Adventure Time #9

Something's gone wonderfully, weirdly wrong in the Land of Ooo — the cover by Chris Houghton shows what appears to be an aged, saggy Jake hunched over a walker while a baby Finn rides on his back, facing their younger selves: a spry Finn brandishing a sword and a full-sized Jake grinning beside an enormous, smoking industrial machine bristling with pipes, tentacles, and clock imagery. It's a delightfully strange snapshot of time-bending chaos that fits perfectly with the "Time Machine, Part Four" story arc running through this 2012 KaBOOM! series. With Ryan North writing and the art team of Shelli Paroline and Braden Lamb on interiors, this issue promises the sharp wit and colorful mayhem fans of the series have come to love.