When the Toxic Avenger #2 arrives in stores, AHOY Comics will include a trading card from artist Steve Ellis for one of the variant covers.
“Speaking as a completely unbiased observer with absolutely no skin in the game, it feels like a very good time to be an AHOY fan,” said AHOY Comics Editor-in-Chief Tom Peyer. “We’ve had two runaway hits this year with brand new series THE TOXIC AVENGER and BABS by Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows — both of which have been the most successful AHOY Comics launches since the delightfully controversial SECOND COMING by Mark Russell, Richard Pace and Leonard Kirk. Is AHOY Comics about to blow up and forget the names of all the small-timers who knew us when we were nobodies? Watch this space!”
In THE TOXIC AVENGER, teenager Melvin Junko helps run his parent’s junkyard in Tromaville, a small town in New Jersey where nothing much ever happens — until an ill-timed train derailment of toxic waste transforms Melvin into a hideously deformed creature of superhuman size and strength: the Toxic Avenger! Under a media blackout imposed by Biohazard Solutions (BS) and their PR-spewing Chairwoman Lindsay Flick, Melvin emerges as a hero fighting against BS and the mutated threats that keep popping up around Tromaville. Eventually Melvin uncovers a vast conspiracy more far-reaching than he could have ever imagined — but he knows if everyone is simply made aware of the crisis, they’ll act to stop it. Right?
The Toxic Avenger #2 is scheduled to arrive on November 13, 2024.