Graphic Novel Review - 'Adventure Time With Fionna and Cake' by Natasha Allegri, N.D. Stevenson, Lucy Knisley, Kate Leth, Various

2025 EDIT: Rereview coming soon. Still like the cartoon and the comics.

Still adore Marceline.

Another EDIT: Ignore the final line of the old review below, about the "all-female production team", in respect to N.D. Stevenson.





Original Review:



'Adventure Time with Fionna and Cake' by Natasha Allegri is a sweet, cute and fun spinoff fanfiction story within the 'Adventure Time' canon.

A gender flipped version of the franchise, 'Fionna and Cake' is lovely and charming. Who knew that a simple and novel idea like this could garner so much popularity!

Fionna is a sword wielding action heroine who's super girly and proud of it, and she's a bundle of laughs. She's in a love square with three guys - Prince Gumball, Marshall Lee, and Fire Prince. It's a parody, so it's funny and never annoying. Fionna is a young teenage girl, not only an action heroine, and as such she is indecisive about choosing a prince made of candy, or a prince made of literal warmth, or a sexy vampire! Plus, Fionna is always the one who saves them - usually from Ice Queen - alongside her hilarious shapeshifting bestie and sister, Cake the cat. Fionna is ideal for sleepovers as well as slaying monsters!

Magical girl sparkles, wands and other elements are galore in this comic. A short story at the end revolves around the characters finding their stolen cosy sweaters and having hot cocoa - it is written and illustrated by none other than Noelle Stevenson! Really, the main aim of 'Fionna and Cake' is to be cute and funny. It's more goofy than anything else, but it contains touching and well-thought out aspects as well.

'Adventure Time with Fionna and Cake' - read it for a good, nice adventure time! Its production team is all female to boot!

Final Score: 4/5