Here's a preview of an upcoming series from Image Comics. It looks fiendishly fun! Here's all the info:
BESTSELLING EIGHT BILLION GENIES TEAM TO LAUNCH THE LUCKY DEVILS SERIES IN JANUARY 2025
The wildly successful creative team of #1 New York Times bestselling writer Charles Soule (The Oracle Year, The Endless Vessel, Star Wars) and critically-acclaimed artist Ryan Browne (Curse Words, God Hates Astronauts) reunite for their follow-up to the hugely popular Eight Billion Genies with an all-new series, The Lucky Devils. This nine-issue, fantasy/satire adventure is set to launch in January 2025 from Image Comics.
Soule and Browne will be at artist alley table D42 at New York Comic Con this week and will appear on the "Image Comics Presents: Breaking Ground" panel on Sunday, October 20 @ 11 a.m. in room 406.2 to share more details about the announcement.
"After the incredible success of Eight Billion Genies, Ryan Browne and I knew our next project together had to be something truly special," said Soule. "The Lucky Devils feels like exactly that—a spiritual successor to Genies
in that it, too, tells a self-contained, tightly-plotted story about
the supernatural unexpectedly intersecting with the lives of a few
ordinary, unsuspecting people. That said, it's also very much its own
beast. We're playing with the myth of the devil on your shoulder
here—what Genies did for wishing and desire, Devils
does for Faustian bargains and humanity's struggle with temptation. Not
to mention I get to see Ryan draw hundreds of hilariously badass little
demons—unbeatable. In The Lucky Devils, it's good to be bad. I can't wait for people to check it out this January."
Browne added: "Over the last year, Charles Soule and I have crafted, revised, rebuilt, sculpted, edited, and polished The Lucky Devils, reinventing an approach to the 'Little Creatures Who Mess With Humanity' angle that worked so well with Eight Billion Genies.
Oh, and as always, I get to draw as much crazy world-building insanity
as the page will allow! Heart, humor, sin, and madness all wrapped
around two little punk devils that were born to raze hell to the
ground!"
The Lucky Devils is a tale of two ordinary, good-hearted,
20-something Chicagoans who begin working with the devils on their
shoulders in an attempt to fix their broken lives. It works beyond their
wildest dreams, and in time they become two of the most powerful people
on earth. While they fully intend to use that influence to make the
world a better place, we all know what they say about the road to
Hell...
A dark, hilarious satire about the struggle to do good in a world that makes it so easy to be bad, The Lucky Devils is an examination of everything that makes humanity both grand and terrible from two of comics' most unique storytellers.
For fans of their previous bestselling collaborations like Curse Words and Eight Billion Genies—or stories like Good Omens, Lucifer, or
tales where ordinary people's lives intersect with the
supernatural—this new series is sure to delight readers looking for a
fantastical new read.
Check out this red hot preview art:
Did I say it looked like fiendish fun or what? I'm not convinced these imps have the best interests of the humans they visit in their hellfire hearts, but I can't wait to check this series out! It's only three months away! The first issue will have several cover options:
The Lucky Devils #1 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, January 8:
- Cover A by Ryan Browne
- Cover B by Frank Miller & Alex Sinclair
- Cover C Blank Sketch cover
- Cover D 1:25 "Glitter" copy incentive by Browne
- Cover E 1:50 "Foil virgin" copy incentive by Frank Miller
- Cover F 1:100 copy incentive featuring Soule & Browne Sketch
The Lucky Devils #1 will also be available across many digital platforms, including Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, and Google Play.
Thanks to Image Comics for sharing this tempting preview with us!
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