About a month ago, we shared covers from AHOY’s Toxic Avenger Comics #5, in which ol’ Toxie gets his Frazetta on in a fantasy pastiche.
Now, we get up in them guts with a special preview of the comic. And little did we know, it’s Jersey AF.
Not because the Toxic Avenger is from the fictional town of Tromaville, New Jersey; we already knew that. But because this Heavy Metal-meets-Band of Brothers book is set on the near-future shores of Asbury Park, as Toxie and his team seek to reclaim their homeland from a bug infestation.
And where there’s Asbury, there’s Bruce Springsteen references, just in time for the release of that movie where The Bear plays The Boss. There’s even a nod to my adopted near-homeland of Atlantic City. It’s enough to make a fella want to put his makeup on and fix his hair up pretty.
Check out our exclusive preview of The Toxic Avenger Comics #5, out next week, and keep scrolling for the basic deets.
THE TOXIC AVENGER COMICS #5
(W) Matt Bors
(A) Grim Wilkins, Fred Harper
Cover A: Fred Harper
Cover B: Grim Wilkins
Dreamlike Fantasy issue! The Toxic Avenger, in his human form of Melvin Junko, picks up his mop and leads a pack of misfits through a postapocalyptic hellscape on a mission to confront the new world’s mysterious rulers!
November 26, 2025
FOC: October 27, 2025
Cover A: $4.99
Cover B: $4.99 1:3 unlock
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