Comics Review: Rick and Morty #18
Does this month’s issue warrant a purchase?
This month’s issue of Rick and Morty featured an interesting bunch of threads that I hope we get more play time within the coming issues. For example, Summer is getting a steady diet of action hero and now it looks like we’re setting up for a dogfight between Rick and Jerry against Morty’s captors.
The second strip is a bit inspired by the mobile game Pocket Mortys, and just like the game, underperformed, but the meat and potatoes of this issue has me yearning to see what else is on the way.
SCORE
7/10
Short of getting Roiland back, which I'm sure isn't going to happen, I don't even think they could get much better than the new voices from the previous season. And the ratings for season 7 weren't much lower on average than for season 6; it was pretty much just a normal season-to-season drop that most likely would have happened regardless.
I mean, look at the actual averages:
Season 1 - 1.57 million viewers Season 2 - 1.97 million viewers Season 3 - 2.33 million viewers Season 4 - 1.52 million viewers Season 5 - 0.96 million viewers Season 6 - 0.56 million viewers Season 7 - 0.42 million viewers
Ever since season 3, it had been having steep drops even with Roiland still involved; the season 6 to 7 drop is actually the smallest-percentage drop it's had since it started dropping, and if anything it's possible that changing the voice actors actually *boosted* interest a bit and prevented it from dropping even more.