Adventure Time Vol. 14

Adventure Time (BOOM! Studios)

by Mariko Tamaki

The competition for Best Princess Ever is in full swing! As Lumpy Space Princess, Fire Princess, Muscle Princess, and more compete for the title, it’s discovered that someone is sabotaging the games. With Finn and Jake on the case, Princess Bubblegum will have to keep the show going until they can track down the true culprit and save the day. Written by The New York Times bestselling author Mariko Tamaki (This One Summer) and illustrated by Ian McGinty. Collects issues #62-65.

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics, Fantasy, Graphic Novels Comics, Humor, Young Adult, Middle Grade

109 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 17, 2018

About the author

Mariko Tamaki is a Toronto writer, playwright, activist and performer. She works and performs with fat activists Pretty Porky and Pissed Off and the theatre troupe TOA, whose recent play, A vs. B, was staged at the 2004 Rhubarb Festival at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. Her well-received novel, Cover Me (McGilligan Books) was followed by a short fiction collection, True Lies: The Book of Bad Advice (Women's Press). Mariko's third book, FAKE ID, is due out in spring 2005.

Mariko Tamaki has performed her work across Canada and through the States, recently appearing at the Calgary Folkfest 2004, Vancouver Writer's Festival 2003, Spatial III, and the Perpetual Motion/Girls Bite Back Tour, which circled though Ottawa, Montreal, Brooklyn and Chicago. She has appeared widely on radio and television including First Person Singular on CBC radio and Imprint on TVO. Mariko Tamaki is currently attending York University working a master's degree in women's studies.

[MacMIllan Books]

Reviews

[☾❀Apple✩ Blossom⋆｡˚ · Rating 3 out of 5]

Radical! Just when I thought I didn't like this comic anymore! A princesses competition??? Ah, yes please!

[Rocky Sunico · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a pretty silly arc but a fun enough one as we have the different princesses competing in a reality-TV style competition for the best princess. Naturally, there's something fishy going on in the competition and it's up to our heroes Finn and Jake to figure it out, however the ending is less than satisfying in that regard. It has a lot of fun moments and some ridiculous competition categories but on the whole, it's just okay.

[Tobey James · Rating 1 out of 5]

1 star because no bees.

[Charlie Gates · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is probably my least favorite volume yet, but I still like it better than social media or the news!

[Harris · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fun, old fashioned Adventure Time romp focusing on the princesses of Ooo- more casual and less world changing than we’ve seen in the AT comic series for awhile, it was a nice break from all that. Mariko Tamaki brings a great voice to the series. Check out more AT ephemera I've been going through at Reading Rainstorm.

[Shawn · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked this a lot, got into this when my kids used to watch it on TV, it's short and didn't have any creatures they had to fight but I enjoyed it. the story is about a best princess competition where 5 princess's compete against each other for best princess but one of them is making sure that one by one the others are eliminated so that they can win, has a twist at the end as it's not who you would expect.

[Mary Pimbblet · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm very confused why the cover of this has bees on, but the book has nothing relating to bees at all.
I've not actually seen the TV program Adventure Time, but I've read a few of these books with one of my daughters, and this one was probably the best one I've read. I'm not familiar with the characters, but the plot was still easy to follow and enjoyable, a simple mystery of who is sabotaging the Best Princess Ever competition.
A fun, easy read.

[Rodrigo Barreto Paes de Carvalho · Rating 5 out of 5]

this is a really good series of books it rocks I love it

I like this book because of the adventures I would give this book to anyone who loves adventures
I chose this rating because this is one of the best series ever

[Yuiko · Rating 1 out of 5]

This vol was boring and sucked

[Sam · Rating 4 out of 5]

LSP steals the show.

[kelly wong · Rating 5 out of 5]

Yes

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[Kendra · Rating 4 out of 5]

Finally a good one in the series again. This was super fun to get to know all the princesses and an icy loophole.

[R C · Rating 5 out of 5]

Definitely a new favorite. New respect for Breakfast Princess.

[Imagin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really funny, I literally laughed out loud on some pages 🤣❤!

[Lane · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was cute. Art was wonderful as usual, characters felt pretty consistent and natural, and it didn’t really go where I expected it to.

[Zoe · Rating 4 out of 5]

LSP forever. 💜

[Alex Sarll]

I dislike competition TV formats so much that I even dislike stories based around them, which is sadly powerful enough even to outweigh my love of Adventure Time.