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dead boy detectives reading list
with the show finally out i figured it was a great time to share my reading list again! check it out below the cut 👻☠️🔎
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⏳ the sandman #25 (1991)
this is their first appearance!
🐇 the children's crusade (1993)/free country: a tale of the children's crusade (2015)
1. the children's crusade #1
(2. black orchid annual #1
4. animal man annual #1
5. swamp thing annual #7
6. doom patrol annual #2
7. arcana annual #1)
8. the children's crusade #2
alternatively you can just read free country. whether or not you read the annuals i recommend reading free country's middle chapter
!!! in place of the annuals there is an additional middle chapter that was created for the book "free country: a tale of the children's crusade" where it is placed between the two children's crusade issues. the boys don't actually appear in most of the annuals (they are in two panels of swamp thing and appear in doom patrol) and reading them isn't necessary but i figured i would include them as they are part of the story.
❄️ winter's edge #3 (2000)
this is an anthology. their part is the 'books of magic: waiting for good dough' story starting on page 19
🐦⬛ the sandman presents: the dead boy detectives (2001, 4 issues)
i believe the tv show's esther finch was partially based on this run's villain.
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(they do have a part in 'death: at death's door' from 2003. it's short and really just a retelling of events from sandman #25 with some minor changes. the entirety of their appearance in death: at death's door is included at the end of the next comic im listing so i am not really adding the death: at death's door book to the list)
☠️ the dead boy detectives (2005, one-shot)
this book was made by jill thompson in a very cute manga-esque style
👻 ghosts (2012), time warp (2013), the witching hour (2013)
these three are anthologies. the story 'the dead boy detectives in: run ragged' runs through all of them. 'run ragged' kicks off the next run.
🔮 from the pages of the sandman: dead boy detectives (2013, 12 issues)
this is the comic where crystal is introduced! a book collecting all 12 issues titled 'dead boy detectives by toby litt & mark buckingham' was released in 2023
🔎the sandman universe: dead boy detectives (2022, 6 issues)
the most recent run, centered around some really interesting thai mythology and featuring multiple edwin moments that i am sure you will love
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and that's everything! i also recommend buying the omnibus if you can. it includes everything minus the 2022 run plus some additional bonus content!
i hope this is helpful! feel free to ask me any questions you may have about the comics. dead boy detectives is my number one interest so i should be able to answer
have fun reading! 👻
#dead boy detectives#the sandman#the sandman universe#comics#reading list#edwin paine#edwin payne#charles rowland#crystal palace#crystal palace surname von hoverkraft#painland#paynland#i really hope i didnt mess up while making this post fjdkfkjdkf
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Neil Gaiman really just turned all his works into tv shows to make every character (canonically) gay.
I really appreciate this in a man.
#neil gaiman#lgbtq#good omens#the sandman#dead boy detectives#tv shows#netflix#aziracrow#aziraphale#Crowley#edwin payne#charles rowland#good job Neil 👍
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YOOOO MASON IS ON BOARD!
@nualaofthefaerie tweeted this after we were geeking out yesterday about how much Lukas Gage reminded us of Desire and I joked that he was Desire's child.
Listen I am full on headcanoning this into reality. That Cat King was faaaar too much like Desire for me to ignore it. Huuuuge Desire vibes!
Clearly Desire themself agrees with us!
So what are we thinking? Talk to meeee about this! Who is the other parent? Lukas Gage is a child of the Endless with 9 lives and whole host of magical powers and probably a lot of parental issues twisting him up. Is Desire a good parent? Highly unlikely lol. But you gotta admit it makes for excellent fanfiction. :P
#desire of the endless#dead boy detectives#the sandman#lukas gage#mason alexander park#i am so excited#i hope this headcanon spreads like wildfire until we've tulpa'd it into reality#lmao
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"The Sandman" fanart
Screen wallpaper... and yes, the poppies again. Don't think I get over it soon ^___^
#art#fanart#netflix#design#the sandman#morpheus#dream of the endless#poppies#Tom Sturridge#lord morpheus#the sandman netflix
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I have never needed two characters to meet more in my entire life
#the energy in that room would be INSANE#the money i would pay to see this#dead boy detectives#the cat king#the corinthian#the sandman
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finished dead boy detectives!!! (spoilers ahead!)
quick disclaimer: i haven’t gotten around to the comics yet but i’ve been very interested since the sandman came out and i do plan on reading them eventually lol.
- edwin is my new blorbo cutie and i too would go to hell for him. also, his style is immaculate, exactly how i want to dress all the time.
- i am SO sad about niko. but i’m glad that it seems like she’s not totally gone? i hope she’s not an antagonist in the next series (the ending was a touch ominous), but i’ll honestly be happy either way. it’s so rare to find good western-japanese characters. it made me incredibly happy when she switched into a japanese accent when saying “osaka” because it’s something i recognise in my family and in me. i know people from lots of different backgrounds do that with words from their own languages, but i’d never seen a japanese character do it before so i was very tickled.
- charles. man. please fall in love with edwin. how tf are you quite literally dragging him out of hell and he confesses to you and you look him in the eyes and say that you love him but you’re not in love with him. i mean that’s the best possible way he could’ve gone about it, but if i were edwin i might just have gone back down to the doll face spider thing.
- i hope that crystal’s past doesn’t land her in jail or anything. i really like her dynamic with the others but i’m not sold on her and charles romantically, mostly because edwin is so fucking sweet and i don’t want his heart to be broken. he’ll be happy if charles is happy, but i cannot stand see him get hurt even the tiniest bit.
- jenny is amazing. she’s literally me fr. also i love how she just hands people cleavers.
- i found the night nurse’s breakdown when she was in angie’s stomach very relatable. i feel like that a lot lmao. and i love her accent. i will go to bat for my own weird ass culchie irish/valley girl hybrid, but if had to pick another accent…
- i need a wise and eternal south asian man to talk me down from the ledge. it’s almost finals week and a ring from kashina would be a big help.
- tragic mick (top tier wordplay name) is a sweetheart and i hope he gets to be a walrus again eventually. my first reaction when i saw the cat king was “oh my god, it’s the piss kink guy from You!” but that aside, he was ok in the end. so was monty. i hope the night nurse can help crystal drag david the demon back down to hell.
#dead boy detectives#renew dead boy detectives#i need more!#netflix don’t be evil please#i willl never forget or forgive what they did to the oa#george rexstrew#jayden revri#kassius nelson#yuyu kitamura#briana cuoco#the sandman#tom sturridge#kirby howell baptiste#neil gaiman#to boost:#good omens#david tennant#michael sheen#and technically the two of them are in the sandman universe so#starlightseraph’s brainrot
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I'm currently fascinated with a commonality with Neil Gaiman's work and his approach to relationships: they all are literally impossible.
Aziraphale and Crowley developed despite being on opposite sides, angel and demon.
Hob Gadling is a normal, ordinary guy from the 1400s, only able to meet the King of Dreams through a bet/experiment.
Edwin and Charles are both dead and existed 60+ years apart, only able to meet because of a "clerical error".
The Doctor is only able to speak to The TARDIS one time.
(haven't seen much of Gaiman's other work, please tell me if this pattern holds)
and I think that is saying something about how he chooses to use the fantasy genre in his stories. His relationships literally could never happen outside of fantasy, and that is what makes them all uniquely special to me. He decides to build his relationships on the foundation of what could be, while still making them feel real and keeping human emotion at the center of it.
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Desire gotta be proud of the Cat King who is whoring around the entire show. Proud parent and slutty child.
#dead boy detectives#dead boy detectives spoiler#dead boy detective agency#the cat king#desire#the sandman
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how are you gonna have a character from the 80’s and give him the gay earring and then not make him gay????
#dead boy detectives#i haven’t finished the show yet but why is charles and crystal a thing??#charles rowland#the sandman#edwin payne#crystal palace#charwin
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The Sandman universe:
#this joke has probably been made before haven’t seen it tho but it’s true 😭#I’m halfway through dead boy detectives#the sandman#dead boy detectives#netflix#the sandman netflix
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Maybe the reason Neil gaiman is so good at making queer media despite being a cishet man is because he spends so much time on Tumblr
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Is anyone actually straight in the Neil Gaiman Cinematic Universe?
#neil gaiman cinematic universe#neil gaiman#dead boy detectives#good omens#the sandman#i'm not complaining#crowley#aziraphale#edwin payne#charles rowland
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she’s so iconic.
#kirby howell baptiste#death the sandman#death of the endless#dead boy detectives#dead boy detective agency#the sandman#netflix the sandman
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This is my heartstopper
#dead boy detectives#dead boy detective agency#edwin payne#charles rowland#neil gaiman#the sandman#god sends his gay angst to his strongest soldiers#gay#tv#heartstopper
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Not that anybody cares but I watched Dead Boy Detectives and I have something to say ☝️🤓☝️🤓
‼️Sandman comics spoiler warning‼️
I’m 99% sure Cat King is Loki (not Marvel’s Loki the one from Sandman comics 😭). He can turn into ANYONE not just some guy, and he didn’t count himself as a cat when Edwin said “it’s 147 cats you forgot to count yourself.” Also based on when the story takes place, Loki must have been let out by Dream by now (somewhere in volume 2) and it would make sense for Loki to be messing around in some f**k*ss town hiding from Odin and other celestial ppl. Also his eyes are literally the exact same as Loki’s eyes in the comics 👀
And also bonus points we all know Dream is the king of cats so Loki could possibly have stolen one of Dream’s alter egos as a cover.
ANYWAYS this is just a silly little prediction I could be wrong 🤷♂️ I know Dead Boys is only partially canon and most of it wasn’t in the comics. But Sandman Season 2 is (allegedly) coming out soon and there’s also ready a lot of lore drops and easter eggs that allude to Sandman comics volume 2 🤔 one other example is how Edwin said “there’s a lot more ghosts now than there used to be due to a past incident.” Hehehehe like when Lucifer abandoned Hell and let the whole undead out 😳?!?!?!
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