While Rick and Morty fans await the hit animated show’s return to Adult Swim for season nine, there’s some adjacent portal-hopping news to report. Oni Press will cap its decade-long Rick and Morty comic run with a mega final issue, appropriately dubbed Rick and Morty Forever. (The “100 years” part is implied, presumably.)
Rick and Morty has had an on-again, off-again comics life since its debut in 2015. It has also inspired multiple spin-offs and one-offs across its publication arc. This time, though, it’s a real good-bye, according to Oni Press, which states it’s “bidding fond farewell to Rick Sanchez and Morty Smith’s 100+ comic book issue run at Oni as we hurtle them back into the void from which they came in one last shamelessly transparent promotional stunt.”
The 48-page book hits shelves May 27; it’s written by Daniel Kibblesmith and has art by Troy Little, and though it has just one cover, it’s an extra-snazzy wraparound with silver foil from Little.
Here’s a look at the full cover:
“How do you punish the smartest man in the universe? Show him everything—everything—he’s ever wanted to know or see, and afford him no power to do anything about it,” reads the Oni Press release. “Rick Sanchez, the destroyer of worlds. Now he sits in endless observation of all there is to see, tortured by cosmic impotence, the ultimate expression of ‘go to your room and think about what you did.’”
“But in his endless torment, Rick realizes that a fate of unspeakable horror also awaits his unwitting companion: his grandson, Morty. Can Rick save the soul of the only being that ever stood by him through all his indiscretions? Can the transformative power of love give rise to the triumph of the human spirit? Or is everything just #@$%@?”
Before this existential dilemma hits home in Forever, there’s also one more issue to go in Rick and Morty: The End #5, written by Daniel Kibblesmith with art by Jarret Williams, hits shelves April 8. When it was announced last year, The End was teased as a six-issue run, but #5 will indeed be the last installment.
That’s followed by the big send-off in Rick and Morty: Forever #0, written by Kibblesmith with art and cover by Troy Little, arriving May 27.
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