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It’s been nearly ten years since my wife and I attended an Adventure Time comic signing outside The Beguiling with yourself, Merideth Gran, and Michael DeForge. While milling about and waiting for things to start, you shook my hand, forever reducing my six degrees of separation from any number of other people of note with whom you have since rubbed elbows (a far more pandemic-friendly gesture than the handshake). I believe I also bequeathed each of you with a little hand drawn art card. Afterwards, we moseyed into The Central for a much smaller Q&A than this one!

Do you still think fondly of our clandestine handshake every time you see a beautiful sunset?

Does my art card hold a place of high honor in your home? Perhaps in a gilded shadowbox surrounded by candles?

Finally, for everything you may yet achieve in life, may the great importance of creating Adventure Tim and The Mice King never be overshadowed.

When the show started hinting that they might make Ice King’s fanfics of Fiona and Cake real through magic or multiverse shenanigans, I grew especially hopeful that Adventure Tim could sneak in a cameo. Nevertheless, I look forward to his eventual inclusion in a WatchMojo video titled “Top 10 Adventure Time Characters Only True Fans Will Remember”. That’ll show that TV interviewer!

Oh phew, and here I was worried my warm memories of our encounter were nothing more than an unhealthy parasocial relationship fueled by your years of relatable and entertaining content. It’s good to know that we are, instead, actual best buds for life!