Rick and Morty: Ever After

Rick and Morty: Ever After #1-4

by Sam Maggs, Emmett Helen (Artist), Sarah Stern (Artist)

Rick and Morty enter a world most grim...a world of fairy tales!
When Morty has to cram for a test, Rick suggests using his latest invention to absorb all of the knowledge he needs from his textbook Avalonia: Bad Stories for Bad Children. Things go wonderfully wrong when RIck and Morty are both pulled into the universe contained within the book, setting off on an adventure through a twisted mirror version of Grimm's Fairy Tales.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Humor, Dark

105 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 25, 2021

About the author

SAM MAGGS is a bestselling writer of books, comics, and video games, including Marvel Action: Captain Marvel, The Unstoppable Wasp: Built on Hope, Tell No Tales, Con Quest!, and Marvel's Spider-Man PS4. A Canadian in Los Angeles, she misses Coffee Crisp and bagged milk. Visit her online at sammaggs.com or @SamMaggs!

Reviews

[Travis · Rating 2 out of 5]

Worse art than usual and the story was meh.

[Cale · Rating 3 out of 5]

Leaning more on the silly side rather than the perverse side of Rick and Morty, this adventure has the two on intersecting journeys in a fairy tale world, using some of the other characters to color in heroes and villains while introducing two new characters. It's not particularly deep and leans more on fantasy tropes than science fiction, but the tone of the characters does come through and the art works well. It's good for a short Rick & Morty fix, but not something that is essential, or even particularly impactful, to the characters.

[April Cole Ledebur · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this! I enjoy twisted fairy tales and this was a lot of fun. I think it may be my favorite Rick and Morty comic to date.

[Rocky Sunico · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a fairly fun book as a standalone Rick and Morty adventure, although I also feel it didn't quite push things as far as what we expect based on the show. And the strong fantasy slant to this, while by design, also felt a little too close to the Dungeons & Dragons tie-in comic.

We have Rick and Morty transported to a fantasy realm based on a book and from there need to figure out how to return to their own world. We get classic moments like certain characters being based on main Ricky and Morty Characters, although the choices of which characters to bring in felt a little random. And that just gets stressed more since there were only a few of them and not like the whole family as would be expected in these cases (and as was done in the D&D comic).

The story as a whole was pretty okay with an attempt at a mid-way twist. Not exactly a must-read for Rick and Morty fans but still enjoyable.

[Ron Badgerow III · Rating 4 out of 5]

After reading some of the reviews below, prior to reading this, I became a little apprehensive.
However, I think I am able to enjoy things nowadays with less of a critical lens (E.g., I could look past all of the glaring flaws of the newest Star Wars trilogy - Episodes VII, VIII, & IX - and have a good time watching them).
That aside, this was a fun take on fairy tales - Rick and Morty style - with plenty of the show's crude and off-kilter humor to keep you in that world. Not the best thing I've ever read, but it most certainly is not the worst.

[Paris Purnell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Different from The Norm

Now this Rick and Morty comic provided me with a different magical perspective to it. There was weird creatures, a castle and the characters kept mentioning completing a quest! And as a huge fan of medieval times/Shrek movies, I know for a fact that completing a quest=adventures/exploration.! Def would read this one again because unlike most of the time, Rick didn’t have everything under his control as per usual.

[Shannon · Rating 2 out of 5]

Individual issue reviews: #1 | #2 | #3 | #4

Total review score: 2.25

[David Thomas · Rating 2 out of 5]

Shitty fanfiction. I think the part that peeved me the most was that the comic constantly swears (like multiple times per page), but censors it every single time. If you're going to be vulgar, be vulgar, not this half-measure bullshit.

The story is forgettable and I regret having wasted my time.

[Another Steph · Rating 5 out of 5]

My favourite tie in comic to the show so far. The story and art were so cute and I love Sam Maggs' writing. True to the show and lots of fun.

[Sam Nicholson · Rating 4 out of 5]

7/10

[Polaris Wesche · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really liked the fairy tale aspect of this book, however some of the storylines in the book were really odd. I would recommend reading this for a reading slump