OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)Finn and Jake use their shared bond to defeat the Lich and Golb.OUR TAKEAnd there you have it, another four part Adventure Time comic arc in the books. Finn and Jake saved all of Ooo, after all they’ve been through in the past…eight issues. Yeah, does it feel like these sort of stakes are both too early AND too late? I know it’s been over half a year since this current series started, but it’s also only about a couple trade paperbacks worth of story, and we’ve already had the show’s worst and most powerful bad guys thoroughly defeated. And if you really want them to do that so soon, it would’ve also made sense for this to be the FIRST arc so that the end of the fight leads to major status quo shifts that the heroes can deal with cleaning up or working with throughout the remaining issues. And maybe that’s the plan here, since we end the issue with Robot Finn still at large and probably on his way to cause some trouble with his malfunctioning robot brain, and you could argue that, despite these arcs having two different names (Best of Buds and Friends Till the End), they’re similar enough in wording AND flow right into each other, so they could be considered one full arc…but it’s also been over half a year and I presume Oni Press wants to keep this series going for a while longer, so they have their work cut out for them in coming up with what’s next for our heroes.But with all of that out of the way, how is the issue itself? Well, it’s a perfectly fine conclusion to things, making use of everything both character development related and calling back to just about everything in the previous issues, but this just further highlights how little the series has done so far to warrant having this sort of meaningful look back. I’m not so distracted and annoyed by it that I’m not going to read more (it’s kind of my job to do so) but it is rather glaring. Still, it’s a testament to Finn and Jake’s friendship and how it has saved Ooo and their friends so many times, and if nothing else that’s a good message and true to Adventure Time and its themeing across its many years, so I guess it’s a wash. And now we wait for the beginning of the next arc starting next year, so maybe this is where this series finally gets its footing.