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These trending stories find their anthropomorphic characters in wild and crazy situations. Those are big shoes to fill, big dreams to accomplish, and grand evils to defeat, but are they up for the challenge? Find out by reading today's What's Trending, featuring:

Succubane, 541 pages - Published by Fenris Fenn, (cc/ @Fenris)

North’s life sucks. Few friends, a crap job, and a non-existent love life. Until he’s cast into a fantasy world, bonded to a powerful weapon, and saddled with a daunting task: Eradicate a plague of ravenous succubus demons. And this weapon he’s stuck with? The succubus want it, and they’ll tear him apart to get it, body…...

Love is in the air again. With the end of year holidays drawing closer, we think of our loved ones and those we hold close. But love isn't straightforward, is it? These love stories have all the delicious turns and twists and made it into today's Popular Last Week!

Second Contact, 13 pages - Published by serakatto, (cc/ @serakatto)

A super soldier reunites with her long long alien lover turned bounty hunter.

Story and Art by serakatto

No Strings, 144 pages - Published by Novelist Nickie, (cc/ @Novelist-Nickie)

When Sophia Black shows up late for work, her life gets turned upside down as she discovers her boss has been murdered. With a...

Our Fresh Friday Features continue, and these stories keep you on the edge! A crime noir, a mind-shattering discovery, mysterious new powers, and never-ending battles with monsters. It's almost too much angst to handle!

Each week, KeepingitGeekly and ArtCrumbs have picked out four titles that they feel deserve more reads! In our line-up this week, we've got one comic from each category to give you a varied list of must-reads for your weekend!

• Comic - Espresso Detective Comic: A freshly brewed Crime Nior with hints of urban fantasy.
• Graphic Novel - Plato's Cave: A classic metaphor in comic form, with strikingly colorful art.
• Manga - Amara: A girl who...

With the holidays drawing closer, and some celebrations already beginning, let's take some time to tell those around us that we appreciate them! These stories about family, both chosen and by blood, will get the wholesome feelings flowing on today's What's Trending.

1. Boygirl, 917 pages - Published by GHOSTMAYA, (cc/ @ghostmaya)

Cris is a poor boy and full of debt. In order to pay it, he works very hard but it is still not enough. So his boss take that advantage and offer him that she will pay all of his debt by spying her daughter. So Cris accept the offer and disguise as a student of a prestigious school. Not to mention, he disguise his self as a girl.

Story and...

The end of year holidays are a magical time of year! Let's get ready with some comics about actual magic. For today's Popular Last Week, we've got a magical snake-woman, a board game with some bizarre rules, 8 powerful gods of a war-torn world, a celestial warrior, battle tournaments for fun, and a healer living a double life. Grab your magic potions, spells, books, and take some notes!
 

Lost souls, 220 pages - Published by MousyLou, (cc/ @mousylou)

Follow the journey of two Lost Souls, one a lab experiment that has only recently tasted freedom, the other a mysterious girl hiding from the world with only spirits for company. Watch how their fates collide and...

Be prepared and look around every corner of this Fresh Friday Feature by ArtCrumbs very carefully. This week,  ArtCrumbs has picked out four titles that they feel deserve more reads! In our line-up today, we've got one comic from each category to give you a varied list of must-reads for your weekend!

• Comic - Panopticon City: The last city in a climate-destroyed world, rebellion and revenge seek out a traitor.
• Graphic Novel - The Nightmare Witch: Young children with powers to make their thoughts become monsters!
• Manga - Ollie Max: A Private Investigator seeks to find a missing pet, and solve his father's murder.
• Webcomic - Naikana: A princess and a mysterious...

Have you had your gears checked lately? While you're waiting, get cranked up reading these Steampunk comics! A tragic tale of love and apocalypse, a mechanical girl, soldiers made from rain, science experiment turned superhero, and vast wastelands await in today's What's Trending, featuring:
 

Souls Foreclosed - Unholy Savior, 603 pages - Published by Sev Wildfang, (cc/ @SFE)

Oh ROTTEN WORLD in the pains of DEATH, sing one final song for us. Of the DEMONS of LUCIFER and their fight against the VAMPIRE LORDS in their CATHEDRAL HALLS. Of REAH and TABITHA, those unlikely companions, fated for LOVE and TRAGEDY. Of the twists and turns their ROAD to RUIN took. Of...

Adventure's out there! Deep forests with training grounds, mysterious dungeons, apocalyptic wastelands, jungles and more! There is so much to explore, and you don't even need a bus fare or passport this time. Just watch your step, you never know what's around the corner of this Popular Last Week, featuring.

Boy of Escremii, 156 pages - Published by Escremii Verse, (cc/ @Michaelmacc)

Following the tragic slaughtering of his entire family, young Boytashi Maru swears an oath to devote himself to the life of a knight, ensuring that peace is kept in the world. But first, Boy must be able to prove himself worthy by passing the squire selections exam. Throughout his journeys...

Our Fresh Friday Features continue, and these titles bite back! Each week, KeepingitGeekly and ArtCrumbs have picked out four titles that they feel deserve more reads! In our line-up this week, we've got one comic from each category to give you a varied list of must-reads for your weekend!

• Manga - Sleepy Hollow: A new twist on a classic tale
• Webcomic - Plague Rat: A mysterious school that trains plague doctors
• Comic - The Firewalker: A Guardian pyro-mancer fighting in a rebellious war
• Graphic Novel - MADE FLESH: a seriously creepy spider-and-evil-spirit filled house with a haunting past

Now that we've met our four fresh picks, let's dig into each of them! Ke...

Dysfunctional androids, horror after hypersleep, mecha pilots, escape from radiation, and a girl who didn't know she's an alien?! There's so much to sci-fi underneath all the shiny technology, and we've uncovered some must-read titles on today's What's Trending, featuring:

Hyper/Aware, 26 pages - Published by Source Point Press, (cc/ @TravisM)

After three astronauts are stranded in deep space, they learn that only two of them will be able to enter hypersleep for the long return home. One of the crew members makes the difficult decision to remain awake and live the rest of his life alone with only the spacecraft's onboard A.I. for company. But when...

Ah food, can't live without it and so many ways to enjoy it! Cooking contests, a bakery so good it's criminal, and foodies everywhere! If you aren't full after a meal, we've got second helpings in the form of comics all about cooking and the joys of food on this Popular Last Week, featuring:

Gourmet Glutton, 4874 pages - Published by MediBang Inc., (cc/ @MediBang)

Mantaro Ohara was just an ordinary salaryman with slightly bigger appetite. For him, eating is something to be enjoyed and the idea of food and battle does not appeal to him. But his meeting in the Pork Cutlet store with a professional competitive eater, George Hunter, gradually changes his views...

Introducing a new type of weekly features, Fresh Friday Features! Every week @KeepingitGeekly and I will be discussing 4 different comics. We'll go over their plot, their creators, and in general what we thought about the comic and why you should read them too!

With each edition of Fresh Friday Features, we'll cover one of each: Comic, Graphic Novel, Manga, and Webcomic. This ensures there is content for everyone, and we can highlight as much variety as possible! Let's dig into our featured stories today!

Petrichor, 13 pages - Published by motli, (cc/ @motli)

Bioprecipitation has claimed the world. The sun has become a dream and water floods the land. Yet,...

Nothing's more important than family, and family isn't just blood. It's the close bonds and friendships we make through both happy times and trials. Today's What's Trending embodies those concepts, full of struggle, but full of warmth, wholesome moments, and victories.

JUNKIE GENERATION, 33 pages - Published by fabandtherice, (cc/ @fabandtherice)

Cyan, an abonded juvenile tries to avange his brothers drug overdosing death and founds a small collective called “JUNKIE GENERATION”. Due to an excessive drug abuse of the young generation from his area, he makes his way to crash into the drug industry of the so called “Urbans”. A very...

Classic Halloween monsters, scandalous victorian secrets, spooky campfire stories, raising the dead, weredogs and more! This list has everything your gruesome little hearts could desire! A Top Ten of popular titles for a Halloween binge!

1. Halloween Man, 1797 pages - Published by Halloween Man Comics, (cc/ @dedwards)

Slain by a vampire, but brought back to life by arcane magic, Solomon Hitch is Halloween Man, a flesh-eating zombie with the power of the horror movie sequel! Now, with the help of his glamorous super-scientist girlfriend Lucy, reprobate Necromancer Morlack, and hedonistic demi-god Man-Goat, he defends Solar City, Texas from evil.

Story and Art by Halloween Man...

Familiar scares, new format! A world full of monsters, a vampire-college student mystery, campfire stories gone rogue, deceitful Victorian businessmen, a bizarre love letter, and a mysterious medium. We've got the scares, now give 'em the reads on today's Popular Last Week, featuring:

Silently, 141 pages - Published by Hugi, (cc/ @Hugi)

Two woman struggle to survive in a strange monster filled world.

Story and Art by Hugi

Those Who Sleep, 23 pages - Published by Yokani, (cc/ @Yokani)

She's a college student. He's a powerful vampire. A bizarre twist of fate has brought these two friends together. Now the pair must begin to...

Witches, detectives fueled by espresso, consuming nightmares, the end of the world!? We have a great mix of scary stories for you, freshly picked to give you some real variety! Our What's Trending delivers the spooky you need to get ready for Halloween next week!

If you're looking for more frights, head over to our dedicated Halloween Horror page to find chills and thrills that are sure to terrify and delight!

Hex of the Wicked Witch, 80 pages - Published by Asylum Press, (cc/ @AsylumPress)

Hex Of the Wicked Witch is set in a futuristic, decayed Salem, Massachusetts where witches, vampires, werewolves, and voodoo priests fight an endless battle for control of the city....

We've got some questions and we need answers! People have gone missing, rumors of headless monsters taking lives, and rather questionable practitioners of the occult. Can you solve the mysteries of today's What's Trending?

Hexameron, 98 pages - Published by Kel & Dark Comics, (cc/ @Kelheor)

You thought the campfire legends were not real? Well, you were wrong! -- Story by Darkstrong | Art by Kelheor

Story and Art by Kel & Dark Comics

Silently, 141 pages - Published by Hugi, (cc/ @Hugi)

Two women struggle to survive in a strange monster filled world.

Story and Art by Hugi

Love Letter, 59 pages - Publi...

Victorian criminals, a colonial family in a cursed bayou, elderly zombies, an arctic mission from 1901, and more stories come back from the past to haunt us. These malicious forces are ancient beings, creatures from another world, and sometimes, other human beings are the scariest villain of all. Fear knows no timeline on today's Popular Last Week!

Cheapjack Gentlemen, 567 pages - Published by Miss Fester, (cc/ @MissFester)

Set in a rural village during the mid-victorian era, a crafty quack doctor and a somber undertaker become mismatched partners in crime, selling cadavers to a medical school ⁠— however, certain decisions and personal differences create issues in...

The unknown is terrifying enough, but what if that unknown is coming after you with the worst of intentions? Black magic, cults, a cursed factory, a malicious fighting ring, and more things beyond our understanding of reality lurk in the shadows of today's What's Trending. Are you ready?

The Catchpenny Blood Halloween Anthology 2020-2021, 120 pages - Published by Team Diamant Comics, (cc/ @AubDiamant)

The Halloween showcase anthology collection of horror stories and art galleries featuring a variety of artists and writers. Produced by Team Diamant. Originally released in 2020 and 2021.

Story and Art by Justin Paulbearer and Rissa Blakely

John...

Are you afraid of the monsters under your bed? What about the ones in the closet? Spooks, ghosts, and other scary creatures are writhing in the contents of today's Popular Last Week. Reader beware!

A night on Point Pleasant, 27 pages - Published by Zenko, (cc/ @Zenko)

Happy spooky season from Lotti and Zenko!

Story and Art by Zenko

John Carpenter's Asylum, 806 pages - Published by Storm King Comics, (cc/ @seanstormking)

There's a war coming to the City of Angels. In tunnels beneath the city, in the dark alleys among the homeless, demons lurk and Lucifer bides his time. One man knows. One man sees. One man walks those dark streets. Father Daniel...

Spooky Season is here! Have you collected your skeleton friends? Contacted your local Werewolf pack? Nearest Zombie club? Get to it, there's no time to waste! Our latest What's Trending features some of the most-read Horror titles over the last week!

Halloween Man, 1427 pages - Published by Halloween Man Comics, (cc/ @dedwards)

Slain by a vampire, but brought back to life by arcane magic, Solomon Hitch is Halloween Man, a flesh-eating zombie with the power of the horror movie sequel! Now, with the help of his glamorous super-scientist girlfriend Lucy, reprobate Necromancer Morlack, and hedonistic demi-god Man-Goat, he defends Solar City, Texas from evil.

Story...

Are you the fastest in the West? Gunslingers, bounty hunters, medicine makers, from all kinds of country folk with stories to tell on this Popular Last Week list, featuring:

Rosewind Pass, 42 pages - Published by puppetbomb, (cc/ @puppetbomb)

A slice-of-life Western about broken people trying to make the best with what they've got. After her life is ripped away from her, Lily moves back to her mother's and struggles to figure out where she fits. Fortunately (and sometimes, unfortunately) she'll always have people around to help her.

Story and Art by puppetbomb

B.A.D Stories, 15 pages - Published by B.A.D STORIES, (cc/ @keepoursanity)

A...

Mind-bendingly freaky comics on this list will give you something to think about! Drama, mind games, or just bizarre life circumstances happen to us all. A murder, espionage, dystopias, and cryptids, the levels of strange are just getting started on our What's Trending, featuring:

Pink among Blood Red Roses, 157 pages - Published by PaisleyRose103, (cc/ @PaisleyRose103)

"Pink among Blood Red Roses" is a story about life's Duality and the pursue of Hope. It tells the journey of Rose, an 18 year old girl, who lives in the small town known as Greenville. A town that is believed to be cursed due to the numerous freak accidents and deaths that plague it. Here,...

These aren't your average magical girls! The comics on this list are full of fantastical leading women. Some are out to help and some want revenge and destruction, just don't cross any of them: a thousand-year hunt, a torn kingdom, a strange mask, a war path to the moon and more! These ladies are out on a mission for today's Popular Last Week:

Celestis, 71 pages - Published by SparkleArts, (cc/ @SparkleArts)

Yana thought she had left her life as a Celestian warrior behind. As her friendship with the Knights of Nosheau grows stronger by the day, so does imposing the threat of the Oashum Empire. Called to face the consequences of her past, her present grows more complex....

Everybody's got a secret here! A haunting past, transformations, super speed and more give us more trouble than we can shake a stick at! Grab some snacks and enjoy the tea from today's What's Trending:
 

Rechargeable, 239 pages - Published by Bilvy Jay Lee, (cc/ @bilvyy)

It's the year 2100 in New Portland, Australia. The Immortals are a reckless street gang trying to corner the market on illegal but highly advanced prosthetic technology known as CHIPs.

Story and Art by Bilvy Jay Lee

 A Stick A Stone, 37 pages - Published by Ink and Dagger Productions, (cc/ @ASAScomic)

A Southern Gothic Tale of Belonging at the End of the...