The ‘Toxic Crusaders’ Return in a New Series from AHOY Comics!

While you wait for big screen reboot The Toxic Avenger in theaters on August 29 and the upcoming launch of the new Toxic Crusaders video game from Retroware, the fine folks over at AHOY Comics have announced that Toxic Crusaders is also getting a new comic series!

Toxic Crusaders was of course Troma’s animated, kid-friendly spinoff to the Toxic Avenger movies, and the gang is back in the series from AHOY Comics that launches this September.

IGN exclusively details, “Toxic Crusaders is a five-issue miniseries written by franchise veteran (and Pulitzer prize finalist) Matt Bors and illustrated by Tristan Wright.”

“The series pairs Toxie with No-Zone, Junkyard, Major Disaster, and a brand-new character called Fungirl.”

“In the aftermath of the chemical spill that created Toxie, other mutants arose — and they have united to wage war against an alien conspiracy,” Bors said in a statement. “We are taking everything from the original Toxic Crusaders cartoon —gross mutations, evil aliens, and over-the-top ecological action — to bring readers a must-read mutant monthly.”

“Everyone at AHOY Comics is delighted to publish a world-famous group of characters who are as well-meaning, violent, and frankly disgusting as we ourselves wish we could be,” said AHOY Comics Editor-in-Chief Tom Peyer. “We’re also delighted to debut the work of talented artist Tristan Wright. Matt found some of Tristan’s work online and shared it with me — and we both thought, where has he been all our lives? It’s solid, imaginative, amusing work, and we intend to extract as much as we can, like the cold-blooded capitalists we are.”

Toxic Crusaders Issue #1 will launch on September 10 from AHOY Comics!

Anything was possible back in the 1990s, and “Toxic Crusaders” is a great example of that. The animated series was based on Troma’s bloody The Toxic Avenger movies, the kid-friendly show turning Citizen Toxie into a crime-fighting superhero. The series spawned a toy line from Playmates and all kinds of other merch, proving there’s a softer side to Troma’s madness.

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