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 Creators:
The Silver Eyes - Project Charlotte
Published by Vsemily, 263 pages
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 video games, it follows a young woman named Charlotte who returns to her hometown 10 years after a tragic series of missing kids goes unanswered. Meeting up with her old friends, she explores the now abandoned pizzeria her father created, as well as it's child entertainment animatronics. But things turn when a murderous hand strikes again.
Story and Art by Vsemily
Published by Llewellyn, 387 pages
“If you want to live, there is only one rule: you cannot fall in love." Suffering from an oddly selective amnesia, lonely youth Kyo believes to have finally reunited with his beloved friend Sora. As they learn of love & the dark secrets they share, they find their own inner-demons may be more real and tormented than they imagined. A tragic slow-burn dark-fantasy unfolds~ *TEN DAY SCHEDULE*
Story and Art by Llewellyn
Published by Lost Between Worlds, 171 pages
Gwynn, a Grim reaper whose job is to collect the souls of the dead and take them to the afterlife, has a new target. Her mark, a man claiming to have Dissociative identity disorder, tells her the guy she is looking for is the other persona not currently in charge of the body. Unsure if the man is lying to find a loophole to cheat death, she returns to the afterlife to get answers-but hears more than that. She hears of an impending apocalypse that will reset the whole universe in 24 hours. Gwynn must now keep the man by her side as she tries to stop the apocalypse before time runs out.
Story and Art by Lost Between Worlds
Published by TenToons Comics, 77 pages
The story is set in Alaska. Doyun, a teenager with autism, travels from South Korea to meet his mother for the first time. There he meets Jason Griffin, a charismatic botanist who works for his mother. Everything seemed to be going well until someone started a manhunt in the area.
Story and Art by TenToons Comics
Published by Yuumelish, 1690 pages
Luro Aerin used to be a wholehearted explorer, but Luro's life hasn't been the same after his best friend's disappearance. With exploration now being a crime, Luro will search for the explorers to get what he needs, answers. Everything will take a radical turn when he meets the explorers Hiro and Iracha, who will bring him back to that former life. Beginning a surreal, musical and dangerous journey that will uncover many truths, truths that will go beyond human understanding...
Story and Art by Yuumelish
Published by Helenicchi, 313 pages
[Updates every wednesday!] The young adult Haru Genichi dreams of one thing: becoming a psychologist like his dear grandpa. However, fate chose something else for him: he now is a secret agent under the FPA, the Future Project Association. Here Haru will face dangerous criminals, drama between the other agents, mysterious substances that grant power and much more...
Story and Art by Helenicchi
Published by Llyrel, 143 pages
When the cult that destroyed his life comes back to spread terror in town, Adrian knows that it’s time for the coven to reunite. Except that the old members are dead and the only person who could help him is powerless. Will Adrian find the allies he needs before it is too late?
Story and Art by Llyrel
Published by Terletski Comics, 160 pages
The closed socialist republic of Sobakistan opens its borders to the heads of friendly states and selected journalists in honor of the rehearsal for the funeral of the leader of the republic, Comrade Friendo. What could go wrong? Anything! A bit of the style of the closed countries of the socialist camp in the eighties, a bit of anthropomorphic animals, a pinch of spy passions. Book 1. Writer - Vitalii Terletckii. Artist - Katya. Translation - Eugenia Astafieva.
Story and Art by Terletski Comics
Published by Spelledeg, 65 pages
80s crime-thriller set in an alternate world where aliens made human contact in antiquity. At the crossroads of danger and opportunity, two strangers forge a bloody pact built on control and brutality—Maks, a struggling alien refugee, and Aisel, kingpin of the criminal underworld. Nothing good follows.
Story and Art by Spelledeg
Published by Mad World Comics, 101 pages
After looking into her father’s sudden disappearance, Margot Miller is steadily pulled deeper and deeper into the dark and dangerous world of his former associates. She doesn’t have much time to figure out who or what her father was involved with, and if she doesn’t she may end up disappearing just like he did…
Story and Art by Mad World Comics
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