Welcome to the GlobalComix Most Popular of 2023, our annual feature series celebrating the most popular stories over the past year on GlobalComix. This year, we’re featuring the top 10 from publishers and the top 10 from creators for each category.
We’ll cap things off on January 1, 2024, with two features: the top 10 overall from publishers, and the top 10 overall from creators.
Without further ado, here are the top 10 most popular Thriller series by Publishers:
Published by ABLAZE, 179 pages
From the artist of the bestselling Faithless series…comes Eros/Psyche. “The Rose” female boarding school is paradise for young girls…but only if you follow the rules. Because, if you disobey them, you can end up expelled, or even worse, dead.
Story and Art by ABLAZE
Published by Mad Cave Studios, 121 pages
John Tiffany is one of the best bounty hunters in the world. Given his precarious line of work, he has found that he can only truly trust four people: Pastor Lovejoy, an unorthodox priest; Wan Chao, an underworld geek; Dorothy, his conservative teammate; and Magdalena, a sex worker he has foolishly fallen in love with. But it seems that one of them has turned against him and now he’s the one with a bounty on his head. It’s a race against time as he tries to survive being a high-priced target and find out which of his confidantes is the traitor.
Story and Art by Mad Cave Studios
Published by Neil Gibson's Twisted Comics, 136 pages
Amputation Capital is a dystopian present where celebrities and influencers sell body parts on a publicly-traded skin market. The story focuses on three characters that are displaced and objectified by the skin business. Alfie is a lowly skin trader who has dreams of becoming a CEO, Morgan is a recently divorced actress who sold her ring finger for 2 million dollars and Walter is a former pornstar who makes a symbolic gesture of solidarity after appearing in a porn film with trafficked women. Amputation Capital is Death of a Salesman meets Saw.
Story and Art by Neil Gibson's Twisted Comics
Published by ABLAZE, 180 pages
First ABLAZE brought you the surreal, bewitching tale of Maria Llovet’s Eros/Psyche...now comes Porcelain. Beryl’s life in the desert, living with her aunt and her cat, is relatively simple…until the day she finds and enters the Dollhouse. Stuck inside an ever changing mystery house that hunts children and turns them into dolls, Beryl goes on a psychedelic journey where she must face the notion of her own limitations and move past them...before she becomes the building’s newest prey.
Story and Art by ABLAZE
Published by Neil Gibson's Twisted Comics, 1290 pages
Twisted Dark is a series of interconnected psychological thrillers, perfect for fans of twist endings and comics that reveal more on the second reading. Each story stands alone, but the more you read, the more connections you see between the characters. A rotating team of talented artists draw the stories, with each style offering something new. For bonus stories or more details visit www.tpub.co.
Story and Art by Neil Gibson's Twisted Comics
Published by TKO Studios, 169 pages
Online celebrity Kellyn West, who just recently dispatched "her" own stalker-slash-serial killer Clay Coogan on a live stream, finds herself the newest resident of a safe haven for 'endemic victims' known as Sacred Lamb. When the body count starts rising inside the barbed wire fences, Kellyn must team up with the original survivor girl, known only as "The Babysitter." Together they must rally the other EVs and withstand an army of slashers at their door, seemingly back from the dead, and definitely back for blood.
Story and Art by Jelena Đorđević-Maksimović, Steve Wands, Tim Seeley
Published by Humanoids, 124 pages
An edge-of-your-seat thriller spiced with Milo Manara's gorgeous erotic sensibility. PUBLICATION IN 1 VOLUME - COMPLETED WORK. Pandora is a beautiful young woman living with her adoptive parents in a major European city. Out of the blue, she learns that her real father might be a terrible mob boss wanted by the international authorities. When she is kidnappe…
Story and Art by Francesco Gaston, Milo Manara, Vincenzo Cerami
Published by Humanoids, 402 pages
A contemporary "Heart of Darkness" recounting one woman's globe-spanning adventures in search of a long-lost brother. PUBLICATION IN 7 VOLUMES - COMPLETED WORK After the death of her father, Red Cross nurse Vera Michailov discovers a stunning family secret: she was a conjoined twin and has a brother she was separated from at birth. Left behind when the famil…
Story and Art by Boro Pavlovic and Christian Perrissin
Published by Neil Gibson's Twisted Comics, 142 pages
Luke works as a mailman in Los Angeles and moonlights as a thief — the empty houses on his postal route are rich, easy pickings for him and his friends. Everything goes as planned until one house turns out to not quite be so empty. The situation spirals out of control, leaving the happy-go-lucky thieves battling for their lives. And all because of Tabatha.
Story and Art by Neil Gibson's Twisted Comics
Published by Arcana Comics, 136 pages
Truck driver Cletus McCoy only wants one thing: to get back home and save his Mama from a fate worse than death. But, in a world crumbling into a vampire apocalypse, that is easier said than done. Cletus will have to truck his way through an emerging nation of bloodthirsty monsters hell-bent on making him supper. Guns, guts, and a boy named Sumbitch are our hero's only hope!
Story and Art by Arcana Comics
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