Rick and Morty (Tom Fowler) Books in Order

This page points to Tom Fowler's part of the wider Rick and Morty comic line, which here starts with Rick and Morty, Vol. 3. You do not need a giant map of continuity to get into it. If you know the basic setup, Rick is a genius disaster, Morty is his anxious grandson, and the rest of the Smith family gets dragged into the blast radius, you are already ready for the ride.

That ride gets weird fast.

Vol. 3 keeps the same energy fans expect from the show. Big science fiction ideas arrive with almost no warning. A gadget goes wrong. A family member makes a terrible decision. Suddenly everyone is dealing with missing heads, cosmic tech, alien games, or some other problem that would be impossible in any quieter universe. One of the pleasures of this run is that Jerry is not just dead weight on the couch. His talent for making a bad situation worse becomes an engine for the plot.

The collection is also built to feel a little loose and unruly, which fits the franchise. Rather than one solemn epic, it plays like a stack of connected disasters. The central Fowler-written arc runs through a three-issue story, and the volume also folds in bonus material, including a school-themed adventure and a deathball one-shot. That means the book keeps changing shape, tone, and target, but still feels tied together by the same mix of comedy, panic, and cosmic absurdity.

There is a lot of noise on purpose.

What makes Rick and Morty work in comics, when it works, is the balance between jokes and exhaustion. Rick is brilliant, but he is also reckless and selfish. Morty wants to survive, keep up, and occasionally do the decent thing. Summer, Beth, and Jerry are never just background furniture for long. The stories use that family friction well. For every gross gag or ridiculous alien set piece, there is usually a smaller emotional beat underneath it, annoyance, insecurity, loneliness, or the sinking realization that nobody in this house is equipped for a normal day.

The art side matters too. Reaction shots, odd creature designs, sudden explosions, and visual overkill do a lot of the comic timing. The page has room to stretch a joke or escalate a catastrophe in a way that feels different from the TV show but still clearly belongs to the same world. If you want more of the franchise's mix of sci-fi parody, family disaster, and bleak laughs, this is an easy volume to pick up.

In short, expect chaos. Smart chaos, dumb chaos, family chaos, and the kind of joke that turns nasty a second after you laugh. That is the appeal, and Rick and Morty, Vol. 3 leans into it hard.*