Final October, AHOY Comics introduced the Poisonous Avenger character from the Troma cult basic The Poisonous Avenger (watch it HERE) and its sequels again to the world of comedian books for a five-issue mini-series – and that mini-series proved well-liked sufficient that AHOY Comics is now launching an ongoing Poisonous Avenger sequence! The primary problem is out now, and previews of the second and third points are already up on the AHOY Comics web site, revealing that this sequence goes to take Toxie on a journey by genres!
Concern #1 is horror. You demanded it, so right here it’s: a brand new ONGOING sequence that includes the films’ grossest hero, masterminded by the hit inventive group from 2024’s TOXIC AVENGER miniseries! On this problem’s self-contained horror story, youngsters are disappearing from Toxie’s hometown of Tromaville, NJ. Did they merely run away from the chemically polluted city? Or is the true rationalization much more scary?
Concern #2 is a hard-boiled crime story. Crime problem! A useless physique lies on a rainswept avenue within the neon mild of downtown Tromaville. A observe pinned to the corpse factors the accusing finger on the Poisonous Avenger, main an armored SWAT group to encompass his junkyard! That problem will attain retailer cabinets on August 13.
Concern #3 goes into “prophetic science fiction” territory. Sentiac, a synthetic intelligence in an armored physique, thinks it ought to rid the world of all imperfect people! The Poisonous Avenger disagrees! That problem reaches retailer cabinets on September 17, and AHOY can even be launching a Poisonous Crusaders sequence in September.
Matt Bors, the Pulitzer Prize finalist who based the day by day on-line political comics publication The Nib, is writing the sequence, and artist / caricaturist Fred Harper is offering the art work. The entire points shall be accessible with a number of covers.
Within the unique film, the Poisonous Avenger begins out as a 98-pound janitor named Melvin Junko who, after falling into an oil drum full of poisonous waste, turns into an unlikely vigilante in his New Jersey city. Within the AHOY comedian e book mini-series, Junko is a teen who helps his mum or dad run a junkyard of their boring New Jersey city, till prepare derailment of poisonous waste transforms Melvin right into a hideously deformed creature of superhuman dimension and energy. He’ll battle the company named Biohazard Options, also called BS, and its PR-spewing chairwoman, uncovering an unlimited conspiracy extra far-reaching than he may have ever imagined as his religion in humanity doing the appropriate factor examined in methods he by no means thought attainable.
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