Great addition to the Adventure Time line. I've been enjoying the regular comics and graphic novels, but they have always seemed like stand alone adventures. None of them really touched on the events in the show. That changes for Playing with Fire.

The story is charming, with Flame Princess trying to calm her chaotic side to be with Finn. The humor was spot on, just like in the show. There were quite a few times when I was chuckling.

The art was good, but there were a lot of "manga moments" that made me feel like I was reading a less serious story by CLAMP. The characters would turn Super Deformed and make amusing faces. This doesn't bother me one bit, but children and non-manga readers may find it to be a bit confusing (or unnerving, especially with Shoujo Finn on one of the pages).

I would like to take a moment to mention the tones, or black and white coloring in the graphic novel. There were some pages that were just way overdone. Tones should be subtle in the cases of something as animated as this. I noticed that flat grayscale and gradients started showing up more deeper into the graphic novel. Mixed with tones, you get uneven, confusing coloring.

After the story draws to a close, there is an exceptionally charming BMO short comic, styled similarly to Japanese yonkoma (4-panel) comics. My son was really confused about the sumo reference (where BMO was wearing the mawashi a.k.a. "sumo undies"). There are a lot of Japanese and manga references that seem out of place inside this GN. Not a complain on my part, but it's something that may be just a bit outside the understanding of Adventure Time's general audience.

I am looking forward to the second book though. It was definitely an amusing, charming adventure.

Good fun and a bunch of heart, pretty much everything you need in a quick Adventure Time read. Mathematical indeed.

What can you say about Adventure Time comics? Always enjoyable, always quality, and, somehow, really hard to keep track of. While there is the general Adventure Time comic series, these little separate volumes keep popping up and being out for MONTHS before I notice!

This volume focuses on Flame Princess. While it begins as a simple story about a date with Finn, it quickly turns into a tale about forging your own identity, as Flame Princess takes on the job of being a hero and does it basically the exact opposite of the way that Finn would. However, to finish the quest, Flame Princess does eventually have to follow Finn's way for a while, showing that perhaps both approaches are valid.

Not essential to understanding the mythos of Ooo, but a great addition to the storyline, especially if you've any love for FP.

The story is great, but the art is just unbelievably wonderful.

I love the fire princess and want more with her. SO MUCH MORE.

Let me say,it is SO WEIRD to experience Adventure Time without any color. I really wanted to get out some markers and color in the pages of this story. Black and White and Ooo just feels wrong!

Other than that, this was a great story about Finn and the Flame Princess. Good character development for her and a fun adventure.