CBR has an exclusive first look at the next issue of Rick and Morty: Infinity Hour, which promises a dive into Rick's life before he met Morty, including his recruitment into the rebellion against the Galactic Federation.

The preview is split between two distant stories. In the first, an alien freedom fighter sneaks around a Galactic Federation vessel, avoiding the Federation's sarcastic bug-like soldiers. In the second, a young Rick Sanchez, still a struggling NASA engineer, makes an ill-fated pitch for a detoasting machine.

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The four-issue Infinity Hour run will seemingly show how these plotlines collide, telling a new story about Rick's background. The Rick and Morty show, over its five seasons, has slowly revealed Rick's past involvement with a galactic rebellion and how much the war was pivotal in Rick's emotional development. Season 5's eighth episode, "Rickternal Friendshine of the Spotless Mort," delved into Rick's memories of the end of the war, exploring how both the rebellion and Rick's discovery of infinite parallel universes pushed him to become the jaded nihilist he is in the show.

"Rickternal Friendshine of the Spotless Mort" features Rick interacting with a younger, pre-jaded version of himself who, by the end of the episode, is terrified of becoming his older, alcoholic self. Infinity Hour is set to follow a version of this young Rick, and could actually show some of the events, discoveries and relationships that lead him towards his tragic fate.

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Created by Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland, Rick and Morty is about mad scientist Rick dragging his grandson Morty (and occasionally granddaughter Summer) around on a myriad of eclectic sci-fi adventures. Using the mechanics of hopping between an infinity of wacky universes, the show is known for satirizing any and all established sci-fi properties, as well as a range of inventive storytelling structures.

Rick is presented as a genius inventor whose command of technology makes him almost a god, but also as a damaged man trying to reconnect with his family after abandoning them for his own pursuits. From the beginning of the show, Rick's experiences away from his family, and Earth, have been alluded to as pivotal in his character's development. Infinity Hour promises to tell how all of that first began.

Rick and Morty: Infinity Hour is written by Mags Visaggio and illustrated by Marc Ellerby. The first issue is available now, with issue #2 set to release on April 27 and #3 on May 25.

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