New In Hardcover: Rick And Morty Vs. The Universe — Plus Rick And Morty: The End #5 and C2E2 Round Up

Hi, all.

On sale now in hardcover—

The author, pictured for some reason.

The Collected Rick And Morty Vs. The Universe (2025 - 2026)

Incredibly proud of this work — with amazing art by the dynamic and consistently mind-blowing Jarrett Williams, gorgeous colors by the endlessly impressive Alessandro Santoro and tie-ins co-written by me from all-star writers Jody Houser, Jake Black, and Alex Firer — reuniting with longtime Rick And Morty artist partner, Fred C. Stresing. But don’t take it from me, take it from publishers quoted by me. Via Oni Press and Simon & Schuster

MOVE OVER, BIG BANG! GET WRECKED, BIG CRUNCH! GALAXIES COME AND GALAXIES GO, BUT OUR PLANE OF EXISTENCE HAS NEVER FACED ANYTHING AS CONSEQUENTIAL AS . . . THE FIRST-EVER RICK AND MORTY COMICS EVENT!

From the deviant psyches of comics mastermind and multiple Emmy Award–nominee Daniel Kibblesmith (Loki) and artistic annihilator Jarrett Williams (Speed Force), this summer's seven-part countdown to the end of everything that was, is, and will be begins with . . . a bachelor party that gets a little out of hand?

Rick’s old buddy Dimension C-137 (where Rick and Morty Cronenberg’d Earth) has reached his UNIVERSAL HALF-LIFE and is getting MARRIED—to the female-presenting embodiment of the Parmesan Dimension! He's found true love and wants his old pal Rick to plan his bachelor party! WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Answer: Pretty much everything . . . and it is all Rick's fault! Now Rick and Morty are on the run from EVERY SINGLE UNIVERSE THEY'VE EVER MESSED WITH—meaning, no matter what dimension they escape to, the universe will literally be against them. And, to survive, Rick will be forced to something he hoped he would never have to do—a last resort of EPIC PROPORTIONS!

DON'T CALL IT A CRISIS! The FIRST RICK AND MORTY COMICS EVENT in one EPIC volume, featuring Rick and Morty vs. the Universe #1–4 alongside three event tie-in one-shot issues featuring Summer, Jerry, Beth, Space-Beth, and Morty! Wubba Lubba Dub DUB!!

If you’ve ever watched the famous TV show Rick And Morty, or enjoyed any of my other comics, or follow me online and are curious about the jokes I write not-for-free — this is a big one for me. It’s the hardcover culmination of the first Rick And Morty Comics event from Oni Press, comprised of one four-issue cosmic epic, and three equally epic tie-ins.

It would mean the world to us if you picked it up here or from a local bookseller or comic shop near you. Read it and comment below to let me know what you think.

(And if you enjoy it — the follow-up hardcover Rick And Morty: The End is right around the corner.)


Also On Sale Now:

Rick And Morty: The End #5

Cover A by Dave Bardin

This is a good one. I tasked myself and subsequently Jarrett with an insanely challenging premise — essentially doing a locked room mystery version of Twelve Angry Men as a twenty-page comic book. Jarret’s pacing, choreography and overall visual storytelling in this issue is truly masterful and Alessandro’s colors turn it into a psychological noir and battle of wits that adds so much complexity and tension (and comedy!) to the script — I’m eternally blown away by these guys and grateful to be working with them.

Via Oni Press

From the twisted mind of @daniel.kibblesmith (Loki, Darkwing Duck) and the unceasing brush of @jarrettwilliams (Super Pro KO!) comes a mind-bending, body swapping, courtroom disaster of Rick and Morty proportions!

Rick Sanchez, the smartest man in the universe, is on trial for his life, and his latest tactic to avoid the gallows is to swap bodies with one of the jurors! But just to keep them guessing, he swaps EVERYONE’s bodies! How long can he evade capture trapped in a room with 12 angry, uh, humanoids? It’s literally a who’s who of the Rick and Morty universe! GET IT?!

🌀DON’T MISS THE END OF ‘THE END’ ON 5/13🌀

#rickandmorty #rickandmortycomics #onipress #getshwifty

The hashtags don’t work on my website, but I thought they were funny so I kept them. Pick up Rick And Morty: The End #5 digitally or from a local comic shop near you.


C2E2 2026 Round Up

Sweet home? CHICAGO? It’s more likely than you think.

Hail to the King.

Thanks to the con for having me, had fun, met fans, and sold a fair amount of books, which is great, because when they’re not in your hands, they’re in my garage — one assumes performing a more depressing version of Toy Story.*

Watched Cubs opening day on the flight in (went bad), met a Vote Loki, met a Low Key, met a very hardcore Darkwing Duck, my dad cosplayed as Tom Baker Doctor Who and I finally hit Red Hot Ranch. You can see most of this in the photo gallery above (I did not take a picture of Red Hot Ranch, but I thought about it). Look for cameos from Eric Lindberg (as Bilbo Baggins) and Andrew Rostan (as Andrew Rostan).

See you next year? Maybe! I’m pretty tired at any given moment.


Coming To Paperback And Hardcover

Darkwing Duck: Year One, Part One

Let’s get dangerous with our wallets.

Cover by Darkwing Duck creator, Tad Stones.

I wrote these for now-adult 90s kids to read with their 2020s kids. It’s working at my house. But don’t trust my child (ever). Trust this other publisher — Via Dynamite:

HE PUTS THE "ABLE" IN "UNRELIABLE NARRATOR"!

He is the terror that flaps in the night! The fowl that felons most fear! A legend in his own time (and his own mind)! He is... DARKWING DUCK!

But how did this avian exemplar develop his redoubtable reputation? What lessons did he learn in his early days of crime-busting and foe-foiling? His legion of fans (or, at least, his adopted daughter, Gosalyn) want to know - and DW is more than happy to tell her the whole (possibly embellished) story in this unauthorized (and unorganized) autobiography!

Acclaimed author DANIEL KIBBLESMITH (Black Panther vs. Deadpool) and the double-headed art team of TED BRANDT & RO STEIN (The Mighty Captain Marvel) return to the rooftops of St. Canard for an all-new tale that revisits (and revises) Darkwing Duck's formative years.
Collecting issues #1-6 of the high-flying series, Darkwing Duck: Year One, Part One also includes a complete cover gallery featuring iconic imagery from BRANDT & STEIN, MARK BAGLEY, NICOLETTA BALDARI, CIRO CANGIALOSI, and TAD STONES - creator of the original Darkwing Duck animated series!

Preorder it directly from Dynamite here or call your favorite local comic shop or bookstore now.


Currently Playing

“Enhance, stop. Move in, stop.”

On a big Blade Runner kick lately, and was astonished to find out that people hold this game in high regard. Given how relatively little Blade Runner expanded media there is (which I do feel is for the best) I was very excited to learn that the licensed tie-in computer game was actually good. This is the “enhanced” version, but the first thing I did was turn off the graphic smoothing because, at my age, 90% of this exercise is pixel nostalgia.

I got my digital copy for the Switch (1) on sale for $2.49 (sale ends 4/15/26). I don’t receive a commission for sales links, this ain’t Wirecutter. I just care about you.


*How do you do a more depressing version of Toy Story?


New Podcast: "Scott Hasn't Seen" — Plus Boing Boing and Comic Block Party Round-Up

Hi, all.

I went on another podcast. It’s this one:

Comedian, Podcast Mogul, and Marvel Comics Writer, Scott Aukerman has seen many movies, but (as he would be the first to admit) not all of them. Blade Trinity was a movie he apparently had not seen — or so I learned when he sent me an alphabetized list of potential movies and I did not make it past the B’s.

Blade (1998), at any given moment, might be my favorite movie. It never leaves the top three. So it was a blast and an honor to join Scott and Sprague The Whisperer on Scott Hasn’t Seen to discuss a movie that I have seen many more time than most movies I love. The mild spoiler here being: I do not love this movie.

Listen here or on the podcast platform of your choice by subscribing to Comedy Bang Bang World. That’s right, I’m behind the paywall — but so is a galactic amount of funny, weird, great comedy from many of my favorite people ever to do it. So let me ranting about how Blade 3 is “my Star Wars prequels” be the last push you needed to sign up and check it out.

Me, posing with my bird that is also named me.

‘How To Survive The Marvel Universe’ on Boing BoIng.

I’ve heard of Comedy Bang Bang — but Computers Boing Boing? I’ve heard of that as well.

My friend Ruben Bolling, also the cartoonist behind Tom The Dancing Bug, wrote a very cool feature on So You’ve Been Bitten By A Radioactive Spider: How To Survive The Marvel Universe for Boing Boing — a publication I’ve been reading since the invention of the Internet, one million years ago. Check it out here.


Revenge Of Comic Book Block Party Round-Up

I don’t really know what a “round-up” is, especially in this context. I just like it because it sounds cowboy.

Me again, for real this time. Photo by Alex Firer, but he used my phone, so I’ve decided I own it.

Thanks to everyone who came out to Revenge Of in Eagle Rock for the third annual Comic Book Block Party hosted by Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum. If you missed it (or you were there and you’re looking for pictures of yourself) photos and highlights are still rolling out over social. Check here for even more — and see you there (again) next year.


What Else Is New?

I joined a WGA off-season softball league and I am terrible. I’m also not clear on what makes this the off-season, I never know what the score is, or how many outs there have been, or how many balls/strikes I have and it’s tremendous fun.

Another picture of me.

On Sale Now!

From Chronicle Books, cover illustrations by Kyle Hilton.

The aforementioned So You’ve Been Bitten By A Radioactive Spider: How To Survive The Marvel Universe is available now from basically any bookstore that has a phone, because they can order you a copy, so support your favorite local bookstore, and me, and a scrappy little organization called Disney-Marvel.

Makes a great gift and I’m being told is especially popular with 7-12 year olds. This sounds like a lie and I would absolutely still say it if it wasn’t true, but it turns out it’s true.

Also still on sale from a comic shop near you or digitally:

—all available digitally or from a local comic shop near you.


Currently Reading

Careless People by Sarah Wynn-Williams and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (ever heard of it). I’d planned on finishing it before the movie came out, but then it turned out that the movie is pretty different, which I’m guessing has never happened to a book before and especially not this exact book.


Blade Trinitily yours,


On Sale Today: 'How To Survive The Marvel Universe.'

Hi, all.

Today’s the day. So You’ve Been Bitten By A Radioactive Spider: How To Survive The Marvel Universe, written by me, illustrated by Kyle Hilton, is officially on sale from Chronicle Books at online retailers and bookstores near you.

This is me, speaking to you.

On Sale Now From Chronicle Books

Via Chronicle Books; Cover by Kyle Hilton

If you already have a copy, or plan to get one, please don’t forget to flag it for the algorithm by rating and reviewing on Amazon, marking it “To-Read” on Goodreads, and leaving a few kind words on whatever other book-related social media or retailers you might use, as well as requesting your local library order a copy — which can usually be done very easily through their website.

And if you still require convincing (or just want to hype yourself up as you wait for your mail-order copy to arrive) — read on.

Via Chronicle Books:


The Marvel Comics Universe is full of action, adventure, danger, and cosmic peril. Be ready for anything with this illustrated action handbook—whether you have newly developed super-powers, you need to pilot an Iron Man suit, or Galactus is here to eat the Earth.

Kyle Hilton (via Chronicle).

Written by Marvel Comics and Emmy-nominated humor writer Daniel Kibblesmith, this official illustrated guide to surviving and thriving in the Marvel Universe uses comics-tested advice to steer readers through what to expect when exposed to gamma rays, bonding with a symbiote or—ow!—feeling an unexpected sting at the science fair. Featuring practical information such as wall-crawling tips, along with emergency information (you’ve been plunged into the Quantum Realm) and day-to-day guidance if your cat turns out to be a Flerken, you suspect someone of being a Skrull, or are facing a doombot, this is the must-have handbook as you live in the world of Marvel’s mightiest heroes.

Kyle Hilton (via Chronicle).

CRUCIAL ADVICE FROM MARVEL COMICS: What would you do if you discover you had mutant abilities, or are the only one on a heroic team without super-powers? Marvel comics writer and lifelong fan Daniel Kibblesmith finds inspiration and advice in the comics to offer tips and strategies for navigating these and many more of the reader’s own 'what if' experiences.

Kyle Hilton (via Chronicle).

IMAGINATIVE ADVENTURES: The Hulk is totally hulking out, with mayhem imminent; you’re weighing the pros and cons of legal representation from Matt Murdock or Jennifer Walters (or P.I. help from Jessica Jones or Howard the Duck); you need to speak Groot but are not fluent. This book has got you covered!

Perfect for:

  • Marvel fans looking for a fresh, funny spin on the comics

  • Fans of action hero handbooks and survival guides

  • Fans of Marvel Super Graphic, Marvel Mazes, and Thor and Loki: Midgard Family Mayhem

Format: Hardcover

Publication Date: 10/28/2025

ISBN: 9781797233543


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NEW BOOK: 'How To Survive The Marvel Universe.' (2025)

Hi, all.

New from Chronicle Books: October 28, 2025.

Via Chronicle Books; Cover by Kyle Hilton

The Marvel Comics Universe is full of action, adventure, danger, and cosmic peril. Be ready for anything with this illustrated action handbook—whether you have newly developed super-powers, you need to pilot an Iron Man suit, or Galactus is here to eat the Earth.

Kyle Hilton (via Chronicle).

Written by Marvel Comics and Emmy-nominated humor writer Daniel Kibblesmith, this official illustrated guide to surviving and thriving in the Marvel Universe uses comics-tested advice to steer readers through what to expect when exposed to gamma rays, bonding with a symbiote or—ow!—feeling an unexpected sting at the science fair. Featuring practical information such as wall-crawling tips, along with emergency information (you’ve been plunged into the Quantum Realm) and day-to-day guidance if your cat turns out to be a Flerken, you suspect someone of being a Skrull, or are facing a doombot, this is the must-have handbook as you live in the world of Marvel’s mightiest heroes.

Kyle Hilton (via Chronicle).

CRUCIAL ADVICE FROM MARVEL COMICS: What would you do if you discover you had mutant abilities, or are the only one on a heroic team without super-powers? Marvel comics writer and lifelong fan Daniel Kibblesmith finds inspiration and advice in the comics to offer tips and strategies for navigating these and many more of the reader’s own 'what if' experiences.

Kyle Hilton (via Chronicle).

IMAGINATIVE ADVENTURES: The Hulk is totally hulking out, with mayhem imminent; you’re weighing the pros and cons of legal representation from Matt Murdock or Jennifer Walters (or P.I. help from Jessica Jones or Howard the Duck); you need to speak Groot but are not fluent. This book has got you covered!

Perfect for:

  • Marvel fans looking for a fresh, funny spin on the comics

  • Fans of action hero handbooks and survival guides

  • Fans of Marvel Super Graphic, Marvel Mazes, and Thor and Loki: Midgard Family Mayhem

Format: Hardcover

Age Range: Chronicle Books

Publication Date: 10/28/2025

ISBN: 9781797233543