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.