ADVENTURE TIME DISTANT LANDS

Warner Bros Home Entertainment provided ageekdaddy.com with a complimentary Adventure Time: Distant Lands Blu-ray for promotional consideration.

The four hour-long Adventure Land specials created for HBO Max that were originally exclusive to the streaming service are now available to purchase on a Blu-ray to add to your home entertainment library. The animated series Adventure Time which follows the adventures of Finn (a human boy) and his best friend and adoptive brother Jake (a dog with magical powers to change shape and size at will) who live in the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo, originally was broadcast on Cartoon Network from 2010 to 2018. From 2020 - 2021, HBO Max introduced new, original Adventure Time content in its Distant Lands specials that are collected together on one Blu-ray.

ADVENTURE LAND: DISTANT LANDS features the original HBO Max limited series episodes BMO, Obsidian, Together Again, and Wizard City:

BMO

BMO is on his way to Mars when a cute extraterrestrial nicknamed "Olive" knocks his spaceship off course, causing a crash landing on a mysterious space station. Upon realizing this strange place is in peril, self-appointed sheriff BMO enlists Y5, a curious rabbit friend, to help save the day. Will teamwork prevail or will the powers that be foil this adorable duo's good deeds?

OBSIDIAN

When a powerful and dangerous dragon breaks free from its prison beneath the Glass Kingdom, young bookworm Glassboy sets out to find the legendary hero who first defeated the dragon centuries ago: Marceline the Vampire Queen. Marceline, now living in domestic bliss with Princess Bubblegum is apprehensive about revisiting the Glass Kingdom. It is a place that holds bad memories for her and Princess Bubblegum. With the help of Glassboy and some new friends, Marceline and Princess Bubblegum will have to confront their rocky past as they face off against an ancient foe.

TOGETHER AGAIN

A battle-weary Finn returns to a familiar kingdom, only to find that it is under the control of a snake-headed tyrant whose master plan will have devasting consequences for all of Ooo. In order to save the day, Finn will need the help of friends, rivals and especially his beloved brother Jake the Dog. But there's just one problem...he hasn't seen his brother in in years! Not only will Finn have to find Jake before it is too late, but he will have to convince him to return to action for one last adventure together.

WIZARD CITY

Peppermint Butler starts over at the beginning as just another inexperienced Wizard School student. When mysterious events at the campus cast suspicion on Pep and his checkered past, can he muster the mystic arts in time to prove his innocence?

Star Trek & the Green Lantern Join Forces in THE SPECTRUM WAR

It's not often that you see cross-overs between the fictional universes of competing comic book companies.  Maybe it is because they don't want to dilute their brands and intellectual property rights by meshing them with characters they don't have ownership rights over; or they don't want to provide a competitive or financial advantage to one of their competitors; or it just might be a big hassle publishers don't want to spend time and effort dealing with.  Comic book publisher IDW seems to be an exception to the cross-over prohibition though as it has had some fun creating entertaining limited series that unite one of it its key licenses Star Trek with other brands to attract new customers to its comic books and exhilarate its current base of fans.  First they had a cross-over 8 issue limited series a few years ago with sci-fi favorite Dr. Who that pitted the crew of the Enterprise along with the Doctor and his companions in a fight versus a united threat created by the Cybermen and Borg working together.  More recently IDW teamed up with rival Boom Studios for a 5 issue Planet of the Apes/Star Trek mini series that teamed up Colonel George Taylor with Captain James T Kirk versus villainous Klingons and gorillas as they deal with the "Primate Directive" on an Earth ruled by apes. Based upon the success of these two previous cross-overs, IDW is now joining forces with DC Comics for THE SPECTRUM WAR which unites the characters from the new Star Trek movies with the Green Lantern Corps.

Star Trek/Green Lantern #1 hits stores on Wednesday, July 8 2015 kicking off a six issue comic book saga called The Spectrum War which depicts the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise meeting the Green Lantern Corps. According to the teaser for this IDW/DC Comics joint venture, "Kirk and Spock make an unusual discovery on a lost world in the process igniting events that will change the fate of empires."  If you enjoy super hero adventures and sci-fi stories this seems to be a great fit that combines two popular brands within this comic book story.

I'm looking forward to picking up this first issue to check it out for myself.  Star Trek/Green Lantern #1 is 32 pages and priced at $3.99.  So what do you think.  Are cross-overs that merge franchises great or should characters just stay tied to their own fictional universes?