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Adventure Time (KaBOOM! Miniseries)
Adventure Time: Marcy & Simon
After the events of the Adventure Time™ finale, Marceline must help Simon make amends for his time as Ice King, leading them on quest to rescue Betty. Written by Marceline voice actress Olivia Olson!
EVERYTHING STAYS, BUT IT STILL CHANGES… After surviving the aftermath of the Mushroom War and Simon’s time as Ice King, Marceline and Simon have finally reunited after the events of the Adventure Time™ finale. But when Simon’s memory begins to fail, Marcy must work together with Finn, Jake, and Princess Bubblegum to save Simon and help him in his quest to make amends for his time as Ice King. To do that, Simon sets out with one goal in mind: save Betty from Golb, by any means necessary!
Join Adventure Time™’s Olivia Olson (Marceline, voice actress) and artist Simm Fabert (Lumberjanes) in the culmination of Marcy & Simon’s hundreds of years of history as they face their greatest challenge yet!
EVERYTHING STAYS, BUT IT STILL CHANGES… After surviving the aftermath of the Mushroom War and Simon’s time as Ice King, Marceline and Simon have finally reunited after the events of the Adventure Time™ finale. But when Simon’s memory begins to fail, Marcy must work together with Finn, Jake, and Princess Bubblegum to save Simon and help him in his quest to make amends for his time as Ice King. To do that, Simon sets out with one goal in mind: save Betty from Golb, by any means necessary!
Join Adventure Time™’s Olivia Olson (Marceline, voice actress) and artist Simm Fabert (Lumberjanes) in the culmination of Marcy & Simon’s hundreds of years of history as they face their greatest challenge yet!
160 pages, Paperback
First published December 10, 2019
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About the author
Olivia Olson
14 books8 followersShe is an American singer-songwriter, actress, and writer mostly known for her voice roles as Vanessa Doofenshmirtz in Phineas and Ferb and Marceline the Vampire Queen in Adventure Time. She also played the character of Joanna in the 2003 film Love Actually and its 2017 short sequel Red Nose Day Actually.
Olson is also a writer, having written the Boom Comics graphic novel Marcy and Simon, co-authored Adventure Time: The Enchiridion and Marcy's Super-Secret Scrapbook and contributed writing to the best-seller Adventure Time Encyclopedia' for Cartoon Network.
Olson is also a writer, having written the Boom Comics graphic novel Marcy and Simon, co-authored Adventure Time: The Enchiridion and Marcy's Super-Secret Scrapbook and contributed writing to the best-seller Adventure Time Encyclopedia' for Cartoon Network.
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November 15, 2020
Marcy and Simon is one of the books I most enjoyed reading. Once I started it, I couldn't stop reading it! It is so great that they let Olivia Olson (Marceline's voice actress) write a story that takes place after the end of the show, even if it is just a six-chapter series.
There's just one creative decision that I didn't agree with in the end (which is a big spoiler), but, it's excellent either way.
Anyway, if you grew up with the show or at least you're a big fan, you have to read Marcy and Simon, it's an unmissable! It's wholesome and fun, and, of course, there's a beautiful kiss between Marceline and Bonnibel. So, it's a five-star book and it's faithful to the finale, even with some teensy tiny problems. Read it, read it, and read it!
There's just one creative decision that I didn't agree with in the end (which is a big spoiler), but, it's excellent either way.
Anyway, if you grew up with the show or at least you're a big fan, you have to read Marcy and Simon, it's an unmissable! It's wholesome and fun, and, of course, there's a beautiful kiss between Marceline and Bonnibel. So, it's a five-star book and it's faithful to the finale, even with some teensy tiny problems. Read it, read it, and read it!
June 26, 2023
I read it with my son and this is his review. So he gave it 5 stars.
October 25, 2019
Unlike other Adventure Time comics, this one ties directly to the series finale, as it expands on the immediate aftermath of Simon, Marcy, and Betty's story. It's fun and endearing. However, it may feel like fan service since it undoes the sacrifice of some characters to bring about a happy ending where everywhere gets what they want.
December 22, 2019
I really enjoyed this book. It was so great to see what happened to a few of the characters after the show's finale.
Ending spoiler:
I wish that Marceline didn't forgive her dad at the end, even if he did save them. He's hella toxic.
Ending spoiler:
I wish that Marceline didn't forgive her dad at the end, even if he did save them. He's hella toxic.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
December 25, 2020
:,) I love adventure time and these characters so much
January 1, 2024
It’s interesting coming to this after Fionna and Cake took a very different track. Simon trying to find Betty, traveling the multiverse (though the multiverse here only includes dimensions, not alternate realities), Prismo… there’s a lot of overlap here. It’s cute! It’s nice to have for those wanting more of a clear cut happy ending. But F&C is much more of an interesting and satisfying experience. One thing this has over that is more, well, Marcy and Simon, a dynamic I wish that show involved more, but beyond that… this feels a bit fan fic-y, I’m sorry to say. Part of the power of the AT finale was the bittersweet nature of change, how some things end even as the grand nature of everything doesn’t, and that the fact the things happened to you existed at all means they live in you still, in a way always happening. And you use that to carry you forward into what is happening, and will happen. F&C kept that spirit, This sands those edges off, from undoing Betty’s sacrifice to Simon being more a plot device with little agency or character to what should be his biggest story to the easy Hunson forgiveness after a big betrayal so that there’s not an ounce of negative emotion left in the ending, and loses something for it.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
September 4, 2021
This is really interesting just to see a glimpse of Olivia Olson's perspective of these characters and it was neat to see how she'd handle a story after the finale. I think the writing and pacing isn't great but there's for sure some soul in here. I also really liked the coloring and how the style was changed for comedic or emotional effect. I think some stuff could have had more focus and plot points could've been executed better but this is still a fun addition.
Not sure if I'd consider it canon though..
Not sure if I'd consider it canon though..
July 5, 2019
Reviewed as part of the May BOOM Pubwatch on Women Write About Comics
September 22, 2019
Simple, but sweet.
April 29, 2020
The happy ending all Adventure Time fans deserve.
March 21, 2021
The ending we needed
August 4, 2021
super cute like sooo cute but simon has absolutely no agency and makes no decisions and just has people solve problems around him. i forgive any other problem with this (super easy ending, automatic dad forgiveness???????, etc) because it is a kids book with a kid audience, but like maybe not a good decision to have simon be a prop for the other characters after all he’s been through
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
July 23, 2020
I liked how Adventure Time ended but I still loved this. It's what I have been wanting for a while from AT comics. I'm not the biggest fan of the art but the storyline was fun and deep, like Adventure Time is supposed to be.
July 6, 2019
These two together are my favorite storyline from Adventure Time. I teared up several times. This one hits home.
December 17, 2019
I loved Adventure Time and this was a lovely visit back to the Land of Ooo. The story takes place after the series’ end.
February 21, 2020
SO GOOD
September 3, 2025
Here it is: my almost-entirely spoiler-free review of 'Adventure Time: Marcy & Simon'.
It is a direct sequel to the 'Adventure Time' cartoon series, set after the finale. It is called 'Marcy & Simon', but as it turns out, it is not just about them and their tragic yet sweet yet bittersweet father-and-daughter relationship.
It is not as sentimental as the cover makes it seem. There are hardly even any flashbacks. It is more cerebral and, well, like an adventure time. Everything that happens is in the present, the now, and the stakes have never been higher. As in, the Multiverse is involved.
Got to up the ante yet again. Only not as successful this time, in my opinion.
'Marcy & Simon' is far more epic, cosmic, and arguably more complicated and convoluted than you would expect from an 'Adventure Time' plot. It contains far more dialogue and technobabble than I'm used to in an 'Adventure Time' comic, as well. I swear, Bubblegum exists just to give exposition and said technobabble here, to go with her inventing stuff. Her relationship with her girlfriend Marceline still exists, but it plays second fiddle to everything else going on, and there is a lot going on!
On the subject of Marceline's relationships to other characters, her toxic demon dad gets off way too lightly and easily here. She needs to properly resolve her daddy issues in an overdue subsequent story arc, and make him be held accountable for all of his objectively evil and toxic red flag actions.
On top of that discomfort, therein Marcy's demon daddy issues lie mirrored patterns and relationship parallels with the other characters, concerning themes such as grief, moving on, and possessiveness, that are not explored or addressed here. It's a wasted opportunity.
And what is the history of Marceline's parents? What was their relationship? Has that already been addressed and explored elsewhere?
Still, 'Marcy & Simon' is a mountain-scale-above-average enjoyable, colourful, sweet, and hella creative continuation of 'Adventure Time' and its lore. Nearly everything gets a resolution, even if a mediocre one. Nearly every callback to the cartoon is a hoot, to boot.
I mainly wanted to check it out because I was intrigued that Olivia Olson, Marceline's voice actress, was writing it. She mostly did a great job capturing the humour and feel of the original cartoon, and the unique voices of every character, especially with so much happening in the comic. Her foreword is lovely, touching, and inspirational, too.
Olivia Olson is awesome, and so is Marceline the Vampire Queen; also half-demon, rockstar, and girlfriend of the princess and head scientist of the Candy Kingdom.
I only wish 'Marcy & Simon' could have been sweeter, and simpler, and not so rushed at the end (those last few pages, WTH?), and had been a little more about Marcy and Simon. Like, it's in the title. The focus and coherence should have stayed solely on them, to the end. The fact it calls Marceline 'Marcy' should have indicated an introspection into her childhood, and her fears and insecurities resulting from the various tragic events of it; what the poor child had to go through. Give a further look into her life and development over the years, like a tribute to her and the Simon of old, and of the now, at least.
But I'll take it. I'll take anything with Marceline in it.
I like this line below from Marcy, surrounded by the comfort and support of her friends:
'Thanks. Sometimes I need to remind myself I'm not alone anymore. You guys are the best.'
Plus: Love the cover gallery and art with her in it.
Final Score: 3.5/5
It is a direct sequel to the 'Adventure Time' cartoon series, set after the finale. It is called 'Marcy & Simon', but as it turns out, it is not just about them and their tragic yet sweet yet bittersweet father-and-daughter relationship.
It is not as sentimental as the cover makes it seem. There are hardly even any flashbacks. It is more cerebral and, well, like an adventure time. Everything that happens is in the present, the now, and the stakes have never been higher. As in, the Multiverse is involved.
Got to up the ante yet again. Only not as successful this time, in my opinion.
'Marcy & Simon' is far more epic, cosmic, and arguably more complicated and convoluted than you would expect from an 'Adventure Time' plot. It contains far more dialogue and technobabble than I'm used to in an 'Adventure Time' comic, as well. I swear, Bubblegum exists just to give exposition and said technobabble here, to go with her inventing stuff. Her relationship with her girlfriend Marceline still exists, but it plays second fiddle to everything else going on, and there is a lot going on!
On the subject of Marceline's relationships to other characters, her toxic demon dad gets off way too lightly and easily here. She needs to properly resolve her daddy issues in an overdue subsequent story arc, and make him be held accountable for all of his objectively evil and toxic red flag actions.
On top of that discomfort, therein Marcy's demon daddy issues lie mirrored patterns and relationship parallels with the other characters, concerning themes such as grief, moving on, and possessiveness, that are not explored or addressed here. It's a wasted opportunity.
And what is the history of Marceline's parents? What was their relationship? Has that already been addressed and explored elsewhere?
Still, 'Marcy & Simon' is a mountain-scale-above-average enjoyable, colourful, sweet, and hella creative continuation of 'Adventure Time' and its lore. Nearly everything gets a resolution, even if a mediocre one. Nearly every callback to the cartoon is a hoot, to boot.
I mainly wanted to check it out because I was intrigued that Olivia Olson, Marceline's voice actress, was writing it. She mostly did a great job capturing the humour and feel of the original cartoon, and the unique voices of every character, especially with so much happening in the comic. Her foreword is lovely, touching, and inspirational, too.
Olivia Olson is awesome, and so is Marceline the Vampire Queen; also half-demon, rockstar, and girlfriend of the princess and head scientist of the Candy Kingdom.
I only wish 'Marcy & Simon' could have been sweeter, and simpler, and not so rushed at the end (those last few pages, WTH?), and had been a little more about Marcy and Simon. Like, it's in the title. The focus and coherence should have stayed solely on them, to the end. The fact it calls Marceline 'Marcy' should have indicated an introspection into her childhood, and her fears and insecurities resulting from the various tragic events of it; what the poor child had to go through. Give a further look into her life and development over the years, like a tribute to her and the Simon of old, and of the now, at least.
But I'll take it. I'll take anything with Marceline in it.
I like this line below from Marcy, surrounded by the comfort and support of her friends:
'Thanks. Sometimes I need to remind myself I'm not alone anymore. You guys are the best.'
Plus: Love the cover gallery and art with her in it.
Final Score: 3.5/5
November 17, 2022
Of the various tie-in comics in the Adventure Time expanded universe, I think the most effective are the spin off miniseries, each focusing on fan favorite characters who have a relatively limited time in the show itself, in particular Marceline the Vampire Queen and Simon, aka the Ice King.
The Marcy and Simon miniseries written by Olivia Olson, the voice actor for Marceline the Vampire Queen herself, is a very effective send-off for the fan-favorite parent-child relationship, even through wrestling with that sci-fi trope minefield of time travel. Olson brings a lot of understanding of the characters into the comic, perhaps making it one of the best interpretations of the series in comic form.
I share more of my thoughts on Adventure Time comic tie ins my article "Adventure Time” in Amber: Its Bittersweet Nostalgia and Comics, at Fandom Fanatics.
The Marcy and Simon miniseries written by Olivia Olson, the voice actor for Marceline the Vampire Queen herself, is a very effective send-off for the fan-favorite parent-child relationship, even through wrestling with that sci-fi trope minefield of time travel. Olson brings a lot of understanding of the characters into the comic, perhaps making it one of the best interpretations of the series in comic form.
I share more of my thoughts on Adventure Time comic tie ins my article "Adventure Time” in Amber: Its Bittersweet Nostalgia and Comics, at Fandom Fanatics.
August 31, 2022
This is amazing!! Olivia did a fantastic job. Though obvious enough this is non canon. For Example Betty wasn't in the Obsidian Special and if Hunson Abadeer can make a crystal ball to spy on his daughter, he didn't need Finn to ask what Marcy's been up to in the episode Marcy and Hunson. After reading the story I wondered what if the last page with the "family" dinner was not the ending. It inspired me to write an epilogue where Hunson sucked up Finn and Jake's souls and Marceline used her shapeshifting powers to save them. It made her realize her real family is not her father its her friends. But overall a great Adventure Time Comic with continuity to previous episodes. It was also amazing seeing Marceline and Flame Princess interact
December 27, 2025
Adventure Time: Marcy & Simon
is a big quest in order to completely restore Simon's mind and life. I think having Olivia Olson, Marcy's voice actor, write it was a great choice. She understands the characters SO well. Sadly, this strays a bit too much from the canon to consider it anything else but a cute read. Nonetheless, I had fun seeing all these beloved characters again, working together and supporting each other. Also, shout out to Hunson Abadeer: as much as I hate him, I can't help loving him too. He is just hilariously chaotic!
January 26, 2025
Cute little non canon Adventure Time story focusing on my fave found family characters, Marcy and Simon
2 moments especially stood out to me and made me gush over how much I love these characters:
*Spoilers*
When he apologized to Marceline and gave her a new Hambo toy!!!🥹🥹🥹
His letter to Betty 🥺🥺🥺
2 moments especially stood out to me and made me gush over how much I love these characters:
*Spoilers*
When he apologized to Marceline and gave her a new Hambo toy!!!🥹🥹🥹
His letter to Betty 🥺🥺🥺
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 28, 2021
I don't know why this one didn't resonate with me. I love Marcy and Simon! Maybe because it didn't take a battering ram to my heart? It's been 7 months since I finished it and I can't remember a lick of it. Really should have written this review earlier...
April 26, 2022
What I loved about Adventure Time was the depth layered with the silly, and this comic collection delivers. Marcelline is my favorite character, and I'm glad she gets to help Simon finish healing.
September 25, 2023
my accepted adventure time canon. fionna & cake who?
November 28, 2023
Está bonito y emotivo pero la historia es bastante normalita
November 14, 2025
The way this could've been canon if not for the last few pages of the final chapter. Got a PB and Marcy kiss tho so W comic
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