Ryan North

Just how much of a good idea was Ryan North's To Be Or Not To Be, a book that will turn Shakespeare's Hamlet into a Choose Your Own Adventure-style interactive narrative? Only enough of one to set a new record for publishing projects funded through Kickstarter.At time of writing, there are less than 17 hours to go until North's Kickstarter ends, but with $502,000 raised so far, it has not only raised more than 25 times its original goal of $20,000,

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If Susan Strong turns your heart on, Zack Giallongo's Adventure Time #11 backup will likely prove worth the issue's physical/digital cover price alone. Joining the main story by Ryan North, Shelli Paroline and Braden Lamb, Giallongo's "The Meaning of Bravery" turns the book's attention on the super buff subterranean maybe-human known as Susan as her naivety about the wider world gets exploited by a sinister force. There's a good heart ins

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For those of us used to spending their work days... and much of their free time... in the digital space, Finn and Jake's predicament in Adventure Time #14 may be an all-too-familiar plight. Life in the Land of Ooo has it

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To Be Or Not To Be: That Is The Adventure
Available From: Kickstarter
Price: $30.00

For those of us here at ComicsAlliance, Dinosaur Comics and the Adventure Time comic have made Ryan North the kind of creator whose books we'll just buy, no questions asked. They always tur

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The cross section of webcomics creators and crowd-sourced funding is logically large. Having bucked the traditional route of starting their project with a publisher, creators of webcomics have often needed to find new ways of raising funds in order to keep releasing their art to a wider audience. Perhaps no other coll

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The Money Laundering Bag
Available From: TopatoCo
Price: $19.00

I don't know about you guys, but one of my greatest complaints about daily life is that I don't look as much like a cartoon criminal as I think I should. Fortunately for this little aspect of the (non-animated) human condition, Dinosaur Comics creator Ryan North h

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Ice King's not the most sympathetic character most of the time, what with his constant kidnapping of princesses and all, but Jon M. Gibson and Jim Rugg's "Hot Deals In Ice Kingdom" backup in this week's Adventure Time #10 has made him considerably easier to relate to. For folks into comics an

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There's unwinding while fishing and then there's unwinding by way of super intense fishing. Can you guess which method Finn and Jake prefer in the Adventure Time #9 backup story by brothers Chris and Shane Houghton? I think you can! Joining a main story by Ryan North and artists Shelli Paroline and Braden Lamb, the Houghton brothers (also collaborators on the all-ages Reed Gunther) show what happens when a friendly competition takes on a life of its own, Land of Ooo style. Boom Studios has provided us with a first-look at the fishy backup

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It's not every day a sentient hot dog that looks like an actual dog turns... three? That's why Princess Bubblegum, Lumpy Space Princess and other esteemed royal ladies of the Land of Ooo have come together in "Happy Birthday Hot Dog Princess," a special backup story by Frank Gibson and Becky Dreistadt running in Adventure Time #8. HDP's b-day soiree won't

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Time travel has a mixed reputation in sci-fi. Sometimes it's used as part of cautionary tales, other times it's a force for pure awesome. Adventure Time #7 will touch on this discrepancy in all its algebraicness out August 22, and the consequences could be suitably mathematical. The issue's main story will be

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