Written by: Matt Bors, Robert Jeschonek, Carl Cafarelli
Art by: Fred Harper, Joe Orsak, Ed Catto
Coloring: Lee Loughridge
Cover by: Fred Harper
Published by: AHOY COMICS
Summary:
This issue starts off with “something is mutating the children”. A New Jersey senator tries to enter Tromaville to inspect the mutants that live in the town. A man with rifles tied to his weighted vest tells the media and the senator that there’s nothing special to see about Tromaville and that they should turn around. We run across Toxie as a mutant appears in a bedroom, while he recites the abuse he suffered from his bullies, which made him become the monster that he is today.
The citizens of Tromaville have had teen disappearances for a year, and many residents are blaming Toxie and putting responsibility on him to return the children back to their homes. Bonnie, a mother that lost her child to the disappearances, has made a memorial service for the missing kids, and the scenery changes to a group of teenagers hanging out late at night. There are bones everywhere, and they are hanging out in a rib cage of a dead skeleton. One girl is grabbed and pulled away, and the story switches gears after this point.
The story jumps straight into horror, as Toxie gangs up with a search team, only to find the serial killer inside of a basement of a shed, within the woods. The killer used toxic waste on his victims, impregnating a few.
The issue ends with Toxie naming the victims to honor their unnecessary deaths. He murders the killer.
This issue ends with a bittersweet feel to it; I enjoyed the slow build-up to the reveal of the victims’ circumstances and where the killer hid himself. I will say that readers are in for a treat if they like gross-out humor along with moments of calm mixed with dread.
Overall: 9/10
India Williams is a comic writer and reviewer based in Florida. She is a lifelong comics fan, with favorites including Thor, Conan, G.I. Joe, and Speed Racer. When she’s not writing comics or reviewing them, she enjoys toy photography.
