You're talking about the new Vertigo ongoing, right? It's a good creative team. The Dead Boy Detectives were always kind of an independent creation within Gaiman's Sandman series anyway. There was a four-issue miniseries and manga-style graphic novel by Jill Thompson after the series ended. Trade waiting as always, but I'm looking forward to reading this.
I'm going to copy the beginning of the Wikipedia entry for this, because it's been awhile since I read those issues of Sandman myself:
"The Dead Boy Detectives are fictional characters that have appeared in comic books published by DC Comics' Vertigo imprint. They were created by writer Neil Gaiman and artists Matt Wagner and Malcolm Jones III in The Sandman #25 (April, 1991). The characters are the ghosts of two dead children, Charles Rowland and Edwin Paine, who rather than enter the afterlife stay on Earth to become detectives investigating crimes which involve the supernatural."
The rest of the entry gives the history, but basically during that story line Hell had been emptied. I don't think you've ever needed to know the history to read any of the later appearances. They're dead boys and they're detectives: that's all you really need to know.
The opening arc is 4 issues long. It'll be interesting to see where it goes from here. I'm undecided if I'll add it to my pull file or just wait for trades.
Replies
You're talking about the new Vertigo ongoing, right? It's a good creative team. The Dead Boy Detectives were always kind of an independent creation within Gaiman's Sandman series anyway. There was a four-issue miniseries and manga-style graphic novel by Jill Thompson after the series ended. Trade waiting as always, but I'm looking forward to reading this.
I'm going to copy the beginning of the Wikipedia entry for this, because it's been awhile since I read those issues of Sandman myself:
"The Dead Boy Detectives are fictional characters that have appeared in comic books published by DC Comics' Vertigo imprint. They were created by writer Neil Gaiman and artists Matt Wagner and Malcolm Jones III in The Sandman #25 (April, 1991).
The characters are the ghosts of two dead children, Charles Rowland and Edwin Paine, who rather than enter the afterlife stay on Earth to become detectives investigating crimes which involve the supernatural."
The rest of the entry gives the history, but basically during that story line Hell had been emptied. I don't think you've ever needed to know the history to read any of the later appearances. They're dead boys and they're detectives: that's all you really need to know.
Ok thanks. I wasn't sure if there something else I needed to know. They did mention in the story that Death was after them.
The opening arc is 4 issues long. It'll be interesting to see where it goes from here. I'm undecided if I'll add it to my pull file or just wait for trades.