Review: Adventure Time with Fionna and Cake Vol. 1

Adventure Time with Fionna & Cake Vol. 1 - Natasha Allegri, Lucy Knisley, Kate Leth

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.