I enjoyed this. It’s not a very serious read, so far. It was confusing at some points but I’m willing to read volume 2 before I make a decision on whether or not I like the series. I didn’t love it, I didn’t hate it either.

It's always good to see new Mark Buckingham Vertigo art. Hearkens back to the 90's Sandman era when Vertigo was in it's heyday.

A really cool read! I'm thinking about continuing with the series.

Dead Boy Detectives is another fruitless attempt to give these minor characters from Neil Gaiman’s Sandman comics a series of their own. The reason why this idea keeps failing is that there’s nothing to Charles or Edwin: they’re around 12 years old, they’re ghosts, and they decide to solve supernatural mysteries. That’s it?! It might work as a series for younger readers but, this being a Vertigo title, it’s clearly being aimed at the adult market and I’m not sure it should be. Novelist Toby Litt...

I enjoyed these stories. We are introduced to two boys who are dead and they go around solving mysteries. They died at a boarding school and they go back to the haunted torture chamber and clear out the old ghosts. I think there are basically 3 stories in this volume.The art is decent, it is more on the horror side, gothic and macabre. I will continue on.

I couldn't get much a of a grip on anything like none of it made sense. This one was sadly not for me.

I rather enjoyed this book, although I don't usually go in for graphic novels--and I must confess I spent most of the time reading this book uncertain of what was going on or why it was happening. You may laugh, but I think I was into the "second comic" before I realized the two boys were actually ghosts and "Dead boy" was a literal description. I was also surprised to learn after finishing the book that it wasn't aimed at a juvenile audience--as I'd assumed based on the cover and age of the pri...

Actual rating 2.5. Dead Boy Detectives is a Sandman spin-off, so I grabbed it from the comic book shop expecting it to have some of that same magical brilliance that most Sandman-related stories have. Unfortunately, while the premise is good, the writing in this volume is choppy and confusing, making for an unsatisfying read. Charles and Edwin are two young, school-age boys who were murdered in their boarding school by bullies, though many years apart from each other. Their story was a rather ch...

Edwin and Charles are two schoolboys who have set up their own detective agency. They investigate supernatural crimes because they also both happen to be dead, hence the name, Dead Boy Detectives. They get pulled back to the school where they both died while trying to protect a young girl. Working to solve the bizarre conspiracy at the school leads to the dead boys teaming up with the girl.The Dead Boy Detectives are a spin-off for Neil Gaiman's Sandman series. Unfortunately, I never followed th...

I was so excited to win this comic from the Goodreads First Reads Giveaways. I started reading it immediately and that is where my excitement ended. As you can see, I gave it 2 of 5 stars. The premise is interesting. Two boys who met their demise and are now ghosts. They are, for some reasons, now detectives who help the world of the dead solve problems. Seems reasonable enough to be interesting.Unfortunately, the story was all over the place. I couldn't follow the story and keep my interest in

I wanted an all-ages mystical romp... Not for all ages... It was decent but not to my taste... Potential is there but writing is at times choppy and confusing.

„I remembered playing Sardines with my friends, when we were seven or eight years old.One time, I lay in complete darkness, directly beneath all my father‘s suits, for what seemed like days.I wasn‘t trying to win the game, I had just become paralyzed by fear - fear of what being dead would be like.Turns out, being dead isn‘t as straightforward as I imagined.Turns out, I didn‘t really know the first thing about being dead.“-Charles Rowland (while descending into his own grave)Die unregelmäßig wie...

Set in the same universe as Neil Gaiman's The Sandman, this book follows two formely alive school boys who form their own detective agency. This book collects the first six issues of the series and follows several different arcs. I know we were introduced to the characters in Sandman, but I feel like more time should have been spent examining these two dead boys, one from the early twentieth century, the other from the late twentieth century. Most of the book is about some mystery or another, bu...

A quirky fun book about two young detectives who just so happen to be dead. The book contain two arcs and I really enjoyed the first one but the second one fell a little flat. Charles and Edwin are an intriguing pair and the creative team of Litt and Buckingham had fun with the book. At times I felt some more exposition would have helped the title but overall, this was a fun read.

Not bad. I may stick around to read the other volume. But it's just lacking in its quality without Neil Gaiman. I knew obviously, that he wasn't author of this but I let nostalgia get the best of me. Still I didn't hate it. But, jumbled as it was, Free Country has this beat by a mile.Also, it seems that a lot of people got lost while reading this book. I didn't have that problem so I'll assume it is a must to read the sandman books first.

This was one of those books where you couldn't wait to read it and when you actually started to read it. You were like what the hell!? I could not finish this book. It honestly felt more like a chore then a hobby to read this.Snooze fest. The only great thing about this book is that it did help me sleep at night....

Lots of good ideas executed just alright. Doesn't help that it came out at that weird time when writing had this certain sense of shallow progressiveness to it (the main girl in particular was written with a "two steps forward, one step back" sensibility). Even the main allure of ghosts feels like it was handled more as an afterthought than anything else, with the lore/rules to how ghosts work in this series barely being established until 6 issues in. Would love to see the series get a second ch...

I thought I would love this, but honestly, I struggled to follow the story. I spent a lot of time going back and re-reading pages to make sure I hadn’t missed something.

i feel a new hyperfix coming on /hj