Rick and Morty have been pickles, they’ve been Cronenberg whatevers, and now they’re about to become the most surprising thing of all: manga characters! Or rather, they already did once, and now they’re doing it again for Rick and Morty: The Manga, Vol. 2: After-School Science Club. And we’ve got an exclusive look at the Oni Press book right here. Wubba lubba dub-dub!
Written by Josh Tierney with art by JeyOdin, the new manga volume finds Morty falling in love with an exchange student from Japan. And when she shows him a manga about an after-school science club, he sets one up, with Rick as the advisor. It all goes extremely normally from there (just kidding).
“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,” said Josh Tierney via a press release provided to Comic Book Club. “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.”
Added JeyOdin, “Volume 2! Although not a direct sequel to the previous story line I drew, it was a very fun project to work on. 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 Preview
Check out six pages and the cover from the February 24, 2026 publishing graphic novel here! Click the thumbnails for a larger version:
Rick And Morty: The Manga, Vol. 2: After-School Science Club Official Synopsis:
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.
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