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🏴‍☠️ This be the gold we've been lookin' fer! We gentlemen o' fortune 'ave taken o'er the featured comics list! Make us 'appy by readin' these popularrr series from last week! Afterwards, we might give them aft to ye!

1. Unluckies, 529 pages - Published by Neon Hell, (cc/ @Peachy-Keene)

Magical girl Lilyfeather escapes an arranged marriage by joining a crew of pirate hunters in this high-seas tale of love, luck, and zombies!

Story and Art by Neon Hell

2. The Very Gay Adventures, 152 pages - Published by Very Gay Comics, (cc/ @RavenAndLily)

A daily comic that follows the comedic adventures of two WLW lovers....

We've got some never-featured and recently updated LGBTQ+ titles today. Going beyond just friendship or romance, these titles add a little action, elemental chemistry, galactic space travel, super-humans, and Appalachian cryptids! There's so much to discover in today's What's Trending, featuring:

1. Vindicaris, 549 pages - Published by Serpyra, (cc/ @serpyra)

Vindicaris is a scifi/action comic about Periodica: soldiers of the Periodic Elements. The story follows Ces and Sel: two rogue Periodica on their quest for revenge against their own creators. Along the way, they must combat gangs, other Periodica, and their own moral conflicts. Series contains violent...

No matter what console you started on, they can bring out the best of us! Friends joining together to beat a villain in multiplayer, entering the game to play as the villain, or falling in love with the villain's son?! What kind of games ARE these? Let's play and find out with today's Popular Last Week, featuring:

1. The Final Boss's Son Loves the Protagonist, 198 pages - Published by Bwillett Comics, (cc/ @bwillett)

With the Sword of the Four Goddesses, a chosen hero will destroy the dark lord Arenjee. To stop him, Arenjee sends his son Ozmodeus to kill the hero before he can get to the dark lord. However, poor Oz finds he has a problem, he’s fallen in love...

What's better than fighting machinery and robots? Mecha and fighting tech has been growing in popularity, with science experiments, battle suits, dedicated family robots and Sentai-styled battle cats, there's much to be excited about. Grab the WD40 and polish that metal as we dive into today's What's Trending, featuring:

1. Deathrage, 96 pages - Published by Merc Publishing, (cc/ @mercmagazine)

In the year 1985, Mark Freeman signs up to be the first of a new line of Spartan super soldier. Something goes wrong in the experiment, and he doesn't turn out at all like they wanted. This six issue standalone story will tell the origin of MERC's Deathrage!

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Ever wonder what it is like to be a space janitor? A superhero? Maybe a lowly worker with a hellish boss? Maybe an angelic one would be better instead? With today's Popular Last Week, you can find out, featuring:

1. Space Cleaners, 48 pages - Published by Space Cleaners, (cc/ @WeirdElf)

Space Cleaners is an agency that is in charge of promoting cleaning jobs to prisoners and refugees in order to pay their pensions or get financial support, from dismantling to evidence removal, depending on the request of the clients. In this organization works Renzo, an janitor who works in exchange for a refuge, in order to become independent and find his own place, will be the one to guide...

Love is in the air once again! We've got new loves to fawn over and some favorites to check up on! A young harpy meeting her first humans, workplace relationships, a fiancé who isn't who he seems and more! There's something to love for everyone on today's What's Trending, featuring:

1. Sunrise Blossom, 1743 pages - Published by Nina D. Aberlein Comics, (cc/ @NinaDAberlein)

Ivy is a young harpy who is separated from her sister while travelling to learn about human culture. After running into a Violet, a human woman who takes her in, Ivy slowly starts blooming into womanhood, while developing feelings for her human companion.

Story and Art by Nina...

National Sports day is celebrated all over the world in honor of their national sports teams as well as the traditional sports of those countries. We've got some racing, wrestling, biking, roller derby, hand-to-hand sparring and cricket in today's Popular Last Week, featuring:

1. Triple Crown, 72 pages - Published by Mythoverse Comics, (cc/ @MythoverseComics)

The daughter of the greatest racing driver in history devotes her life to completing her family's legacy, by reaching the pinnacle of racing: The Triple Crown of Motorsport. She must master all of the most difficult racing disciplines, navigate rivalries, politics, and death defying speed in her single minded...

Living on an island can have its perks, and its downsides. This What's Trending list contains strange local mythologies, underwater cities, sirens, lemurs, and vikings! We hope you like the smell of saltwater, featuring:

1. Godsbane • 祟り神, 25 pages - Published by Art Crumbs, (cc/ @ArtCrumbs)

In 1891, Aros, a village doctor, sells his soul attempting to revive a colleague who can save them from apocalypse. Too bad she wants to stay dead and doesn't want to help! Now Aros must balance life as a healer and a killer in order to save his island from being burned to the ground.

Story and Art by Art Crumbs

2. Rai (2014), 1364 pages - Publi...

We've got some never-featured comedy titles full of new reasons to laugh! Finding your forgotten past, monsters, heroes, romance, and... aliens in toilets, we bet this list can get us to the weekend in good spirits. Have a laugh with today's What's Trending, featuring:

1. Heart Rock Titan, 44 pages - Published by Burak Cengiz, (cc/ @burakxir)

Stressed at work, broke, overweight, lonely and heartbroken. Here comes Pam! Like most people Pam just wants to have a normal and happy life. Yet, in a world that‘s inhabited by all kinds of different people she still struggles to fit in because she looks like no other person. Having no memory about her origin from an early...

Varying in size, shape, and abilities, dragons appear all over the world in almost every culture. The stories on this list are a reflection of that, many dragons, in many forms and many roles in society. Set aside all you think you know about dragons, and enjoy today's Popular Last Week, featuring:

1. 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

2. Chasing the Dragon, 136...

Being stuck in limbo can be scary. And no, I'm not talking about a Groundhog Day scenario where you're stuck dancing forever. Although that could actually be fun, come to think of it.

The limbo I'm referring to for this week's What's Trending is that place in the afterlife that leaves a spirit stuck in the between. Not quite alive, and not quite gone, these spirits all have one thing in common: great stories.

Enjoy, and let us know your favorites in the comments!

Soul Ascendance, 314 pages - Published by Bezel Comix, (cc/ @BezelLeblanc)

Soul Ascendance is a story about the afterlife, where the lost souls that reside in Purgatory must hunt demons and take...

Did you know August 8th is International Cat Day? Grab your favorite furball, a bag of treats, and a soft blanket to knead. We've got enough stories on today's Popular Last Week to keep you purring for days!

1. Afterglow, 84 pages - Published by Space Between Entertainment, (cc/ @patshand)

The Glowing ended the world as we know it, leaving the survivors with an Earth painted with dangerous, glowing colors. Now, a girl named Lacey discovers her late mother's journal that foretells another apocalyptic event and sets out with her giant mutant cat to save what’s left of the world.

Story and Art by Jim Campbell, K. Lynn Smith, Pat Shand, Shannon Lee

We are getting one last hurrah before the winter and summer seasons end and the school year returns! The beats in our What's Trending will get us jammin', featuring:

1. Melodic Remedy, 57 pages - Published by Melodic Remedy Comix, (cc/ @jsawhney)

Melodic Remedy is an anthology series encompassing different stories about music curing problems.

Story and Art by Melodic Remedy Comix

2. Dead Beats, 335 pages - Published by A Wave Blue World, (cc/ @tyler)

The Dead Beats music shop is filled with deadly secrets. Run by the mysterious Shoppe Keeper, customers can browse through cursed records, evil sheet music, and instruments of the damned! Our...

Today's Popular Last Week contains stories of love, a magical necklace, school hi-jinks, and a mysterious story about two young women a century apart. There's something here for everyone to feel included!

1. Lesser Evils, 114 pages - Published by AWA Studios, (cc/ @WillGraves)

Welcome to Brooklyn Through the Looking Glass, where a golem with benefits, a spiraling genie, a demon who feeds on bad vibes, and a promising young mermaid collide with heartbroken, hard-living, hype-obsessed humans. Lesser Evils is a hilarious, pop culture-filled universe that explores what intimacy, spite, selflessness, and friendship mean today.

Story and Art by AWA Studios

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Like nature itself, today's What's Trending is balanced between those who seek to save nature and those who seek to protect themselves from nature. The nature out there is something we rely on, but occasionally we are reminded that we are at its mercy, featuring:

1. The Valiant (2014), 427 pages - Published by Valiant, (cc/ @Valiant)

A battle ten millennia in the making… The Eternal Warrior has protected the Earth for more than 10,000 years. A master of countless weapons and long forgotten martial arts, he is guided by the Geomancers – those who speak for the Earth. During his long watch, the Eternal Warrior has failed three times. Each time, the...

From medical mysteries, to selling skin, grave robbers, and facing the past, this list has all sorts of strange tales from the medical field for today's Popular Last Week, featuring:

1. Division 5, 110 pages - Published by Roselinath, (cc/ @roselinath)

Arch Extent has spent years finding a cure for Cosmos Plague with very little results. Earth is on its last leg before hitting extinction. That is...until he meets a huntress on Division 5. Meet Winter: the potential cure for Cosmos Plague. What do you think happens when a scientist meets a huntress who is immune to Cosmos Plague?

Story and Art by Roselinath

2. Amputation Capital, 82 pages - Publish...

Schools out for many of us, and we need something fun to do! Cricket sounds fun, maybe racing, basketball? What about roller derby? Get your gear on and let's play for today's What's Trending, featuring:

1. Batsman, 74 pages - Published by WagaComix, (cc/ @WagaComix)

Haku Mizorogi is in his final year of high school. It’s also the season for the annual national high school baseball competition (Ko-shien). Haku’s dream is to become a professional baseballer, and to be a top batter! As such, Haku doesn’t believe in half-heartedness. His competitive drive is to pit himself against the strongest pitchers, so that he can give it his “All or...

Digital Consciousness, mind control, tech savy demons fighting heaven, and a kiwi-man? Lots more cyber-trouble where that came from, for today's Popular Last Week, featuring:

1. Effluent of Styx, 98 pages - Published by Theo, (cc/ @noi01)

In a world where technology allows a person's mind to be digitalised upon passing away, at least if one believes the marketing, a detective investigates a suspicious death and an AI sets out to become a human. A cyberpunk neo-noir drama.

Story and Art by Theo

2. Citizen Five, 87 pages - Published by Rapphirica, (cc/ @Rapphirica)

A new and advanced form of mind-control is plaguing the city of Novus, and...

Aliens moving to Earth, aspiring dart players, second chances for monsters, and meeting yourself 17 years into the future, completely normal right? All in a day's work and more for these Slice of Life comics and manga on today's What's Trending, featuring:

1. Monday's Forecast for Hareyakana-shi, 96 pages - Published by Chopsuey, (cc/ @chopsuey)

Hareyakana-shi is a city in Japan known locally as the city of redemption. Wholly unrelated, "Monday's Forecast for Hareyakana-shi" is both a depressing and casually erotic tale of 4 estranged youths and their day-to-day adventures in finding the meaning in life, or whatever comes close. Also, one of them is...

Summer and Winter break are here, and we've got your fix for all things technology for our Popular Last Week! Robots, Video games, conspiracies, and strange colorful sentient beings, don't forget the charger on this adventure, featuring:


1. Not All Robots, 105 pages - Published by AWA Studios, (cc/ @WillGraves)

In the year 2056, robots have replaced human beings in the workforce. An uneasy co-existence develops between the newly intelligent robots and the ten billion humans living on Earth. Every human family is assigned a robot upon whom they are completely reliant. What could possibly go wrong?

Story and Art by AWA Studios

2. I am the...

A Necromancer's talking hair, contracts with gods, fights between realms, barbarians, an arranged marriage, and celestial warriors, are all on tap in today's What's Trending PACKED with magical plots. Grab your grimoire and some potions, you'll be spellbound by the end of this list, featuring:


1. Necroblivion™, 164 pages - Published by Haunted Pixel Studio, (cc/ @cantrell)

When a young woman named Umbra (who has the soul of a thief trapped in her hair) accepts a contract and unknowingly releases a tyrant from his prison, she and her unwitting companion are thrust into the middle of a war for the very survival of the realm. ( New issue every month!...

Cogs and hot steam surround us for today's Popular Last Week! We've got princes, old-fashioned mysteries, a quiet clockmaker, and an unsettling ring to get the gears turning, featuring:

1. Crowned Vessel, 270 pages - Published by Dreadstrive, (cc/ @Dreadstrive)

Most of the royal family is dead. The gods are missing. A city of prisoners hides dark secrets. A curious prince gets more than he bargained for when he ventures into the walled city of Gloaming, and returns with the ability to change the world.

Story and Art by Dreadstrive

2. Electromagnetic, 100 pages - Published by Maximized Comics, (cc/ @maximized)

Britain is at war with India as...

For our last Pride Month Feature, we've got some more never-before-featured LGBTQ+-themed comics on today's What's Trending! From fantastical worlds to the classroom to crime mysteries, we've got a story for you!

1. Sunrise Blossom, 1494 pages - Published by Nina D. Aberlein Comics, (cc/ @NinaDAberlein)

Ivy is a young harpy who is separated from her sister while travelling to learn about human culture. After running into a Violet, a human woman who takes her in, Ivy slowly starts blooming into womanhood, while developing feelings for her human companion.

Story and Art by Nina D. Aberlein Comics

2. Blooming Bones, 392 pages - Published...

Heed me, brave reader, there be beasties in this list! Monsters and creatures never seen before: those who can fight ye with martial arts, some only the chosen can see, some will offer you contracts, and some… cook for you? What do monsters eat? Hopefully not us!

1. BIGFOOT KNOWS KARATE, 32 pages - Published by Dan Price, Caged Rhino Productions, (cc/ @danomyte139)

A gentle, but deadly cryptid warrior must do battle with KUNG FU 'THULHU. Think Godzilla vs. Kong meets Kill Bill. by Dan Price and Casey T. Allen.

Story and Art by Dan Price, Caged Rhino Productions

2. Way of the Kitchen King, 10 pages - Published by FriedRice Comics, (cc/ @Grim...

Science Fiction is something of an interesting genre. Some consider it to be about stories based in the future, while others believe it can be rooted in any time period, so long as science is involved.

I personally believe science fiction is about the human imagination, big ideas, and practicality. One thing is for certain; no matter the time period, science fiction stokes the fires of human ingenuity. It's no doubt that many of the devices we use today are rooted in the science fiction of the past.

As we head into the weekend, let's take a look at what's trending in the sci-fi genre. We've included the top six below, but you can find the full list here.

1. Bior...