Charles Soule and Ryan Browne had the biggest hit of their joint careers with Eight Billion Genies. So how do you follow up the wildly successful Image Comics series? With some entirely new magical little guys in The Lucky Devils, a nine-issue fantasy satire set to hit stores next January.
“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 via a press release provided to Comic Book Club. “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.”
Added Browne, “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!”
In The Lucky Devils, two generally good, 20-something Chicago denizens find they have literal devils on their shoulders, who help them fix problems in their lives. But it ends up working too well, as they become the most powerful people on Earth. Will getting everything they want and more lead to a better world? Or are these lucky devils not, in fact, so lucky?
The Lucky Devils #1 hits stores on January 8, 2025, but you can get a sneak peek right here, including a cover by the legendary Frank Miller, with Alex Sinclair. Soule and Browne will also be at New York Comic Con this weekend, in artist alley at table D42, and will appear on the “Image Comics Presents: Breaking Ground” panel on Sunday, October 20 @ 11 a.m. in room 406.2.
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