On the other side of time, writer Ted Anderson, working off a story by Eisner-winner Sonny Liew ( The Art of Charlie Hock Chye), introduces us to a darkened, purple Ooo. We don’t see Beth and Shermy in this first issue, but after BMO spontaneously breaks down, Finn and Jake are summoned by an unknown voice into a flaming portal, which hurtles them 1,000 years into the future. Obviously Shermy has got Finn-like qualities, and these analogies could exist.”

That was kind of something the show was built on, too. “You get the sense that another apocalypse has sort of happened in the meantime. “The future version of Ooo is not that cheery of a place,” Adventure Time executive producer Adam Muto told Polygon after the finale. Turns out the problem isn’t in the present - where the Bubblegum/Marceline romance is very much alive, Simon is a helping hand and Finn, Jake and BMO are amped to rebuild the treehouse - but in a future reminiscent of the one we saw bookending the series finale, which found two new characters, Beth and Shermy, traversing a transformed Ooo. The Candy Kingdom may have needed to sour before becoming truly sweet again, but as Adventure Time: Season 11 #1 shows us, it’s going to take some serious to work to achieve the growth. “I know it looks bad,” Bubblegum tells Marceline among the rubble of the Candy Kingdom, “but destruction is often an opportunity for growth.” If the parallels to our own escalatingly violent environment weren’t enough, the first page of Boom! Studios and Cartoon Network’s new, canon-approved comic, Adventure Time: Season 11, offers a haunting and hopeful message. Finn and a restored Simon escaped, Bubblegum and Marceline found comfort in each other’s embrace, and Ooo survived for another day. Friends and foes of the Candy Kingdom assembled to defeat it, but in the end, only Betty, who initially summoned the entity, and the power of the Ice King’s crown could send GLOB back to the nightmare from which it came. GLOB, a godly being bent on spreading chaos through the dimensions, descended upon Ooo like a geostorm. The series finale of Adventure Time ended with a catastrophic event.

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