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 reimagine some of the biggest and boldest groundbreaking series as mobile-optimized vertical scroll episodes; the comic format that has become a true sensation with graphic fiction fans on the go. In the coming months, we will debut new vertical scroll adaptations of popular series every week, with top titles from Dark Horse, Vault Comics, AWA, Top Cow, TKO Studios, ABLAZE, and more including Dying Inside from Vault Comics, and Year Zero from AWA.
Start exploring our latest vertical adaptations below, and don't forget to add them to your library for new release notifications!
1. Stranger Things (Verticals), 84 pages - Published by Dark Horse Comics, (cc/ @GCKinsey)
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 unscathed . . . Based on Will's unseen journey during season 1 of the hit Netflix show Stranger Things. ''Blends 80's comic aesthetic with modern sensibilities to triumphant effect.'' – Multiversity Comics
Story and Art by Chris Roberson, Greg Pak, Jim Zub, Jody Houser
2. The Pull (Verticals), 87 pages - Published by TKO Studios, (cc/ @MeganChristopher)
What would you do if you only had six days left to live? Fight or give up? That's the choice given to Brenton Demm, one of Earth's thirteen Horizon agents, when the unstoppable force that is The Undoer races towards Earth. The problem is, ever since surviving a massacre of his own making, Demm has been incapable of giving a damn. But when his ex-lover and brilliant scientist, Gayano Tith tells him the world doesn't have to end so long as they work together, Demm realizes the only way to save himself is to save us all.
Story and Art by Ricardo Lopez Ortiz, Steve Orlando, Thomas Mauer, Triona Farrell
3. The Banks (Verticals), 78 pages - Published by TKO Studios, (cc/ @MeganChristopher)
New York Times-bestselling writer Roxane Gay (Bad Feminist, Black Panther: World of Wakanda) and artist Ming Doyle (The Kitchen) perfectly execute a story of revenge - and justice. Chicago. Southside. For fifty years the women of the Banks family have been the most successful thieves in the city by following one simple rule: Get in. Get away. Get paid. Never get greedy. But when the youngest Banks stumbles upon the heist of a lifetime, the potential windfall may be enough to bring three generations of thieves together for one incredible score.
Story and Art by Ariana Maher, Jordie Bellaire, Roxane Gay, Ming Doyle
4. Lonesome Days, Savage Nights (Verticals), 72 pages - Published by TKO Studios, (cc/ @MeganChristopher)
A hardboiled, supernatural thriller for the 21st century from writers Salvatore Simeone and Steve Niles (30 Days of Night), with artist Szymon Kudranski (Batman: The Dark Night, The Punisher). All Stu Manning ever wanted was to protect his city. But a terrible incident on his first patrol as a rookie cop left him disgraced and barely clinging to sanity. Now Stu is on the streets again, as a private detective with one hell of a trick up his sleeve...and a monster under his skin.
Story and Art by Salvatore Simeone, Steve Niles, Szymon Kudranski, Thomas Mauer
5. Marjorie Finnegan, Temporal Criminal (Verticals), 77 pages - Published by AWA Studios, (cc/ @ChrisF-AWA)
She’s Marjorie Finnegan. She’s a temporal criminal. What more do you need to know? All Marj wants to do is race up and down the time-lanes, stealing every shiny-gleamy-pretty-sparkly she can lay her hands on. But her larcenous trail from the Big Bang to the Ninety-fifth Reich has drawn the beady eye of the Temporal PD, whose number one Deputy Marshall is now hard on our heroine’s tail-- and taking things extremely personally.
Story and Art by Garth Ennis, Goran Sudžuka, Miroslav Mrva
6. Casual Fling (Verticals), 75 pages - Published by AWA Studios, (cc/ @ChrisF-AWA)
Jennifer Ryan has the perfect life. A loving family. A high paying job in corporate law. A luxurious apartment in upper Manhattan. Then one day she steps out of her marriage...and finds that her new lover isn’t the one night stand she expected. Stalked and threatened with exposure, Jennifer attempts to unravel the true identity of her tormentor, discovering valuable clues in the trail of destruction left in this mysterious man’s wake.
Story and Art by Dalibor Talajić, Jason Starr, Marco Lesko
7. The Darkness (Verticals), 71 pages - Published by Top Cow, (cc/ @vincelongo)
Following in the wake of the hugely successful The Darkness video game and the summer's smash hit, First Born, The Darkness returns in a brand new ongoing series by Phil Hester (Deep Sleeper, Green Arrow) and Michael Broussard (Unholy Union)! Irrevocably changed by the events of First Born, Jackie Estacado has relocated to the secluded nation of Sierra Munoz. But every paradise has dark secrets under the surface. And what does the mysterious Professor Kirchner stand to gain by allying himself with Jackie?
Story and Art by Marc Silvestri , Michael Broussard, Phil Hester
8. GODSLAP (Verticals), 85 pages - Published by Bad Egg Publishing, (cc/ @RobertMeyers)
Embark on a journey through the seedy underbelly of Montpelier, a grimy blight of a city ruled by slaps. GODSLAP follows the tales of Aius, Darius and Cyann as they fight to find their purpose in this world, to protect the ones they love and, ultimately, to exact revenge against those who stand in their way. Issue 01 sets the stage and forms the foundation of this exciting new universe in an explosive way, as you're introduced to the world and characters through beautifully drawn panels and energetic action scenes.
Story and Art by Aubrey Sitterson, Jackson Clarke, Ricardo Jaime, Troy Peteri
9. Urban Legendz (Verticals), 81 pages - Published by Humanoids, (cc/ @BrunoHumanoids)
After his mother’s death, Dwayne is forced to uproot himself and move into the home where his mother grew up: a shabby apartment in Brooklyn. When your dad is a police officer, and your brother’s too cool for school, what's an insecure teen to do? Dwayne’s personal problems are cast aside when he joins a new crew of young vigilantes, devoted to solving a series of sinister cases surrounding mysterious monsters that have been wreaking havoc throughout the city. What if all of the Urban Legends we fear...were real?
Story and Art by Michael Yates, Nick Bruno, Paul Downs
10. Heavy (Verticals), 72 pages - Published by Vault Comics, (cc/ @VaultComics)
Being dead doesn't mean resting in peace. Bill thought the wait was the hardest part – until he's thrown together with someone he hates more than anything in eternity. Welcome to the Big Wait, where folks who don't quite make the cut go to work off their debt. Everyone in the Wait's got a job. Bill is a Heavy, whose job is policing the multiverse, making sure bad eggs get what's coming to them. He's on track to earn his Climb and reunite with the woman he loves…until he meets his new partner: the worst dude of all time.
Story and Art by Cris Peter, Eryk Donovan, Max Bemis, Taylor Esposito
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ImperialNecromancer829 11 months ago
This is awesome!
Renee admin 11 months ago
so cool!!