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 Horror series by Publishers:
1. Something is Killing the Children (Volume), 919 pages - Published by BOOM! Studios, (cc/ @GCpartnerships)
When the children of Archer's Peak begin to go missing, everything seems hopeless. The few children that return alive have terrible stories-impossible details of terrifying creatures that live in the shadows. Their only hope is the arrival of a mysterious stranger, one who believes the children and claims to be the only adult who sees what they can see. Her name is Erica Slaughter. She kills monsters. That is all she does, and she bears the cost because it must be done.
Story and Art by James Tynion IV, Letizia Cadonici, Miquel Muerto, Sam Johns, Werther Dell'Edera, Werther Dell’Edera
2. The Walking Dead (Compendium), 4330 pages - Published by Image Comics, (cc/ @GCpartnerships)
Just in time for the new season of The Walking Dead on AMC, the fan-favorite, New York Times bestselling series returns with its FOURTH massive paperback collection! With over 1,000 pages, this volume contains the next chapter of ROBERT KIRKMAN and CHARLIE ADLARD 's Eisner Award-winning continuing story of survival horror. From the Whisperers to the Commonwealth, Rick Grimes meets new allies and enemies on the way to reclaiming the world from the dead. Wars are started, and dear friends fal...
Story and Art by Charlie Adlard, Cliff Rathburn, Dave Stewart, Michel Fiffe, Robert Kirkman, Stefano Gaudiano
3. Plague Seeker, 131 pages - Published by Bad Egg Publishing, (cc/ @RobertMeyers)
In the far future, civilization has been destroyed by an event only known as The Calamity. Humanity lives in terror, ruled over by monstrous creatures called the Great Plagues.
Story and Art by Ben Templesmith, Brett Weldele, Charlie White, Dave Sharpe, Jackson Clarke, John Bivens, Michele Abounader, Robert Meyers, Vamkire Trannel
4. Stranger Things (Verticals), 252 pages - Published by Dark Horse Comics, (cc/ @GCpartnerships)
When Will Byers finds himself in the Upside Down, an impossible dark parody of his own world, he's understandably frightened. But that's nothing compared with the fear that takes hold when he realizes what's in that world with him! No one escapes a Demogorgon unscathed . . . Based on Will's unseen journey during season 1 of the hit Netflix show Stranger Things. ''Blends 80's comic aesthetic with modern sensibilities to triumphant effect.'' – Multiversity Comics
Story and Art by Chris Roberson, Greg Pak, Jim Zub, Jody Houser
5. Teether, 144 pages - Published by Antarctic Press, (cc/ @JDunn)
Dillon Brown thinks he's made a friend with new transfer student Lilly Quist. But when the grisly remains of local kids appear, he starts to suspect the new girl has something to do with it. Soon Dillon realizes that an ancient, endless hunger has come to Carol Hill, Indiana in the form of a 10-year-old girl. He and his classmates now have to stop Lilly's vicious, gore-drenched feast before...
Story and Art by David Hutchison
6. Hack/Slash (Omnibus), 2540 pages - Published by Image Comics, (cc/ @GCpartnerships)
At the end of every horror movie, one girl always survives...in this case, Cassie Hack not only survives, she turns the tables by hunting and destroying the horrible slashers that would do harm to the innocent! Alongside the gentle giant known as Vlad, the two cut a bloody path through those who deserve to be put down...hard!
Story and Art by Brian Baugh, Celor, Daniel Leister, Dave Crosland, Elena Casagrande, Emilio Laiso, Emily Stone, Kevin Mellon, Michael Moreci, Rebekah Isaacs, Ryan Ottley, Skottie Young, Stefano Caselli, Stevano Caselli, Tim Seeley, Tini Howard
7. The Last Book You'll Ever Read (Verticals), 209 pages - Published by Vault Comics, (cc/ @VaultComics)
The Last Book You’ll Ever Read tells the terrifying story of a woman who knows the horrific truth about the past — and future — of humankind, and, when captured in her book SATYR, it becomes the catalyst for worldwide, mind-numbing violence. Civilization is a lie. Hidden deep in our genes is the truth. And it is slowly clawing its way to the surface. Olivia Kade knows the truth, and she has become the prophet of the coming collapse. Her book, SATYR, is an international bestseller, and it is being blamed for acts of senseless violence and bloodshed all over the world.
Story and Art by Andworld Design, Cullen Bunn, Leila Leiz, Vlad Popov
8. The Rush (Verticals), 210 pages - Published by Vault Comics, (cc/ @VaultComics)
Historical horror that chills to the bone, THE RUSH is for fans of Dan Simmons’, The Terror mined with a Northwestern Yukon gold rush edge. Answer the call of the wild north and stampede to the Klondike… This Hungry Earth Reddens Under Snowclad Hills. 1899, Yukon Territory. A frozen frontier, bloodied and bruised by the last great Gold Rush. But in the lawless wastes to the North, something whispers in the hindbrains of men, drawing them to a blighted valley, where giant spidertracks mark the snow and impossible guns roar in the night.
Story and Art by Addison Duke, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou, Nathan Gooden , Si Spurrier
9. Universal Monsters: Dracula, 134 pages - Published by Image Comics, (cc/ @GCpartnerships)
MINISERIES PREMIERE THE BIGGEST NAMES IN COMICS RESURRECT THE MOST ICONIC MONSTERS! THE DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH creators JAMES TYNION IV (W0RLDTR33, Something is Killing the Children) and MARTIN SIMMONDS reteam for an extra-length miniseries about the monster who started it all! When Dr. John Seward admits a strange new patient into his asylum, the madman tells stories of a demon who has taken residence next door. But as Dr. Seward attempts to apply logic to the impossible…his surrogate daughter Lucy begins to fall under the spell of the twisted Count Dracula!
Story and Art by Dan Watters, Dave Stewart, James Tynion IV, Martin Simmonds, Matthew Roberts
10. Nightwalkers, 72 pages - Published by Source Point Press, (cc/ @TravisM)
Seren is an addict in recovery at a rehabilitation center secluded in the mountains, COMPLETELY ISOLATED from the outside world. When Seren and the other patients wake to find themselves locked inside and abandoned by the center's staff, they must decide whether to wait or break out. The decision is made for them when a blood thirsty monster enters the center, and begins to tear through them to satiate its lust for blood. In a collaboration with Hustle & Heart Films and Vertigo Entertainment (IT, DOCTOR SLEEP), Source Point Press is proud to bring you this horror masterpiece!
Story and Art by Source Point Press
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