After introducing readers to a small, snowbound community in Montana where not everything is as it seems during the Civil War, writer Rafael Scavone is taking readers back to the eerie town of Hailstone with a terrifying tale that takes place during the Great Depression in the new five-issue limited series Devil’s Luck: A Hailstone Story, written by Rafael with artwork and colors by Eduardo Ferigato, letters by Deyvison Manes, editing by Greg Lockard, and covers by artist Rafael Albuquerque.
Daily Dead is thrilled and chilled to exclusively reveal that Comixology Originals and Stout Club Entertainment will debut the first issue of Devil’s Luck: A Hailstone Story on December 9th, with subsequent issues being released monthly on Amazon’s Comixology Originals digital content line.
Below, we have the official press release with additional details, as well as an exclusive preview of the first issue that features a naïve dentist, his peculiar patient, and the beginning of a perilous plot to take advantage of the patient's gold teeth during a time in history where money is hard to come by... and deadly mistakes are just waiting to happen.
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Press Release: November 13, 2025—New York, NY—Comixology Originals and Stout Club Entertainment announce Devil’s Luck: A Hailstone Story, a new limited comic series about a naïve dentist who takes part in a sinister plot to profit from the golden teeth of a mysterious patient. The 5-issue horror suspense thriller written by Rafael Scavone with art and color by Eduardo Ferigato, letters by Deyvison Manes, covers by acclaimed artist Rafael Albuquerque and edits by Greg Lockard will be released monthly from Amazon’s Comixology Originals exclusive digital content line. Devil’s Luck: A Hailstone Story #1 drops on December 9, 2025.
Now, with Devil’s Luck: A Hailstone Story, Brazilian writer Rafael Scavone, whose comics include Wonder Woman, All-Star Batman, Hit-Girl, the adaptation of A Study in Emerald, Hidden Society, Sliced, Funny Creek, and Red Tag, revisits Hailstone, the seemingly sleepy isolated Montana town featured in his previous comic series of the same name.
Set during the Great Depression, Devil’s Luck follows Tim Beacon, a dentist stuck in a remote mining town, who is desperate to fund his California dream. “My background as a historian frequently leads me to be curious about specific passages in history, and I enjoy very much diving into the details of a given period and catching some things to bring back into a fictional story. In Devil’s Luck I picked the worst year of the Great Depression not only due to the social and financial turmoil in the U.S., but also because of the skyrocketed price of gold. This helped me ambush the characters in their personal hell of greed and treason and the main character of Devil’s Luck is a dentist, an ordinary profession nowadays, but a rare one in the 1930s.”
Brazilian artist Eduardo Ferigato, whose comics art includes Radiant Black, Self Made, Last Flight Out, Ultraman and the indie graphic novel Opala 76, created a new inking and color style just for Devil’s Luck making the tense sequences inside the mine a thing of a chilling beauty. “As soon as I read Scavone’s script, I couldn’t wait to start drawing,” says Eduardo Ferigato. “It’s such an engaging and thrilling story — full of greed, betrayal, and a touch of the occult. While I was exploring different inking styles to capture the right visual tone, something Rafael Albuquerque told me really stuck: in a horror story, mood is far more important than perfect lines. That became my guiding compass for the book — dark, gritty, and full of shadows, much like Scavone’s characters themselves. I hope readers enjoy it as much as I’ve enjoyed bringing it to life.”
Scavone continued, “I'm super excited for folks to read it because Devil’s Luck has all the elements of a good horror comic. While Hailstone mixed horror with sci-fi and western, Devil’s Luck creeps to a much darker corner, merging psychological horror and violent crimes with a twist of the supernatural.”
This gripping and haunting series will be released monthly from Amazon’s Comixology Originals exclusive digital content line beginning with Devil’s Luck: A Hailstone Story #1 on December 9, 2025. Hailstone Vol 1, set during the Civil War, is available digitally from Comixology Originals and in paperback from Dark Horse Books.
Both Rafael Scavone and Eduardo Ferigato will be at CCXP in Sao Paulo, Brazil, December 4-7, 2025.
Praise for Hailstone
“Hailstone delivers the goods as only the best Westerns can. The visually stunning period artwork by Rafael de Latorre alone is worth the price of admission but add Rafael Scavone’s engaging mystery and world building and Hailstone is an instant hit.”
—Jimmy Palmiotti (Jonah Hex, Harley Quinn)
“A killer winter in a closed valley, townsfolk disappearing, a beast in the forest and a mystery in the factory – I don’t know what genre this is but I'm loving it and I’m hooked!”
—Frank Quitely (Jupiter’s Legacy, The Authority)
“A horror story set during the civil war that transcends genres and is just flat-out great comics.”
—Scott Snyder (Canary, Batman)
About the Writer: Rafael Scavone started writing comics in 2014. His most notable work includes Wonder Woman, All-Star Batman and Mark Millar’s Hit-Girl. In 2017 he adapted the popular Neil Gaiman tale A Study in Emerald. Alongside Rafael Albuquerque co-created Hidden Society, for Dark Horse Comics. His Comixology Originals work includes Hailstone Season 1, Sliced, Funny Creek, and Red Tag.
About the Artist: Eduardo Ferigato is an artist from São Paulo, Brazil. Eduardo has over a decade of experience in the industry, working on projects in the U.S. for Image Comics, Dark Horse, Dynamite Entertainment, and Marvel on titles including, Self Made, Radiant Black, Last Flight Out and Ultraman and The Last Phantom. He is best known for his self-published stories including Quad and the award-winning independent graphic novel Opala 76, as well as Graphic MSP series Piteco.
About Comixology Originals:
Amazon’s Comixology Originals exclusive digital content line is available at no additional cost for members of Kindle Unlimited and Comixology Unlimited, and for purchase at amazon.com/comixology. Prime members can enjoy a selection of eBooks, audiobooks, comics, and manga included with their Prime membership. With a monthly Kindle Unlimited membership, customers get access to an extensive library of digital books, featuring beloved authors and genres, including binge-worthy series, best sellers, audiobooks, comics and manga, magazines, and trending titles—all at your fingertips at amazon.com/kindleunlimited. Comixology Unlimited offers over 45,000 comics, graphic novels and manga for just $5.99 a month with a free trial at amazon.com/comixologyunlimited.
Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.
When he’s not writing about horror as the Senior News Reporter for Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.
Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.
When he’s not writing about horror as the Senior News Reporter for Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.
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