Well, I created it with some people you would recognise from the Buffy comics. Paul Lee and Brian Horton have been painting the covers on the monthly for a while, and contributing in other ways - Brian has designed numerous characters for the series, Paul wrote, pencilled, inked, coloured, and lettered Buffy #55. And the colourist, Dave Stewart, worked on Ring of Fire, Fray, and a bunch of other projects.

Anyway, DF is a horror story about Brandon Waite, a young magician whose father did some really bad things, but has been dead for a bit. Now the whole family is suffering from some mysterious illnesses, so Brandon has to try to save them. There's a very direct occult mystery there, hopefully very suspenseful and atmospheric, and it leads to a big fiery climax with demons showing up and all.

But beyond the occult potboiler aspect of it, the themes are along the lines of Buffy - the supernatural business is a metaphor for Brandon's misguided attempts to protect the people around him, his difficulties with communicating honestly with people.

If we've done that well, I think that's the most valuable thing I've learned from Joss - you reinforce the scary stuff with something more real, something you can write about honestly and with emotion. We've gotten really good reviews on it, some really nice quotes from Wizard magazine, Alan Moore, and Clive Barker. Check out the web site - www.devilsfootprints.com. There's a collection of the series coming at the end of the year, with some extra short stories, new paintings, etc.