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  • Creator Backlash: Ted Anderson is not too fond of the second arc's ending, especially due to the cancellation of the comic.
    Ted Anderson: I don't think it's the best way to end S11, no. It makes sense because it's a natural story break, but it also leaves Finn angry and resentful, and deliberately separating himself from other communities. I do love those last two pages, because Mar Julia did some amazing art on them, but emotionally it leaves Finn kind of out in the cold.
  • Creator Breakdown: Sonny Liew was originally the main writer of the new comic book series, but he had to step down due to scheduling conflicts. According to Ted Anderson, he wrote the first arc (the first four issues) before he left the project.
  • Executive Meddling: The first arc was originally going to take place 10.000 years in the future, but for some reason Cartoon Network changed it to 1.000 years instead, creating a Continuity Snarl in the process.
    Ted Anderson: Oh, speaking of contradicting the show, I got a funny note about the Empress Marceline story. Originally, in Sonny Liew's notes and my script, it actually took place 10,000 years in the future, not 1,000. But for some reason CN changed it to 1000. And I have no idea why, because all that does is mess with the timeline more. Like, if it's 1000 years in the future, it should have Shermy and Beth and look like that setting. But by the time CN changed it, it was too late for me to add in any of that stuff. So if you think it's weird that Shermy and Beth didn't show up, and Marceline wasn't trying to rescue Bubblegum from an ice prison: that's why!
    • Issue 7 is done, but thanks to Cartoon Network and BOOM! Studios cancelling the comic, it will never see the light of day.
  • Saved by the Fans: Huntress Wizard's inclusion in the final issue of the comic was the result of this.
    Ted Anderson: I did tweak issue 6 a little by adding the HW scene. Originally Finn went to see Aunt Lolly to see if she made the robot monsters. Frankly, the HW scene is better in every way, haha. [...] I like Finntress! I like a lot of Finn relationships. But I also like how it's very casual and not labeled. I should be clear: I really didn't change anything based on people's feedback from here. But the Discord server and poking around Tumblr reminded me that I needed to include some HW. I feel like their relationship has always been ambiguous, so I liked them not getting a super specific ending.
  • Schedule Slip: Issue 6 was originally going to be released on March 13th 2019, but it was delayed to March 27th 2019 after the comic was cancelled.
  • Screwed by the Network: Even the sequel comic wasn't safe from Cartoon Network's meddling. The cancellation of the comic was the result of the sales not meeting their expectations, despite being their most best selling CN/BOOM! comic book series alongside the original comic and the Marcy and Simon miniseries. And despite BOOM promising more AT related stuff after S11 and Marcy and Simon, many fans are starting to worry about the statement and the fate of the comics after S11's cancellation. Not helping matters is CN terminating their partnership with BOOM!, as no new Cartoon Network-related comics have been released by the publisher since 2019.
  • Sequel in Another Medium: An attempted one to continue the franchise through a "proposed" season set after the final battle with GOLB.
  • What Could Have Been: Ted Anderson revealed a lot of information during an AMA on the AT subreddit's Discord server.
    • Issue 7 was going to be focused on Jake and Jermaine.
      Ted Anderson: Issue #7 was a very standalone kind of issue: Jermaine is a successful painter and gets invited to a big fancy party, and Jake invites himself along. Jake ostensibly came to invite Jermaine to the family reunion in the finale arc, but he knows that Jermaine doesn't like to travel. So he actually came to do a big mystery adventure. One of Jermaine's paintings gets stolen, so the two of them investigate to find out the truth. In the end it's revealed that the whole thing is a big setup by Jake, who wanted to give his brother a fun bonding experience, Mostly I wanted to write some done-in-one stories and get some Jermaine in there, because I like him.
    • Issue 8 was another standalone story that was going to be focused on Finn:
      Ted Anderson: Issue 8 would have been about Finn, who's feeling restless after making the cabin, and deciding he wants to make more stuff, so he decides to make his own sword. He meets various characters traveling around Ooo, checking in with them and talking about what he's doing now. I wanted to focus on Finn feeling adrift now that the biggest adventure of them all has happened, and he's kind of without a purpose.
    • The final arc was not only going to continue the Humantown plot, but it was going to bring Dr. Gross as the Big Bad and the Final Boss of the comic, along with Samantha as her Dragon.
      Ted Anderson: So thematically, I wanted to get to the idea that Finn was feeling useless as an adventurer. The world was getting more saved, things were getting rebuilt, people don't need a "kid with a sword" any more. But Finn would've realized that it's not about him as a lone adventurer—he's part of a community, a whole bunch of people who are working to make the world a better place. The finale story would have revealed that Dr. Gross had been offered amnesty and was secretly working in Humantown, plotting a takeover of all of Ooo. Dr. Gross would've created a plague to affect the candy people and something called "GO Juice" [Genetic Optimizer Juice], which was just Finn's DNA injected into the humans to make them into adventurers too. But, crucially, it wouldn't have made them teammates—they would've just been a bunch of lone wolves. So when Jake and Lady and PB and Marceline and all the rest work together, they defeat the humans easily. Rather than fight Dr. Gross, [Finn] escapes and helps his friends, who are fighting everyone else. There's a little bit of that story still in issue 5: Finn gets a scratch fighting the robot and Minerva patches it up, and that's how they would've gotten his DNA. I was going to bring back Samantha the dog as a side villain. She would've taken over the Candy Kingdom with a dog army, in order to plunder their technology and lead a dog revolution in the Crystal Dimension, but really she was just being used by Dr. Gross.
    • Jake was originally going to marry Lady Rainicorn in the final arc, but Cartoon Network didn't allow it.
      Ted Anderson: Also Jake would've had a family reunion, because I really wanted to write all his kids. Originally it was going to be him and Lady finally getting married. Cartoon Network specifically said that Jake and Lady couldn't get married, because they were, and I quote, a "modern couple". I still have no idea exactly what that means, haha.

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