The Toxic Crusaders Are Making Their Comeback at AHOY Comics

2025 is decidedly the twelvemonth of the Toxic Avenger. The long-awaited movie reboot starring Peter Dinklage is yet hitting theaters successful September, and the Toxic Crusaders beat-em-up crippled is slated for merchandise successful Q2 2025. Not to beryllium outdone, AHOY Comics is successful the midst of "Toxic Mess Summer," arsenic Toxie teams up with heroes from crossed the AHOY Universe.

IGN tin exclusively uncover that AHOY volition travel up Toxie Team-Up with a Toxic Crusaders series, 1 that, similar the game, aims to capitalize connected the nostalgia surrounding the classical animated series. Check retired the Retroware crippled variant screen to Toxic Crusaders #1 below:

Art by Xander Arnot. (Image Credit: AHOY Comics/Retroware)

And spot creator AR Sullivan's variant screen to Toxic Crusaders #1 below:

Art by AR Sullivan. (Image Credit: AHOY Comics)

Toxic Crusaders is simply a five-issue miniseries written by franchise seasoned (and Pulitzer prize finalist) Matt Bors and illustrated by newcomer Tristan Wright. The bid pairs Toxie with No-Zone, Junkyard, Major Disaster, and a brand-new quality called Fungirl.

“In the aftermath of the chemic spill that created Toxie, different mutants arose — and they person agreed to wage warfare against an alien conspiracy,” said Bors successful AHOY's property release. “We are taking everything from the archetypal Toxic Crusaders cartoon —gross mutations, evil aliens, and over-the-top ecological enactment — to bring readers a must-read mutant monthly.”

"Everyone astatine AHOY Comics is delighted to people a world-famous radical of characters who are arsenic well-meaning, violent, and frankly disgusting arsenic we ourselves privation we could be,” said AHOY Comics Editor-in-Chief Tom Peyer. “We’re besides delighted to debut the enactment of talented creator Tristan Wright. Matt recovered immoderate of Tristan's enactment online and shared it with maine — and we some thought, wherever has helium been each our lives? It's solid, imaginative, amusing work, and we mean to extract arsenic overmuch arsenic we can, similar the cold-blooded capitalists we are."

Toxic Crusaders #1 volition beryllium released connected September 10, 2025, conscionable aft The Toxic Avenger movie hits theaters. To tide you over, cheque retired immoderate exclusive caller screenshots of the Toxic Crusaders game:

In IGN's reappraisal of The Toxic Avenger, Amelia Emberwing writes, "Troma and Legendary’s concern connected The Toxic Avenger’s 2023 'not remake' delivers a mixed bag. Director Macon Blair and the remainder of the originative squad whitethorn person much wealth to play with than Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman’s 1984 original, but it struggles to present connected the schlocky goodness of Troma’s stronger films. Still, what it lacks successful so-bad-it’s-good silliness it makes up for with its bosom and mostly applicable slaughterfests. Kevin Bacon and Peter Dinklage having an implicit blast successful their roles doesn’t hurt, either."

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