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 Comedy series by Publishers:
1. Empowered, 2390 pages - Published by Dark Horse Comics, (cc/ @GCpartnerships)
Of course, it's side-achingly funny. Sure, it's eye-lovingly illustrated. But is it just possibly the best send-up of superheroes yet created? In a word . . . duh ! Adam Warren's Empowered rattles the capes-and-tights cage in a manner well-deserved for said enclosure, but That's Not All, true believer. There is genuinely affecting emotion (Library Journal ). And it's for real, live adults (MTV Geek News ). In fact, Empowered is a fantastically rendered book on every conceivable level (Comic Book Resources ). Don't be a coward, get Empowered!
Story and Art by Adam Warren
2. Mirka Andolfo's Sweet Paprika, 328 pages - Published by Image Comics, (cc/ @GCpartnerships)
Paprika is a successful New York businesswoman. She neglects her personal life and relationships in favor of pursuing her career. Her heart was broken by an old flame, and her rigid upbringing has made her introverted to a debilitating degree. Despite all this, she still wants a romantic relationship—she just doesn’t know what she’s doing. Not like Dill, the handsome delivery boy with an angelic attitude who’s always surrounded by besotted women. He doesn’t have a worry in the wor...
Story and Art by Mirka Andolfo
3. MIDLIFE (OR HOW TO HERO AT FIFTY!), 189 pages - Published by Image Comics, (cc/ @GCpartnerships)
SERIES PREMIERE RUBEN KWAN is a 50-year-old firefighter who’s been afraid of fire his whole life. Instead of running into burning buildings, he pushes papers, living in the shadow of his father—who died a hero on the job. After 25 years in the LAFD, he’s firmly in the middle of an unremarkable life…until his new wife gets pregnant and a random act of courage reveals that Ruben is FIREPROOF! New York Times-bestselling writer BRIAN BUCCELLATO (NO/ONE, The Flash, Chicken Devil) teams up with star artist STEFANO SIMEONE (THE LAST DAYS OF BLACK HAMMER, RADIANT BLACK) to tell the totally relatable (sometimes cringey) story of a middle-aged dad who’s about to find out that his new powers have major strings attached.
Story and Art by Brian Buccellato and Stefano Simeone
4. Rick and Morty: Heart of Rickness, 50 pages - Published by Oni Press, (cc/ @GCpartnerships)
Technology can't save you now! Rick, Summer, and Morty are stranded on a planet with technology-hating, furry loincloth-wearing versions of themselves, with no hope to easily fix their crashed spaceship. Elsewhere, Beth and Jerry take a spa day.
Story and Art by Gabriel Fischer, Michael Moreci, Priscilla Tramontano
5. Public Domain, 124 pages - Published by Image Comics, (cc/ @GCpartnerships)
Syd Dallas is responsible for pop culture’s greatest hero: THE DOMAIN! But his sons Miles and David have a complicated relationship with both the creation and their creator. Can they convince their dad to fight for their family’s legacy? This fun and heartfelt series written and illustrated by Eisner winner CHIP ZDARSKY (SEX CRIMINALS, Daredevil) explores a WILD ALTERNATE WORLD where comic book creators aren’t properly acknowledged or compensated for their creations!! Crazy, I know!!...
Story and Art by Chip Zdarsky
6. Yoobies, 48 pages - Published by Odyssey Comics, (cc/ @odysseycomics)
In a world much like our own, 5% of America’s population are meta-humans cursed with useless and ludicrous powers. There is no cure, and there is no sympathy for any who has befallen this fate. Instead, society stigmatized those newly branded “Y-Gener’s”, treating the collective group as jokes with no real worth. It's here, amongst the prejudice and bias, that a teen super-team steps up to the plate — The Yoobies! Ready to show the world what they are really made of, that every person has worth, and that no labels can hold them back from being heroes!
Story and Art by Marcus McNeal, Nathaniel Villanueva, Rafael Dantas
7. Jagua Tales, 114 pages - Published by Alpha Eve, (cc/ @AlphaEve)
Welcome to Jagua del Toro... The paradise of the Caribbean, the most exotic place you could ever visit. Hot beaches and even hotter personalities, where three beautiful women: JD, Maya and Mona struggle everyday to make their dreams come true. Even if it means ending up in many embarrassing situations, which more often than not ends up with them showing more skin than they would want.
Story and Art by Alpha Eve
8. Giant Days (Volume), 2147 pages - Published by BOOM! Studios, (cc/ @GCpartnerships)
Susan, Esther, and Daisy started at university three weeks ago and became fast friends because their dorm rooms were next to each other. Now, away from home for the first time, all three want to reinvent themselves. But in the face of hand-wringing boys, "personal experimentation," influenza, mystery-mold, nu-chauvinism, and the willful, unwanted intrusion of "academia," they may be lucky just to make it to spring alive.
Story and Art by John Allison, Lissa Treiman, Liz Fleming, Max Sarin, Whitney Cogar
9. Fungirl by Elizabeth Pich, 32 pages - Published by Silver Sprocket, (cc/ @avisprocket)
Fungirl is a hapless (hopeless) mess of a woman. Her oblivious antics infuriate her roommate-slash-ex-girlfriend and threaten any opportunity for employment, but surely Fungirl will figure it all out... eventually.
Story and Art by Silver Sprocket
10. HOLY ROLLER, 200 pages - Published by Image Comics, (cc/ @GCpartnerships)
Levi Cohen’s return home is short-lived as he retreats to the rock he climbed from underneath. But sometimes the rock has different ideas. And I’m not talking about the movie star. What am I talking about? You’ll have to buy this comic to find out!
Story and Art by Andy Samberg, Andy Samberg, Joe Trohman, Joe Trohman, Moreno Dinisio, Moreno Dinisio, Rick Remender, Rick Remender, Roland Boschi, Roland Boschi
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