Contents
A Few Short Graybles
I Nasty, Brutish, and Sweet
1. The Finn-losophy of Adventure Time
JOHN V. KARAVITIS
2. Poetical! The Art-Science Wars in Ooo
DANIEL LEONARD
3. Power and Parenthood in the Land of Ooo
DAVID CABALLEROS
4. Who Governs Ooo?
BEN GALE AND ADAM BARKMAN
5. Should Simon Have Saved Marceline?
MATTHEW MONTOYA
6. Games Vampires Play
TRIP MCCROSSIN
II Glob Said the Word and It Was “Cabbage!”
7. Dude. Stop. Saying. All This. Crazy. Nonsense
NICOLAS MICHAUD
8. Ice King Blues
GREG LITTMANN
9. The Owl and the One-Armed Boy
LIAM MILLER
10. Did Prismo Create the Best Possible World?
MATTHEW MONTOYA
11. Oh God, Where the Glob Art Thou?
POOM NAMVOL
III Life Is But a Croak Dream
12. The Paradox of Horror and the Ocean of Fear
MICHAEL J. MUNIZ
13. Play Time? Interpretation Time!
MARTY JONES
14. If a Tree Fort Falls in a Forest . . .
ROBERT ARP
15. What’s Time Anyhoo?
MARY GREEN AND RONALD S. GREEN
16. Ooo, Who’s Dreaming?
CHRISTOPHER KETCHAM
IV What Are You?
17. When I Don’t Remember You
NICOLAS MICHAUD
18. When My Gameboy Became Self-Aware
DAVID DEGGINGER
19. Imagined Worlds and Real Lessons
DANIEL VELLA
20. A Buff Baby Who Can Puncha Yo’ Buns
M. BLANKIER
21. Beemo Unplugged
CHRISTOPHER KETCHAM
V For Righteous Eyes Only
22. Finn’s No Hero!
SCOTT FOREST AIKIN
23. How to Be a Hero
GREG LITTMANN
24. Our Real-Life Enchiridions
MICHAEL J. MUNIZ
25. I Want to Be Your Hero, Maybe!
RAKEL BLÖNDAL SVEINSDÓTTIR
26. Our Heroes!
TRIP MCCROSSIN
References
Our Adventurous Authors
Index