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comiXology is the strongest pull in Comics Alliance's top 10, at 0.84 — but the neighbor set fans out broadly from there, with no single cluster dominating and a notably mixed subcategory composition.
The shape is broad. After comiXology (0.84), the next tier includes DC Vertigo (0.80), Dark Horse Comics (0.77), and Valiant Comics (0.77) — all comics-adjacent publishers or entertainment platforms. That core makes intuitive sense for a comics-focused website. But the top 10 quickly diverges: Hulu (0.76) and IDW Publishing (0.75) sit at positions five and six, followed by RuPaul (0.73), IMDb (0.73), RuPaul's Drag Race (0.72), and Coffee Meets Bagel (0.71). That's a TV personality, a film database, a reality competition show, and a dating app — none of them comics entities — all landing inside the top 10 by audience shape.
Tallying subcategories across the ten neighbors: two are Book Publishers, two are Entertainment Platforms, one is Entertainment, one is a Website, one is a TV Personality, one is a TV Show, one is Social Media, and one is an Entertainment Platform (Hulu). Comics Alliance itself is a Website, and IMDb is the only other Website in the top 10. The comics-publisher cluster is real but accounts for fewer than half the neighbors; the rest reflect an audience that also overlaps substantially with streaming, LGBTQ-oriented media, and general entertainment discovery.
This broad shape signals an audience that isn't narrowly defined by comics fandom alone — it extends into entertainment culture at large, with a particular pull toward LGBTQ media properties.
