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While not quite as disjointed as the first volume, this book does still suffer from a large number of story threads which are not juggled well; it always feel like a lurch between the different character groups, and it makes the overall story feel a lot weaker than it actually is. The concept of the Ghost snow is interesting, if not really explored, and the world of the Neitherlands shows a lot of promise, although it's barely explored here. The story of Charles' sister and the death of their mo...
I found early parts of this book a bit befuddling, but I suspect that's because I don't remember enough about volume 1. Despite that, I increasingly came to love the mythology that Litt was spinning here, and all of his many (many) characters. I also loved the personal importance of the mysteries here. This was a fun book, peopled by interesting characters, and I'm sorry to see it now gone.
Looks OK, but is completely impenetrable if like me you've not read the first book in the series. Jumps around too much, never so much as tries to introduce the characters, and leaves one with too much unknown.
Engaging both in visuals and storyline, this graphic novel is an excellent escape from the normal. Interspersed with humor and deeper meaning, it succeeds at many levels. Highly recommended. Buy it if you can; borrow it if you can't.
More fun adventures being dead, with a story that takes us to one of the lands of the dead and to a windmill where a Buddhist Monk relative of one of the boys lives. Like the first collection, this was decent with some silly over-reaches in character creation.
I really enjoyed this series, too bad it didn't last. Basically it's a fun, quirky yet macabre little book like you'd expect out of Mark Buckingham. Fans of Books of Magic, The Unwritten, and Fables will enjoy.
There's kind of a fairytale vibe happening in this book. Partly it's because the art is by Mark Buckingham who drew "Fables" and partly because the Sandman universe has always had that vibe.The Dead Boys have a really sweet friendship, in many ways they act like an old married couple so I like how that dynamic is disrupted with Crystal's arrival. Charles has a crush on her, Edwin is jealous so it's a cute, interruption to their day to day activities.I think this may be the conclusion of the stor...
I was entertained here and I found the first volume to be better. This is the last volume and some things did not get resolved. Such is life. The boys help Rosa in a coma to get back to her body. Also one of them meets his sister who is not a Buddhist monk. I like her character. She is awesome and has no problem with her ghost brother.This was a fun series. I enjoyed it.
Better outing this time around. Story was more cohesive and gave some character back ground and development.
Edwin and Charles might be dead, but that doesn’t stop them from being great detectives. Branching out from Sandman Volume 4, the Dead Boy Detectives solve the mysteries of their past and the supernatural netherworld of the Netherlands.In Volume 2, Crystal Palace convinces Charles to seek out his half-sister Clementine, a monk living in a windmill with her scientifically oriented daughter Miranda. Charles learns that his father may have murdered his mother, a ballerina who fell to her death from...
*3.5.
Still strong. Now the series is set up and I'm looking forward to seeing what happens next.
This follows directly from the events of the first volume - which, I realised as I got underway, I don't recall at all. Something about prose writers turning to comics is part of it - often it takes them a while to get the hang of conveying interiority again, so the shape of the story is fine, but it has no hooks, slides right off my mind. Still, the voice of Gaiman's undead schoolboys was always the main thing when it came to these characters, which Litt catches, and art from Mark Buckingham an...
