Graphic Novel Review - 'Adventure Time: Marceline Gone Adrift' by Meredith Gran (Writer), Carey Pietsch (Artist)

2025 EDIT: 'Marceline Gone Adrift' might still be my favourite 'Adventure Time' comic. It has pretty much everything, and Marceline is the star, as is Bubblegum. It is about their relationship - that is the heart of this hilarious yet beautiful story.

Their love for one another reaches across the cosmos. Their bond is unbreakable.

The comic is massively creative and fun. Every joke and emotional moment works. It is also about loneliness and existentialism. I love it!

Final note: Marceline the Vampire Queen and musician is the best. She is everything. I adore her.

Final Score: 4/5





Original Review:



My first 'Adventure Time' comic, and of the seven I've read, this one is my favourite.

As well as being very funny and charming, 'Marceline Gone Adrift' is incredibly heartwarming, clever, and is all around a beautiful story. It has a bit of everything: girl power, space, space suits, spaceships, space bubbles, other planets, leaf aliens, dog aliens, insecure food monsters, music playing, music thievery, existentialism, and of course, the developing, blossoming LBGTQ relationship between Princess Bonnibel Bubblegum of the Candy Kingdom, and the vampire queen and musician Marceline! Their bond isn't merely cute, it literally transcends cosmology. So complicated and real for supposed silly cartoon characters - from a dystopian earth called Ooo.

Really, Bubblegum and Marceline are enough to make me want to read 'Adventure Time' comics, and watch the show in full - it's been too many years since I first saw it in bits and pieces on Cartoon Network - which I will, soon. I won't miss THAT modern cartoon pop culture phenomenon.

'Adventure Time: Marceline Gone Adrift' - a wonderful gift for fans and nonfans alike. It is colourful, pop candy, star-stunning, hilarious, touching, mesmerising, lesbian cartoon goodness for all ages!

Final Score: 4/5