‘Fionna and Cake:’ A New York Comic Con Retrospective

The con season marches on, and it’s the best time to take a look back as we prepare for New York’s biggest convention of the year, New York Comic Con. Last year the theme brought out the horror fans in us all with the convention’s theme reminding us how important the genre is and how lore can truly drive a series and the fans who love it. We had It: Welcome to Derry and the deep cut Sinners cosplays and more extended worlds of the comics, shows, and animation we know and love. I had a chance to sit down with the voice actors and creators of the Adventure Time fan fiction turned fully realized world of Fionna and Cake.  Sailor Fionna Living in a world inside a world born from the chaotic mind of a tortured genius comes Fionna and Cake. If you are a die-hard Adventure Time fan, this is the unlikely spin-off you did not, and maybe still don’t know, goes hard in the paint. I had the utmost pleasure of catching up with Fionna, Cake, Huntress, and the Executive Producer of this new adventure at New York Comic Con this past fall.  For fans of the former Cartoon Network show Adventure Time, we know of Fionna and Cake as the one-time, turned regular special episodes of a gender bended world where Finn is Fionna, and Jake is Cake, and Marceline is Marshall Lee and so on and so forth. Spawned as a fan fiction from the altered mind of the Ice King, this twisted tale is a wholesome ‘what-if’ for those who feel connected to the iconic Adventure Time characters. But what if… their world w…