Courtesy of the fine folks at Ahoy Comics, we are pleased to debut Lane Lloyd’s variant cover for The Toxic Crusaders #2, which will arrive in stores in October.
The five-issue miniseries will debut in September and is written by Matt Bors, former editor of The Nib and current writer of The Toxic Avenger Comics. He’s joined by artist Tristan Wright on the series, which will feature the Toxic Avenger teaming up with several other mutants who appeared in the Toxic Crusaders animated series back in the 1990s, including No-Zone, Junkyard, Major Disaster and the all-new character Fungirl.
Lloyd has drawn many comics and covers for Oni Press, Ahoy, Image Comics, Legendary and more, and I’ll point you to Someone’s Died at Adventure Mountain, his current project that’s up on Kickstarter.
“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. “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.”
The Toxic Crusaders is one of several comics coming this year from Ahoy, who has declared this summer as “Toxic Mess Summer” as they build toward the new Toxic Avenger film that comes out Labor Day weekend. May brought the Toxic Avenger Pinup Special, followed by the debut of Toxie Team-Up in June, which pairs the Toxic Avenger with other Ahoy characters like Jesus and the Jersey Devil. Then the ongoing series I mentioned above launches in July. There’s also a Toxic Crusaders video game coming from Retroware.
“Watch the movie. Read the comic. Play the game. It’s like the ‘90s never ended!” said Retroware Art Director Xander Arnot. “If there was ever (another) time to love the Toxic Avenger, or his colorful crew of superhuman Crusaders, it’s now!”