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