Anyone who enjoys the show will love all the callbacks and shout-outs the comic makes to its original source, which perhaps is another nod to how comics can get caught up in their own continuity. It takes a trip through the show’s history, bringing back the Death Stalkers, Scary Terry, the parasites, and even Pickle Rick. Similarly, as much as “The Vindicators” pays tribute to comic book characters and teams, so does it delve into the Rick and Morty canon. Yet it carries on the joke just long enough to reach the point where it becomes funny again. As such, when it gets to the comic equivalent of the Infinity Stones, we get Infinity Balls, and all the ball jokes you can imagine that would come with it. Of course, this is a comic based off a show not known for being subtle with its innuendos and violence.
Extra pouches on costumes, the revolving door afterlife, reboots, “Suicide Squad,” crossovers, event fatigue, Ryan Reynolds, the list goes on! Hardly a page goes by without some sort of quick reference to or shot at comics, and it’s clear that in spite of the mockery, the love for comics is there. “Rick and Morty Presents: The Vindicators” touches on every single comic book idea it can. But this is a comic, so they just got rebooted as “The All-New, All-Different Vindicators,” an obvious nod to Marvel’s “All-New, All-Different Avengers.” That was the first sign that this was a comic that knew all the comic tropes to mock.Īnd boy, does it ever. Those of you who watched the show might be thinking, “Wait a second, didn’t The Vindicators all die or go past the moral horizon?” And you’d be right. In doing so, it allows the characters to poke fun at every single comic book trope and cliche imaginable. This comic does not give us any answers to that, as it continues the story from after the episode. It was a hilarious episode, but it did leave us wondering about The Vindicators, and their previous adventure with Rick and Morty. In the Rick and Morty cartoon, the Vindicators were a superhero group that Rick systematically destroyed – – either through his traps or their own failings, all while blackout drunk. Gasp in shock and awe as the plot twists and previously irrelevant characters revive from the dead! Frown in frustration as you forget the complicated backstory of suddenly important mythic items! And most of all… WUBBA LUBBA DUB DUB!
Read in amazement as the superhero team travels through dimensions to recruit other heroes to defeat a villain of their own making. Torres (Teen Titans Go!, The Mighty Zodiac) teams up with Rick and Morty™ series artist CJ Cannon to explore the twisted and bombastic history of THE VINDICATORS in an all-out superhero comics extravaganza. Learn the secret stories and hidden pasts of your favorite Rick and Morty characters in Oni Press’s new quarterly series of one-shots: RICK AND MORTY™ PRESENTS! In this first issue, J.
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