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The Dead Boy Detectives (2013-2014) #1…
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The Dead Boy Detectives (2013-2014) #1 (vuoden 2013 painos)

Tekijä: Toby Litt (Tekijä), Mark Buckingham (Tekijä), Mark Buckingham (Kuvittaja), Mark Buckingham (Cover Art), Mark Buckingham (Penciller)2 lisää, Gary Erskine (Inker), Lee Loughridge (Colorist)

Sarjat: Dead Boy Detectives (2014 1-6)

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Neil Gaiman's inimitable sleuths from THE SANDMAN: SEASON OF MISTS star in their own manga digest. THE DEAD BOY DETECTIVES, guest-starring Death of the Endless, is brought to life by award-winning artist Jill Thompson (THE SANDMAN: BRIEF LIVES, Scary Godmother). Based on the overwhelming success of her first manga digest, DEATH: AT DEATH'S DOOR, Thompson has crafted an amazing original mystery that will appeal to both SANDMAN fans and shojou manga enthusiasts. Charles Rowland and Edwin Paine, the dead British teenagers who are always on the run from Death, travel stateside to solve a missing persons case. Our intrepid heroes have been contacted by young Annika Abernathy, a student at a posh International Academy in Chicago. It seems that Annika's best friend has vanished. For Rowland and Paine to investigate the case properly, they decide to enroll as students at the school. And since it's an all-girls academy, the duo is forced to go undercover-in drag. Secret passages, food fights, and far too many fashionistas abound as the Dead Boy Detectives solve the case and learn a lot about life from the precocious daughters of international ambassadors and famous rock stars.… (lisätietoja)
Jäsen:nickprince
Teoksen nimi:The Dead Boy Detectives (2013-2014) #1
Kirjailijat:Toby Litt (Tekijä)
Muut tekijät:Mark Buckingham (Tekijä), Mark Buckingham (Kuvittaja), Mark Buckingham (Cover Art), Mark Buckingham (Penciller), Gary Erskine (Inker)1 lisää, Lee Loughridge (Colorist)
Info:Vertigo (2013), 22 pages
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Dead Boy Detectives Vol. 1: Schoolboy Terrors (tekijä: Toby Litt)

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näyttää 5/5
Was looking for a new graphic novel while at the library and picked this one at random. I didn't realize at the time that it contained side characters from Gaiman's Sandman graphic novels.

I really enjoyed this first compilation. If you're looking for Gaiman in the pages, he didn't write it and the style isn't much the same.

That being said, it's still an enjoyable read. I would definitely recommend it! ( )
  bookdrunkard78 | Jan 6, 2022 |
Access a version of the below that includes illustrations on my blog.

They've had a couple of confusingly-titled standalones to their names already,* but the Dead Boy Detectives have finally landed an ongoing series, some twenty years after the characters originally debuted in The Sandman (and almost as long since they became detectives in The Children's Crusade). I'm not sure why, but I committed to reading every Sandman spin-off years ago, so here I am!

Schoolboy Terrors contains three stories. The first, "Run Ragged," is a short tale of the two ghost boys (Edwin, d. 1910s, and Charles, d. 1990s) helping find a lost dead cat; events quickly spiral out of control and they end up enrolled in a creepy school. This is fun, if inconsequential stuff: like Jill Thompson did in her run on the characters, Toby Litt and Mark Buckingham extract a lot of humor from the two boys' interactions with girls. (Charles is obsessed, Edwin less so.)

School turns out to be a fruitful setting for the Dead Boy Detectives (Thompson's run was also set in one), as in the title story, they end up traveling to St. Hilarion's, the very school in which both boys died, eighty years apart. They're there to protect Crystal Palace, the daughter of a performance artist who likes MMORPGs but is possibly being set up as the receptacle for demons coming through from another dimension. I like the idea of taking the boys back to the scene of their demise, but it shows up one of the fundamental difficulties of the Dead Boy Detectives premise. What happened to these boys was terrible and gruesome-- they were both killed by bullies-- but the inclination is to put them into light-hearted goofy adventures. The plot in "Schoolboy Terrors" is about kids being killed so demons can use their bodies, sure, but the writing and especially Buckingham's art emphasizes the goofiness more than anything else, and the danger is all "fantasy violence," not realistic violence. Yet the boys have this fundamental, disturbing trauma in their backstories that is difficult to reconcile with their ongoing adventures, and bringing them back to the scene of their deaths makes that disjunction hard to ignore. Neil Gaiman is actually pretty good at mixing horror with childlike whimsy, but Toby Litt is not as talented a writer (no slight to him, of course).

That said, "Schoolboy Terrors" is a decent, if sometimes aimless, adventure; I felt like the boys spent a lot of time toing and froing with little purpose.

The last tale here is "Halfway House," which seems to set up the new status quo for the Dead Boy Detectives: solving supernatural difficulties with their new friend Crystal Palace. I remember complaining during Ed Brubaker's run that the rules of being a ghost often seemed arbitrary (the resolution to his storyline turned on a previously unseen ability of ghosts to create miniature ghost duplicates of themselves, as I recall), so I was pleased when Litt and Buckingham gave us a two-page spread explaining the rules of being a ghosts.

Otherwise, this is a cute if somewhat confusing story about a cursed mirror, dead Victorians, and philosopher cats.

Litt and Buckingham are clearly treating this as an ongoing; there are hints of something bit going on that I imagine will pay off in volume 2. The real highlight of this book is Mark Buckingham's art; I had mixed feelings about his very short run on Doctor Who, where he inked himself, but here, with other inkers, his work really pops and delights. Great facial expressions, great layouts.

* The first was called The Sandman Presents: The Dead Boy Detectives and the second just The Dead Boy Detectives. One notes that the definite article has vanished from the title this time out.

Neil Gaiman's The Sandman Spin-Offs: « Previous in sequence | Next in sequence »
  Stevil2001 | Oct 15, 2016 |
These detectives really need to be put to rest. Ed Brubaker's one-shot, "the Secret of Immortality," let readers know that two prepubescent ghost detectives didn't provide a lot of material to entertain Vertigo's target audience. Nor did Jill Thompson's manga-style run with the characters. Neil Gaiman's original Sandman series provided an interesting set-up for the characters, but every time they're dug up, they're stripped of all characteristics except their English accents and crammed into crummy stories written, somewhat confusingly, for 'mature audiences.'

[N.B. This review includes images, and was formatted for my site, dendrobibliography -- located here.]

The characters and the stories are geared towards the YA market, but then the occasional nudity and gore and decidedly ~adult~ content likely contributed to this series' low sales and fast cancellation. This short-lived series -- about two dead 12-year-old boys who solve supernatural mysteries with a young girl named Crystal and two halves of a, erm, philosopher ghost-cat -- ends up feeling as scatterbrained as the setup sounds.

Fans of Mark Buckingham's work in the Fables series won't be disappointed with his work here: It's on par with his best. (Although why the ghost of a cruel, white schoolmaster is drawn as a racist Fu Manchu caricature, I'll never know....) This is partially his pet project, and he shares story / writing duties with Toby Litt -- an English (i.e., literary) academic and newcomer to comics. Unfortunately, I haven't had as good an impression of Buckingham's writing chops as I've his artwork, and Litt's contributions don't enhance anything. It has a lot in common with Buckingham's work in Fairest, in that it tends to sacrifice a coherent plot in favor of unfunny, stupid, and ignorant jokes.

The stories across all 12 issues of the Dead Boy Detectives are rich in ideas, but too many ideas. Transitions between lines of dialogue, between pages, between groups of panels -- they consistently lack coherence. Universe rules are explained (4 issues late...) for new readers, and then broken numerous times throughout the series without any acknowledgment. And God, the coincidences and convenient plot devices -- every plot thread is born and bred on impossible coincidences, worst seen in the 5-issue 'Ghost Snow' story arc.

The powerful Sandman lore sometimes breaks through. We run into really neat mysteries, like the two young ghosts who have spent 130 years trapped by a shattered mirror that provided a gateway to H. Rider Haggard's racist Africa. And then random things happen, which is about the crux of this series' problems. Things just happen for no reason and then it's over. ( )
2 ääni tootstorm | Jun 19, 2016 |
I really didn't like this at all. That doesn't mean it wasn't any good, it probably just shows my lack of experience with graphic novels (but I needed one for a couple of challenges I'm in!). I read Maus in the past and really liked it. But this one seemed to have no cohesiveness or structure. I often couldn't tell what was going on, nothing seemed to go together, and I got a little lost, so I just skimmed. But, again, it very well could be me, my lack of interest in this genre, and my age!! :/ ( )
  TerriS | Jan 17, 2016 |
I love that it's clearly the same continuity as Jill Thompson's manga, just an entirely different style (one much closer to the origin comic, but still). ( )
  jen.e.moore | Oct 26, 2014 |
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Neil Gaiman's inimitable sleuths from THE SANDMAN: SEASON OF MISTS star in their own manga digest. THE DEAD BOY DETECTIVES, guest-starring Death of the Endless, is brought to life by award-winning artist Jill Thompson (THE SANDMAN: BRIEF LIVES, Scary Godmother). Based on the overwhelming success of her first manga digest, DEATH: AT DEATH'S DOOR, Thompson has crafted an amazing original mystery that will appeal to both SANDMAN fans and shojou manga enthusiasts. Charles Rowland and Edwin Paine, the dead British teenagers who are always on the run from Death, travel stateside to solve a missing persons case. Our intrepid heroes have been contacted by young Annika Abernathy, a student at a posh International Academy in Chicago. It seems that Annika's best friend has vanished. For Rowland and Paine to investigate the case properly, they decide to enroll as students at the school. And since it's an all-girls academy, the duo is forced to go undercover-in drag. Secret passages, food fights, and far too many fashionistas abound as the Dead Boy Detectives solve the case and learn a lot about life from the precocious daughters of international ambassadors and famous rock stars.

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