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 Crime series by Publishers:
1. Nottingham, 909 pages - Published by Mad Cave Studios, (cc/ @chrisfernandez)
In this twisted medieval noir, the Sheriff of Nottingham hunts a serial killer with a penchant for tax collectors. The Sheriff’s investigation makes him the target of England’s most nefarious power-brokers. That’s to say nothing of the Merry Men, terrorists lurking amongst the trees of Sherwood, led by an enigma known only as “Hood.”
Story and Art by David Hazan, Joamette Gil, Justin Birch, Luca Romano, Shane Connery Volk
2. Dick Tracy, 205 pages - Published by Mad Cave Studios, (cc/ @chrisfernandez)
DICK TRACY RETURNS IN A NEW ONGOING SERIES FROM MAD CAVE! A new era for the iconic detective starts here, from bestselling and acclaimed authors Alex Segura and Michael Moreci, as an all-new, noir-infused chapter in the Dick Tracy legacy kicks off with superstar artist Geraldo Borges.
Story and Art by Mad Cave Studios
3. Deadly Class, 1620 pages - Published by Image Comics, (cc/ @GCpartnerships)
It's 1987. Marcus Lopez hates school. His grades suck. The jocks are hassling his friends. He can't focus in class. But the jocks are the children of Joseph Stalin's top assassin, the teachers are members of an ancient league of assassins, the class he's failing is "Dismemberment 101," and his crush has a double-digit body count. Welcome to the most brutal high school on earth, where the world's top crime families send the next generation of assassins to be trained. Murder is an art. Killing is a craft.
Story and Art by Jordan Boyd, Lee Loughridge, Rick Remender, Wes Craig, Wesley Craig
4. Criminal, 918 pages - Published by Image Comics, (cc/ @GCpartnerships)
a new take on noir that turned the heist story on its head and created a whole new underworld for BRUBAKER & PHILLIPS to explore. BRUBAKER & PHILLIPS' recent series FATALE and The FADE OUT have brought their work to a wider audience of new readers, and now is the perfect time to show them the work that made the award-winning team's reputation!
Story and Art by Ed Brubaker, Sean Phillips, Val Staples
5. A Righteous Thirst for Vengeance, 304 pages - Published by Image Comics, (cc/ @GCpartnerships)
When an unassuming man stumbles upon a dark-web contract assassin's vicious plot to kill an innocent target, he turns himself into one. The Professional meets Road to Perdition in this story of a family's unlikely guardian being hunted by rich and powerful men who are used to getting away with everything. Join New York Times bestselling writer RICK REMENDER (DEADLY CLASS, BLACK SCIENCE) and ANDRÉ ARA JO (GENERATION GONE, Man Plus) for a uniquely atmospheric murder mystery with sudden bouts of brutal violence.
Story and Art by André Lima Araújo, Chris O'Halloran, Rick Remender
6. WHERE THE BODY WAS, 147 pages - Published by Image Comics, (cc/ @GCpartnerships)
A boarding house full of druggies. A neglected housewife. A young girl who thinks she's a superhero. A cop who wants to be left alone. And a private detective looking for a runaway girl. These stories collide one fateful summer in WHERE THE BODY WAS, a tale of love and murder in the suburbs, told from a dozen different points of view. All the neighbors on the block have an opinion about the murder and how it happened, but which of them is telling the truth?
Story and Art by Ed Brubaker, Jacob Phillips, Sean Phillips
7. The Tin Can Society, 72 pages - Published by Image Comics, (cc/ @GCpartnerships)
MINISERIES PREMIERE The first stunning issue of a brand-new miniseries from Giant Generator showcasing the first comics work by screenwriter and incredible talent PETER WARREN (The Incal feature film, Kill Me) with jaw-dropping art by FRANCESCO MOBILI (X-Men, SCUMBAG) and beautifully colored by CHRIS CHUCKRY (New X-Men, Gen 13). Johnny Moore is a world-famous tech mogul known as much for his work pioneering mobility aids for people with disabilities (like himself) as he is for moonlighting as the metal-suited vigilante, CALIBURN. But when Johnny is found murdered and his suit stolen, his estranged childhood best friends reunite to solve the mystery of his murder. THE TIN CAN SOCIETY is a heartfelt and human look at the evolution of friendships across a lifetime, at ...
Story and Art by Chris Chuckry, Francesco Mobili, Peter Warren
8. Mugshots, 168 pages - Published by Mad Cave Studios, (cc/ @chrisfernandez)
Brighton, UK. 2008. The kidnapping of a young woman starts a chain of events that will set con artists, gangsters, killers, and corrupt police on a collision course of violence. Meet John Bannan, self-proclaimed bastard and loving uncle, in this tale of family trauma, betrayal, murder, and revenge that threatens to bring the city’s whole underworld down. (DOUBLE-SIZED, 36 Page Issue)
Story and Art by Mad Cave Studios
9. Little Black Book, 233 pages - Published by AWA Studios, (cc/ @ChrisF-AWA)
Don’t miss the start of this hard-boiled neo-Western thriller! In this explosive new thriller by writer Jeff McComsey (The Fourth Man; Grendel, Kentucky) and artist Felipe Cunha (Gatsby), Cole, a straight-arrow handyman, finds himself in the crosshairs of a ruthless crime syndicate—along with his pregnant wife. But what is the meaning of the “little black book” of underworld contacts Cole’s deceased father had hidden in his home? Cole’s father believed the best thing he could do for his son was to stay out of his life, but does the apple fall far from the tree...?
Story and Art by Dave Johnson, Felipe Cunha, Francesco Francavilla, Jeff McComsey, Marco Lesko, Steve Wands
10. Preacher, 2179 pages - Published by DC, (cc/ @GCpartnerships)
Merging with a bizarre spiritual force called Genesis, Texan preacher Jesse Custer becomes completely disillusioned with the beliefs that he had dedicated his entire life to. Now possessing the power of "The Word," an ability to make people do whatever he says, Custer begins a violent and riotous journey across the country. Joined by his gun-toting girlfriend Tulip and the hard drinking Irish vampire Cassidy, the Preacher loses faith in both man and God as he witnesses dark atrocities and improbable calamities during his exploration of America.
Story and Art by Amanda Conner, Brian Bolland, Bruce Timm, Carlos Ezquerra, Dave Gibbons, Dave Johnson, Doug Mahnke, Garth Ennis, Glenn Fabry, J.G. Jones, Jim Lee, Joe Quesada, John Higgins, John McCrea, Kieron Dwyer, Steve Dillon, Stuart Moore, Tim Bradstreet
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