Adventure Time: The Flip Side

Work by Colleen Coover and Paul Tobin, Review by Jennifer Cheng

“Adventure Time: The Flip Side”, Paul Tobin, Colleen Coover and Wook Jin Clark take a leisurely path into a strange new topsy-turvy quest for Finn and Jake. Interviews with the creative team have hinted that overarching plot of the miniseries will feature “Freaky Friday”-type body-swaps or mind-swaps, but the most of the issue is lead-up towards the last four pages in which the heroes meet Princess Painting and her father.

The tone shifts into being odd and surreal once Finn and Jake enter the paint-palette-shaped doors. This entry is the equivalent of stepping in Faerie, or falling down the rabbit hole, but they don’t know it yet. As a whole, though, the first issue is sedate when it comes to supernatural phenomena. However, Tobin, Coover and Clark fill this slow build with plenty of action and jokes instead of suspense. The creative team obviously had fun with creating ridiculous quest obstacles for Finn and Jake to overcome.