![]() ![]() Just as usual in "Adventure Time with Fionna and Cake," the gender inversion itself creates opportunity both explicit and implicit commentary on gender roles, but it appropriately takes a back seat to Allegri's plotting and fun dialogue. He has an outsize sense of drama, inherent in how Allegri introduces him with a stark page of ornate text as LSP explains to the reader, "To be on the cusp of IMPOSSIBLE BEAUTY has been my curse since the day I was born." Unlike Prince Gumball or Marshall Lee, however, LSP's preening male vanity is accompanied by greed and haplessness instead of talents or concern for others. However, Lumpy Space Prince is a hilarious personality, and that compensates for a lot. In particular, the absence of Cake was startling, since her friendship with Fionna is the heart of the series. ![]() While Fionna is a delightful character by herself, Cake the Cat, Prince Gumball and Marshall Lee the Vampire King were such an important part of the humor, plot and dialogue in previous issues of "Fionna and Cake" that I missed their presence in this issue. ![]()
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