Toxie vs. Noxie with Matt Bors

Zack Beins

Good morning Tromaville, and welcome to another episode of Talkin' Troma with your host me, Zack Beins, the show where we have all the four-color news that's fit to print, especially if it's coming from our good friends at Troma. Today we have a very special guest. We bring you Matt Bors. He's the author of "The Toxic Avenger", "Toxic Crusaders," and the forthcoming "Toxic Avenger vs. The Noxious Offender"

Zack Beins

from Ahoy Comics. Toxie vs. Noxie number one lands in stores October 7th, 2026. I'm personally a fan of this new run of Toxie Comics. They're super funny, and Matt totally gets the humor of Troma and Toxy in these comics, and it's nice seeing all the characters that we love, but just in new stories, 'cause let's face it,

Zack Beins

it takes a long time for a Toxic Avenger movie to come out. Summer of 2000, but we don't have to wait that long for new Toxic Avenger stories from Ahoy Comics. Chris Lanphear, producer and co-host extraordinaire, brings us a new exclusive interview with Matt Bors, and we're gonna find out more about this new run of Toxie Comics. So on that note, let's listen.

Chris

Hello, friends, Chris here for Talkin' Troma. I am here once again with the man, the myth, the legend, Matt Bors, the writer of the recent Toxic Avenger, Toxic Crusaders, and coming soon to your local comic book store, the Toxic Avenger vs. Noxious Offender series, all of which from Ohoi Comics and the latest of which is available for pre-order now. Go to your local comic book shop and pre-order Toxic Avenger vs. Noxious Offender. Matt, how are you?

Matt Bors

Hey, good. Thanks for having me back on, man. It's good to be here.

Chris

Yeah, absolutely. You're playing a lot in the Toxie sandbox recently with the new series coming out and the two previous series under your belt. Can you talk a little bit about the response and reception that you've gotten to Toxie so far?

Matt Bors

Yeah, it's been good. We're doing some different stuff and I wasn't sure exactly how it would be received, but I mean everybody seems to love it. We have the Toxic Crusaders series with Tristan Wright. That is sort of like - it takes place in the same universe as our Toxie run. So, it's different than the cartoon, you know, it's very adult violent, more in line with the movie. So, I like doing those versions of the character and then in the comic book, we know we're

Matt Bors

doing crazy stuff. We just wrapped up an arc where Toxie went - it's called Toxie Goes to Washington where We went to Washington, D.C. to pass environmental legislation to better our toxic waste-filled country. And of course, some heads exploded and some people died, and the Senate got blown up in a nuclear explosion, amongst other things. And now we're going to do The Noxious Offender.

Chris

What made you want to take on The Noxious Offender as your next series?

Matt Bors

So to me, and I don't know what they were all influenced by while writing it, but I mean I have to imagine, it came out in 2000, the movie. Right, Citizen Toxie. Yeah, so this idea of the dark universe counterpart, I mean it's a tried and true comic book trope, right? We've seen it, if you read comic books, you've seen this a hundred times. So the temptation was to try to do something with it a little different and something that played into

Matt Bors

the storyline we're telling in the comic books. So to me, it was like what did I have to say about this toxic Avenger that him having an evil version would play well with? So what's going on in the story is that At the end of the Washington's arc, Toxie and Yvonne are going to have a kid. She's pregnant with a lovely mutant fetus. Now this new series is really about them becoming parents, which was present in the movie too.

Matt Bors

She was controversially pregnant in the movie, through controversial methods I guess. There's no Kabuki man here. doing things differently but Noxie's there and so that plays into this. It's like the Noxie, the different version of Toxie is not going to be a dad nor is he wear a tutu nor is he a nice guy. He basically reacted to his bullying a lot differently and became a school shooter before he became a mutant. So he becomes a school shooter and then he goes to lay down on the train tracks to die

Matt Bors

and that's when the toxic train derailment, the train full of toxic waste hits him, which is the origin story in the comic book of R-Toxi. So they come from different universes and a lot of it has, their differences have to do with parenting. So this is like where the Washington arc was more political, this is more personal. It's about the characters on the character level. So like Miss Junko plays a big part in it and Toxy's long lost dad shows up kind of mysteriously.

Matt Bors

So I'm doing a lot about like parenting and how those choices affect people and like Toxy wrestling with, you know, how can he be a dad? Can he be a good dad? That type of thing.

Chris

That's one of the things I love most about the comic series that you've done so far is that you take the seed thought that is in these stories that come from either the movies or the cartoon series and expand upon it to probably make it much more meaningful than ever thought it was given in those previous iterations of the character. So for example, for Noxie, I know the, when Troma made Citizen Toxie in 1999, the main impetus for having Noxie at all, for having the multiverse at all, was simply because we would get fan mail at the office asking who would win in a fight, either Toxie or Sergeant Kabuki Man.

Chris

And the response was always that can't actually happen because they're both good guys. How do we make a bad Kabuki man? We have an alternate universe. And that's sort of where that came in. So, Noxie was kind of a byproduct of that and we just sort of take for granted in that film that Noxie exists. But here you give him a backstory, you give him some purpose, you explore a little bit of the nature versus nurture and how that creates people, especially during our like

Chris

formative younger years. I find that really, really interesting.

Matt Bors

Yeah. And I think part of it is, and to be clear, there's a lot of silliness and humor and violence and gross stuff happening as well. But I try to introduce some serious themes to it in part because it's like, well, we're doing a fun comic book. I mean, we're not trying to make this tedious. But I think it's easy to sort of make a two-hour movie and you make it fun and it's two hours in with it.

Matt Bors

But you know, we're asking people to read a comic book series month after month. At this point, we're going to be close to 30 issues I think by the end of this series and the idea is we have some more plans after that that we hopefully do. So you know, to me it's like well, if you're writing a character for that long, you're asking people to pay attention to these characters and their stories for that long, you have to sort of imbue it with a little more substance.

Chris

Absolutely. And you talk about how this new series is, you know, part of what you're talking about is Toxie grappling with becoming a father and how that's going to affect him. You're a father as well. Is there anything you're saying about Toxie's grasp with fatherhood that you perhaps grappled with in your life?

Matt Bors

Yeah, you know, I am definitely pulling from, you know, some of my own thoughts and experiences for this one. I mean, when we start out in the first issue of this new series, they're in a clinic, I think it's called the Trauma Baby Prego Clinic and the doctor looks very suspiciously like Lloyd Kaufman and he's telling them, you know, he's doing the ultrasound and he's telling him, "Your baby's irradiated, mutated." Basically he's saying, "I wouldn't go for it." And Yvonne's position is kind of like she wants to do it.

Matt Bors

And they're young too. Like they're just out of high school. So like in the series, I'm treating it as if they're basically aging in real time. So I would say they're like 20 in this series. And I think Toxie's initial response is similar to a lot of young men when they find out their girlfriend's pregnant, which is maybe not so sure that we have to commit to this, right? And one of the things I am trying to get across I think is obviously it's less common for people to have kids young these days or even have kids at all.

Matt Bors

that I know some of my friends from high school did have kids right out of high school. Funny enough, they're now my age, I'm about to be 43, and they don't have any kids at home anymore, so they're getting the, they're on the other end of it now. But I'm just trying to pull from that,

Matt Bors

from their experiences, I guess, to be like a young parent who chooses to be a parent at a young age, which is I think increasingly rare. But Toxie and Yvonne are also like, they're not of the professional class. They're not necessarily, like Toxie is a famous superhero in this world, but they're also not wealthy people. They're not really on some kind of like professional track.

Matt Bors

And I think that there also is an idea I'm going for in this book where there's like sort of an environmental apocalypse, alien invasion, hanging over everything, is like, why have a kid in this world? Which is what a lot of people think about and talk about, and a lot of my friends and people who have kids and don't have kids. And so that's kind of one of the things

Matt Bors

that I want to bring out, is like, yeah, why would you have a kid if things are getting worse all the time, or seemingly getting worse?

Chris

That harkens back to the previous Toxic Crusaders series that you just wrapped the first volume up of, which is available now in trade paperback at your local comic book stores. And if you haven't read that, I don't understand what you're doing with your life or why you're listening to this, because if you're digging what Matt has done with Toxie,

Chris

you have to go back and look at what he's done with the Crusaders, giving them all backstories, giving them all purpose, expanding on the world of Smogula and the alien invasion that takes place in that series is wonderful, wonderful stuff. And really, you know, the previous Toxic Avenger, Toxic Crusader series that were done by Marvel

Chris

30 years ago were little more than tie-in opportunities. I don't think that the writers who were working on that, which, you know, who did good work, I don't think they were plotting out long-term storylines for these things. It was a mandate of, hey, we have this licensing tie-in, I need eight issues by next week kind of a thing. Um, but having talked with you, you have been ruminating on these ideas for years now.

Matt Bors

Yeah. You know, I always sort of had it in my head that I would love to do something with Toxic Avenger and the Toxic Crusaders. And then, you know, in 2023, I think it was, I approached Lloyd at San Diego Comic-con and sort of pitched this concept and it's all worked out and I mean I've I Didn't have everything figured out at that time. But like like you said, I'm giving backstories to the characters So the train spill that I mentioned is sort of like the origin for all the mutants in this world. So like no zone Instead of being a pilot. He is the he is the train conductor. He was the guy running the train

Matt Bors

Junkyard is a homeless woman with her dog that gets merged together. That's near the train tracks Bonehead is his bully that was chasing him, but then this would be a spoiler for the verse first volume But he kills bonehead and then his mom actually becomes Obsessed then and vengeful and she mutates herself and becomes like a new bonehead And so we have this female bonehead that's like the mom of the bully that bullied Toxie who Toxie killed and she she's like his like Red Skull to Captain America or you know, like his arch-nemesis and She is even in this new series with the noxious offender

Matt Bors

She'll play a decent role like so and then I'm pulling the these themes of parenting are you know present here because she hates toxic Avenger because he killed her son and Then Noxie, you know also dealt with her son in the other dimension. So I love playing with this stuff

Chris

It's so cool, yeah having having bone mom emerge as as a new threat I'm gonna call her bone mom. I like that the way that sounds you can have that for free

Matt Bors

All right. Well have somebody call her bone mom in the comment

Chris

Awesome, you know just talks about the the world in which they inhabit and the ways in which our decisions kind of like Follow us down the line. I think there's there's an interesting through line through that and you talked about I saw in another interview where Whereas toxic crusaders because of the background of the toxic waste spill Had a lot of political allegory going on and you know, sadly we're still dealing with much of that climate right now as you write this new series, but you also talked about how this is becoming This series would focus on more personal issues You make Noxie a school shooter now in citizen Toxie. There is a school shooting that takes place

Chris

But it's not related to how Toxie or Noxie become who they are What made you want to go the route of the school shooter?

Matt Bors

Well, you know obvious you say, you know, I say this and it doesn't sound like super appealing or funny Stuff and we're not treating as such but we're also not it's it's not meant to be extremely dour or nihilistic either, but I did want Toxie to be sort of like Really nihilistic and not like like almost the exact opposite of toxic Avenger So like his dress is even sort of modeled after the Columbine shooters. So which is you know as a Elder millennial sort of that's like a touchstone for me. So they have he has like white shirt suspenders He's got a ball cap on, you know, he looks a lot different than Toxie who's wearing a tutu

Matt Bors

so I guess I guess I wanted to pursue that because first of all, there's the the origin in the bullying and that a fact of our modern age is like the mass shooter and the school shooter, and a lot of these very despondent, angry young men becoming shooters. And that's sort of what I imagine would be the darker origin of Toxie where he didn't have his mom or he didn't have Yvonne or he didn't have

Matt Bors

like these guideposts in his upbringing to make him into a good person.

Chris

You can clearly see the influence in one of the promotional images of Noxie that you shared online. You see the backwards baseball cap and you see the white shirt, the black pants and the suspenders and as someone who grew up an hour away from where Columbine took place and was in high school on that day, it definitely rings true to the kind of character that can And if I'm not mistaken, is there also an evil version of Blobby that he's got with him?

Matt Bors

No, what you might be seeing is a head in a backpack.

Chris

Okay. Yeah. Yeah, I I thought that might have been a an evil Blobby or a Nobby if you will.

Matt Bors

No, that's a good idea. The Blobby is in this book because Blobby is sort of like Toxie's sidekick. There isn't a dark version of Blobby. There's too many different characters being thrown around now. I couldn't throw another one in. That's a good idea though.

Chris

We know this one's gonna be a smash just like the first two were a smash. So for series two, you can have that for free as well. That's good. And now the artists that you've worked with, within each series you worked with a different artist. Obviously you've had a lot of artists contributing different variant covers

Chris

that have been super fun to see. but on the main series you worked with Fred Harper. On the Toxic Crusaders series you worked with, remind me of the name?

Matt Bors

Tristan Wright.

Chris

Tristan Wright, thank you. And then this new series you're working with Felipe Sobrero, hopefully I'm saying that correctly. Yeah. So each series is kind of getting its own look. Can you talk a little bit about that?

Matt Bors

Yeah, so I would say like Fred Harper is the main artist. He's been on a couple volumes And we were producing a couple different ones concurrently. So he is working on something else that we can't talk about right now, but could be Toxic Avenger related. And we had to tap in a new artist for this. So Felipe has worked with Ahoy and myself before.

Matt Bors

He's the colorist on my creator on series, Justice Warriors, which I'll plug briefly, people who like my Toxic Avenger stuff and Troma should like it. It's like a dystopian cop satire and future. It's kind of like if you take Judge Dredd and Robocop and cranked him up on acid, that's what it would be. So he's done, he's an artist in his own right.

Matt Bors

And he, him and Tristan and Fred, they all have different, they definitely have different styles. But they're all really good at gore and goop and mutants and stuff. And so I really like the work that Felipe is doing on this book.

Chris

Just seeing the handful of pieces I've seen from this series, it's going to be really interesting because yeah, we're getting deep and talking about heady stuff, but it's a Toxic Avenger story. You've got to have heads exploding and you've got to have body parts getting smashed and you've got to have the gore. And that's one of the things that's always been great just about the Toxic Avenger in general is that you get to talk about serious things without making it too serious by including all of these kind of wacky elements, the multiverse, the gore, the slapstick.

Chris

The only way to be able to talk about some of this stuff is to make it fun, right?

Matt Bors

Yeah. I mean, and that's what I love about comic books is I sometimes do wish, not that comics were more serious in the literary sense, but like, you know, that I wish some of them would tackle serious issues. But I also really like the comic book-y myths, if that's a term, of things. I love playing with genre, I love gore and violence.

Matt Bors

I mean, Justice Warriors is also a pretty ultra-violent book. So, there's plenty of that. I mean, I would say in a lot of ways, this series is more violent than some others that we've done, especially because we do have, I mean, we're not showing school shootings and innocent people being gunned down

Matt Bors

in a horrifically realistic way. But we do have a lot of action and there's a lot of different elements happening. The Smogulan aliens are around still. Noxie is killing people. So Toxic Avenger, our Toxic Avenger, He doesn't kill as liberally as he does in the movies. He does kill people in self-defense, and he kills smogulans, and he's killed people before.

Matt Bors

But he doesn't kill as wantonly as he does in the movies. So Nazi has sort of allowed us to have a lot more violence where Nazi is the opposite, and he just goes around kind of wrecking people. So it's plenty violent.

Chris

So what you're saying is that your comic, while being bloody and violent, is not going to open with a school full of developmentally disabled children getting mowed down by a machine gun.

Matt Bors

You're correct. Although, don't be surprised if you one day see the Diaper Mafia pop up in the comic book.

Chris

You know, that's always been something in the back of my mind going way back to when I saw the first like kind of fine cut of the movie thinking to myself, you know, there's got to be some kind of backstory as to why these people are the diaper mafia.

Matt Bors

Well, all I'll say is that if Toxie, with Toxie having the baby, you know, the diaper mafia contending with the diaper mafia can't be far behind.

Chris

Speaking of contention, you have so much going on. You're working on these series. You've got other stuff in the works that has not been announced yet. You're writing a piece for the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes anthology. Oh yeah. That's coming out, which is really exciting.

Chris

You just had a very successful Kickstarter for That One Matt Bors comic. Can you talk about that for a moment and just kind of what brought that on? 'cause I just think that's fascinating.

Matt Bors

Yeah, so for anyone who is not familiar with me, which I suspect is plenty of people, I used to be a political cartoonist for a long time and I did a comic 10 years ago that is known as Mr. Gotcha or a lot of times the Matt Bors comic now. So it's like you may have seen the peasant saying we should improve society somewhat

Matt Bors

and the guy pops out of the well, yet you participate in society. If you don't know what I'm talking about, that's fine. It's used a lot online. It's a very ubiquitous kind of meme. And so this editor and publisher, Glenn Fleischman, he got in touch about doing a book about it. So in some ways, I'm kind of hesitant

Matt Bors

to constantly be known by this comic. You know, I wanna go on, write Justice Warriors and Toxic Avenger and stuff. But nevertheless, it's a very popular comic. He wanted to do a whole book examining it, so there's like essays and comics by different people about it. And it's actually I think it's quite fascinating so that I agreed to be a part of it. And so, that is coming out in the fall or the late fall.

Matt Bors

I actually just today turned in my introduction where I sort of wrote about what it's like have your work become a meme and have everybody be arguing about it for a decade. And then you mentioned Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. I loved that. I just got in touch, I was introduced to them, Panic Entertainment at Comic-Con and you know, why not? I mean, it's just a short story, but I think it's fun doing these properties sometimes. I have friends that are in like indie comics and art comics and they'd never lower themselves

Matt Bors

to be doing Toxic Avenger and Killer Tomatoes comics, but I kind of love it. I don't care. I love doing this type of stuff.

Chris

If the toxic Avenger was good enough for Stan Lee, it should be good enough for anyone. Yeah. Right. Yeah. That's just phenomenal to see, because, you know, I'll admit, like before we met and before you were announced as the writer for Toxic Avenger initially, I wasn't too familiar with your work, but I didn't know a lot about, you know, some of the more indie comics. But just seeing the insane workload that you have. I suppose my question to that is when do you sleep?

Matt Bors

Well, I got kids and I sleep, you know, a decent amount. I mean, I am busy, but this is my full-time work too. So I'm lucky enough that I get to do this full-time. I mean, right now I do have a full, a really full workload because we're doing a couple different projects that I can't talk about and we are working on more Justice Warriors and I'm doing a few things for this Kickstarter book. It's a good year actually because it feels like with that comic, I never really made I didn't make any money off it. It just - when something is just popular online and people share it forever, you don't get

Matt Bors

paid for that. So, we did like signed prints and I'm getting paid from this book. So that's nice, it feels like the fruits of my labor are coming to fruit, whatever. The tree of labor is bearing fruit. And then with Toxie and Justice Warriors, these are now turning into multi-year gigs where I get to do multiple volumes of this stuff,

Matt Bors

which is what I pitched from the jump. So I'm really, like I came in to Toxic Avenger with a plan to do a whole run that culminates in the storyline that we're working on and it appears that I'm gonna get to do it all.

Chris

And folks, if you want to keep Matt employed for the foreseeable future, go out and pre-order Toxic Avenger versus Noxious Offender number one. It is in stores October 7th, but you should get your pre-order in as soon as possible because that is how comic book shops gauge interest in terms of pre-ordering books ahead of street date. So, the more people that pre-order it, the more copies they will order to make available for other people who pick them up after the on-sale date. So, it's really, really important that people get those pre-orders in.

Matt Bors

Yeah, that's correct. Pre-orders before September 7th. You know, shops may have it in stock obviously when it's out, but pre-order is the way that you guarantee that you get a copy. And then this fall, various dates, I don't have them at the top of my head but September, October, we're seeing the Toxic Crusaders trade and Toxie Goes to Washington comes out and trade paperback. So, those are the things that you can order online, order on any bookstore, any comic

Matt Bors

shop without having to pre-order necessarily and it's a good way to get caught up on the run. four or five volumes of Toxic Avenger before the end of the year.

Chris

Which is really, really exciting. Yeah, I think Toxic Crusaders trade was either just released or is about to be released. Toxic Avenger volume one is out now and then the you also did the Toxic Avenger teams up. Yes. Kind of one shot series and that's being collected into a trade as well. Like there is such a crazy amount of Toxic Avenger stuff available. I love it. Yeah.

Chris

It's very funny. All with your name on it.

Matt Bors

Yeah, it's funny, man. You know, it's like I had this idea and then now it's become a years long thing and the Toxic Avenger is a huge focus of my work and something that I'm going to be hopefully associated with. You know, I will be associated with it having done this run. And I feel great about that, you know?

Matt Bors

It's like there was this Marvel run for a long time And I always, I just, I was like, this world is just begging to have more comics and weird mutants and everything. So. Yeah, it really is tailor made for it.

Chris

Yeah. Another thing that we can reveal exclusively here on Talkin' Troma, you are involved with another Toxic Avenger art project coming out soon.

Matt Bors

Yes, yes, yeah, I'm doing, you want me to say it? Sure. I'm doing the cover art for the VHS release

Chris

of the newest Toxic Avenger movie. And the VHS is being released by Nerd's Nest Collectibles, who we work together with on some things. So not only have you kind of created your own version of Toxie and Noxie and different characters in this world, but you'll also now be able to touch the dinklage Toxie. Oh, I know.

Matt Bors

And I was excited to get to draw that stuff because I hadn't drawn the Dinklage version. So I'm drawing him and then I'm also drawing a few of the characters that exist in it. Miss Meat is gonna be drawn as well as one or two of the Killer Nuts. And I'm excited about that. I liked that movie.

Matt Bors

I love the Killer Nuts so much. And also just kind of getting to do a VHS tape is cool. This year I did an album cover, which I've never done before and I'm also doing a VHS cover, which I've never done. So I feel like I'm getting to do these kind of cool gigs that I've never done before. Next on my bucket list is a skateboard.

Matt Bors

I have to do a skateboard.

Chris

A skateboard with Matt Bors on it would be dope.

Matt Bors

I like that. I have to say, I mean, I was a skater in high school. It was like my life at one point. So I have a special affection for skateboarding and skateboard graphics and it kind of kills me that I've gone this long in my life without having designed a skateboard. So it's on my list.

Chris

That would be super cool. There have been a few Toxic Avengers skate decks over the years, just saying.

Matt Bors

Yeah, that's, I mean, hey man, if there's a chance to do that, I'm in. See, now I'm wanting to do a whole line of Toxic Crusaders skateboard decks, you know?

Chris

Each character, each character. One thing we should mention too, for those of you who are listening to this right around the time it comes out, you will be appearing at New York Comic Con in support of the new Toxic Avenger versus Noxious Offender series, along with creator of the Toxic Avenger, Lloyd Kaufman, yeah?

Matt Bors

Yes, so we are doing a signing, not at New York Comic Con, but that week, which is the week the book comes out, so October 7th, that weekend, we don't have the date figured out, so you're gonna have to follow me on Instagram or something to get the date. But that weekend, October 9th, 10th, we are going to do a signing at Forbidden Planet

Matt Bors

with the new number one release and we're going to have a lot of people there. Lloyd Kaufman primarily, as you mentioned. Me, Felipe Subrero, the artist on the new series and Fred Harper who lives in New York and is the artist on three of the other books. We'll all be there signing, signing new number one issue and so you can come and get your Buy some comics, get them signed by Lloyd, bring your DVDs or whatever and he'll probably sign those too.

Chris

So if you are a comic scalper, go ahead and load up on Toxic Avenger vs. Noxious Offender number one, buy 15 copies, make sure you pre-order them, and then Matt and Lloyd will sign them and Felipe will sign them and you will be an instant millionaire probably.

Matt Bors

Yes. I would say in this economy it's the surest bet. It's a hedge against inflation and I'm in Canada by the way, so the trade war is punishing and we just all need to some financial security in this day and age.

Chris

But not the trade paperback war, folks. For trade paperbacks, those are readily available and you can get those now from Ahoy Comics. I get paid five cents every time I plug the show, which is why it's happening so much. Well, Matt, thanks for taking the time to chat with us. Where can people find you online?

Matt Bors

Pretty easy to find among most social networks and I'm just M-A-T-T-B-O-R-S, my name. So follow me and grab some Toxic Vendor Comics. And if you're in New York, come out to this signing.

Chris

Absolutely. Follow Matt Bors online. Ahoy Comics as well. You can find all of the info there at comicsahoy.com. And of course, go to your local comic book shop and tell them you want Toxic Avenger versus Noxious Offender number one, and then number two, number three, number four, number five. Make sure that you get those pre-orders in to not only secure your copy, but put Matt's kids through college. So thank you again, Matt, for chatting with us. Can't wait to read the book and hear more from from you again later.

Matt Bors

All right, man, thanks for having me on. Appreciate it.

Zack Beins

Awesome, thank you, Chris and Matt. I'm really glad that we were able to do this. Once again, for everybody out there, Toxie versus Noxie, number one, lands in stores October 7th, 2026. and be sure to go to your local comic book shop to pre-order because it guarantees you a copy and it helps the comic book shops

Zack Beins

know how many issues to order. And let's face it, we really wanna keep these local shops up and running because they're what helps drive our community and what makes your neighborhood a better place. But if you don't have one, the evil devil worshiping mega conglomerate, Amazon, will also have it available.

Zack Beins

But really, order it from your local comic book shop. because we want things to be nice still and comic book shops are still nice. So come on, come on. Also, the trade paperbacks for the Toxic Avenger and Toxic Crusader runs are also available so you can catch up with those before April. Also, order from your comic book shop,

Zack Beins

read all your Toxic comics from Ahoy Comics and if you have some extra time, Check out our socials, our YouTube page. Very cool things happening on the Instagram page as well. Our good friend from Jimmy from Sweden has been doing a deep dive on there on all the locations from past Troma movies. So you get to see before and after

Zack Beins

and learn a little bit about the history of these shooting locations. It's super awesome and definitely got to thank Jimmy for doing that. Thank you, Chris. Thank you, Matt. and everybody out there, stay traumatized.

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