Rick and Morty: New Comics And A D&D Tabletop Incoming
Both are expected to drop in 2019.
With issue #50 coming next week for Rick and Morty comics, we’re gonna need that next “big” event to look forward to for the comic book adaptation of Adult Swim’s #1 series. Entertainment Weekly has a first look at two variants that see the creators of the show getting their own covers that you can see in the link, but now we know the next big Rick and Morty comics arc, a second run of the Rick and Morty vs Dungeons & Dragon!
Yep, the next run is called “Rick and Morty vs Dungeons & Dragons II: Painscape” and it releases September 18th via IDW comics. Not only that but a full-fledged “Dungeons & Dragons vs Rick and Morty: Tabletop Roleplaying Game Adventure is coming soon which will help both old and seasoned Dungeons & Dragons players get nuts with a Rick and Morty experience.
Rick and Morty is an American adult animated science fiction sitcom created by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon for Cartoon Network’s late-night programming block Adult Swim. The series follows the misadventures of cynical mad scientist Rick Sanchez and his good-hearted but fretful grandson Morty Smith, who split their time between domestic life and interdimensional adventures. In May 2018, the series was picked up for an additional 70 episodes over an unspecified number of seasons.
Roiland voices the eponymous characters, with Chris Parnell, Spencer Grammer and Sarah Chalke voicing the rest of the family. The series originated from an animated short parody film of Back to the Future, The Real Animated Adventures of Doc and Mharti, created by Roiland for Channel 101, a short film festival co-founded by Harmon.
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.