New Side Quests preview clip, review embargo lifted

The review embargo for press previews of Adventure Time: Side Quests has lifted. The preview above was released for the episode "Bros & Arrows", and lots of magazines have begun publishing interviews and articles about the series. Here's a couple of interesting things I picked out from them.

This Polygon article mentions that Pendleton Ward has returned to contribute storyboards to an episode of the show called "Rescue Princess". The last episode boarded by Ward was "High Strangeness" from the original series. Nate Cash also mentions in this interview that they completely avoided having the Lich appear.

Variety reports that yet another Adventure Time series was announced at the Annecy animation festival!! This one will focus on Princess Bubblegum and Marceline, and the first season will be ten episodes long.

Unlike Side Quests, which premieres next week, Adam Muto will be returning as showrunner. As far as I can tell there's been no word on the other two Adventure Time projects Muto was supposedly working on, Heyo BMO and the untitled Adventure Time movie. In today's announcement, they made sure to mention that Bubblegum & Marceline has already been greenlit and is already being written. Hopefully this means it will not face the development limbo that the other projects seem to be stuck in.

Bubblegum & Marceline will be a serial like Fionna & Cake rather than episodic like Side Quests. I expect each of the ten episodes will be 22 minutes long. If it airs before Heyo BMO, it will be the fourth Adventure Time spin-off series.