Exclusive The Toxic Avenger Cover Art Teases New Series Launching in Fall 2024

You can also view the main cover, created by Harper, for The Toxic Avenger #1 below:

What happens in The Toxic Avenger #1?

The solicitation for the first issue of the series reads, “You remember him from the classic films, animated series, and action figures—now America’s grossest icon returns to comics! A train hauling chemical waste derails in Tromaville, NJ, transforming bullied teenager Melvin Junko into the massive, mop-wielding Toxic Avenger. Pulitzer finalist Matt Bors (The Nib, Justice Warriors) and artist Fred Harper (Highball) deliver a TOXIE reboot brewed especially for the 21st century!”

“This series will combine elements of the original films with the Toxic Crusaders cartoon and characters in familiar ways, updated to tell a story of environmental devastation, corporate control, and social media mutation,” Bors said of the series. “The Toxic Avenger is first and foremost an environmental satire, one about a small town and its unremarkable people trapped and transformed by circumstances they don’t control. The story Fred Harper and I are telling is about people frustrated by authorities telling them not to worry about their life, that things are fine, even as their dog mutates in front of their eyes. And at its core it is about a powerless boy, Melvin, who finds out he can be incredibly strong, hideously mutated, well-admired, and incredibly heroic… but still ultimately powerless over human behavior.”

Lloyd Kaufmann, who directed 1984’s The Toxic Avenger, also said, “If there was ever a superhuman hero for these toxic, miserable times, Toxie is the one! Only AHOY Comics and Bors & Harper could pull this off…er…mop this up! Toxie and the Troma Team can’t wait ’til you read -no, experience – the art and stories that the Toxic Avenger Comic Book will explode in your brain, your soul, and your heart. Above all, remember – Toxie loves you and so do I.”

The Toxic Avenger #1 publishes on October 9, 2024, from AHOY Comics.