The Sandman Presents: The Deadboy Detectives #1

The Sandman Presents: The Dead Boy Detectives #1

by Ed Brubaker, Dave McKean (Cover Art), Daniel Vozzo (Colorist)

Edwin & Charles, the British school boys who cheated Death of The Endless, set up shop as detectives-for-hire from their tree house in back of a haunted mansion. But their first case may be more than they can handle.

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics, Fiction, Fantasy, Comic Book, Mystery

25 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 29, 2013

About the author

Ed Brubaker (born November 17, 1966) is an Eisner Award-winning American cartoonist and writer. He was born at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland.

Brubaker is best known for his work as a comic book writer on such titles as Batman, Daredevil, Captain America, Iron Fist, Catwoman, Gotham Central and Uncanny X-Men. In more recent years, he has focused solely on creator-owned titles for Image Comics, such as Fatale, Criminal, Velvet and Kill or Be Killed.

In 2016, Brubaker ventured into television, joining the writing staff of the HBO series Westworld.

Reviews

[Storm · Rating 3 out of 5]

"Not for the first time, Edwin wondered exactly what his friend had gotten them into, and why he was so eager to tempt fate"

I'm pretty happy with this beginning that merges traditional British Boarding School age boys, with Detective stories. Charles Rowland and Edwin Paine, two characters we met from The Sandman #25: Season of Mists Chapter 4 are now ghosts who have formed their own detective agency. They meet a potential client, Marcia, a homeless teenage girl who says her friends are going missing and turning up dead. Murdered. But nobody cares because they're homeless. There's a brief mention to a witch living by the Thames - could they be referring to the immortal Mad Hettie? If so, interesting Easter Egg there. Marcia decides kids can't solve the case and leaves but the Deadboy Detectives have decided to investigate anyway and thus the adventure begins. It ends with a great line!

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

I had read the 2 volumes of The Deadboy Detectives written by Toby Litt before this (incidentally, Vertigo, WTF are you doing with your titles and numbering system for this series? what a mess) and everything--outside of this--that I've read by Ed Brubaker has been great so I was pretty disappointed with the sub-par writing and art in this book. I don't know if Brubaker was roped into this or he was writing too many things at the same time but not a great addition to this fairly interesting offshoot of the Sandman.

[Russio · Rating 4 out of 5]

An oddly old-fashioned and quite charmingly told comic about two ghost detectives, both schoolboy age, who solve murders to fill their time. It is very British in outlook and the London setting makes the place look wonderfully appealing. Proper villains, a few twists but essentially likeable hokum. They do make em like they used to!

[Lauren Billingsly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cool read.

Wanted to read these after watching the Netflix series. I hope they make a second season. Pretty good so far.

[Lucie ⋆ ☾ · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 / 5 stars

Whouah the visuals are darker, I like it

Their office is in a treehouse ? 🥹

First case about someone who died

Funny 😆

So British I love that 🇬🇧

[Nick · Rating 4 out of 5]

So far, so good.

[Kate]

I just watched the new Dead Boy Detectives show, so I decided to reread the comics. Apparently I never tracked them!