DTOX #0 is a prelude to a series that has yet to come into fruition, but hopefully will, based upon the ingenious insanity of this sneak peek. Set in a postapocalyptic Detroit world where nuclear rain has turned the populace into mutants, the story sports a hulking hero in the titular DTOX, who roams the ravaged land in his super-vertical tank, detoxifying the town.
That means melting mutants with green goo, and there’s plenty of them to go around. In this 12-page story, a flaxen-haired hottie named Killvixen is molested and nearly killed by a band of monsters before being saved by DTOX, who’s clad in camouflage, a gas mask and a helmet, and carries lotsa weapons.
Creatures include the “asexual abomination” Hypnorg, who shoots poison darts from his chest, and Helldog, a canine with a human hand where his head should be. Concept art comprising the second half of this magazine-sized “special biohazard edition” reveals more villains, presumably to come into play later, such as the Ukranian refugee turned turd known as Sfinktor. Inspired moniker, that.
DTOX plays like a HEAVY METAL adaptation of a Troma film written and directed by Rob Zombie, and I mean that as high praise. In just a dozen pages, writer Frank Forte and artist Nenad Gucunja have established a nutty, nasty world full of crazed characters. I hope they intend to revisit it, because I’d brave life and limb to be there. —Rod Lott
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