Comic Review: Adventure Time #9

OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)

Two months after the world was nearly destroyed by The Lich and Golb, Finn and Jake are tasked with a new quest: create a new Enchiridion! However, the trail of Robot Finn’s travels leads them to a surprisingly alive Billy, his wife Canyon, and his daughter Ravine.

OUR TAKE

We begin a new story arc for the next few issues, and it’s yet another jumping on point! As expected, it’s a bit of an odd transition to go from the entire world being on the brink of annihilation by a death obsessed undead sorcerer and his master, the literal embodiment of chaos in the universe…to our heroes being handed a notebook and sent on a journey of jotting down hero tips for the next generation. Especially when this run is still technically in the single digits in terms of issues. Still, I found myself pleasantly surprised with this, as having Finn and Jake being the ones to write their own replacement Enchirdion feels like a natural step for them. If the Enchiridion was ever fully lost in the main series, or any of its later set spin-offs, that would be a really neat way to show how an older Finn could pass on his knowledge to future heroes, and if Fionna and Cake gets renewed for a third season (fingers crossed) then maybe we can see that happen. For now though, this comic has a job to do in making its own stories and filling out its original cast. We already got Computer Princess (who they still insist on calling CP, though I guess we should consider it lucky her full name isn’t Computer Sovereign Autonomous Matriarch) and the robot duplicates like Robot Finn, and now we meet Billy’s newly revealed family, Canyon and Ravine.

Their names being terms for big indents in the earth was a neat touch, as I do love me some thematic naming, though it did make me look up whether Billy was somehow a name for something similar and no such luck. Canyon seems like a neat lady, seeming to have a sort of Boston accent, and meets Finn and Jake while looking for Ravine’s blanket, which Robot Finn took for some reason. Last we saw him, he seemed to be glitching out about how to be a hero, so as Meat Finn notes ways he has observed on how to be a hero, we may find Robot Finn trying to do the same and they can compare notes. But that’s not all we have to look forward to in the plot department, as we find Marceline feeling down about something, with PB noting that she’s felt distant lately. So, Marceline flies over to Ice King’s place (freeing his latest captured princess) and tries to get him to open up about…a Christmas present. Huh, well I guess we’ll find out more about what the heck that means in the next issue, coming…in just a few weeks!