ATC #6 contains four new stories for eager readers starting off with Finn and Jake rescuing a wish-granting beanie from the villainous Ice King. The beanie promises them the most delicious tacos in all of existence, but is there more to his intentions than it appears? Following that is the Princess Megathalon, a story about Ice King putting on a Bachelor-style competition with all the princesses he kidnapped with a twist even he didn’t see coming! In the third tale, titled The Sublet, Finn and Jake attempt to find a new room-mate after Shelby gets accepted to an artist’s residency with mixed results. The finale features the Ice King as he stirs up trouble to get the boys to come over and hang out, but even they aren’t down to chill.
The issue is handled by a variety of authors and illustrators, some that happen to be the same person, and some that are team of two that split the duties. Each team/person tackles different stories but still sticks within the perimeters of Adventures Time’s established illustration style: rounded, noodly-armed weirdos. While it’s fun to see the show get turned into a comic, this reviewer feels that by sticking to the tried-and-true art style, ATC visually limits itself to what the Adventure Time main comic is already doing. This series would be even MORE fun (if that’s possible) if the artists got to draw in their individual styles instead. It would be a blast to see Ryan Browne, who wrote and illustrated the first story, draw Finn and Jake in his eye-popping detailed work that made his God Hates Astronauts comic work so well. Or Robert Langridge, who has a more classic, 1920’s newspaper style, give Ice King a jug-blowing donkey look a la early Disney style. ATC has the freedom to explore other illustrated avenues but instead chooses to look like the show, which is cool, I guess, but it has so much more potential.
Either way, Adventure Time Comics is an enjoyable and quick read when you a need a break from the latest doom and gloom of the world or if you got a kid who loves comics. Both are acceptable. On stands now!