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Cullen Crawford’s new animated comedy Strip Law is officially streaming now on Netflix.

This is how it feels to watch Netflix’s Strip Law.

Strip Law is the funniest new show on TV. This is where most people would say, “But don’t take my word for it.” I disagree — working on the show gives me more perspective than the average viewer and you absolutely should take my word for it. However, you can also take these critics’ words for it:

Via IGN:

Strip Law is a show that is aware of itself as a TV show, hitting the beats while throwing everything at the wall… with most of it sticking. Episodes feature plots like putting the characters in a virtual HR seminar hosted by an AI amalgamation of the Rat Pack while the rest of the town is rioting over an update of the horny claymation characters, the Hot Dates. Yet, even with all of that going on, it’s never overwhelming, because Crawford and company remember this needs to first be about Gumb, Flambé, and the other staff of the law firm. Even when the show is going for the throat with an episode about the emptiness of religious shows in Vegas mixed with the nihilism of faith-based filmmaking (including an absolutely wild live-action trailer), it’s surprisingly respectful in its exploration, and continues to focus on what this means for Gumb and his co-workers.

In essence, what Strip Law is doing isn’t reinventing the wheel so much as discovering a new, exciting voice (tire?) in animated comedy. Cullen Crawford gives Strip Law a different pace and tone while also delivering what audiences have craved since the beginning of animation: good characters, wild situations, and a way of using the form to the height of its abilities.

A hundred years Strip Law!

Wow! If that feels too effusive to believe, tamper your expectations via L.A. Times who called it “off-putting” but ultimately liked it (?). They don’t even seem to know, which I think means we hit our sweet spot:

The series felt a little off-putting at first, as if it were straining for effect, but gathered steam as it went on, either because the later episodes are weirder or better written, or because one just gets used to being in that world with those people. There is just enough character in the comedy to create stakes in the narrative; its misfit energy has fueled the screen’s bands of outsiders throughout the years. (“Even when you’re a disaster, you’re a disaster for the right people,” Irene tells Lincoln.) As to the famous fine line between stupid and clever, the stupidity and the cleverness are all but inextricable, and to the point.

Most importantly: After you’re done watching Strip Law (and rewatching, and leaving on repeat for your dog while you’re not at home) make sure to click on “RATE THIS TITLE” and click the double-thumbs-up icon to tell Netflix’s algorithm you “Love this!” and want to see Season Two.

No, really. You have to do this.

DO NOT GIVE STRIP LAW A ONE-THUMBS UP. This goes by the same rule as reviewing the electrician that came to your house. Anything less than five-stars (or two-thumbs up) and we will be executed by robots.

Just Announced:Lilo & Stitch #626

Coming from Dynamite Entertainment on 6/26/26 — get it? You get it. And you SHOULD get it, by which I mean, our new Lilo & Stitch comic.

Cover by the great Sean Galloway.

I love this movie, my kid loves this movie — also my kid sort of is this movie, vibe-wise, but that’s not pertinent unless you’re wondering how tired I am at any given moment. Assume very.

When editor Nate Cosby (also of Darkwing Duck fame) asked me which Lilo & Stitch supporting character I was interested in exploring, it was actually a difficult decision, but ultimately not that difficult as a former young person who grew up obsessed with the Men In Black, both cinematic and secretly real.

Prepare to receive your security clearances for the extremely unofficial origin of AGENT COBRA BUBBLES (as imagined and told by Lilo herself).

Art by Elisa Pochetta

Via ICv2:

Lilo & Stitch: 626, the anthology series, will run three issues, publishing in May, June, and July. This surrounds 626 Day, Disney's celebration of Stitch on June 26. 

The first issue contains two stories under a cover by Sean Galloway. The first, by writer Daniel Kibblesmith and artist Elisa Pochetta, shows us Lilo's version of the secret origin of Agent Cobra Bubbles. The second puts a solo Captain Gantu on an Old West-type planet in a story written and drawn by George Kambadais. 

Future issues will spotlight characters that include Nani, Jumba, Pleakley, David, and Mertle. Writers and artist will include Moana McAdams, Chuck Brown, Jeff Parker, Edwin Galmon, Miriana Puglia, Emiliana Pinna, and Giulia Giacomino.

Dynamite will release a Stitch #1 issue for Free Comic Book Day on May 2, 2026

Call your local comics shop NOW to reserve a copy for your child or inner childlike alien killing machine.

Also Still On Sale!

Rick And Morty: The End from Oni Press

Rick And Morty Vs. The Universe from Oni Press

Darkwing Duck from Dynamite Entertainment

Rick And Morty: Last Mort Standing from Oni Press

And the 144-page, illustrated hardcover handbook from Chronicle Books — So You’ve Been Bitten By A Radioactive Spider: How To Survive The Marvel Universe.

—all available digitally or from a local comic shop near you.

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I went ahead and wrote the last Rick And Morty comic.

Cover by Troy Little

At least, the last one from Oni Press, the publisher that has held the license for the past ten years and put out many, MANY Rick And Morty comics by creators like Kyle Starks, Tini Howard, Marc Ellerby, Tom Fowler, Zander Cannon, Jim Zub, Nick Filardi, CJ Cannon, Jake Black, Jody Houser, Meg Casey, the team of Alex Firer and Fred C. Stresing both together and separately — honestly too many to list here. But only one writer was so unapologetically awful that they could be trusted to destroy this comics line once and for all, and I was not a hard man to find.

Artist, Troy Little, was probably a harder man to find, because he is enormously talented and therefore enormously busy. Together, along with the whole Oni Press gang, we bring you the epic 48 page series finale Rick And Morty: Forever. If you’ve been watching this space (or following the comics) you know that myself, Jarrett Williams, Alessandro Santoro and company have been torturing Rick and Morty through two epic, cosmic, universe-spanning (and universe-fighting) miniseries: Rick And Morty Vs. The Universe and Rick And Morty: The End. So what comes after The End? It’s like the blue guy says, “Nothing ever ends.” And then he showed his penis and became god. Via Oni Press:

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 #@$%@?

Find out by pre-ordering Rick And Morty: Forever — digitally or from a local comic shop near you.

Coming To Paperback And HardcoverDarkwing Duck: Year One, Part One

Let’s get dangerous. And let’s get more durable.

Cover by Darkwing Duck creator, Tad Stones.

The only downside to writing Darkwing Duck stories in a print medium is that you don’t get to hear the theme song, which is why I’ve been trying to get into your house at night, so I can personally soothe and thrill you with it. Since you’ve been pretending you didn’t see or hear me (how dare you), I am thrilled and soothed to announce that the first paperback collection of our Darkwing Duck comics from Dynamite Entertainment will soon be appearing in a cloud of smoke in a comic shop or bookstore near you.

Via Dynamite:

HE PUTS THE "ABLE" IN "UNRELIABLE NARRATOR"!

He is the terror that flaps in the night! The fowl that felons most fear! A legend in his own time (and his own mind)! He is... DARKWING DUCK!

But how did this avian exemplar develop his redoubtable reputation? What lessons did he learn in his early days of crime-busting and foe-foiling? His legion of fans (or, at least, his adopted daughter, Gosalyn) want to know - and DW is more than happy to tell her the whole (possibly embellished) story in this unauthorized (and unorganized) autobiography!

Acclaimed author DANIEL KIBBLESMITH (Black Panther vs. Deadpool) and the double-headed art team of TED BRANDT & RO STEIN (The Mighty Captain Marvel) return to the rooftops of St. Canard for an all-new tale that revisits (and revises) Darkwing Duck's formative years.
Collecting issues #1-6 of the high-flying series, Darkwing Duck: Year One, Part One also includes a complete cover gallery featuring iconic imagery from BRANDT & STEIN, MARK BAGLEY, NICOLETTA BALDARI, CIRO CANGIALOSI, and TAD STONES - creator of the original Darkwing Duck animated series!

These are all-ages comics for the whole family (honestly designed, by me, for millennial parents to read with and to children) — so if your floppy Darkwing Duck comics are already officially graded as 10.0’s and perma-bound in Lucite, here’s an opportunity to give a sturdy volume of Darkwing comics to a kid who is allowed to throw it in their backpack, leave it in their tree house, and overall read it to shreds.

Preorder it directly from Dynamite here or call your favorite local comic shop or bookstore now.

On Sale Now

Rick And Morty: The End from Oni Press ongoing monthly at a local comic shop near you.

So You’ve Been Bitten By A Radioactive Spider: How To Survive The Marvel Universe in handbook-sized hardcover from Chronicle Books

Coming VERY Soon!Strip Law on Netflix!

Set your reminders now and follow the official Strip Law Instagram account for more extremely funny clips and trailers like this one.

Currently Reading

I’ve been pushing Adam Becker’s More Everything Forever like I get a cut. We already know that billionaires are ignoring real world problems and their own roles in them by hyperfocusing on an impossible A.I. fueled pipe dream future in space, but it’s cathartic to hear a very smart person make an accessible, yet definitive case for why it’s all bullshit. Pick it up right now.

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Here’s the trailer for Cullen Crawford’s new animated Netflix comedy Strip Law.

Via Netflix:

Uptight lawyer Lincoln Gumb, who is too boring to win cases in Vegas, teams up with local magician/hedonist Sheila Flambé to bring some flash and pizzazz to the stupidest cases the city can throw at them.

I am one of the writers for this show and it is the best job I have ever had. It took some of the smartest, funniest, most good-hearted people on Earth to make something this unapologetically weird and funny and unflinchingly human and all I can compare it to is the earlyish seasons of The Simpsons that inspired us (among other things, like other great comedy and life’s daily punishments and horrors).

I’ve known and worked with Cullen for twentyish years (oh no), and he is the secret or not-secret mind behind much of the comedy you’ve enjoyed in that time — and this is what it’s all been building toward.

Strip Law drops February 20, 2026. Click here or search ‘STRIP LAW’ on Netflix to set your reminders now. And if you’re reading this in the future, which literally all of you are, after you watch Strip Law, click “RATE THIS TITLE” and the double-thumbs-up “LOVE THIS!” icon to tell Netflix’s algorithm you want season two.

Unbelievably, I am not joking. This is important.

DO NOT GIVE STRIP LAW A ONE-THUMBS UP. This is not a joke. For reasons that were not made clear to us, but are real, ONE thumbs up is actually bad for the show’s metrics. TWO is good. Am I supposed to be revealing this information? Unclear. Does it matter? Not really, because Strip Law is going to be your new favorite television program and you’re going to want to give it as many algorithm-boosting thumbs up as possible.

Just Announced:MAD About DC

Ask your Mom to take you to the grocery store, because Mad Magazine is back — in D.C. Comics form.*

Cover by Chip Zdarsky

When I received an e-mail from Chip Zdarsky with the subject line “MAD!!!” — I assumed he was mad. Either at me, for the many horrible things I’ve said about him over the years and the ways I’ve quietly worked to impede his career. Or, alternatively, that he had gone “mad” the way King George was mad —mentally unstable and peeing blue according to a movie I saw in grade school.

It turns out it was a little of the latter, because Chip had just been named the editor (sort of like a “king”) of a new Mad Magazine send-up of D.C. comics and he wanted me to script a story for it. I did not end up finding out what color his urine was.

I was not a Mad Magazine reader growing up (more of a Disney Adventures kid), but I am a comics and cartoonist fan/dork so it’s only a matter of time before I point my face down into the exploded Chernobyl reactor that is Mad Magazine’s history of showcasing creators like Al Jaffee, Sergio Aragonés, Wally Wood, and their professional peer starting now — me.

Mind you, I did not draw this comic story myself, and I’m not sure I’m allowed to say who did, but if you’ve been following my other comics output, you won’t be surprised or disappointed. You might, however, be angry (MAD?) that it was limited to one page, because — Jesus Christ, look who all they got for this thing:

Via D.C. Comics:

DC is proud (and slightly concerned) to announce MAD About DC, a 64-page one-shot arriving April 1, 2026. Yes, April 1. And no, this isn’t a prank—unless you count letting Chip Zdarsky run this thing as its Guest Editor a prank on the DC Universe itself. You’d have to ask Chip.

“They say at DC there’s nowhere to go but down after writing Batman, and, yeah, it’s true,” said Zdarsky. “It’s very true.”

MAD About DC brings together an all-star lineup of writers and artists to lovingly roast, parody, and generally make a mess of the characters fans hold dear.

“This project embraces the spirit of MAD Magazine in the best possible way,” said Marie Javins, DC’s Editor-in-Chief. “MAD has a long tradition of sharp, fearless satire, poking fun at everything, including DC, with real wit and craft. When Chip pitched a project that would roast the DC Universe, it was clear he could assemble the right team. These creators know our characters inside and out, which is why they can twist them in ways that feel both surprising and smart. That kind of playful irreverence is what MAD does best.”

Inside MAD About DC, readers will find:

• Sergio Aragonés with “A MAD Look at Comic Book Stores”

• Jim Zub & Ramon Perez teaming for “Guy vs. Spy”

• A brand-new DC Fold-In by Charles Soule & Ryan Browne

• A parade of MAD-style parodies skewering the DC comic books you love, and a few you’ve always hated anyway, from Kyle Starks, Dave Johnson, Tini Howard, Mattie Lubchansky, Mark Waid, Ty Templeton, Rainbow Rowell, Vita Ayala, M.L. Sanapo, Mark Russell, Steve Lieber, Jeff Parker, Lukas Ketner, Gerry Duggan, Scott Aukerman, Mitch Gerads, Joanne Starer, Joe Quinones, Scott Snyder, Josh Williamson, Deniz Camp, Gail Simone, Colleen Doran, Joe Kelly, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Valentine De Landro, Ryan North, Erica Henderson, Tom Taylor, Bruno Redondo, Mariko Tamaki, Riley Rossmo, Al Ewing, PJ Holden, Shannon Wheeler, Leah Williams, Isaac Goodhart, Cody Ziglar, Daniele Di Nicuolo, Daniel Kibblesmith, Brandt & Stein, Casey Gilly, J. Bone, Skottie Young, Andrew Wheeler, Stephen Byrne, Colleen Coover, Benjamin Errett, Matt Fraction, Kagan McLeod, Lee Gatlin, Joseph Starkey, Graham Roumieu…and more?!

Whether you’re a lifelong MAD Magazine fan, a DC diehard, or simply someone who enjoys watching respected creators make questionable choices, MAD About DC promises to fulfill your every comic book dream…or at least three or four of them.

MAD About DC goes on sale April 1, 2026, wherever comics are sold. No whoopee cushions included. The issue features a main cover by Dan “MAD About Gluten Labeling Because It Should Actually Be Clearer or Else What’s the Point” Panosian ($7.99 US), cardstock variants by Simon Bisley and Chip Zdarsky ($8.99 US), and a foil variant by Panosian ($10.99 US).

Call your local comics shop to reserve a copy now — and/or find one to start patronizing regularly, it’s good for the community, the arts, the business I’m in, and the soul.

On Sale Now!Rick And Morty: The End!

On sale now from Oni Press — the epic six-part conclusion event to the Rick And Morty Oni Comics Universe! Will this be THE END of RICK AND MORTY? YES! That is LITERALLY the TITLE!

Cover by Dave Bardin

The incredible artist Jarrett Williams and the whole Rick And Morty Vs. The Universe team follow-up the first ever Rick And Morty comics event with the last ever Rick And Morty comics event!

Via Oni Press:

OUT OF THE SMOKING RUINS OF RICK AND MORTY VS. THE UNIVERSE, THE OMNIVERSE’S MOST DYSFUNCTIONAL PAIR OF SCIENCE ADVENTURERS IS ABOUT TO FACE THEIR BIGGEST, MOST INESCAPABLE ADVERSARY OF ALL TIME: THE END OF ALL THINGS . . . AND EACH OTHER! Rick Sanchez, the most wanted man in this and every other universe, is on the run. With a bounty on his head, every government, military, pirate, mobster, bounty hunter, bail bondsman, religious institution, theater troupe, circus clown, and endangered species is on the hunt to bring in Rick—DEAD OR ALIVE. The only one who can bring Rick in warm is the one person who knows him best: Morty Smith. But Morty’s not the only Smith hot on Rick’s trail . . . "Space Beth" Smith is determined to bring Rick in, and she doesn’t particularly care how. Now it’s just a question of who can get to him first! THIS TITLE IS NOT SOME KIND OF ARTFUL METAPHOR, FOLKS! After 10 years and 100+ issues, the beginning of THE END starts here as cosmic annihilators Daniel Kibblesmith (Loki) and Jarrett Williams (Speed Force) prepare to unleash a fantastically fatal finale for RICK AND MORTY!

Available here or from that comic shop near you that you just discovered. Rick And Morty: The End (4 of 6) hits stands February 4th, 2026.

Also Still On Sale!

Rick And Morty Vs. The Universe #4 from Oni Press

Darkwing Duck #6 from Dynamite Entertainment

Rick And Morty: Last Mort Standing from Oni Press

Rick And Morty Vs. The Universe #3 from Oni Press

Rick And Morty: Beth ‘Til Death from Oni Press

And the 144-page, illustrated hardcover handbook from Chronicle Books — So You’ve Been Bitten By A Radioactive Spider: How To Survive The Marvel Universe.

Cover by Kyle Hilton.

—all available digitally or from a local comic shop near you.

Currently Reading

This Year by John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats. One song/chapter per a day as a little ritual. If I recall from the introduction, this is not a strict prescription, but how often are you invited to experience art this way, outside of a Far Side calendar?

*See, I wasn’t kidding about the Simpsons influence.

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I went on another podcast. It’s this one:

Comedian, Podcast Mogul, and Marvel Comics Writer, Scott Aukerman has seen many movies, but (as he would be the first to admit) not all of them. Blade Trinity was a movie he apparently had not seen — or so I learned when he sent me an alphabetized list of potential movies and I did not make it past the B’s.

Blade (1998), at any given moment, might be my favorite movie. It never leaves the top three. So it was a blast and an honor to join Scott and Sprague The Whisperer on Scott Hasn’t Seen to discuss a movie that I have seen many more time than most movies I love. The mild spoiler here being: I do not love this movie.

Listen here or on the podcast platform of your choice by subscribing to Comedy Bang Bang World. That’s right, I’m behind the paywall — but so is a galactic amount of funny, weird, great comedy from many of my favorite people ever to do it. So let me ranting about how Blade 3 is “my Star Wars prequels” be the last push you needed to sign up and check it out.

Me, posing with my bird that is also named me.

‘How To Survive The Marvel Universe’ on Boing BoIng.

I’ve heard of Comedy Bang Bang — but Computers Boing Boing? I’ve heard of that as well.

My friend Ruben Bolling, also the cartoonist behind Tom The Dancing Bug, wrote a very cool feature on So You’ve Been Bitten By A Radioactive Spider: How To Survive The Marvel Universe for Boing Boing — a publication I’ve been reading since the invention of the Internet, one million years ago. Check it out here.

Revenge Of Comic Book Block Party Round-Up

I don’t really know what a “round-up” is, especially in this context. I just like it because it sounds cowboy.

Me again, for real this time. Photo by Alex Firer, but he used my phone, so I’ve decided I own it.

Thanks to everyone who came out to Revenge Of in Eagle Rock for the third annual Comic Book Block Party hosted by Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum. If you missed it (or you were there and you’re looking for pictures of yourself) photos and highlights are still rolling out over social. Check here for even more — and see you there (again) next year.

What Else Is New?

I joined a WGA off-season softball league and I am terrible. I’m also not clear on what makes this the off-season, I never know what the score is, or how many outs there have been, or how many balls/strikes I have and it’s tremendous fun.

Another picture of me.

On Sale Now!

From Chronicle Books, cover illustrations by Kyle Hilton.

The aforementioned So You’ve Been Bitten By A Radioactive Spider: How To Survive The Marvel Universe is available now from basically any bookstore that has a phone, because they can order you a copy, so support your favorite local bookstore, and me, and a scrappy little organization called Disney-Marvel.

Makes a great gift and I’m being told is especially popular with 7-12 year olds. This sounds like a lie and I would absolutely still say it if it wasn’t true, but it turns out it’s true.

Also still on sale from a comic shop near you or digitally:

Rick And Morty Vs. The Universe #4 from Oni Press

Darkwing Duck #6 from Dynamite Entertainment

Rick And Morty: Last Mort Standing from Oni Press

Rick And Morty Vs. The Universe #3 from Oni Press

Rick And Morty: Beth ‘Til Death from Oni Press

—all available digitally or from a local comic shop near you.

Currently Reading

Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (ever heard of it). I’d planned on finishing it before the movie came out, but then it turned out that the movie is pretty different, which I’m guessing has never happened to a book before and especially not this exact book.

Blade Trinitily yours,

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Today’s the day. So You’ve Been Bitten By A Radioactive Spider: How To Survive The Marvel Universe, written by me, illustrated by Kyle Hilton, is officially on sale from Chronicle Books at online retailers and bookstores near you.

This is me, speaking to you.

On Sale Now From Chronicle Books

Via Chronicle Books; Cover by Kyle Hilton

Order Now

If you already have a copy, or plan to get one, please don’t forget to flag it for the algorithm by rating and reviewing on Amazon, marking it “To-Read” on Goodreads, and leaving a few kind words on whatever other book-related social media or retailers you might use, as well as requesting your local library order a copy — which can usually be done very easily through their website.

And if you still require convincing (or just want to hype yourself up as you wait for your mail-order copy to arrive) — read on.

Via Chronicle Books:

The Marvel Comics Universe is full of action, adventure, danger, and cosmic peril. Be ready for anything with this illustrated action handbook—whether you have newly developed super-powers, you need to pilot an Iron Man suit, or Galactus is here to eat the Earth.

Kyle Hilton (via Chronicle).

Written by Marvel Comics and Emmy-nominated humor writer Daniel Kibblesmith, this official illustrated guide to surviving and thriving in the Marvel Universe uses comics-tested advice to steer readers through what to expect when exposed to gamma rays, bonding with a symbiote or—ow!—feeling an unexpected sting at the science fair. Featuring practical information such as wall-crawling tips, along with emergency information (you’ve been plunged into the Quantum Realm) and day-to-day guidance if your cat turns out to be a Flerken, you suspect someone of being a Skrull, or are facing a doombot, this is the must-have handbook as you live in the world of Marvel’s mightiest heroes.

Kyle Hilton (via Chronicle).

CRUCIAL ADVICE FROM MARVEL COMICS: What would you do if you discover you had mutant abilities, or are the only one on a heroic team without super-powers? Marvel comics writer and lifelong fan Daniel Kibblesmith finds inspiration and advice in the comics to offer tips and strategies for navigating these and many more of the reader’s own 'what if' experiences.

Kyle Hilton (via Chronicle).

IMAGINATIVE ADVENTURES: The Hulk is totally hulking out, with mayhem imminent; you’re weighing the pros and cons of legal representation from Matt Murdock or Jennifer Walters (or P.I. help from Jessica Jones or Howard the Duck); you need to speak Groot but are not fluent. This book has got you covered!

Perfect for:

Marvel fans looking for a fresh, funny spin on the comics

Fans of action hero handbooks and survival guides

Fans of Marvel Super Graphic, Marvel Mazes, and Thor and Loki: Midgard Family Mayhem

Format: Hardcover

Publication Date: 10/28/2025

ISBN: 9781797233543

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I don’t have a podcast, but I’m planning to appear on all of them, and these were some particularly fun and exciting ones. This first one is a BIG deal to me.

Jimmy Pardo’s Never Not Funny is very likely the FIRST podcast I’ve ever subscribed to and a genre defining trailblazer in the now ubiquitous format of Friends Talking. It was an honor and a blast to be one of the friends and do some of the talking. Listen from the top to hear how Jimmy and I met at Zanies in my embryonic “comedy nerd” days, nostalgia for the A Special Thing message board, and lots of Oak Park and Chicago talk. Or skip right to this clip about my cab driver telling me the mind-blowing truth about 9/11.

Thank you again to Jimmy Pardo and Never Not Funny, you can listen and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. I will be inviting myself back.

I also got to sit down with Off The Records’ B-$ (Brendon Walsh, pronounced “B-Money” or “BE money?”) and my Strip Law friend and colleague, Sean “the O'Connman” O'Connor.

The premise of the podcast is that Brendon and Sean have comedy friends over to listen to / react to / talk over a vinyl comedy album from Brendon’s vast collection of comedy records. He appears to literally have all of them, but ANYONE with a record player probably has this one — the HIGHEST SELLING COMEDY ALBUM OF ALL TIME, The First Family.

It’s a, let’s say, mild and gentle sketch record, hanging almost entirely on the strength of Vaughn Meader’s JFK impression, with obviously no idea of what’s on the horizon for America, Kennedy, or the man who fully hitched his career to him. So obviously things get incredibly dark and we blather over it like idiots. Tremendous fun.

Subscribe wherever you get podcasts. You can also check out the ENTIRE EPISODE below.

HAPPENING SOON!November 2nd 1pm - 3pm: Marvel Book Signing at Golden Apple. November 8th 11AM: Revenge Of Presents: Comic Book Creators Block Party 2025!

Now with updated signing schedule! I’ll be selling and signing books during SIGNING BLOCK B from 1pm - 2pm!

On Sale Now!

Rick And Morty Vs. The Universe #4 from Oni Press

Darkwing Duck #6 from Dynamite Entertainment

Rick And Morty: Last Mort Standing from Oni Press

Rick And Morty Vs. The Universe #3 from Oni Press

Rick And Morty: Beth ‘Til Death from Oni Press

—all available digitally or from a local comic shop near you.

Currently Listening

This Decemberists cover of Joanna Newsom’s “Bridges and Balloons,” because I am permanently on brand as having worn glasses in 2004.

Okay, enjoy listening to me talk for hours.

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11.02.25:“How To Survive The Marvel Universe” Signing at Golden Apple Comics!

Sunday, November 2nd, from 1pm - 3pm, I’ll be signing copies of my new book So You’ve Been Bitten By A Radioactive Spider: How To Survive The Marvel Universe at my local comic shop, Golden Apple Comics in Los Angeles. Please come drop in, say hi, get a book signed, buy some comics, drop out, grab coffee next door or donuts at Voodoo Doughnut down the street. The details:

SUNDAY 11.02.251pm - 3pmGolden Apple Comics7018 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90038Parking in adjacent lot, or metered street parking.Coffee, treats and hangout space available right next door at Coffee For Sasquatch.

Coffee for Sasquatch is not an official partner with this event, it’s just where my kid and I go after we go to Golden Apple.

11.08.25:Revenge Of Presents: Comic Book Creators Block Party 2025!

Hosted by Minor Threats co-creators and all around wonderful men, Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum, I’ve been lucky enough to be a guest since the inaugural Comic Book Block Party in 2023 and it’s my favorite “con” of the year. Con in quotation marks because it’s smaller, cooler, more fun (for me, at least) and a lot more manageable — no major planning required, easy transport, kid and family friendly. Meet creators, shop their tables, watch them speak at the panels, go inside and play pinball. I can’t recommend it more highly and I can’t wait to spend the day there. Check out the rest of the (amazing) guest creator guest list below:

I will have a SCHEDULED SIGNING BLOCK, TBD. Watch this space or follow me on Instagram or Bluesky for updates. The details:

SATURDAY 11.08.2511am DoorsRevenge Of Comics And Pinball3420 Eagle Rock Blvd, Los Angeles, California 90065.Street parking. Rideshare encouraged. New York Comic Con Round Up

I am walking here.

It was tremendous fun. Saw many friends, walked many, many, miles, sometimes while eating a bacon, egg, and cheese on a roll with hot sauce. Celebrated my birthday with Crif Dogs and Karaoke (and invited some real ringers it turns out). As always, I don’t know how to caption individual images in a Squarespace photo gallery, so keep your eyes peeled for my Eliot Rahal, Jody Houser, Jackson Lanzing, me pretending to be Jackson Lanzing, the signature of Darkwing Duck cover artist, Sarah Myer, Patrick Willems (and myself at Balthazar, looking like pre-guillotined royalty) and a special appearance by airport marketing for Tron: Ares.

On Sale Now!Rick And Morty Vs. The Universe #4

Cover by Dave Bardin.

THE END IS NEAR HERE! Our Rick And Morty cosmic comics event where Rick and Morty literally fight all universes concludes in this triumphant fourth issue drawn by Jarrett Williams and colored by Alessandro Santoro. Is Morty “real?” Is Rick worthy of love? Does rebooting the universe mean the murder decillions of sentient life forms? You be the judge (and they will be judged) when you pick up Rick And Morty Vs. The Universe #4 from a comic shop near you or digitally and via mail-order here.

Via Oni-Press:

"DEATH, RETCON, REBOOT, REBIRTH . . . IS THIS FINALLY THE END OF RICK AND MORTY?! They’ve finally burned every bridge and alienated every possible ally. They’ve seen too much. They’ve DONE too much. This version of Rick has crossed too many lines. He can’t be allowed to continue. At least, that’s what the Parmesan Universe seems to think! And perhaps she is right. As Rick finds himself on the verge of annihilation . . . universes collide! Trillions of lives lost! But perhaps there is still hope—hope for Rick-demption! Is there time to restore order? Can Rick really undo all the horrors he’s visited upon existence? Can we finally go back to pronouncing Parmesan correctly? The galaxy-sized summer event of 2025 is almost over . . . and creators Daniel Kibblesmith (Loki) and Jarrett Williams (Speed Force) will forever grapple with the aftermath!"

STILL On Sale Now!

Darkwing Duck #6 from Dynamite Entertainment

Rick And Morty: Last Mort Standing from Oni Press

Rick And Morty Vs. The Universe #3 from Oni Press

Rick And Morty: Beth ‘Til Death from Oni Press

—all available digitally or from a local comic shop near you.

Currently Watching

Everything I hoped.

Currently Reading

Early in this, but reportedly a posthumously published, satirical faux documenting of the Kennedy assassination, with a forward by Bowman friend, Jonathan Lethem. More here.

Follow me on Goodreads here.

Currently Listening

Revisiting the They Might Be Giants live/greatest hits album, Severe Tire Damage.

This was one of my first and favorite CDs.

Okay, I think that’s everything. See you at Golden Apple and/or Revenge Of.

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Subscribe I Will Be At New York Comic Con 10.08 - 10.12

Should be fine.

New York Comic Con starts in a couple days and I have done very little packing or planning. Mind you, I don’t have a table, or anything to sell there, so preparing for New York Comic Con, for me, mostly involves packing one suitcase with the correct amount of underwear, and zero Ebola monkeys or explosives (or exploding Ebola monkeys). Then I just have to remember to carry that suitcase onto an airplane at an agreed upon time. None of these events are sure things, but I’m optimistic. Monkeys make a noise that reminds you that they don’t like being in confined spaces with dynamite. It’s a defense mechanism.

New York Comic Con is a little exhausting. It’s a difficult place to inhabit physically. It’s roughly the same attendance as San Diego Comic Con, packed into a much smaller space — The Javits Center, forever cursed as the location of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 non-victory party. After Hillary lost in 2016, she gave a solemn speech, after which it would have been inappropriate to release, what I assume, would have been a prepared balloon drop.

Subsequently, I became and remain obsessed with the idea of a balloon drop that does not drop.

Obviously, you need to prepare a balloon drop in the event that you win — and Hillary Clinton and her team felt very confident that they would win. I think it’s a fair assumption to say that a balloon drop was planned. Some evidence: I don’t feel the need to post pictures of politicians on my own website, but there are some very funny, formerly viral photos of Hillary and Bill Clinton reacting with real or faked astonishment at the balloon drop that closed out the 2016 DNC. They stare upward, mouths in the shape of O’s, seemingly amazed at the very idea that this many balloons could exist in one place, much less fall semi-spontaneously from the heavens above. Or — again — pretending. This seems like a logical moment to try to recreate (or top) on election night, given that it was probably the last moment of the campaign to go viral in a somewhat positive way.

But what happens to the prepared balloons that don’t fall? Are they easier to bring back down when kept in the netting that’s holding them in place? Could they be returned in that same packaging and repurposed for another red, white, and blue themed victory party, like a French team’s indoor soccer game? It’s hard to imagine there could be another appropriate event nearby, and so soon. Maybe a down-ballot candidate who had a smaller budget and a better night.

Or do they do a sort of “controlled balloon drop” after everyone has gone home, like a S.W.A.T. team safely detonating a suspected explosive device? Do the maintenance workers still get to enjoy it for a moment before they start sweeping them up? Extending their arms and letting the balloons tumble down over themselves, like secret midnight Presidents. Or do they just stand there, leaning on brooms, with clock-watching resignation toward another chore to be performed? Sweeping up the hubris of the wealthy and powerful. Systematically popping their dreams one by one so they take up less space in the dumpster.

The Javits center is a haunted house — and every time I’m there, I notice myself reflexively glancing upward to see if there are any balloons still remain impossibly trapped in the rafters. The floating ghosts of 2016, clinging to a ceiling so high that the future can’t reach it, trying not to look down at the reality that awaits them should they one day fall.

So I try to chipperly welcome the plastic lightsabers accidentally smacking me in the face, the fifteen minute lines just to get on escalators, and the Hodor cosplayer, literally blocking hundreds of con-goers with the giant door strapped to his back.* Because I am hyper-conscious that I am not having the worst day that anyone has ever had in that building.

To contact me at New York Comic Con for signing books, crashing panels, or actual business, please send me a message via my website here. I am especially interested in writing the new Spider-Man movie, Spider-Man 2: This Time It’s Spider-Man.

On Sale NowRick And Morty Vs. The Universe: LAST MORT STANDING!

Cover by Dave Bardin.

Written by Alex Firer and illustrated by Fred C. Stresing (co-written by me), the longtime Rick & Morty comics team (and current creators of The Doughboys comic) make their triumphant return to the franchise that forced them to ask themselves, “AM I MAN, OR AM I MORT?” In this issue, they finally, bloodily answer that question.

This the third and final of our tie-ins to Rick And Morty’s first ever comics event, Rick And Morty Vs. The Universe — A fourt-part (three-tie-in) series about Rick and Morty literally fighting the universe. Alex and Fred’s installment finds Morty on a mysterious island on the margins of reality where he must win a battle royale with ninety-nine other Morty’s in order to escape back to the real world as a real boy. Who will survive and Mort will be left of them?

Collectible alternate covers gallery below, featuring covers by Troy Little, Flops, Tom Fowler, and interior artist Fred C. Stresing

Impossible to believe you’re still unconvinced. But just in case, here are the official details from Oni Press:

A RICK AND MORTY VS. THE UNIVERSE TIE-IN EXTRAVAGANZA!

Rollicking writers Daniel Kibblesmith (Loki) and Alex Firer (The Onion) and artist Fred C. Stresing (Adventure Time) run headlong toward [INSERT TOP-SECRET CLIMAX HERE] as Rick and Morty’s galactically gargantuan summer event pits Morty against Morty against Morty for all the marbles! As Rick tries (and fails) to trigger a reboot of reality . . . where the hell has Morty been? Just fighting for survival in a teenage boy’s dream/nightmare—a real life battle royale for ultimate Morty supremacy against all the non-canonical Morties of this void in an eternal life-and-death game of Capture the Key—the key that will unlock the massive door in the massive wall that imprisons them all here while the Non-Canonical Ricks have their serious adventures. Our Morty is smarter and more competent than these losers. He’s a REAL BOY. And he can be again . . . he just needs to get that key and escape!

—and an extremely positive review from AIPT comics:

Rick and Morty vs. the Universe: Last Mort Standing #1 isn’t just a savage satire of continuity and comic book death, but a deeper look into the self-loathing that drives Morty Smith’s entire life. With Rick and Morty vs The Universe hurtling to its end, it’s still great that we can get character-focused one-shots like this. I hope Oni Press continues to explore the weird, wild world of Rick and Morty by digging deeper into the titular duo and everyone surrounding them.

Read the full review here, and purchase Rick And Morty: Last Mort Standing from a comic shop near you or digitally for the device you’re staring at right now.

Currently Watching

Karate Kid Legends is a movie for very young children who can also handle a lot of violence and are somehow nostalgic for the early 80s [complimentary]. My kid immediately started doing improvised moves on her bed, so, it’s doing its job.

Follow me on Letterboxd here.

Currently Reading

Not even the first of the X-Men/Star Trek: The Next Generation crossovers, but the first to be written as a novel rather than a comic book. I haven’t read those comics (yet) or any other Star Trek novels, but I can tell you confidently that Planet X is a book by and for the insane. Possibly the book I have owned the longest without finishing, I finally hit the insomnia-to-nostalgia sweet spot that allowed me to pick it up and have my life changed — for the first twenty or so “wtf” pages. Then it becomes an incredibly tedious slog, the kind you could get away with before we all had phones.

One energizing point comes when two security officers, named Ditko and Kirby, survive a phaser barrage that takes out their colleague, a Lt. Wayne — and a callback to Lt. Wayne a few pages later, missed by the editor, refers to him by his original name of Lee. These were the kinds of now extremely distracting and gratutious references you could get away with in what is primarily a Star Trek novel in 1998 (again, no phones). But even at that time, killing off Stan Lee was apparently a bridge too far. Bridge and energizing are not Star Trek puns. They’re just words I needed.

I was pretty sleepy when I powered through the ending, but I’m pretty sure they’re implying that Storm and Picard had sex.

Follow me on Goodreads here.

Currently Listening

On repeat. In what I anticipate will be a lifetime of my daughter hijacking the radio, we have accidentally discovered, via a Siri misunderstanding, a sped-up cover of ‘Helpless’ from Hamilton, or as a four-year-old might call it: “The Schuyler Sisters Where The One In The Bluey-Green Dress Is Getting Married With A Flower Crown, But It’s Rock And Roll.”

Okay, I think that’s everything. See you at NYCC.

* This is real, I saw this. You looked cool, but you literally dressed up as the door from the TV show that blocks people’s path? Cosplay jail. I sentence this man to a hundred years of normal clothes.

Hi all, Daniel Kibblesmith here.

Thank you for reading and subscribing — and if you don’t subscribe, you can sign up right now by hitting the button below. The button also automatically kills one stranger and delivers you a million dollars. Or, possibly, delivers a stranger a million dollars and then I forget what happens to you. But it’s probably fine.

Subscribe I Will Be At New York Comic Con 10.08 - 10.12

Should be fine.

New York Comic Con starts in a couple days and I have done very little packing or planning. Mind you, I don’t have a table, or anything to sell there, so preparing for New York Comic Con, for me, mostly involves packing one suitcase with the correct amount of underwear, and zero Ebola monkeys or explosives (or exploding Ebola monkeys). Then I just have to remember to carry that suitcase onto an airplane at an agreed upon time. None of these events are sure things, but I’m optimistic. Monkeys make a noise that reminds you that they don’t like being in confined spaces with dynamite. It’s a defense mechanism.

New York Comic Con is a little exhausting. It’s a difficult place to inhabit physically. It’s roughly the same attendance as San Diego Comic Con, packed into a much smaller space — The Javits Center, forever cursed as the location of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 non-victory party. After Hillary lost in 2016, she gave a solemn speech, after which it would have been inappropriate to release, what I assume, would have been a prepared balloon drop.

Subsequently, I became and remain obsessed with the idea of a balloon drop that does not drop.

Obviously, you need to prepare a balloon drop in the event that you win — and Hillary Clinton and her team felt very confident that they would win. I think it’s a fair assumption to say that a balloon drop was planned. Some evidence: I don’t feel the need to post pictures of politicians on my own website, but there are some very funny, formerly viral photos of Hillary and Bill Clinton reacting with real or faked astonishment at the balloon drop that closed out the 2016 DNC. They stare upward, mouths in the shape of O’s, seemingly amazed at the very idea that this many balloons could exist in one place, much less fall semi-spontaneously from the heavens above. Or — again — pretending. This seems like a logical moment to try to recreate (or top) on election night, given that it was probably the last moment of the campaign to go viral in a somewhat positive way.

But what happens to the prepared balloons that don’t fall? Are they easier to bring back down when kept in the netting that’s holding them in place? Could they be returned in that same packaging and repurposed for another red, white, and blue themed victory party, like a French team’s indoor soccer game? It’s hard to imagine there could be another appropriate event nearby, and so soon. Maybe a down-ballot candidate who had a smaller budget and a better night.

Or do they do a sort of “controlled balloon drop” after everyone has gone home, like a S.W.A.T. team safely detonating a suspected explosive device? Do the maintenance workers still get to enjoy it for a moment before they start sweeping them up? Extending their arms and letting the balloons tumble down over themselves, like secret midnight Presidents. Or do they just stand there, leaning on brooms, with clock-watching resignation toward another chore to be performed? Sweeping up the hubris of the wealthy and powerful. Systematically popping their dreams one by one so they take up less space in the dumpster.

The Javits center is a haunted house — and every time I’m there, I notice myself reflexively glancing upward to see if there are any balloons still remain impossibly trapped in the rafters. The floating ghosts of 2016, clinging to a ceiling so high that the future can’t reach it, trying not to look down at the reality that awaits them should they one day fall.

So I try to chipperly welcome the plastic lightsabers accidentally smacking me in the face, the fifteen minute lines just to get on escalators, and the Hodor cosplayer, literally blocking hundreds of con-goers with the giant door strapped to his back.* Because I am hyper-conscious that I am not having the worst day that anyone has ever had in that building.

To contact me at New York Comic Con for signing books, crashing panels, or actual business, please send me a message via my website here. I am especially interested in writing the new Spider-Man movie, Spider-Man 2: This Time It’s Spider-Man.

On Sale NowRick And Morty Vs. The Universe: LAST MORT STANDING!

Cover by Dave Bardin.

Written by Alex Firer and illustrated by Fred C. Stresing (co-written by me), the longtime Rick & Morty comics team (and current creators of The Doughboys comic) make their triumphant return to the franchise that forced them to ask themselves, “AM I MAN, OR AM I MORT?” In this issue, they finally, bloodily answer that question.

This the third and final of our tie-ins to Rick And Morty’s first ever comics event, Rick And Morty Vs. The Universe — A fourt-part (three-tie-in) series about Rick and Morty literally fighting the universe. Alex and Fred’s installment finds Morty on a mysterious island on the margins of reality where he must win a battle royale with ninety-nine other Morty’s in order to escape back to the real world as a real boy. Who will survive and Mort will be left of them?

Collectible alternate covers gallery below, featuring covers by Troy Little, Flops, Tom Fowler, and interior artist Fred C. Stresing

Impossible to believe you’re still unconvinced. But just in case, here are the official details from Oni Press:

A RICK AND MORTY VS. THE UNIVERSE TIE-IN EXTRAVAGANZA!

Rollicking writers Daniel Kibblesmith (Loki) and Alex Firer (The Onion) and artist Fred C. Stresing (Adventure Time) run headlong toward [INSERT TOP-SECRET CLIMAX HERE] as Rick and Morty’s galactically gargantuan summer event pits Morty against Morty against Morty for all the marbles! As Rick tries (and fails) to trigger a reboot of reality . . . where the hell has Morty been? Just fighting for survival in a teenage boy’s dream/nightmare—a real life battle royale for ultimate Morty supremacy against all the non-canonical Morties of this void in an eternal life-and-death game of Capture the Key—the key that will unlock the massive door in the massive wall that imprisons them all here while the Non-Canonical Ricks have their serious adventures. Our Morty is smarter and more competent than these losers. He’s a REAL BOY. And he can be again . . . he just needs to get that key and escape!

—and an extremely positive review from AIPT comics:

Rick and Morty vs. the Universe: Last Mort Standing #1 isn’t just a savage satire of continuity and comic book death, but a deeper look into the self-loathing that drives Morty Smith’s entire life. With Rick and Morty vs The Universe hurtling to its end, it’s still great that we can get character-focused one-shots like this. I hope Oni Press continues to explore the weird, wild world of Rick and Morty by digging deeper into the titular duo and everyone surrounding them.

Read the full review here, and purchase Rick And Morty: Last Mort Standing from a comic shop near you or digitally for the device you’re staring at right now.

Currently Watching

Karate Kid Legends is a movie for very young children who can also handle a lot of violence and are somehow nostalgic for the early 80s [complimentary]. My kid immediately started doing improvised moves on her bed, so, it’s doing its job.

Follow me on Letterboxd here.

Currently Reading

Not even the first of the X-Men/Star Trek: The Next Generation crossovers, but the first to be written as a novel rather than a comic book. I haven’t read those comics (yet) or any other Star Trek novels, but I can tell you confidently that Planet X is a book by and for the insane. Possibly the book I have owned the longest without finishing, I finally hit the insomnia-to-nostalgia sweet spot that allowed me to pick it up and have my life changed — for the first twenty or so “wtf” pages. Then it becomes an incredibly tedious slog, the kind you could get away with before we all had phones.

One energizing point comes when two security officers, named Ditko and Kirby, survive a phaser barrage that takes out their colleague, a Lt. Wayne — and a callback to Lt. Wayne a few pages later, missed by the editor, refers to him by his original name of Lee. These were the kinds of now extremely distracting and gratutious references you could get away with in what is primarily a Star Trek novel in 1998 (again, no phones). But even at that time, killing off Stan Lee was apparently a bridge too far. Bridge and energizing are not Star Trek puns. They’re just words I needed.

I was pretty sleepy when I powered through the ending, but I’m pretty sure they’re implying that Storm and Picard had sex.

Follow me on Goodreads here.

Currently Listening

On repeat. In what I anticipate will be a lifetime of my daughter hijacking the radio, we have accidentally discovered, via a Siri misunderstanding, a sped-up cover of ‘Helpless’ from Hamilton, or as a four-year-old might call it: “The Schuyler Sisters Where The One In The Bluey-Green Dress Is Getting Married With A Flower Crown, But It’s Rock And Roll.”

Okay, I think that’s everything. See you at NYCC.

* This is real, I saw this. You looked cool, but you literally dressed up as the door from the TV show that blocks people’s path? Cosplay jail. I sentence this man to a hundred years of normal clothes.

Hi, all.

Daniel here, with some comic books that I wrote for you. First up—

ON SALE NOWRICK AND MORTY VS. THE UNIVERSE #3 !

This is a good one. Rick gets kicked out of continuity and ends up in the realm of the NON-CANONICALS, a real “dirty dozen,” if you will (minus three). Once there, Rick has to lead this “squad” (if you will) on a “suicide” mission (if you will), to sneak their way back into reality — if the 90s-esque, musclebound cyborg monstrosity known as BLOODRYK doesn’t permanently cancel them first … permanently.

Check out the cover gallery above, featuring covers from Dave Bardin, Troy Little, Flops, Tom Fowler, and series artist THE Jarrett Williams. More via Oni-Press:

ENTER: BLOODRYCK! Rick and Morty’s infinite secret crisis across many, many (and then some) Earths is about to get REALLY crazy as chaos-incarnate creators Daniel Kibblesmith (Loki) and Jarrett Williams (Speed Force) launch an overmuscled, overpowered, self-aware, power-fantasy version of Rick hell-bent on killing every other copy of himself into the midst of Rick and Morty’s first-ever summer event!

In order to escape, he’ll have to recruit an expendable squad of NON-CANONICAL RICKS all from outside of continuity. You’ve heard of the DIRTY DOZEN, now meet the NON-CANONICAL NINE! For those of you in the back: Yes, that’s nine—count ’em—nine obscure Ricks from outside any continuity we’ve ever encountered before. And all of them are on the run from Bloodryck! 

Wait, this is the first appearance of BLOODRYCK and THE NON-CANONICAL NINE, too? If you’re thinking what we’re thinking, surely this comic will be worth one billion dollars one day. Buy three (and thank us later)!

Order a copy directly from the publisher here, digitally, or from a local comic shop near you.

Also ON SALE NOWRICK AND MORTY VS THE UNIVERSE PRESENTS: BETH ‘TIL DEATH!

Cover by Dave Bardin.

“For the Beth and Jerry-Heads out there!” Written by Rick and Morty comics vet, Jake Black, co-written by me, with art by Suzi Blake and color art by Meg Casey. Beth ‘Til Death is the second of our three tie-ins to Oni’s Rick And Morty Comics Event, Rick And Morty Vs. The Universe!

Variant Cover by Troy Little.

Via Oni Press:

A RICK AND MORTY VS. THE UNIVERSE TIE-IN EXTRAVAGANZA! Mad-with-power co-writers Daniel Kibblesmith (Loki) and Jake Black (Sonic the Hedgehog) join totally-run-amok artist Suzi Blake (Aggretsuko) for the next seismic special tying together Rick and Morty’s first-ever summer event!

With the impending nuptials of Prime and Parm Universe, love is in the air, and Jerry, being Jerry, has a stupid idea. Things have been rocky with Beth lately, what with separating and getting back together and then the arrival of Space Beth. So to return to solid ground with their marriage, Jerry is going to re-propose and ask Beth to renew their vows. One problem: Jerry doesn’t know which Beth is the one he married. Actually, no one does!

Direct from the publisher here, digitally here, or (preferred) from a local comic shop near you.

I also talked about both of these on Instagram or TikTok — check it out and give me a follow there, but if you’re reading this, it’s like you already followed me there first and just found out that people are still making websites in 2025.

COMING SOON: ME TO NEW YORK COMIC-CON!

Pictured: Me making myself comfortable at Eliot Rahal’s table last year. Too comfortable.

I will not have a table. But I will be present from Thursday 10/8 - Sunday 10/12, walking around like a cryptid. It’s your job to spot me. Thursday tickets still available here.

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