Toxic Avenger And Jesus Join Forces This Summer In ‘The Toxie Team-Up’ #1 From Ahoy Comics
by Olly MacNamee
That’s right, you read that headline correctly. Jesus Christ and Toxic Avenger are to meet this summer in The Toxie Team-Up #1 by writer Mark Russell and artist Richard Pace and Ahoy Comics. Think The Brave and the Bold but a bit more bizarre as Toxie teams up with Ahoy Comics mad cap stable of characters like the Jersey Devil (Project Cryptid), Acid Chimp (from Russell, Bryce Ingman and Peter Krause’s My Bad), Dragonflyman and Stinger (The Wrong Earth), and Swamp Cop and Schitt (Justice Warriors).
Mark Russell stated of this new series:
“Toxic Avenger and Jesus Christ is the team-up that everybody has been clamoring for and I am not one to stand in the way. Just as in Second Coming, Christ shows that there are more tools in the box than just violence and that Tromaville, as strange as it is, is still a place that someone who grew up bullied by the jocks in the Roman Empire would recognize.”
Matt Bors – who helped revive Toxic Avenger in comics – added:
“When I started writing the new Toxic Avenger series, I knew we could build this into some audacious comic crossovers. Toxie’s mutant gore and subversive charm make him the perfect foil to face off with the police of the polluted world of Justice Warriors.”
Ahoy Comics Editor-in-Chief Tom Peyer added:
“Having already spawned five films, a cartoon, action figures, a musical, and a Marvel comic book series, the Toxic Avenger is a pop culture icon. The only question is: why doesn’t he have a church of his own?”
Ahoy Comics Senior Editor Sarah Litt getting the last word stated:
“Scrappy, messy, and a little chaotic…am I talking about Toxie or Ahoy? Either way, two great tastes that taste better together.” The Syracuse-based Ahoy Comica publishes comics with a (dark) sense of humor with titles like the religious satire Second Coming, the sword and sorcery satire Babs, and superhero parodies Th e WrongEarth and My Bad.
As well as this new comic, out on Wednesday, June 11th, 2025, this summer also brings The Toxic Avenger Pinup Special out on Wednesday, May 14th, with The Toxic Avenger collection by writer Matt Bors and artist Fred Harper, will be published on April Fool’s Day.
