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We're thrilled to announce the arrival of Stranger Comics on GlobalComix. Our new partnership brings critically acclaimed series like Niobe: She is Life and Tales of Asunda to the ever-increasing catalog of comics available to GlobalComix Gold members.

In addition to the traditional catalog debuting today, we're launching GlobalComix Vertical Originals featuring Stranger Comics stories, including Niobe and The Untamed. Niobe is available today and The Untamed will be released on Friday 11/8.

“Stranger Comics has created one of the most original and culturally rich universes in comics with Asunda and we are honored that they are entrusting their world to us as we...

Welcome to Batman Week, the start of a weekly rotation of staff picks based on themes, characters, franchises, and more. To celebrate the arrival of DC, we're focusing the next few weeks on characters and imprints from their vast catalog.

Batman Collection

We have a great collection of Batman comics from DC available to read. We've decided to feature them all because they're all must-read comics. Check out the list below.

1. Batman (2016-), 1184 pages

THE RISE OF GOTHAM Part of the most critically acclaimed, best-selling, all-new line of volume one graphic novels, DC Universe Rebirth! He is Gotham City’s hero, its Dark Knight, its greatest protector. He...

Welcome to the November 4-10, 2024 edition of New This Week, where we feature new arrivals and updated series hitting the digital shelves of GlobalComix.

Below are new arrivals coming on board this week, including titles from BOOM! Studios, Image Comics, Vault Comics, Magma Comix, and two independent creators.

Monday, November 4, 2024

Stranger Things (Verticals) - Updated Series

When Will Byers finds himself in the Upside Down, an impossible dark parody of his own world, he's understandably frightened. But that's nothing compared with the fear that takes hold when he realizes what's in that world with him! No one escapes a Demogorgon...

Sometimes, the path to self-discovery means getting completely lost. Today's Fresh Friday Features dives into journeys where characters desire to be far from the familiar, and will face unexpected twists and challenges that ultimately lead them to new understandings of themselves. Ready to join them in finding purpose in the unknown?

This week, @ArtCrumbs picked:

• Comic - Bare Bones: Calavera, better known as the Grim Reaper, is no longer the fascinating and terrifying figure he once was.  Burn-out is looming and a vacation is in order. But without death to regulate life, the throes of conflict are gaining territory...
• Graphic Novel - The Village of Lost Memories:...

Our Creator Interview series returns with an interview fit for the frightful season. Steve Urena has been creating comics balancing humor with horror. I recently got to meet him at a Nashville Comic Arts Festival and was really pleased to get to talk with him about his work. I'm super excited to share this interview, and I'm sure you'll find it a sweet treat.

GlobalComix: Tell us a little bit about your work, yourself, and how you got into making comics!

Steve Urena: Hi! I’m Steve Urena, and I am an indie comic creator based out of CT. I’ve been writing comics since 2020 and I am best known for my horror comedies. I’ve loved comics since I was a kid...

We're heading into the final week of October, and it's time to celebrate the October 28- November 3, 2024 edition of New This Week, where we feature new arrivals and updated series hitting the digital shelves of GlobalComix.

Below are new arrivals coming on board this week, including some new GC Vertical Originals and titles from Top Cow, TKO Studios, and Vault Comics. With lots of autumn festivals coming up, we've also included a selection of appropriately themed titles from independent creators!

Monday, October 28, 2024

The Witches of World War II (Verticals) - New Arrival
Published by TKO Studios

In the darkest hours of World...

We're back home from New York Comic Con, and it's time to celebrate the October 21-27, 2024 edition of New This Week, where we feature new arrivals hitting the digital shelves of GlobalComix.

Below are new arrivals coming on board this week, including some new GC Vertical Originals and titles from BOOM! Studios, Bad Egg Publishing, Bandai Card Games, Vault Comics, and two independent creators.

Monday, October 21, 2024

The Killer Pass - Updated Series

The Killer Pass. A comic that tells the story of a young boy who has an excellent talent for playing soccer.

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Tuesday, October 22, 2024

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We're proud to announce a collaboration that brings some of the most iconic DC storylines to GlobalComix. Starting today, a variety of DC and DC Vertigo’s biggest franchises like Batman, Superman, Catwoman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, and Suicide Squad will be available to read on GlobalComix, anywhere in the world.

Subscribe to GlobalComix Gold today to get unlimited access to all DC comics.

Some of the marquee titles available at launch include:

• DC’s flagship series BATMAN VOLUMES 1-7, written by award-winning writer Tom King
• CATWOMAN VOLUMES 1-6: COPYCATS, written and drawn by Eisner Award nominee Joëlle Jones
• DOOM PATROL VOLUMES 1-6, featuring...

Welcome to the October 14-20, 2024 edition of New This Week, where we feature new arrivals hitting the digital shelves of GlobalComix.

Below are new arrivals coming on board this week, including BOOM! Studios, Image Comics, Bad Egg Publishing, NBM Publishing, and two independent creators.

Monday, October 14, 2024

Mr. Lovenstein Presents: Feelings - New Arrival

LIVE. LAUGH. LOVENSTEIN.      
Get ready to catch feelings in this brand-new collection of MR. LOVENSTEIN comics, including exclusive never-before-seen comics that can’t be found anywhere else. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, and you’ll wonder if the...

Welcome to the October 7-October 13, 2024 edition of New This Week, where we feature new arrivals hitting the digital shelves of GlobalComix.

Below are new arrivals coming on board this week, including The Autumn Kingdom from Oni Press, the BRZRKR - Deluxe Edition from BOOM! Studios, three new releases of Get Fuzzy from Andrews McMeel Publishing and much more! Read on for the full list of new arrivals and updated series!

Monday, October 7, 2024

The Autumn Kingdom - New Arrival

In the borderlands between imagination and reality, horror and fantasy, master storyteller Cullen Bunn (The Sixth Gun, Harrow County) and visionary artist Christopher Mitten...

Your most intrusive thoughts and the darkest of wishes are answered in today's Fresh Friday Features. From a collection of twisted anthologies to haunting pasts and stunning secrets coming to light, indulge in the dark fantasies within these pages.

This week, @ArtCrumbs picked:

• Comic - Tales from the Cave: Just in time for Halloween, Mad Cave Studios is proud to present readers three treats: a spooky Nottingham story from Hazan, Volk, Romano, and Birch; a Battlecats “tail” featuring teenage felines tempting fate; and a Hunt. Kill. Repeat. battle over technology.
• Comic - Universal Monsters: The Creature From The Black Lagoon Lives!: Years after the events of...

Welcome to the September 30-October 6, 2024 edition of New This Week, where we feature new arrivals hitting the digital shelves of GlobalComix.

Below are new arrivals coming on board this week, including Blood Queen from Dynamite Entertainment, Stoneheart from Image Comics, and The Darkness: Verticals from Top Cow. Read on for the full list of new arrivals!

Don't forget that we're running a time-limited promotion on GlobalComix Gold. Get one year for only $59.99 here. This promotion ends October 5, 2024, at 11:59 PM PDT.

Monday, September 30, 2024

Blood Queen - New Arrival

The reign of blood begins! Dynamite Entertainment proudly...

Welcome to the September 23-29, 2024 edition of New This Week, where we feature new arrivals hitting the digital shelves of GlobalComix.

Below are new arrivals coming on board this week, including Deprog Vol. 1 from Dead Sky Publishing, Spawn: Bad Business from Image Comics, and Cyber Force: Shootout from Top Cow. Read on for the full list of new arrivals!

Monday, September 23, 2024

Deprog Volume One - New Arrival

Deprog is a new detective thriller from Tina Horn (SfSx) and Lisa Sterle (Witchblood) that's John Constantine meets Jessica Jones with a kinky Midsommar twist. Meet Tate Debs, a hardboiled hard drinking leather loving dyke...

Ahoy, ye scallywags! Feast yer eyes on this week's What's Trending, full o' tales filled with swashbucklin' pirates, daring deeds, and seas ripe for plunder! These six comics be sure to quench yer thirst for adventure on the high seas. Arrr!

Heathen, 351 pages - Published by Vault Comics, (cc/ @VaultComics)

SMASHING THE PATRIARCHY – Viking Style! WOMAN. WARRIOR. VIKING. HEATHEN. OUTCAST. THE GODS MUST PAY… Born into a time of warfare, suffering, and subjugation of women, and exiled from her village for kissing another woman, the lesbian Viking warrior, Aydis, sets out to destroy the god-king Odin and end his oppressive reign. Aydis is a viking, a...

Our Creator Interview series returns with Sean Wood, writer of The Fog Within. Its hero has an incredibly unique set of powers, with lots of homage to some of the best comics of the 1990s. The third issue is also currently on Kickstarter, already having blasted past its intended goal! I'm excited to share this unique comic with you and the mind behind it.

GlobalComix: Thank you for joining us today! Tell us a little bit about your The Fog Within, yourself, and how you got into making comics!

Sean Wood: My name is Sean Wood and The Fog Within is my first chance to write my own comic. I was born into this comic book world. My dad had built up a collection from the mid...

Welcome to the September 16-21, 2024 edition of New This Week, where we feature new arrivals hitting the digital shelves of GlobalComix.

Below are new arrivals coming on board this week, including Deep Cuts and Time^2 from Image comics, titles with some of the more fearsome women around from Dynamite Entertainment: Disney Villains: Maleficent, and Vampirella Masters, as well as the biographical Proxy Mom from NBM Publishing and the heart-string puller Missing You from Oni Press.

Monday, September 16th

Deep Cuts - New Arrival

New Orleans, 1917: a clarinet player meets his hero. Kansas City, 1940: a young girl investigates the mystery of her...

Need a hero? Look to those around you and deep within yourself. Today's Fresh Friday Features will remind you that good people exist all around us, and sometimes, you must step up and save yourself. Perhaps you'll even be motivated to be someone else's hero after reading these inspiring titles.

This week, @ArtCrumbs picked:

• Comic - Immortals: Gods and Heroes: A stunning, two-sided hardcover featuring ALL-NEW tales of Greek myths as you've never seen them before!
• Graphic Novel - Sennen: A beautiful coming-of-age tale, packed with adventure and magic with a backdrop that outlines the importance of family. Sennen is the debut graphic novel from exciting new...

Turn the page into enchanting realms where magic and passion intertwine in our What's Trending with themes of love and fantasy. These titles explore the beauty and complexities of relationships in otherworldly settings, filled with mystical creatures, epic adventures, and heartwarming moments. Whether it's a forbidden love or a timeless bond spanning lifetimes, these tales of love will captivate your heart.

The Wicked + The Divine, 1736 pages - Published by Image Comics, (cc/ @GCpartnerships)

Every ninety years, twelve gods incarnate as humans. They are loved. They are hated. In two years, they are dead. The team behind critical tongue-attractors like Young Avengers...

We're excited to unveil a new season of GlobalComix Vertical Originals, led by Stranger Things, based on the beloved Netflix series. The Stranger Things vertical stories will be presented in traditional and special “Upside Down” scrolling experiences. Additional vertical titles debuting today include Marjorie Finnegan: Temporal Criminal and Casual Fling from AWA Studios, The Darkness from Top Cow / Image, Humanoids’ Urban Legendz, TKO’s The Pull, The Banks, and Lonesome Days, Savage Nights, Vault Comics’ Heavy, and Bad Egg’s GODSLAP.

As we grow GC Vertical Originals, we're working closely with publishers to help...

GlobalComix is excited to announce a partnership with Dark Horse, including the arrival of the greatest hits from the Dark Horse catalog. In addition to the release of classics like The Witcher and Hellboy, Stranger Things, based on the hit Netflix series, will be available as a GlobalComix Vertical Original with more on the horizon! The Stranger Things verticals include a standard edition, and a special “Stanger Things - Upside Down” scrolling experience.

“As the graphic fiction industry continues to evolve, GC Vertical Originals is something our team is incredibly passionate about sharing with the world as we look to bring the best selection of comics...

Welcome to the September 9th-14th edition of New This Week, where we feature new arrivals hitting the digital shelves of GlobalComix.

Below are new arrivals this week, including exciting titles like The Sixth Gun and EC Cruel Universe from Oni Press, Antarctica, Blood Commandment, and BloodStrike: Battle Blood from Image Comics, and the ever-nostalgic Nancy Drew Omnibus from Dynamite Entertainment.

Monday, September 9th

The Sixth Gun - New Arrival

The ultimate collection for obsessive fans and new readers alike—Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt’s iconic western, The Sixth Gun, is available for the first time in newly redesigned softcover omnibus...

With Autumn and Spring quickly coming upon our world, it's time to turn over a new leaf and embrace change. This week's Fresh Friday Features is here to show us change can be constructive or destructive. These characters are taking control over their lives, but not all will end up changing for the better.

This week, @ArtCrumbs picked:

• Comic - Rose: A classic fantasy tale about a girl trying to restore balance to a broken world. Rose must connect with her Khat Thorne to become the Guardian her world needs.
• Graphic Novel - FOOBUN: A Rabbit stranded in the afterlife, begs to be returned to the real world to rejoin their friend Foo Bun. Our tale follows the duo as they...

Crowdfunding is a group effort, and we're partnering today with Crowdfundr to give a boost to comics with active campaigns! Take a gander at these 3 comics that need your help to come to life:

1. “Stay Weird!” Horror Magazine by Undertow Publications

Campaign link: https://crowdfundr.com/weirdhorror

Description: Weird Horror Magazine - a labor of love.

Weird Horror magazine debuted in 2021 with a single issue. Since then they have produced 2 issues per year, for a total of 9 issues as of autumn 2024. Stories from Weird Horror have been selected for a number of 'Year's Best' anthologies, and favourably reviewed in Locus and other venues. Each...

Today's What's Trending features thrilling graphic novels that will keep your heart racing and you on the edge of your seat.  From gripping mysteries to intense psychological twists and unexpected turns at every page, if you’re a fan of adrenaline-pumping plots and high-stakes drama, this list is for you!

The Silver Eyes - Project Charlotte, 263 pages - Published by Vsemily, (cc/ @Vsemily)

A fan-adaption of Scott Cawthon and Kira Breed-Wrisley's "The Silver Eyes". With some things changing or staying the same, this graphic novel offers a unique look onto the novel that fans of the original may enjoy. Based on the Five Night's at Freddy's...

Creator Appreciation Month is winding down, but that doesn't mean there isn't more to celebrate! I've whipped up a list of the Top 10 series by creators during August. In the future, we plan to host more special lists to celebrate creators across many themes, including the most popular of the month, crowdfunding, and more. Thank you for being part of our community here on GlobalComix!

1. The Dragoness Says Sit!, 625 pages - Published by Fafnir Fenn, (cc/ @FafnirFenn)

Flare the Dragon is tired of humans leaving their sacrificial trash on her doorstep. And she certainly doesn't want this tiny blue-haired reject... or does she?

Story and Art by Fafnir Fenn

&...