FIRST LOOK: RICK AND MORTY: THE MANGA VOL. 2: AFTER-SCHOOL SCIENCE CLUB

Fan-Favorite Creators Josh Tierney & JeyOdin Deliver a Sordid Saga of Science, Sweethearts, and After-School Activities!
WILL MORTY’S MANGA-INSPIRED MACHINATIONS LEAD TO ROMANCE OR MAKE TROUBLE FOR THE MULTIVERSE?

In their first manga comic book appearance, Rick and Morty went toe to toe with a giant naked Jerry. Now, they’re ready for an even greater challenge: high school romance and after-school activities! Oni Press, the multiple Eisner- and Harvey Award–winning publisher of groundbreaking comics and graphic novels since 1997, in partnership with Warner Bros. Discovery Global Consumer Products, is proud to share a madness-inducing first look at RICK AND MORTY: THE MANGA VOL. 2: AFTER-SCHOOL SCIENCE CLUB! From two of the hottest creators in the American manga scene, writer Josh Tierney (World Piece, Iris Complex) and artist JeyOdin (Rick and Morty: The Manga Vol. 1: Get in the Robot, Morty!; Hammer) comes a story of teen love, school pride, and extracurricular international warfare!

“Dark, absurdist humor is a core part of my being, and I’ve been collecting manga since I was 8, so when I was asked to write this book, I couldn’t believe how perfect an opportunity it was,” says Josh Tierney. “Plus, it was a great excuse to watch Rick and Morty episodes over and over again while working on it (I can still hear their voices echoing in the recesses of my brain). If you’re a Rick and Morty fan who is deep into manga, I wrote this for you. And for me. Let’s get lost in Akiba together.”

When Morty falls in love at first sight with the new exchange student from Japan—Chigusa—and she shows him her favorite manga about after-school clubs, he knows just the advisor for his hastily constructed new Science Club: Rick Sanchez. With his ragtag group of teen losers (plus Chigusa) and a cursory knowledge of Japanese school clubs he picked up from skimming Morty’s manga, Rick leads the club in a competition against the preexisting, sanctioned, totally normal Science Club, creating a portal to Akihabara, nexus of anime and manga culture, and famous home of Tokyo’s maid cafés. Brimming with inspiration from their trip (and chased out of the country by the maids who have turned on Rick) the Science Club prepares for their school festival with a maid café of their own making—a science maid café selling questionable concoctions.

“Volume 2! Although not a direct sequel to the previous story line I drew, it was a very fun project to work on,” adds JeyOdin. “I’ve been drawing manga professionally since I was 19, and being the artist who gets to draw the Rick and Morty Manga has been a great honor. This volume truly has it all, humor, action, and even mystery in some points. Get ready to visit Akihabara, the mecca of anime and manga and how an obsession with Maid Cafes can create more chaos than you could ever imagine.”

RICK AND MORTY THE MANGA VOL. 2: AFTER-SCHOOL SCIENCE CLUB is due out on February 24.
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