Halloween is still more than four months away, but the Land of Ooo is already preparing for the spooky season. The multi-Eisner and Harvey Award-winning publisher Oni Press has once again partnered with Warner Bros. Discovery Global Consumer Products to unleash Adventure Time‘s first-ever Halloween special, sending Jake and Finn on an eerie new adventure that leans into the darker side of their world. Spanning 48 pages, it’ll haunt comic shops at the end of September, just in time for fans to pick up the issue for the holiday. Collider is thrilled to share a first look before the special goes on sale, showing off four unique covers that reimagine the two iconic adventurers, their friends, and some scary monsters in vastly different styles.
Each of the covers for the Adventure Time: Halloween Special #1 strikes a balance between the whimsy of the beloved Cartoon Network series and the macabre. First up is art by Sesame Street comic artist Sean Dove, who draws Finn and Jake cute and determined as they trudge through a forest where horrors loom overhead, like a giant crimson centipede monster. Go Go Proton!‘s Agustin Morales, meanwhile, embraces the heroics of Adventure Time, showing our champions triumphantly standing over their defeated foes against the mouth of a cave, which calls for exploration. Taking a more folkloric approach, RWBY: Fairy Tales of Remnant artist Violet Tobacco adopts a sort of storybook style, showing the duo dressed for Trick ‘r Treat as they flee from the giant, chicken-footed hut of the Baba Yaga of Slavic legend. Last but not least is a 1:10 variant cover, created by interior artist Adam Seats, who captures just about everything this new adventure contains, from old friends like BMO to classic foes like Magic Man, and lots of treasure.
Within this special one-shot is a story penned by Jeremy Melloul of Dungeon Masters Guild fame, centering on Finn and Jake as they take on a special request for the adventurer’s guild. However, they fail to read the fine print and accidentally stumble into their most dangerous situation yet. This dungeon they’re sent to explore is unlike any other, warping them into some of its monstrous residents and pitting them against familiar faces and new enemies alike. Their only hope is to unravel its mysteries before they’re overwhelmed not just by the monsters inside, but also the beast lurking within themselves.
Collider Exclusive · Universe Personality Quiz Which Iconic Universe Do You Belong in the Most? Star Wars · Lord of the Rings · Harry Potter · Game of Thrones · Star Trek
Five legendary universes. Five completely different visions of what the world could be — or already was. One of them is the world your instincts, your values, and your particular way of existing were built for. Eight questions will tell you which one.
🚀Star Wars
💍Lord of the Rings
🧙Harry Potter
👑Game of Thrones
🖖Star Trek
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What gives your life its deepest sense of meaning? Every universe is built around a different answer to this question.
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Which kind of world do you most want to inhabit? The environment shapes who you become. Choose carefully.
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How do you prefer your conflicts resolved? The shape of a world’s conflicts tells you everything about its soul.
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Who do you want beside you when things get difficult? Your ideal companions reveal the world you were made for.
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What is your relationship with power? How you seek, wield, or resist power is the map of who you are.
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How does your universe treat good and evil? A world’s moral architecture tells you more about it than any map.
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What role would you naturally fall into? Every universe has archetypes. Which one fits you without trying?
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What do you ultimately believe about the future? The answer to this is the clearest window into which universe already lives inside you.
Your Universe Has Been Chosen You Belong In…
Your answers point to the iconic universe your values, your instincts, and your particular way of seeing the world were built for. This is where you would find your people — and your purpose.
A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
You believe in the cause — in the idea that freedom is worth fighting for even when the odds are impossible and the empire is vast.
You are drawn to the moral clarity of a universe where hope itself is a form of resistance.
You’d find your people in the Rebellion — a ragtag coalition of true believers held together by conviction more than resources.
Star Wars is fundamentally a story about ordinary people choosing to matter in an extraordinary conflict — and that is exactly your kind of story.
The Force may or may not be with you. But the will to use it for something larger than yourself certainly is.
Middle-earth
Lord of the Rings
You understand, in the deepest part of yourself, that the journey matters as much as the destination — and that the world’s beauty is worth protecting even at great cost.
Middle-earth is a world of ancient wonder, deep friendship, and a darkness that only retreats when enough small acts of courage accumulate.
You would thrive here because you value the fellowship more than the glory — the road more than the arrival.
Tolkien’s universe rewards patience, loyalty, and the willingness to carry something heavy across a very long distance.
Those are not burdens to you. They are simply how you move through the world.
The Wizarding World
Harry Potter
You believe that love, loyalty, and doing what’s right are not naive sentiments — they are the most powerful forces in any world, magical or otherwise.
The Wizarding World is a place of wonder hidden in plain sight, where learning is transformative and the bonds you form at school follow you into every battle.
You would flourish here because you take both the magic and the friendships seriously — and you understand that one without the other is incomplete.
Harry Potter’s universe ultimately rewards those who choose to stand for something even when standing is terrifying.
That choice — made quietly, without guarantee — is something you understand completely.
Westeros · The Known World
Game of Thrones
You see the world clearly — its power structures, its hypocrisies, its brutal arithmetic — and you are not paralysed by that clarity. You use it.
Westeros is a world that rewards intelligence, adaptability, and the willingness to understand that every alliance is also a negotiation.
You would survive here — possibly thrive here — because you don’t confuse the world as it is with the world as you’d like it to be.
Game of Thrones is a story about what happens when the idealists and the realists collide. You are sharp enough to know which one lasts longer.
Winter always comes. You are already prepared.
The United Federation of Planets
Star Trek
You believe the future is worth building — that curiosity, cooperation, and the expansion of understanding are not just ideals but the most practical path forward for any civilisation.
Star Trek is a universe where the questions matter as much as the answers, and where encountering something utterly alien is cause for wonder rather than fear.
You would belong here because you are fundamentally optimistic about what intelligence and decency can achieve — while being honest about how hard that achievement is.
The Federation is the universe’s most ambitious thought experiment: what if we actually got better?
You don’t just hope that’s possible. You think it’s the only thing worth working toward.
‘Adventure Time’s Latest On-Screen Adventure Is Almost Here
Oni Press has been taking Adventure Time to many new frontiers, from the movie theater to music-based Pride-themed trips down memory lane, well after Pendleton Ward‘s original hit wrapped up in 2018. However, Finn and Jake are also about to tread new ground on-screen too. A new prequel spin-off series titled Adventure Time: Side Quests is set to premiere on Disney+ and Hulu on June 29 and will whisk viewers back to the early days of Finn and Jake’s brotherly bond and fantastical adventures. They’ll venture all across Ooo, fighting evil, partying with cloud people, and meeting up with some old friends along the way, like Princess Bubblegum, Marceline, BMO, and the Ice King. It’s designed as a throwback to earlier seasons to get a new generation of fans invested in the champions’ lighthearted adventures while also giving old fans a chance to jump back in for more completely new whimsical fun under showrunner Nate Cash.
The Adventure Time: Halloween Special #1 goes on sale on September 30, exclusively from Oni Press. Get an exclusive look at the four unique new covers in the gallery above.
