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Beach Bod Dreams, Biohazard Nightmares: Welcome to Toxic Summer

The Curator
Apr 14
1 min read

Welcome to the world of Toxic Summer.

What starts as the perfect post-graduation summer turns into a neon-lit, slime-soaked nightmare in Toxic Summer — a madcap, monster-packed mystery from Eisner Award-winner Derek Charm (Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Jughead).

Ben and Leo had one mission: flex their lifeguard cred, soak up the sun, and maybe catch the eye of the local beach hunks. But paradise quickly curdles when a toxic spill turns Port Dorian’s pristine shores into a rank graveyard of dead fish and radioactive goo. Goodbye beach bods, hello biohazard duty.

Things get weirder (and wetter) fast. After dragging a local historian with glowstick eyes out of the surf, the boys find themselves knee-deep in tentacled terror. Locals are vanishing in the dead of night, dragged into the deep by monsters that make Jaws look like a goldfish.

With time running out and the summer slipping through their sandy fingers, Ben and Leo join forces with the town’s only other surviving teens to crack the case, save their sun-kissed haven, and maybe - just maybe - rescue their summer of hunks and hijinks before it sinks beneath the waves forever.

Collects Toxic Summer #1–3.