Popular Last Week: Play the Heist Music

Warm up your get-away cars and put on your night vision goggles, cause we're going on a heist with the comics that were Popular Last Week. Stories so unbelievable they just might be true, follow these stories of crime, mystery and humour as they barrel towards a bombastic ending.

ALTRVERSE: The Somewhat Incredible Jackie-Boy Man, 52 pages - Published by Bad Egg Publishing, (cc/ @RobertMeyers)

A long time ago, in a galax—no, wait. Gifted with Great Power and Great Respon--nope. Not that either. After a lifetime of fandom and fantasy, Jackie was caught in a strange, cosmic cock-up that gave him amazing powers! …Or at least, ‘fairly impressive physical abilities’? Now, inspired by the kinds of heroes from his favorite comics, anime, and video games, he’s trying to be a real-life super hero in an otherwise ordinary world, as the somewhat incredible JACKIE-BOY MAN!

Story and Art by Bad Egg Publishing

Crime Pays, 89 pages - Published by Altruist Comics, (cc/ @AltruistComics)

A collection of 16 short crime comics featuring stories from A.H.G., Aedouard Acevedo, AJ O. Mason, Ben O’Grady, Brentt Harshman, Colin Craker, Daniel Max, David Monge, Deon Donovan, Dominic Bustamante, Eduardo Garza, Federico Tardino, Gavin Guidry, J. Paul Schiek, Jed McPherson, Joni Hägg, Jose Cardenas, Kyle Lawrence, Maddy Wahl, Marco Perugini, Mariana Meira, Matt Battaglia, Matt McGreevy, Michael Roth, Nick Cagnetti, Nikki Powers, Paolo Barbosa, Randy Stone, Reed Hinckley-Barnes, Rick Alves, Sebastian Urquhart-Beligan, Simone Guglielmini, Suyltan, T.S. Zombie and Thomas Mauer.

Story and Art by Altruist Comics

Nightshift, 280 pages - Published by Poecatcomix, (cc/ @Aerokat)

In a world of felines, corruption, injustice, murder and crime runs rampant. The safety of the city falls into the hands of the NYPD Special Agents that work the Nightshift.

Story and Art by Cindy Ramey

Gunslingers, 189 pages - Published by Gustopia, (cc/ @Gustopia)

A lonely man has his life turned upside down by a group of robbers with superpowers and low morals that need his help for their next heist.

Story and Art by Gustopia

Chase & Catch: Ultra Crime Detectives, 116 pages - Published by Saturday Originals, (cc/ @FredFaubert)

Chase & Catch Ultra Crime Detectives™ features a unique buddy-cop duo from a futuristic detective force, as they solve criminal cold cases and work to dismantle VANISH, a diabolical outlaw syndicate. A wunderkind teenager, Kenzo Chase, enters the VALORYA detective force and must learn to work as a team with his strait-laced, prototype robot partner Catch. A comedic, high-speed show with ultra cool vehicles and gadgets, inspired by the classic 1980’s cartoons, led by an unlikely friendship and a formidable criminal mastermind.

Story and Art by Saturday Originals

Blood, Skulls and Chrome, 122 pages - Published by SECOND SIGHT PUBLISHING, (cc/ @Secondsightpublishing01)

The Texas-based outlaw motorcycle club, The Steel Knights have lost a big deal from the Mexican Cartel to rival the Lake Street Boyz gang. When the two reckless members of the MC kill the cartel's liaison, the MC soon find themselves fighting for survival against the threats from outside and within.

Story and Art by SECOND SIGHT PUBLISHING

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