Welcome to the GlobalComix Most Popular of 2024, our annual feature series celebrating the most popular stories over the past year on GlobalComix. Each day, we'll feature the top 10 from publishers and the top 10 from creators for each category. We’ll cap things off on December 31st, 2024, with two features: the top 10 from publishers, and the top 10 from creators.
Without further ado, here are the top 10 most popular Thriller series by Publishers:
Casual Fling (Verticals)
Published by AWA Studios, 115 pages
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
Twisted Dark
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
Porcelain
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
Eros/Psyche
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
Redfork (Verticals)
Published by TKO Studios, 178 pages
A supernatural thriller from writer Alex Paknadel (Arcadia, Friendo) and artist Nil Vendrell (Shirtless Bear-Fighter!), with color art by Giulia Brusco (The 7 Deadly Sins, Goodnight Paradise).
Ex-con Noah McGlade returns to his coal mining hometown to find it blighted by opioid abuse and economic decline. But there's something even darker draining the very life from this town, and as Noah digs deeper he unearths a dormant horror that threatens to consume what little he has left to live for.
Story and Art by Alex Paknadel, Giulia Brusco, Nil Vendrell
Pandora's Eyes
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
This Side UP
Published by TheMachine, 50 pages
While filming at a scrapyard, seven teenage friends discover a gadget that manipulates gravity. But everything goes downhill, when the first of them to keep it turns up dead the next day, leading to a classic case of ‘whodunit’.
Everything unravels as the gadget changes hands revealing their true motives and feelings behind their friendships, leaving crime and bodies in their wake.
Unfortunately, the power of gravity has a price, as what goes up, must come down.
Story and Art by Adepitan "EOA" Omotayo, Ifeoluwa "Wade" Owoade, Tamarakuro "Tamtobi" Tobi, The Hue Brothers
John Tiffany
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
Amputation Capital
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
Trapped
Published by Neil Gibson's Twisted Comics, 114 pages
Joe is a professional poker commentator - till he gets fired.
He's also a good player, but is increasingly frustrated by how the game is changing- it used to be about people, but now it is all about mathematics.
It's become boring, hard to win, and Joe wants out. But when Joe unintentionally gets tangled up with some drug dealers, he realizes he is going to have to play poker as if his life depends on it...
Based on Joe Stapleton's real-life experience playing and commenting on poker, TRAPPED is a roaring ride about a man trying to reconnect with the passion of his life.
Story and Art by NAMES HERE
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