Adventure Time Comic Plot/Pitch (By Me, Sarah & Our Kid))

Hey, typing mostly w/my left hand, so pls excuse any/all typos. I found a memory stick (or wahtever they 're called) and on it was this pitch we did for an Adventure Time comic for BOOM studios some time back. 

Apparently, 2014, according to the file. I forgot I could look that up..

Our kid was a big fan of the comics, curiosuly not a big fan of the show (have to admit I was with her on this, I found the show kind of irritating and really couldn't stand the Jake character, which made it tough going since he was one of the leads). BOOM had asked me if I wanted to do anything for the comic and I was interested, because work is work and it would have made the kid happy. At some point either we got to talking about Adventure Time and/or doing a story or whatever, and at some point the kid sparks an idea about farts, or farting. And somehow the fartberry princess comes into it. We all added stuff and I went and wrote it up. 

I normally dislike bathroom humor and fart jokes, I'm a fart prude, I guess. But this seemed to fit the bill perfectly and it wasn't "stinky" and the idea of doing a comic with the whole family was too cool to pass up. We would have done the whole comic, script to letters. 

I can't remember why it didn't happen. Schedule, or --? I don't remember it being shot down or much of a discussion going on about it. I'm pretty sure I submitted it. I wish I had a memory stick for my own head! I feel like it sat for a while, it's possible that by the time we could have worked on it, the Adventure Time stuff was winding down and the secondary title that featured lots of guest cartoonists was canceled.

Anyway, here's the plot/pitch. I think it would have made a fun little comic. 

Adventure Time plot by Emily Dyer, Evan Dorkin and Sarah Dyer

Fartberry Princess/Title tbd

Royal reception planned to honor the visiting Fartberry Princess and her entourage.

Princess Bubblegum invites Finn, etc.

Speculation on the princesses name causes Jake to bow out. Bow wow out. That joke hurts, dude. Low jokitude alert.

The Fartberry Princess' fart is an unknown event. Does she fart? Does it smell? Does it kill or petrify or turn you into a fart zombie or a block of fart or –?

Joke Time Out: My dog has no nose. How does he smell? Terrible.

Time In: That joke stunk and so does a fartberry fart, I bet. No way I'm going anywhere near that cloud of death.

Princess will be disappointed. Jake not budging. You don't go to a fart, you go away from one. Unless it's your own, those are kind of interesting.

Okay, let's definitely not go there.

Jake warns everyone not to go. Truth in advertising, man. That party's gonna stink.

The reception. Bubblegum has heard the buzz and Jake's warnings. warns everyone to be on best behavior, no jokes or embarrassing the FB Princess. Her entourage announced, with funny names, maybe, flatulence-related. Hillo Beans. Toot. Fartberry Princess arrives, everyone buzzing, on edge, wondering, wondering – will she actually fart?

She eventually does. Small one. And everyone steels themselves, put on gas masks, slap hands and handkerchiefs and duct tape over noses, a pink odor trail wends its way across the ballroom. And –

VRRRT!

It's actually kind of nice. Not bad at all. Her fart...doesn't stink. Pleasant, actually. Fruity. Fartberry-y.

A small series of royal rips wends their way around the room to everyone's delight. And then, after a build-up, the Princess lets rip a doozie.

PTHHFFRAAPPPF (or something crazy)

Huge pink aroma cloud with flowers and hearts and whatever fills the room.

It's incredible! A wonderful, aromatic experience. Too awesome to be called a smell. Awesome. Two nostrils up! Way up! Smell the magic. Take a whiff, you'll see the diff. The one who smelt it, felt it, right in the nose-feels. Oder-iffic! It's the berries! They should bottle this! Etc.

Finn heads home in a great mood with party favors. Finds Jake wearing gas mask and house decked out like an end-times survivalists bunker set up to survive a poison gas attack. Stink attack. Don't come near me with your stinky fartberry stink! Go hose off or roll in dirt for an hour or something. Get out of here, man!

Smell already wore off. Tells Jake how cool it was. A unique experience, he'd fight monsters to smell that smell again. Like having your body filled up with sweet, sweet-smelling awesome gas. Lifts your spirits like you're a balloon all filled up and floating full of fartberry fumes.

Jake disappointed to hear he missed out on it. Also that the Fartberry Princess  is moving on the next dawn to continue spreading Fartberry diplomacy across the world.

Night. Moon, Stars. Sleep.

Finn awakens to noises. Finds Jake trying to concoct a substance that he can east that will produce a Fartberry-like smell from the party favors and/or whatever.He vows to make a better, cooler-smelling fart. Eats “lovely” things to achieve maximum sweet fartage.

A smell based on a story, bad idea, dude. You're working on a whiff of a hint, smells like trouble to me.

The fart fails. Horrible stink cloud farted up by Jake, blows out the house, maybe even has to be run off or destroyed.

Jake is put into quarantine after he stinks out the kingdom.

This stinks.

The smelly end.