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4.75
adventurous dark funny lighthearted fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Glorious comic book. If you like the TV series, you'll like the comic books. The first two volumes follow Rick & Morty from dimension C-132, then from volume three onwards they follow R&M from dimension C-137 (the TV series characters). It has the same snappiness and sarcasticness of jokes and the same genre of storylines. It has in-jokes referencing characters from the TV series. And it even has mini comic strip shorts at the end like they do after the credits on the show! I laughed out loud several times whilst reading. 

I bought the entire Rick and Morty comic book series to read during their Series 6 mid-season break in 2022. I've found that R&M is one of the only lighthearted stupid thing (media wise) that helps my depression. It's definitely still got that delicous streak of darkness in it, but somehow that makes me feel better not worse. Like it's recognising the horrible meaningless of life instead of brushing over it. 

I won't rate all of the comic book individualy because from the first three volumes they're all just as spectacular as the TV series and I don't want to skew my stats because of the volume of high rating for R&M. In short, glorious, I love them, wish they continued publishing them but understand why they didn't; to keep the cannon as tidy as possible for a concept like this.