This Year’s Biggest Comics Crisis Expands with Three Wild Tie-In Specials at the Epicenter of RICK AND MORTY VS. THE UNIVERSE – The First-Ever Rick And Morty Comic Book Event!

SUMMER OF LOVE #1 | COVER A BY DAVE BARDIN

PORTLAND, OR (May 14, 2025) – YOU’RE INVITED TO THE ULTIMATE DESTINATION WEDDING! Oni Press, in partnership with Warner Bros. Discovery Global Consumer Products, proudly invites everyone to experience the cataclysmic fallout of RICK AND MORTY VS. THE UNIVERSE firsthand in the first of three tie-in specials from a rotating cast of iconoclastic talents in RICK AND MORTY VS. THE UNIVERSE: SUMMER OF LOVE #1 – coming to comic shops everywhere on August 6th!

Bridging the gap between July’s RICK AND MORTY VS. THE UNIVERSE #1 and August’s RICK AND MORTY VS. THE UNIVERSE #2, event maestro Daniel Kibblesmith (Loki) joins Eisner Award nominee Jody Houser (Stranger Things, Star Wars) and explosive artist Phil Murphy (Star Trek vs. Transformers) to deliver a dazzling detour into the heart of cosmic sisterhood—complete with destruction, violence, bad decisions, and truly distasteful bachelorette party favors!

WELCOME TO THE FIRST RICK AND MORTY VS. THE UNIVERSE TIE-IN EXTRAVAGANZA! Summer rockets into a Smith family crisis with cosmic implications! Rick and Morty are doing their bachelor party thing with Prime Universe, so Summer decides to throw her own bachelorette shindig for Parmesan! No naughty gummies or pennysaver strippers here—Summer will throw a bachelorette party to remember, complete with debauchery, violence, and destruction! Hey, this will end well! (News flash: It won’t.)

“Kibblesmith and company have expanded the multi-dimensional madness of Rick and Morty to epic proportions, thrusting everyone in Rick Sanchez's orbit into a state of unbridled chaos!” said editor Matt Dryer. “This series is simultaneously one of the greatest Rick and Morty stories to date, and a love letter to the classic comics event series that shaped and destroyed universes and imaginations!”

Tying directly into the events of RICK AND MORTY VS. THE UNIVERSE – the FIRST-EVER Rick and Morty comic book event from cosmos-colliding creators Daniel Kibblesmith (Loki) and Jarrett Williams (Speed Force) – RICK AND MORTY VS. THE UNIVERSE: SUMMER OF LOVE #1 is the first of the three TOP SECRET TIE-IN SPECIALS co-piloted by Kibblesmith and a stunning array of surprise guest talents. Ten years of acclaimed RICK AND MORTY comics at Oni Press have all led to this: the ultimate, dimension-smashing jumping-on point for fans old, new and in-between! Beginning on July 9th in RICK AND MORTY VS. THE UNIVERSE #1, follow the epic fallout across the seven stunning chapters:

RICK AND MORTY VS. THE UNIVERSE #1 (of 4)

Written by Daniel Kibblesmith, Art by Jarrett Williams

On Sale July 9, 2025

RICK AND MORTY VS. THE UNIVERSE: SUMMER OF LOVE #1

Written by Daniel Kibblesmith & Jody Houser, Art by Phil Murphy

On Sale August 6, 2025

RICK AND MORTY VS. THE UNIVERSE #2 (of 4)

Written by Daniel Kibblesmith, Art by Jarrett Williams

On Sale August 13, 2025

RICK AND MORTY VS. THE UNIVERSE: BETH ‘TIL DEATH #1

Written by Daniel Kibblesmith & Jake Black, Illustrated by Suzi Blake

On Sale September 10, 2025

RICK AND MORTY VS. THE UNIVERSE #3 (of 4)

Written by Daniel Kibblesmith, Art by Jarrett Williams

On Sale September 24, 2025

RICK AND MORTY VS. THE UNIVERSE: LAST MORT STANDING

Written by Daniel Kibblesmith & Alex Firer, Illustrated by Fred C. Stresing

On Sale October 8, 2025

RICK AND MORTY VS. THE UNIVERSE #4 (of 4)

Written by Daniel Kibblesmith, Art by Jarrett Williams

On Sale October 22, 2025

WORLDS WILL LIVE, WORLDS WILL DIE, WEDDINGS WILL BE RUINED! Everything Rick and Morty have ever wrecked will finally culminate this July in RICK AND MORTY VS. THE UNIVERSE #1—featuring a truly self-destructive selection of covers from Dave Bardin (Wolverine), Troy Little (Cult of the Lamb), Juan Gedeon (DC: The Jurassic League), Flops (Decks), Tom Fowler (Epitaphs from the Abyss), Jarrett Williams (Super Pro K.O.), and Rian Gonzales (X-Men ’97)!