Last year at the San Diego convention, Brian Horton and I were having dinner, talking about dream projects. We'd been working together for about six years, and working very steadily on Buffy for about two. We were talking about having our own story to tell, a story that really spoke to us, and had its own identity, its own style. We wanted a big story where the characters mattered, like in some of our favorite comics, Hellboy and Preacher. We wanted a story that goes somewhere. Brian works in video games as a lead artist for The Collective, and he's worked with Clive Barker. He doesn't always have a lot of time to work on comics. So if he was to do one of any size, he'd have to really want to do it. 
The Devil's Footprints is a story I've been working on for years. It's set in my hometown of Ipswich, Massachusetts. Some of the Salem witches were held there before trial, and some of our fine residents were executed in Salem. There's an honest-to-whomever Satanic landmark in front of the First Church of Ipswich, from which we get our title. H.P. Lovecraft set some of his stories in and around the town, and John Updike's Witches of Eastwick was really about Ipswich--the author lived there for years, and the castle that Nicholson bought in the movie is an actual landmark in town ... and in The Devil's Footprints.
Besides a castle, and a hell of a pedigree, this story also has a fetus that goes missing, a main character who digs up his father's corpse, a demon conjuration that goes really, really wrong, and a fight on town hill with a twenty-foot-long fire snake--not to mention angry rednecks who don't cotton to devil worshipping in their town. And it has Paul Lee (Lurid, Fused, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) on pencils, and colors by the inimitable Dave Stewart (Hellboy and Star Wars: Empire, with me and Brian).
But the most important thing you take away from our book is a little more down-to-earth-because really, it's all about the character. It's all about Brandon Waite. And the lesson that we come away with, which maybe he doesn't, is that if you're gambling with anything important, like an unborn child, the life of your girlfriend, or your soul, you damn well better learn to tell it like it is. You might beat the devil, but you can't knock love and expect it to do what you want.
-Scott Allie