Comic Review: Rick and Morty: Go to Hell #3

Overview:

Rick and his awkward grandson continue through the levels of hell in hopes of speaking to the manager. 

After surviving their journey through the desert, they are quickly swallowed by a sandworm. Their only salvation is to make it through the maze-like bowels in hopes of coming out the other end.

Meanwhile, Jerry is met with the repercussions of turning everyone in hell against Rick and his offspring. He is going to have to backpedal on his previous statements and change some minds if he hopes to save his family from being hunted.

Our Take:

Rick and Morty: Go to Hell is a straggling survivor mini-series after the conclusion of the main title of Rick and Morty comic books earlier this year. 2020 may be a special kind of torture for all of us in the real world, but for our favourite characters, they have literally gone to hell. 

Well, it is yet to be confirmed whether they are in actual hell or not. After all, that is the basis of the arguments between Morty and his grandfather, and the overall premise of this mini-series.

Regardless, Go to Hell follows Rick and the rest of his family after they found themselves in a hellish landscape with no memory as to why. Forced to endure in a world of fire and brimstone the torture has only escalated with no escape in sight. Equally suffering are the readers who have survived through two issues of this miniseries that lacks the fun and wittiness that is expected from this franchise. As far as Rick and Morty comic books go, this series has been closer to torture than entertainment.

One of the significant criticisms with the first editions of this series was the lack of justification or direction. The characters are just here, and the reader is expected to understand where they are because of preconceived notions of what hell is. Not only is there nothing original about the setting, not one bit of it has been clarified after three issues. In fact, the family has basically been bumbling about aimlessly while Morty and Rick search for answers that have yet to come.

There is still hope that a thoughtful conclusion will make this miniseries worthwhile. Though, it is doubtful. For one, a foreshadow involving a former mentor of Rick’s in issue one points to a predictable ending. Additionally, an issue like this one will inevitably be a pointless read. Besides Rick taking one step closer to his goal, and Jerry getting himself in a pickle, nothing substantial happens in this comic. It is most likely that this entire short series could have been done in a single issue and it still would not be equal to some of the other Rick and Morty comic books we have read.

Even a cameo from Mr. Meeseeks and a reference to the best quote from season four could not save this issue.

There is no joy in ripping a comic book like this apart. In fact, Rick and Morty comic titles traditionally get positive ratings on this site. However, when they said, “Rick and Morty: Go to Hell”, they failed to tell us that we would be going with them by reading this pointless and directionless title.