The Toxic Avenger Just Got Even More Offensive

The Daily Dead interviewed cartoonist Matt Bors, who’s now producing a comic titled “The Toxic Avenger vs. the Noxious Offender”, the latter which is the artist’s creation, and this particular story contains quite an eyebrow-raising political allusion and metaphor: Bringing The Noxious Offender into the comic book world is a huge deal for fans of the franchise. What made now the perfect time to bring him in to face Toxie? Matt Bors: Doing the dark universe counterpart of a hero in comic books is almost a right of passage. After establishing the universe we are in and some new adventures like Toxie Goes to Washington, I wanted to circle back to something more character focused and there’s nothing more character focused than yourself, but as an asshole. Our Noxie is an incel school shooter—not typically hilarious stuff. We want to make him a real menace, an obscenely violent twisted version of our character who was broken long before he was melted by toxic waste. We are doing something different with Noxie and as the story goes on, readers will see how it fits within long-running plots we have had going since these comics launched. This is sick, because it builds on stereotypes that ...