A few months ago, I became the Admin for the DC Comics and
Vertigo new releases for stashmycomics.com. It was here in putting the newest
releases up every week that I first came across the DBDs.
Meet Edwin and Charles. Edwin was murdered at his boarding
school in 1913. Jump to 1990, where Charles was murdered at the same school.
Somehow, the two meet and ended up rejected Death’s offer to find peace on the
other side, hoping to become a sort of paranormal Encyclopedia Brown.
In this volume, the boys help a pair of girl ghosts find
their missing cat. Then they go back to their old haunt (pun intended) in hopes
of helping a sad girl stave off the very same faith that befell them years ago.
Finally, live becomes topsy turvy when Edwin’s attempt to free a ghost from a
broken mirror results in him being turned upside down and he gets stuck like
that.
Dead Boy Detectives
was very interesting. I enjoyed the previews I had reading during my Admin
work. So, the series was on my radar. Once again, my local library came through
and I was about to snatch this up before it even hit the shelf. There’s a
little demonic voodoo in this book. I don’t usually read those types of books. Thankfully,
it wasn’t too scary. Other than a few swears and well, Death of course, it’s a
fairly mild opening act.
Sometimes, it takes a little while before the true motives
of a series becomes clear. I thought the first two volumes of Sandman weren’t
so bad but volume 3 really freaked me out and I haven’t been back since. But I
think the Death books are fantastic. So, I was willing to give this a try. I’m
very pleased and I would give volume 2 a go once it becomes available.
There’s also at least 2 other Dead Boy Detective miniseries published
about 10 years ago. I’m interested in them as well but I want to read volume 2
of this current series before my mind is made up about reading them.
Worth Consuming
Rating: 9 out of 10 stars.
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