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 Adventure series by Publishers:
1. DIGIMON LIBERATOR, 421 pages - Published by Bandai Card Games, (cc/ @BandaiCardGames)
Shoto Kazama, a boy who has never been able to win at card games because of his habit of giving up on things easily, enters the immersive world of Digimon Liberator through the invitation of his childhood friend, Arisa Kinosaki. The game allows players to engage in highly realistic card battles. At first, Shoto is hesitant towards it, but through his engrossing encounters with the Digimon there, he becomes a fan of the game. Encounters with wild Digimon such as Pteromon and battles with NPCs who have gone rogue. These various happenings set the wheels of fate in motion for Shoto and his companions. ——This is a story about Digimon, and the world.
Story and Art by Bandai Card Games
2. ALTRVERSE, 49 pages - Published by Bad Egg Publishing, (cc/ @RobertMeyers)
Bad Egg is proud to present The ALTRVERSE, a cross-platform, genre-bending, multiversal comic adventure. Created by Sean "JackSepticEye" McLoughlin, the ALTRVERSE features characters and settings fans have seen teases of, but never the full story...until now! With stories by James Asmus and Alejandro Arbona, and art from rising stars Suzi Blake, Megan Huang, and Austin Baechle, the Bad Egg ALTRVERSE comics are the beginning of an epic adventure!
Story and Art by Alejandro Arbona, Andrew Dalhouse, Austin Baechle, Dave Sharpe, James Asmus, KANO, Megan Huang, Robert Meyers, Suzi Blake
3. ALTRVERSE: Void Silver, 101 pages - Published by Bad Egg Publishing, (cc/ @RobertMeyers)
Magic exists alongside science and technology, and its practitioners dwell in every strata of modern society. Exceptional even among these exceptional individuals is the preternaturally gifted…the iconoclastic…the sarcastic and short-tempered…Marvin the Magnificent!
Story and Art by Alejandro Arbona, Andrew Dalhouse, Dave Sharpe, JackSepticEye, Michele Abounader, Robert Meyers, Suzi Blake
4. Marjorie Finnegan, Temporal Criminal (Verticals), 207 pages - Published by AWA Studios, (cc/ @ChrisF-AWA)
She’s Marjorie Finnegan. She’s a temporal criminal. What more do you need to know? All Marj wants to do is race up and down the time-lanes, stealing every shiny-gleamy-pretty-sparkly she can lay her hands on. But her larcenous trail from the Big Bang to the Ninety-fifth Reich has drawn the beady eye of the Temporal PD, whose number one Deputy Marshall is now hard on our heroine’s tail-- and taking things extremely personally.
Story and Art by Garth Ennis, Goran Sudžuka, Miroslav Mrva
5. THE EIGHTH, 35 pages - Published by Failed Superheroes Club, (cc/ @FSC)
THE EIGHTH is the epic and harrowing story of three teenagers who unlock a piece of ancient Sumerian armor and end up committing murder. Before they know it, they find themselves on a terrifying journey to destroy the world, with no going back.
Story and Art by Failed Superheroes Club
6. Submerged (Verticals), 104 pages - Published by Vault Comics, (cc/ @VaultComics)
On the night of the biggest storm in New York City history, Elysia Puente gets a call from her estranged little brother Angel, terrified, begging for help. When the call cuts out suddenly, despite the bad feelings between them, Ellie rushes into the night. Finding his broken phone in front of a barricaded subway station, Ellie follows echoes of her brother into the sinister darkness of the underground, desperate to find him before it’s too late.
Story and Art by Jen Bartel , Lisa Sterle, Rachel Deering, Stelladia, Vita Ayala
7. Blossom - In Memory of Ari, 28 pages - Published by BentBox Comics, (cc/ @BentBoxComics)
Blossom is a completed 36-page comic book written by John Schell in memory of his daughter, Ariana Nicole Schell, who was stillborn on 08.23.21. The story follows Ari, a personified cherry blossom, who sets off to stop her father from destroying her memory.
Story and Art by BentBox Comics
8. Shy Ninja (Verticals), 144 pages - Published by Humanoids, (cc/ @BrunoHumanoids)
Young Rena suffers from a social anxiety disorder. It keeps her from engaging at school, from hanging out with her best friend in person, or participating in any sort of group activity. Pressed by her mother to find some social outlet, she enrolls in a School for Ninjas—and in an instant, her life changes. Rena’s instructor, the mysterious Dysart, tells her that her presence fulfills an ancient prophecy and that she will become the Ninja legend known as “The Ghost.” Assuming she can even get past her own anxieties, will she help Dysart return the Ninja to their former glory.
Story and Art by Adara Sanchez, Arianna Florean, Ricardo Sanchez
9. Relics of Youth (Verticals), 145 pages - Published by Vault Comics, (cc/ @VaultComics)
A group of kids wake from vivid dreams about a mysterious island. One day, they wake up with inexplicably matching tattoos that no one but them can see. After coming together to travel to the island, the kids find out the island is the home of the fabled "fountain of youth", which in reality, is actually a fountain that serves as the source of all magic on earth. Unfortunately, the fountain has almost run dry, and if it stops flowing all magic will be lost on earth.
Story and Art by Andworld Design, Chad Rebmann, Matt Nicholas, Skylar Patridge, Vladimir Popov
10. Mutant Cats (Verticals), 177 pages - Published by GUNGNIR, (cc/ @Gungnir)
Flux is just your everyday cat, a supervisor at Mutant Labs, clawing his way through corporate life and a hairball of a marriage. His team? Muse, a genius with a phobia of risks, and Sphinky, the intern whose elevator doesn't quite hit the top floor. Their latest brainchild? The Cluster, a device that's a hop, skip, and a jump away from either lighting up the city or blowing up the space-time continuum. After unleashing cosmic chaos, complete with dimension-hopping apes and a beast named Mukonga, it's a race through the absurd to patch up the universe.
Story and Art by Alex Arizmendi, Matthew Medney, Morgan Rosenblum, Rob Jones
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