First Look: ‘The Lucky Devils’ By Charles Soule And Ryan Browne Coming From Image Comics In 2025

The creative team behind Image Comics’ Eight Billion Genies, writer Charles Soule (The Oracle Year, The Endless Vessel, Star Wars) and artist Ryan Browne (Curse Words, God Hates Astronauts) have a new nine-issue comic book series coming out from Image Comics in January 2025. The Lucky Devils is billed as a fantasy/satire adventure. But here’s Soule with more:

“After the incredible success of Eight Billion Genies, Ryan Browne and I knew our next project together had to be something truly special. 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 synopsis reads:

“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.”

The Lucky Devils #1 will be out on Wednesday, January 8th, 2025 from Image Comics.