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 Romance series by Publishers:
1. Scott Pilgrim Color Collection, 1128 pages - Published by Oni Press, (cc/ @GCpartnerships)
The New York Times bestselling series and basis for the movie Scott Pilgrim vs. The World is now available in a new full-color format! Laugh as slacker Scott Pilgrim tries and sometimes fails to get his life together and win the heart of the literal girl of his dreams, Ramona Flowers! Cry when things look bleak for our heroes! Make a confused face at the countless Canadian references! (Unless you live in Canada already.) The perfect gift for a Scottoholic-or for anyone discovering the bestselling series for the first time.
Story and Art by Bryan Lee O'Malley
2. Fine Print, 188 pages - Published by Top Cow, (cc/ @vincelongo)
How do you deal with a broken heart? Junk food? Excessive drinks? Dubious contracts with ancient gods? When it comes to Lauren Thomas, the queen of bad decisions, the answer is always the worst possible choice. She finds herself in a rare opportunity to have her broken heart patched up by the highest-rated god of desire. The problem is, it’s a contested title. Join us in this tale of gods and mortals, love lust, and death, and one woman's bad choice that starts it all with a simple bite on a golden apple.
Story and Art by Stjepan Sejic
3. Swing, 655 pages - Published by Top Cow, (cc/ @vincelongo)
Spinning off from the universe of SUNSTONE comes a slice-of-life romantic story about a couple trying to regain the sexual energy from the beginning of their relationship by swinging with other couples. An emotional journey of two people fighting to stay in love
Story and Art by Jenni Cheung, Linda Sejic, Matt Hawkins
4. Crave, 184 pages - Published by Image Comics, (cc/ @GCpartnerships)
CRAVE, a mysterious app that promises to make your desires come true, spreads among the students of an elite university who use it as a hookup app. David, a top student, engages in a game of seduction with the unattainable Alexandra. But as requests to the app escalate and wreak havoc on campus, David and his friends' only chance to stop this spiral is to find out what really lies behind Crave.
Story and Art by Maria Llovet
5. U & I, 138 pages - Published by AWA Studios, (cc/ @ChrisF-AWA)
In the next chapter in the saga of the Resistance Universe, the mysterious “U” has no memory of his past before awakening with powers after the Great Death created the superpowered Reborns. His vision of the world is one that is more beautiful and full of hope than the rest of us can see. In searching for a purpose, a reason to live, he discovers Isabelle, whose father died in the plague. When the two meet, a spark is lit between them. But another spark is lit—sure to lead to explosive consequences—when U runs afoul of a crime syndicate that will stop at nothing to get revenge.
Story and Art by J. Michael Straczynski, Mike Choi, Sal Cipriano
6. Unparalleled Beauty - The Way Back to the Palace, 1071 pages - Published by Marano Comic World, (cc/ @nsunthorhong)
Her parents and baby died a brutal death. Her kindness earned her nothing but the vicious schemes of her husband and eldest sister. The hatred can only be returned in blood! When she resurrects in her new life, her former husband becomes a tough enemy for hers! Who will she choose? The aloof prince who is scheming, the young aristocrat who shares lots in common, or the young general who has had a crush on her since childhood? In this life, she wants to kill her enemies with her own hands, and also enjoy a bright future.
Story and Art by δΉιι£ε and κΉμν
7. Sugar, 129 pages - Published by Top Cow, (cc/ @vincelongo)
In SUGAR, a couple embarks on a relationship that starts off as more of an arrangement, but ends with them falling in love—at a cost. Neither has ever done anything like this before, and the emotional swings they face threaten to undo what could be a perfect match in this companion book to both SUNSTONE and SWING.
Story and Art by Jenni Cheung, Matt Hawkins, Yishan Li
8. Engineering Beauties, 31 pages - Published by DAYcomics, (cc/ @TOPCO)
He's been a loner all his life. However, he soon learns the secrets of the most beautiful girls in the engineering course. "Please, don't tell anyone, I'll do anything!"
Story and Art by OB and Overtime sloth
9. We Called Them Giants, 110 pages - Published by Image Comics, (cc/ @GCpartnerships)
WE CALLED THEM GIANTS is a story of communication across a chasm at the end of the world. Lori wakes to find the streets empty. Everyone has gone. Or at least, nearly everyone. She’s thrown into a world where she has to scrape by in the ruins of civilization, nearly starving, hiding from gangs when… They arrive. The award-winning team behind dark fantasy smash DIE release their first standalone original graphic novel.
Story and Art by Kieron Gillen and Stephanie Hans
10. Faithless (Volume), 163 pages - Published by BOOM! Studios, (cc/ @GCpartnerships)
Faith. Sex. The Devil. Faith likes to dabble with magic. Her friends think it’s cute—and not just a little off-putting, but it’s part of her charm and her warped search for purpose in a world that makes too much sense. But she's a true believer and knows there is a power within her reach. She’s right, of course. It just took a while for that magic, that temptation, that unknowable thing to find her . . . In short—Faith is bored as hell. And Hell has noticed. New York Times bestselling writer Brian Azzarello (Batman: Damned, 100 Bullets) and artist Maria Llovet (Loud) coalesce in a story of self-exploration, eroticism, and maybe even love. Collects the complete 6-issue series.
Story and Art by Brian Azzarello and Maria Llovet
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