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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.
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.
ABOUT CHARLES SOULE
Charles Soule is a New York-based, #1 New York Times bestselling novelist, comic book writer, musician, and former attorney. He is best known for writing Daredevil, She-Hulk, Death of Wolverine, and various Star Wars comics from Marvel Comics (Star Wars, The Rise of Kylo Ren, Darth Vader and more), and his creator-owned series Eight Billion Genies and Curse Words (with Ryan Browne), Undiscovered Country (with Scott Snyder & Giuseppe Camuncoli), Letter 44 (with Alberto Jimenez Alburquerque) and the Shrouded College universe of comics (with Will Sliney), which so far includes Hell to Pay and The Bloody Dozen. His novels include The Oracle Year, Anyone, Light of the Jedi and The Endless Vessel. Soule is also a creative consultant for Lucasfilm, Ltd, and one of the founding architects of Star Wars: The High Republic.
ABOUT RYAN BROWNE
Ryan Browne is a Harvey Award losing comicbookman living in Chicago, Illinois. He has written and drawn very strange things by himself (God Hates Astronauts, Blast Furnace: Recreational Thief) and drawn and co-created very strange things with Charles Soule (Curse Words and Eight Billion Genies). He is also known for his successful art duties on Quantum and Woody, Manhattan Projects, and most recently, Minor Threats Presents: Barfly. He is not a New Donk Times-bestseller, but let’s treat him like one. He deserves it. He has two sweet, young children, a brilliant wife, and one old black cat named Simon (who appears on a variant cover and you can find hiding in every issue of every comic Ryan makes).