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 Creators:
1. Preheat, 75 pages - Published by Bilvy Jay Lee, (cc/ @bilvyy)
A young and ambitious baker loses her cafe in a disastrous fire, but sees none of the insurance payout. In a desperate attempt to get her life back on track, she turns to smuggling illegal goods through her cake deliveries for fast, but dangerous cash.
Story and Art by Bilvy Jay Lee
2. Headcases, 8 pages - Published by AJ O. Mason, (cc/ @ajomasonwriter)
It’s a routine morning subway ride to school in New York, circa 1999. Hila and Ramon, two bored teens, steal a man’s bag on a whim. When they eventually manage to lose the stranger, Hila opens the bag and can’t believe what she’s seeing inside: there is a severed head! Thus begins the zany chain of events where a trained hitman, an FBI agent, and others are hunting the teens down to get the head back!
Story and Art by AJ O. Mason
3. Spirit Falls, 57 pages - Published by SmappysIsland, (cc/ @SmappysIsland)
Burned out from her animation course in LA, Luna Chance takes a vacation to meet her friend Brooke in person for the first time. Traveling to a town so remote it's almost off the map, Luna finds that Brooke and the cursed town of Spirit Falls hold secrets that will change her view of the world forever. Maybe even enough to pass her next semester, if it doesn't kill her first.
Story and Art by SmappysIsland
4. LIFESTEAL, 71 pages - Published by Midori Jen, (cc/ @MidoriJen)
After getting a promotion, Myoga Kohana finally gets to lead his own police department, but something about this promotion seems fishy... Especially after getting a file cointaining a 'secret case'. The young detective is determined to solve said case no matter what... morality is a subjective matter after all.
Story and Art by Midori Jen
5. Motor City Mo, 228 pages - Published by Three Y's Men Media, (cc/ @ThreeYsMenMedia)
How do you hurt the toughest guy in the world? Maurice "Motor City Mo" Goldman has hit rock bottom. His glory days of being a top boxing prospect are behind him, now you'll most likely find him alone in his apartment throwing back whisky by the gallon or down at his favorite strip club, Clooney's. He earns money as an enforcer for Don Dozier (of Dollar Don's Discount Autowash--you've seen the commercials); breakin legs, crackin skulls, general intimidation. But Mo can't take it anymore--he wants out. Only problem is, he can't die. And trust me, he's trying...
Story and Art by Three Y's Men Media
6. The Red Fox // Eglish Version, 54 pages - Published by Fox Studios, (cc/ @TheDiamondFoxStuios)
In Avakin, being the leader of a major drug trafficking gang makes you a magnet for all kinds of interests. Whether they’re after your money or your head as a trophy, there will always be someone who wants something from you. This is the reality faced by Lady, a powerful woman who knows the survival game well on that board. These stories are based on the memories of Lady Manzanas' role and accounts from some people she met during her time in AvakinLife. Like all stories that come from roleplay, they contain a mix of reality and fiction. And, as with all fictional stories, there is something profoundly true in them.
Story and Art by Fox Studios
7. The Jump, 56 pages - Published by Wesley Griffith Comics, (cc/ @wesgriff1)
Frank is a low level gangster who begs his next door neighbor Jan to jump his broken down car to participate in an armed robbery, but is blackmailed into giving up half his cut in exchange for her help, setting off a chain of violence and mayhem through the course of one night.
Story and Art by Wesley Griffith Comics
8. Minjeong Days, 1590 pages - Published by Mahout Pound, (cc/ @mpound)
Five years after his divorce, Johnny Light found himself employed by private detective Terry Koh in Harbour Bay, a lawless city South of Singapore, where he met the Italian-Korean girl by the name of Minjeong Cassano. Loosely based on Raymond Chandler's stories.
Story and Art by Mahout Pound
9. Servicemen (one shot), 7 pages - Published by Sarcastic Strength Studio, (cc/ @sarcastic-strength)
How does it feel to know secrets? Well this story follows a mysterious man, taking the reader on a journey through his daily life and revealing deep secrets about himself and a city that hides everything in the shadows of the night." P.S- The scan copies didn't turn out so great so the artwork is not in it's best quality at the quality.
Story and Art by Sarcastic Strength Studio
10. Magic Cop, 211 pages - Published by Zaid Comics, (cc/ @ZaidComics)
In a 1980s fantasy world where monsters live amongst man, Iggy Cromwell is a Magic Cop! With his Magic wand and his wolfman partner they rid the neon streets of magical drug dealers and mermaid prostitutes. Fast Cars, Hot babes and even Hotter Crime, and the only cop with the wand toe deal with is is Magic Cop!
Story and Art by Brandon Diaz, Eugeniu Betivu, Kelsey Shannon, Pablo Romero, Phillip Diaz
Want to check out more of the end-of-year features? Keep your eyes peeled every weekday here: Most Popular of 2024.