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Adventure Time (KaBOOM! OGNs)
Adventure Time: Graybles Schmaybles
Finn and Jake are about to go on their craziest adventure yet... and they don't even have to leave the treehouse?! After helping Party God with his technical issues, these two best pals discover a tiny cube all by its lonesome in the middle of the woods. Not ones to leave the helpless so... helpless, Finn and Jake take their new friend back home and discover that sometimes the most harmless looking things can be the most dangerous.
Written by Danielle Corsetto (GIRLS WITH SLINGSHOTS) and illustrated by indie newcomer Bridget Underwood, Graybles Schmaybles is a refreshing adventure that only best friends can take.
Written by Danielle Corsetto (GIRLS WITH SLINGSHOTS) and illustrated by indie newcomer Bridget Underwood, Graybles Schmaybles is a refreshing adventure that only best friends can take.
160 pages, Paperback
First published March 11, 2015
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232 people want to read
About the author
Danielle Corsetto
20 books82 followersDanielle Corsetto created her first comic strip when she was 8 years old, starting with a blatant rip-off of Garfield called Fat Cat.She started writing Hazelnuts in high school, the precursor to Girls With Slingshots (unbeknownst to her at the time), and ran a comic about super-slacker college kids called Ramblers in the student paper at Shepherd College (as well as popimage.com).
In October of 2004, she began Girls With Slingshots, and a couple of years later she was doing the strip full-time. It’s now updated 5 times a week at some god-awful hour.
In addition to GWS, Danielle wrote and drew The New Adventures of Bat Boy for the Weekly World News, taking the reins from Bat Boy’s kind & talented former creator Peter Bagge.
Danielle lives in Shepherdstown, West Virginia in a 230-year-old house with her two cats, Smudge and Ellie (aka Fluffy and Sprinkles) and her 9-year-old goldfish Goldie. She loves sipping tea, going for hikes, and eating local foods, because she is a filthy filthy hippie.
(Source: http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/ab...)
In October of 2004, she began Girls With Slingshots, and a couple of years later she was doing the strip full-time. It’s now updated 5 times a week at some god-awful hour.
In addition to GWS, Danielle wrote and drew The New Adventures of Bat Boy for the Weekly World News, taking the reins from Bat Boy’s kind & talented former creator Peter Bagge.
Danielle lives in Shepherdstown, West Virginia in a 230-year-old house with her two cats, Smudge and Ellie (aka Fluffy and Sprinkles) and her 9-year-old goldfish Goldie. She loves sipping tea, going for hikes, and eating local foods, because she is a filthy filthy hippie.
(Source: http://www.girlswithslingshots.com/ab...)
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May 31, 2022
This one was just adorable, I loved it! :)
November 7, 2018
5⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️This was one of the cutest, most hilarious ones to date! I must own this one and I know D would love it! So funny. I laughed through the whole thing. Pure enjoyment. I love the graybles episodes anyway and so it was nice to see it extend into the comic and graphic novels. ❤️
June 18, 2017
Super cute story and very much in keeping with the voice of the show. I love Danielle Corsetto's now-retired webcomic, Girls With Slingshots, and it was super exciting to see her take on Jake and Finn and all the rest.
Proofreading problem: "You're ears look a little dry, handsome" instead of "Your ears look . . . "
and "Find the theif!"/"Kill the theif!" instead of "Find the thief!"/"Kill the thief!"
Proofreading problem: "You're ears look a little dry, handsome" instead of "Your ears look . . . "
and "Find the theif!"/"Kill the theif!" instead of "Find the thief!"/"Kill the thief!"
November 22, 2019
This was the weakest Adventure Time graphic novel I've read so far. A weird machine takes Finn and Jake digitally to different scenarios around Ooo that they can see happening but can't affect.
June 16, 2025
Oh this just felt like watching the show for real. Plus seeing the narrator guy with the riddles was fun too.
Such a charming style on this one! Finn's expressions were so lively and amusing, I wish I had the patience to put in pictures here so you'll have to imagine with me.
All in all, a sweet, funny read. Just Finn and Jake shenanigans and LSP being slightly more likeable than usual.
And don't think that Twilight reference went unnoticed.
Such a charming style on this one! Finn's expressions were so lively and amusing, I wish I had the patience to put in pictures here so you'll have to imagine with me.
All in all, a sweet, funny read. Just Finn and Jake shenanigans and LSP being slightly more likeable than usual.
And don't think that Twilight reference went unnoticed.
May 12, 2015
Stuff I Read - Adventure Time OGN Vol 5: Graybles Shmaybles Review
Well color me a bit disappointed by this volume of the original graphic novels. Not that it isn't good. There is a still a lot of Adventure Time goodness to enjoy what with Finn and Jake trying to track down a nefarious thief while figuring out what is going on with a new friend they've met. If you're looking for a graphic novel that has the most little nods to things in the show itself, from Lorraine the chicken to a whole slew of other tertiary characters, this volume is great. It's got LSP trying to bring some hot vampire boys to a field via baseball, Princess Princess Princess and her very strange flower, and a bunch of crazy things going on.
Thing is, part of why I love Adventure Time so much and part of why I think it does more than most other children's shows is that it has some pretty complex meanings and messages behind what it does. There's an awful lot to the relationships in Adventure Time and Finn growing up and the stuff with dementia and with consent and agency and freedom of expression and those things make Adventure Time what it is. And most of the graphic novels manage to nail some sort of message while being full of little subversive elements that make them interesting and complicated. And this one, while it is fun and filled with references to the show, falls a little short in the message and complexity departments.
And this fits a bit with the Graybles-ness of the volume. The Grayble episodes are normally various random plots brought together in some strange way and they don't really make much of a point. But then, they are normally disturbing as all get-out. Lemongrabs eat each other while talking of their doll-son. Cinnamon Bun runs screaming through the countryside seeking soft light. BMO shows what makes BMO…unique. And this volume just doesn't bring the weird quite so well as the show. The scenes are entertaining, certainly. Especially the bit with LSP is sure to please fans of the show. But overall the experience just doesn't have the edge that the show manages to have.
So in the end I liked the volume. It's still fun and funny and does a nice job of giving some nods to various jokes from the show. Fans starving for more from certain side characters might be happy with the selection on display here. And it is still Adventure Time. Unfortunately, the property has spoiled its fan with a surplus of really great tie-in material to read and enjoy and this just doesn't quite live up to the expectations built from those other projects. Still a solid work, but I'm hoping the next volume gets back to more focused stories and more subversive messages. Until then, this still gets a 6.5/10 from me.
Well color me a bit disappointed by this volume of the original graphic novels. Not that it isn't good. There is a still a lot of Adventure Time goodness to enjoy what with Finn and Jake trying to track down a nefarious thief while figuring out what is going on with a new friend they've met. If you're looking for a graphic novel that has the most little nods to things in the show itself, from Lorraine the chicken to a whole slew of other tertiary characters, this volume is great. It's got LSP trying to bring some hot vampire boys to a field via baseball, Princess Princess Princess and her very strange flower, and a bunch of crazy things going on.
Thing is, part of why I love Adventure Time so much and part of why I think it does more than most other children's shows is that it has some pretty complex meanings and messages behind what it does. There's an awful lot to the relationships in Adventure Time and Finn growing up and the stuff with dementia and with consent and agency and freedom of expression and those things make Adventure Time what it is. And most of the graphic novels manage to nail some sort of message while being full of little subversive elements that make them interesting and complicated. And this one, while it is fun and filled with references to the show, falls a little short in the message and complexity departments.
And this fits a bit with the Graybles-ness of the volume. The Grayble episodes are normally various random plots brought together in some strange way and they don't really make much of a point. But then, they are normally disturbing as all get-out. Lemongrabs eat each other while talking of their doll-son. Cinnamon Bun runs screaming through the countryside seeking soft light. BMO shows what makes BMO…unique. And this volume just doesn't bring the weird quite so well as the show. The scenes are entertaining, certainly. Especially the bit with LSP is sure to please fans of the show. But overall the experience just doesn't have the edge that the show manages to have.
So in the end I liked the volume. It's still fun and funny and does a nice job of giving some nods to various jokes from the show. Fans starving for more from certain side characters might be happy with the selection on display here. And it is still Adventure Time. Unfortunately, the property has spoiled its fan with a surplus of really great tie-in material to read and enjoy and this just doesn't quite live up to the expectations built from those other projects. Still a solid work, but I'm hoping the next volume gets back to more focused stories and more subversive messages. Until then, this still gets a 6.5/10 from me.
June 18, 2018
I read this the same night I started and finished amulet. like always I have been a fan of adventure time. Adventure time is a bit silly...well a lot silly, I have been reading this series because I don't watch it.
August 10, 2017
fun little story, with the name graybles i thought it would be short stories but it's one stand alone read with fun references :)
October 10, 2017
Totally unnecessary but still love it
May 21, 2020
Been binging Adventure Time with my daughter and she had read some books so she let me read one on her tablet.
Yay communication and technology!
Yay communication and technology!
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March 20, 2017A sweet but over-extended mystery, enlivened by touches (but not quite enough) of the usual oddness and polymorphous perversity.
March 3, 2017
This book was pretty good, I liked how they explained what time era the graybles guy lives in, like Finn & Jakes era or a few thousand years later. I wondered that after seeing three of the graybles episodes.
March 2, 2017
This book was pretty good, I liked how they explained what time era the graybles guy lives in, like Finn & Jakes era or a few thousand years later. I wondered that after seeing three of the graybles episodes.
July 25, 2015
The book that convinced me to stop reading Adventure Time comics.
There's nothing *wrong* with Graybles Schmaybles, but it's completely formulaic and forgettable. Nothing in the story feels different from a lot of Adventure Time stories that came before it, except they usually told the same tropes much better.
The main Adventure Time comics went downhill after the original creative team left; I was going to keep reading the graphic novels, but after this book I decided I was done with those too.
There's nothing *wrong* with Graybles Schmaybles, but it's completely formulaic and forgettable. Nothing in the story feels different from a lot of Adventure Time stories that came before it, except they usually told the same tropes much better.
The main Adventure Time comics went downhill after the original creative team left; I was going to keep reading the graphic novels, but after this book I decided I was done with those too.
August 25, 2015
This is one of the worst thing I've ever read. Its an insult to Pendleton Ward, adventure time, and fans of the show/comic series.
Its a complete waste of effort, paper, colourization, ink, and whatever else was put into this book. Its not even a story. Its a ridiculous fetch quest that exists for no reason. This makes vol 1 look like a masterpiece, and that's a feat.
Don't read this book ever, even if you're a fan of Adventure Time.
Its a complete waste of effort, paper, colourization, ink, and whatever else was put into this book. Its not even a story. Its a ridiculous fetch quest that exists for no reason. This makes vol 1 look like a masterpiece, and that's a feat.
Don't read this book ever, even if you're a fan of Adventure Time.
September 17, 2016
Among the least essential of the Original Adventure Time comics, it is still a lot of fun. Check out more on my blog, Reading Rainstorm!
September 20, 2016
This was a very quick read, even by comic standards. It was enjoyable and while I don't know what year this was printed I was surprised to find a "Twilight" reference in the story line. Dear lord it even made it's way to children's comics. Nice art work. Overall good story.
June 7, 2015
Good, but a little aimless and lacking some of the punchlines from the regular series.
May 28, 2015
Cute and mysterious! No PB or Marcelline in this one, guys, just Jake, Finn, and BMO sortin' out weird artifact people again!
July 3, 2015
Loved it super funny
January 3, 2016
Not my favorite of the Adventure Time graphic novels, but I enjoyed it all the same.
July 23, 2015
The story was pretty cute (mainly the little pink cube), but the short comic at the end starring B-MO was the best part! No dialog necessary.
January 8, 2016
This is a nice little adventure from the AT folks. Cuteness abounds.
January 24, 2016
Not as good as the show, but I still liked it.
March 28, 2016
A very likeable non-Ryan North Adventure Time book! Especially liked the bit at the end with Beemo!
Recommended to all fans.
Recommended to all fans.
June 2, 2016
BMO is amazing. That is all.
November 20, 2019
Eh. Mildly amusing I guess. Definitely not my fav Adventure Time comic
November 21, 2020
Why the typos?
June 23, 2015
Vuelve Corsetto como guionista y se nota bastante, pero como Pixel Princesses, nada :P
August 30, 2015
Weird, but why would I expect something different?
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