Matt Bors and Fred Harper‘s reboot of The Toxic Avenger for AHOY Comics continues with issue #3 (of 5) next Wednesday, December 11. We are pleased to share an exclusive, six-page preview of the next chapter, which takes us on an emotional trip down memory lane, when the title character wasn’t a horrifyingly misshapen mutant superhero, before returning us to the action in the current day.
Continuing the hit reinvention of the classic film/animation series! In the wake of the catastrophic chemical spill in Tromaville, the corporation responsible dispatches its private army, the armored Radiation Rangers, to violently contain the PR damage — until Toxie uncovers the soldiers’ frightening secret!
The Toxic Avenger #3 will be released with variant covers by Bors and Sophie Campbell (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Wet Moon). You can check these out below along with a bagged copy of Harper’s main cover that comes with an exclusive trading card by Ben Clarkson (the co-creator of Bors’s Justice Warriors). It will retail for $3.99, although the copy with the trading card will retail for a dollar extra at $4.99.
The Toxic Avenger is of course, based on the cult acclaimed film series from the 1990s, that was a superhero parody about Melvin Ferd, a nerdy janitor transformed into a monstrous mutant after falling into some toxic waste (a popular trope in pop culture in the late ’80s). Gaining superhuman strength, he becomes Tromaville’s unlikely hero, battling corruption, crime, and pollution, often with absurd antics and a heart of gold.
The movie was created by Lloyd Kaufman’s TROMA studios, the same independent movie studio that served as an early training grounds for many famous directors including Eli Roth and Oliver Stone. In fact, James Gunn had his earliest experiences as a filmmaker writing Tromeo and Juliet, as did Matt and Trey Parker (the creators of South Park and The Book of Mormon) for their indie classic Cannibal The Musical.
Now without further ado, here are the variants and interior preview:
Additional reporting provided by Christian Angeles
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