Rick and Morty: Pocket Like You Stole It
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- July 5, 2017 (Part 1)
- August 16, 2017 (Part 2)
- September 13, 2017 (Part 3)
- October 18, 2017 (Part 4)
- November 22, 2017 (Part 5)
Pocket Rick
| Rick and Morty: Pocket Like You Stole It | |
|---|---|
| Date |
|
| No. of issues | 5 |
| Main characters | Plain "Evil" Morty of C-594 Pocket Rick |
| Publisher | Oni Press |
| Creative team | |
| Writers | Tini Howard[1][2][3] |
| Artists | Marc Ellerby[4] |
| Letterers | Crank! |
| Colourists | Katy Farina[5] |
| Creators | Justin Roiland Dan Harmon |
| Editors | Ari Yarwood[6] Hillary Thompson |
| Original publication | |
| Published in | Rick and Morty |
| ISBN | 978-1-6201-0416-3 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Pocket Mortys (video game) |
| Followed by | "Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind" (episode) |
Rick and Morty: Pocket Like You Stole It is a limited series graphic novel, written by Tini Howard and drawn by Marc Ellerby, published in five parts in 2017 by Oni Press, as an adaptation of Pocket Mortys, a Pokémon-inspired video game set in the Rick and Morty franchise by Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon.[7][8][9][10][11] Each issue of the series was published with a collection of Pocket Mortys-themed trading cards,[12] with characters created exclusively for the series later being made available as playable characters in the Pocket Mortys video game.[13]
The series is notable for featuring a possible origin story for "Evil Morty",[14] an alternate version of Morty Smith and the perennial antagonist of the first five seasons of the Rick and Morty television series, receiving a generally positive critical reception. The series' name is a reference to the Gary Clark song "Drive It Like You Stole It", from the soundtrack of the 2016 Irish coming-of-age comedy-drama film Sing Street.[15]
Based on the same multiple timeline concept as described in the Rick and Morty first season episode "Close Rick-counters of the Rick Kind" and the video game Pocket Mortys. Pocket Like You Stole It is set in the plains surrounding the original Citadel of Ricks, where alternate 'wild' versions of Morty Smith are collected by versions of their grandfather Rick (of a human-like species of "Pocket Ricks", separate from the human Rick of the television series),[16] who battle them against one another with a variety of 'Trainers', with the series following the story of Plain (later "Evil") Morty Smith of C-594 as he seeks to free all other versions of himself from servitude.[17]
