out for me. This comic is not only an extension of one of my favorite cartoons, but also an ode to handlettering, strong women without ruining it by literally calling them strong every time, great side characters and a fluffy summerread vibe. This isn't just for little girls yearning for magical females they can better relate to, but for men and women who like another take on a heroine's story.
The villain may not be the strongest and the story is a little over the place, but it wraps you around its fingers like a pretty bow. It may not be practical and perfect, but it sure is pretty to look at. I wasn't sure if I liked this enough to re-read it, since I have another Adventure Time comic and I don't feel like picking that one up again. However I suddenly felt the need to re-read this after two years, so I just had to add it to my collection. It's a real treat with all the pastel colors and beautiful handlettering. I hope Natasha Allegri and her Bee and Puppycat series go very far, because she's talented.
However the show I really would have obsessed over (and kinda do being 23 now) is Adventure Time with Fionna and Cake. While I love the original show, it's the genderbended episodes that stick out for me. This comic is not only an extension of one of my favorite cartoons, but also an ode to handlettering, strong women without ruining it by literally calling them strong every time, great side characters and a fluffy summerread vibe. This isn't just for little girls yearning for magical females they can better relate to, but for men and women who like another take on a heroine's story.
The villain may not be the strongest and the story is a little over the place, but it wraps you around its fingers like a pretty bow. It may not be practical and perfect, but it sure is pretty to look at. I wasn't sure if I liked this enough to re-read it, since I have another Adventure Time comic and I don't feel like picking that one up again. However I suddenly felt the need to re-read this after two years, so I just had to add it to my collection. It's a real treat with all the pastel colors and beautiful handlettering. I hope Natasha Allegri and her Bee and Puppycat series go very far, because she's talented.
June 1, 2015
I absolutely loved this! The opening story is beautiful and the rest of the volume is great. It's funny and inspiring. Yes, it's a kids comic that has poop jokes, but there are themes that adults can appreciate as well. Anyone familiar with Adventure Time knows that Fionna and Cake are a gender flipped fan fiction created by the Ice King. Allegri does a great job of obliterating gender norms with these characters. A girl can be feminine and crush on boys while still kicking butt and protecting the boys she's crushing on! And boys can be masculine while baking and needing to be saved by a girl. Allegri also teaches that love isn't something that should be forced by magical means and it requires patience and understanding. So yeah, I loved this. I also liked the David Bowie-esque outfit Flame Prince was rocking.
April 3, 2015
I enjoyed this book because I love the colours and and the way the story is set. There is nothing in this book that I didn't like. When I was reading this book it made me feel happy and fluffy inside.
The character that interest me most is Fiona. I really wonder how she got into the world or why she is the only one that saves other characters. How did she became the hero of that world?
There's one part in here where she gets a magic sword and can get a wish so she asks for matching shirts with the boys and its just really funny.
Its an easy read and I love it! It's one of my favorite ones I have ever read. If I had to describe this book in one sentence I would say : "Very creative and just lovely to read!"
The character that interest me most is Fiona. I really wonder how she got into the world or why she is the only one that saves other characters. How did she became the hero of that world?
There's one part in here where she gets a magic sword and can get a wish so she asks for matching shirts with the boys and its just really funny.
Its an easy read and I love it! It's one of my favorite ones I have ever read. If I had to describe this book in one sentence I would say : "Very creative and just lovely to read!"
May 31, 2016
I don't much like cute comics and I have steered away from all the Adventure Time comics being read around this house by the 8, 9 and 10 year olds. But this one the girl, 8, seems particularly into, so I pay attention. I know there is a lot of gender-swapping going on in comics (Thor, She-Hulk, Captain Marvel, etc), and I'm noticing that, of course, so I saw this took the boy-centric Adventure Time comic and replaced the boy main characters with girls Fionna and Cake, and then had women do all the artistic work. Cool?! When I saw that the book also included short stories by Lucy Knisley and Noelle Stevenson I sat down and read it through, sharing some laughs with the kids. Lively, delightful, surely way fun for a range of girls and women (and boys, as it turns out!).
March 21, 2016
So good! Flame Prince is the cutest to ever cute. The overall cuteness in this is fabulous.
And guys we really know the real reason why you did not invite Fionna to boys night. Come on. (matching t-shirts! aaaaarghhhh)
I really hope we'll see more of Fionna in Adventure Time in the future, I need MORE. And more of those comics as well.
And guys we really know the real reason why you did not invite Fionna to boys night. Come on. (matching t-shirts! aaaaarghhhh)
I really hope we'll see more of Fionna in Adventure Time in the future, I need MORE. And more of those comics as well.
January 3, 2015
Captures the brilliance of the gender-swapped Adventure Time universe episodes and transfers them onto paper. It's probably magic...though I'm sure Prince Gumball would insist it was science. But it's MAGIC!
Great artwork, a fun story, lots of action and humor. What the math are you waiting for?
Great artwork, a fun story, lots of action and humor. What the math are you waiting for?
July 26, 2015
This is a great Adventure Time graphic novel. The art was awesome
July 31, 2014
Not as great as the original. It feels like a lot of fluff as opposed to the regular series, which is crammed full of goodness.
May 31, 2015
Love the gender swapping going on and I especially love the Ice King's tough female persona - she's actually a real threat! And ohmigawd the lil baby fire lion kitty things!? I need one!
September 12, 2015
I really enjoy this female approach on the series! I loved the artwork, beautiful and cute!!
The story was a little messy though..
The story was a little messy though..
August 5, 2015
5 out 5 stars
I loved this. It was a cute quick read, the art style was adorable and I had a blast reading this.
I bought it on a whim and I'm very glad I did!
I loved this. It was a cute quick read, the art style was adorable and I had a blast reading this.
I bought it on a whim and I'm very glad I did!
July 4, 2015
THIS COMIC IS ADOOORRABBBBUUUUBBBLLEEEEEEE SQUUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
I am only so steel. I can only keep up this pretense of being a logical, learned writer of words for so long. Then comics like Fionna & Cake fall into my life. Based on the irregular segment from Adventure Time in which Finn (the human) and Jake (the dog) are swapped out for genderswapped dopplegangers, Fionna (the human) and Cake (the cat) - segments that are also penned by Natasha Allegri - this comic is a sweet, pleasant, only sometimes distressing, but overwhelmingly jovial serial about what is probably cartoon land's most fantastic cat and human duo (do not fight me on this I swear to GOD). Also it's cuuuuuuute aaahhhHHHHHHHH
There is a plot. And it's a good plot! Maybe I was distracted a bit by things like swords made out of kitty litter and tiny little cute flame baby kittens, but I know for sure there was a plot. That played out linearly and sequentially. So... err... yeah! Basically, the Ice Queen - an actually competent evil sorceress and the Ice King's female doppleganger - is up to her old tricks, and has kidnapped a lot of tiny flame kittens, and incapacitated their prince - the Flame Prince - who is now a tiny baby flame kitty. Think Ponyo, but instead of a fish girl, it's a flame boy. Wanting to save her new friend, Fionna, with Cake's help, seek the advice of Prince Gumball (Princess Bubblegum's male doppleganger), and end up having various misadventures along the way, with the vampire Marshall Lee (Marceline's male doppleganger), Lumpy Space Prince (Lump Space Princess' male blah blah blah and so on), and some of the more disturbing residents of the Candy Kingdom (skeletons) (made of candy) (they bleed strawberry). It's pleasingly simple, and only sometimes childishly immature (saying the word "poo" is funny, right? I mean, I know the answer is "yes." Just checking you knew that). Oh, hey! Did I mention it's adorable as heck? I'm pretty certain I did... oh, well! Can't hurt to reinstate facts! IT'S CUUUUUUTE, GUUUYS!!
Natasha Allegri can seemingly take Pendelton Ward's signature style - already disarmingly adorable, might I add - and inject... something. Some kind of magic that just renders already squee-worthy creatures and characters and places even cuter and squee-er than usual. Tiny little dot eyes, gentle curved smiles, and hugging and squishing and... just, my god, I can't handle how squishy it all is. I wanna hug and squish it all! Fionna, Cake, Marshall Lee the vampire boy, Prince Gumball the bubblegum boy, tiny little flame kittens (!!!!) ...meowing and mewing and being amazing and cute and I just wanna hug 'em... it's... look. It robs me of most of my mental capacities, okay?
But then, it's not all that cute at all. No, it's actually very often saccharine and depressing. Maybe it's because terrible things are happening to adorable characters, or maybe it's just because the villainous Ice Queen is written to be much colder (heh) than the clumsy, stumbling goon that is the Ice King, but there's something about this volume that tugs relentlessly at my heart strings. Whether it's the same doomed romance between the Flame Prince and Fionna that Finn shares with the Flame Princess, the pained expressions of haplessness Natashi Allegri pins to characters that the paternal parts of the human brain demand must be protected, or just the intermittent punctuation of dark, mature storytelling that worm their way through an otherwise relentlessly jovial story, this Fionna & Cake story can often be painful to read. Oh, poor little flame babies! THEY MUST BE PROTECTED AAAAAAAAAAAH
It speaks, perhaps, to the compelling nature of Allegri's writing, that she can turn something quite fluffy and happy, and run a dark undercurrent below it. I know that might not seem all that impressive, considering that Adventure Time does it on the regular, but there's something about her work that is all the more innocent than the default male avatars of Pendelton Ward's cartoon show. It's a lighter read than the Ryan North-penned comic series, with a sort of child-friendly font size, and big, endearing panels that lead the affairs along with a purposeful pace. There's not so much text as you'd expect from the Adventure Time comics, giving it a much more storybook-esque tone. And so, that tone being interrupted by dark backstories and intense sequences of characters being awful to each other... it's much more uneasy, in practice, when compared to the prototypical Adventure Time adventure - which is already, at the best of times, twisted, in a sort of John K.-lite sort of way.
Closing out the volume, there's short (and I mean short) back-up stories by a handful of extra artists and writers, and they're cute, too. Then there's a cover gallery which, sadly, only devotes full-page artwork to the default covers. Each issue has a bunch of variants, and while they're not all that spectacular, some I'd say are particularly worthy of having an entire page devoted to 'em. My favourite one is a Super Mario Bros. 3 riff that, I'm willing to admit, I want hanging on my wall. It's really good, but it gets less than a quarter of a page devoted to it, which, I think, is just a bit disappointing. They didn't even HAVE to include a cover gallery (most volumes don't), so I'm not gonna mark it down for it or anything, but it would have been especially nice of them, regardless.
With the larger font and panel sizes, the book, despite having a lengthy page count, is soon over, and it's somewhat sad, because what's here is really quite brilliant. The stories of Fionna & Cake as told by their co-creator are charming in the most incapacitating of ways, so there being so little in here just seems... cruel, somewhat. But, hey! What's here is exceedingly entertaining. It's funny, it's deftly illustrated, it's knowingly adult despite, nevertheless, being heartwarming and child-friendly throughout (actually, I was taken aback by a few of the lines in here - subtly adult in ways that children certainly won't notice, but their parents absolutely will. There's just no way to sugar-coat, "spoon me, Cake!" Not a way), and it has storytelling prowess to back-up the appealing visual style. But most importantly of all, it is just soooo freaaakkiiiing.... CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ahem.
I like it.
You probably will too.
...
...it's good.
I promise.
...
...err. Um...
...squee.
I am only so steel. I can only keep up this pretense of being a logical, learned writer of words for so long. Then comics like Fionna & Cake fall into my life. Based on the irregular segment from Adventure Time in which Finn (the human) and Jake (the dog) are swapped out for genderswapped dopplegangers, Fionna (the human) and Cake (the cat) - segments that are also penned by Natasha Allegri - this comic is a sweet, pleasant, only sometimes distressing, but overwhelmingly jovial serial about what is probably cartoon land's most fantastic cat and human duo (do not fight me on this I swear to GOD). Also it's cuuuuuuute aaahhhHHHHHHHH
There is a plot. And it's a good plot! Maybe I was distracted a bit by things like swords made out of kitty litter and tiny little cute flame baby kittens, but I know for sure there was a plot. That played out linearly and sequentially. So... err... yeah! Basically, the Ice Queen - an actually competent evil sorceress and the Ice King's female doppleganger - is up to her old tricks, and has kidnapped a lot of tiny flame kittens, and incapacitated their prince - the Flame Prince - who is now a tiny baby flame kitty. Think Ponyo, but instead of a fish girl, it's a flame boy. Wanting to save her new friend, Fionna, with Cake's help, seek the advice of Prince Gumball (Princess Bubblegum's male doppleganger), and end up having various misadventures along the way, with the vampire Marshall Lee (Marceline's male doppleganger), Lumpy Space Prince (Lump Space Princess' male blah blah blah and so on), and some of the more disturbing residents of the Candy Kingdom (skeletons) (made of candy) (they bleed strawberry). It's pleasingly simple, and only sometimes childishly immature (saying the word "poo" is funny, right? I mean, I know the answer is "yes." Just checking you knew that). Oh, hey! Did I mention it's adorable as heck? I'm pretty certain I did... oh, well! Can't hurt to reinstate facts! IT'S CUUUUUUTE, GUUUYS!!
Natasha Allegri can seemingly take Pendelton Ward's signature style - already disarmingly adorable, might I add - and inject... something. Some kind of magic that just renders already squee-worthy creatures and characters and places even cuter and squee-er than usual. Tiny little dot eyes, gentle curved smiles, and hugging and squishing and... just, my god, I can't handle how squishy it all is. I wanna hug and squish it all! Fionna, Cake, Marshall Lee the vampire boy, Prince Gumball the bubblegum boy, tiny little flame kittens (!!!!) ...meowing and mewing and being amazing and cute and I just wanna hug 'em... it's... look. It robs me of most of my mental capacities, okay?
But then, it's not all that cute at all. No, it's actually very often saccharine and depressing. Maybe it's because terrible things are happening to adorable characters, or maybe it's just because the villainous Ice Queen is written to be much colder (heh) than the clumsy, stumbling goon that is the Ice King, but there's something about this volume that tugs relentlessly at my heart strings. Whether it's the same doomed romance between the Flame Prince and Fionna that Finn shares with the Flame Princess, the pained expressions of haplessness Natashi Allegri pins to characters that the paternal parts of the human brain demand must be protected, or just the intermittent punctuation of dark, mature storytelling that worm their way through an otherwise relentlessly jovial story, this Fionna & Cake story can often be painful to read. Oh, poor little flame babies! THEY MUST BE PROTECTED AAAAAAAAAAAH
It speaks, perhaps, to the compelling nature of Allegri's writing, that she can turn something quite fluffy and happy, and run a dark undercurrent below it. I know that might not seem all that impressive, considering that Adventure Time does it on the regular, but there's something about her work that is all the more innocent than the default male avatars of Pendelton Ward's cartoon show. It's a lighter read than the Ryan North-penned comic series, with a sort of child-friendly font size, and big, endearing panels that lead the affairs along with a purposeful pace. There's not so much text as you'd expect from the Adventure Time comics, giving it a much more storybook-esque tone. And so, that tone being interrupted by dark backstories and intense sequences of characters being awful to each other... it's much more uneasy, in practice, when compared to the prototypical Adventure Time adventure - which is already, at the best of times, twisted, in a sort of John K.-lite sort of way.
Closing out the volume, there's short (and I mean short) back-up stories by a handful of extra artists and writers, and they're cute, too. Then there's a cover gallery which, sadly, only devotes full-page artwork to the default covers. Each issue has a bunch of variants, and while they're not all that spectacular, some I'd say are particularly worthy of having an entire page devoted to 'em. My favourite one is a Super Mario Bros. 3 riff that, I'm willing to admit, I want hanging on my wall. It's really good, but it gets less than a quarter of a page devoted to it, which, I think, is just a bit disappointing. They didn't even HAVE to include a cover gallery (most volumes don't), so I'm not gonna mark it down for it or anything, but it would have been especially nice of them, regardless.
With the larger font and panel sizes, the book, despite having a lengthy page count, is soon over, and it's somewhat sad, because what's here is really quite brilliant. The stories of Fionna & Cake as told by their co-creator are charming in the most incapacitating of ways, so there being so little in here just seems... cruel, somewhat. But, hey! What's here is exceedingly entertaining. It's funny, it's deftly illustrated, it's knowingly adult despite, nevertheless, being heartwarming and child-friendly throughout (actually, I was taken aback by a few of the lines in here - subtly adult in ways that children certainly won't notice, but their parents absolutely will. There's just no way to sugar-coat, "spoon me, Cake!" Not a way), and it has storytelling prowess to back-up the appealing visual style. But most importantly of all, it is just soooo freaaakkiiiing.... CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE AAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ahem.
I like it.
You probably will too.
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...it's good.
I promise.
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...err. Um...
...squee.
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May 7, 2020i read this in middle school i think and there is this one section about a girl with water for hair and a pet cat and its stuck with me, i thought about this once scene again today so i decided to search my house to this little book and about 30 minutes later i have the bad boy in my hands. i flipped to the section that i remembered and let me tell ya, still amazing. honestly i feel like that one section shaped my dreams (actual dreams, like during sleep), cause is that type of setting that i constantly wanna be in. anyways theres some nostalgia for you
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January 21, 2024Podcast'imin yeni bölümünde Fionna and Cake dizisini konuşuyorum! Dinlemek için [BURAYA] tıklayabilirsiniz!
August 18, 2024
It baffles me how much of a genuine threat Ice queen seems to be in comparison to Ice King , absolutely loved this warmed my heart in anticipation for season 2 of Fiona and Cake, read these online hopefully I'll find a way to purchase physical copies
June 9, 2025
I just love the gender bent version so much.
I just randomly found a bunch of Adventure Time graphic novels in my room so I decided to read them... I don't care how old I get I will always love Adventure Time and graphic novels
I just randomly found a bunch of Adventure Time graphic novels in my room so I decided to read them... I don't care how old I get I will always love Adventure Time and graphic novels
October 15, 2017
Excelente trasposición del mundo de hora de aventuras al género femenino, sin perder acción ni complejidad de trama.
January 14, 2021
Tohle byla ta nejvíc roztomilá oddechovka!
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