As we begin to wind down on 2021, it's time to reflect back on the year that was. Each day from now through December 30th, we'll share the 12 most popular comics from a specific genre. Then, on December 31st, we'll publish the 12 most popular titles across GlobalComix.
We're kicking this off the best way possible, by featuring comics in the Action genre. While many of these series have free previews, now is a great time to take advantage of our GlobalComix Gold holiday sale. Lock in a full year of unlimited access for only $49.99.
But enough talk, let's get to reading, shall we? Here are the 12 Action comics, in order of popularity for 2021.
1. SPLICER, 89 pages - Published by Studio Alchemy, (cc/ @Beny530)
Splicer is a multiverse governed by Gods and magic. In the darkest of times a champion has always been chosen. To return balance and protect those without the power to do so. Now the worlds are ruled by those who do not wish for that balance. It’s time for the fourth champion to rise up. It’s time for the fourth age of RAGNAROK....
Story and Art by Studio Alchemy
2. Heavy Metal, 1661 pages - Published by Heavy Metal, (cc/ @dezi)
First published in 1977, Heavy Metal, the world's foremost illustrated fantasy magazine, explores fantastic and surrealistic worlds, alternate realities, science fiction and horror, in the past present and future. Writers and illustrators from around the world take you to places you never dreamed existed. Heavy Metal was the first magazine to bring European legends Moebius, Tanino Libertore,...
Story and Art by Various
3. Sun Eater, 97 pages - Published by Heavy Metal, (cc/ @dezi)
Sun Eater is a nine-issue saga that takes place in ninth century Norway, where a drug-addled warrior sacrifices his leg to the Gods. In return he is fused with a parasitic beast, giving him the power to rescue his son from his sworn enemies—history’s first Norwegian king and his five personal guards. The result is a grim and bloody adventure—a dark metaphor for drug addiction, selfishness
Story and Art by DC Alonso, Diego Yapur, Dylan Sprouse, Joe Harris
4. Icy Dawn, 869 pages - Published by Erica Mallia, (cc/ @emallia)
UPDATES EVERY FRIDAY - Vee is about to wed, having suddenly a swarm of monsters being sent after her for something that made her the black sheet of her own village, having no other choice but to flee her village... but they are simply always on her tail. How can her life go back to normal now?
Story and Art by Erica Mallia
5. Never Never, 104 pages - Published by Heavy Metal, (cc/ @dezi)
Winter is seduced by the boy-sprite, Petros, off to the Never, Never. A place where children never grow up and adults are the enemy. What would such a place look like? Where resources are scarce. Time passes, but age is obsolete. War with adults, starved and insane from constant battle, is the norm. What would age-less boys free of civility and role-models be willing to do to survive. To live Fore
Story and Art by Heavy Metal
6. Soul Ascendance, 283 pages - Published by Bezel Leblanc, (cc/ @SpavVy)
Soul Ascendance is a story about the afterlife, where the lost souls that reside in Purgatory must hunt demons and take on other various tasks in order to earn their redemption.
Story and Art by Bezel Leblanc
7. Amber Blake: Operation Dragonfly, 30 pages - Published by Heavy Metal, (cc/ @dezi)
Abandoned by her mother at the age of 5, Amber Blake was only a child when she was recruited to the Cleverland Institute, a school for gifted children, where she was promised a bright future. But predators hide in the school's administration and, on the verge of exposing them, Amber finds herself fleeing for her life from the very man who took her in.
Story and Art by Heavy Metal
8. Onami, 50 pages - Published by Art Crumbs, (cc/ @AhkwardKat)
Pon, a clay figure is made human as an offering to the gods. It doesn't go as planned and he is cast to the bottom of the ocean. A wandering spirit named "Ohma" finds him and assists in helping him back to the surface and fight Amat, the god who rejected him as an offering.
Story and Art by Kat Jackson (Artcrumbs)
9. Wrath, 80 pages - Published by Scott Kysh, (cc/ @Kyshkumen)
Wrath is the story of a young man that discovers he has the ability to manifest his childhood trauma into a physical form.
Story and Art by Scott Kysh
10. RAGS, 235 pages - Published by New Age Ninja Corps, (cc/ @RAGS_Comix)
Regina Ragowski is a salty Marine Vet who suddenly finds herself without pants during the initial zombie outbreak in California.
Story and Art by New Age Ninja Corps
11. Blood Stained Snow, 128 pages - Published by Genji Otori, (cc/ @GenjiOtori)
Blood Stained Snow takes place in a world ruled by dragons. Only a few chosen humans are allowed to act as the dragon’s judges and death men. Feared for their madness and brutality – they are called Dragoons.
Story and Art by Genji Otori
12. Guinevere and the Divinity Factory, 139 pages - Published by Pocket Jacks Comics, (cc/ @ppoulter)
Follow Guinevere, an apprentice witch, as she must earn her place in the magical coven of The Great Wizard Gatsby.
Story and Art by Pocket Jacks Comics
And that's the list of the most popular comics in the Action genre here on GlobalComix. Congratulations to all of the incredibly talented creators that were featured here. This sorting is driven entirely by the community reading and engaging with your stories.
Most Popular of 2021 Series
- December 20: Action
- December 21: Horror
- December 22: Slice of Life
- December 23: Adventure
- December 24: Comedy
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- December 31: Most Popular on GlobalComix