Derek Charm’s (Unbeatable Squirrel Girl) latest series, Toxic Summer, from Oni Press is getting a trade paperback release and ahead of the collection getting into the hands of readers, The Beat can exclusively share issue one of the series.
Below is Toxic Summer #1 in its original format. The upcoming trade paperback available now for pre-order at your local comic store or online retailer, is out April 22, 2025, and collects the first three issues of the Oni Press series and will cost $19.99 USD.
Perfect summer plans become a nightmare beach party in this slimy, spooky, madcap summer mystery from Eisner Award winner Derek Charm (Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Jughead)!
Best friends Ben and Leo are ready to celebrate the summer after graduation by patrolling the beaches of idyllic seaside town Port Dorian as lifeguards—allowing them to also check out the hottest hunks and snag invites to the best parties, of course. But they arrive to find that a mysterious toxic spill has turned the water unswimmable and littered the shore with rotting fish carcasses. Their jobs become beach cleanup and the hunks are nowhere to be seen—like hermit crabs.
When they save a local historian with suspiciously glowing eyes from the water, and tentacled monsters begin snatching people in the night, Ben and Leo have to team up with the only other teens in town to uncover the cause of the spill, save their new friends and family, and try to get this sexy summer back on track before it’s too late.
Collecting Toxic Summer #1–3.
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