In Pichetshote and Stokely’s new six-issue comic book miniseries, Edwin and Charles are hired to find a missing Thai-American girl named Jai, only for her to turn up dead. “As a Thai-American, I grew up around all this wonderful Thai folklore that’s never made it to American pop culture, so by introducing some of my favorite Neil Gaiman characters to the truly terrifying and bizarre world of Thai ghosts, we will give horror and Sandman fans something new.” “The genius of Sandman is how seamlessly it fits different genres, histories, and folklores together, something that definitely inspired Jeff and I for Dead Boy Detectives,” said Pichetshote. The Sandman Universe: Dead Boy Detectives kicks off on December 27th with a bloodthirsty krasue-a floating, severed head whose internal organs trail beneath it-and amps up the mysteries and horrors from there! But their investigation into a Thai American girl’s disappearance from her Los Angeles home puts them on a collision course with new and terrifying ghosts straight from Thai folklore that could give even a dead boy nightmares! Eisner Award-winning writer Pornsak Pichetshote ( The Good Asian, Infidel) is joined by Eisner Award-nominated artist Jeff Stokely to take the Dead Boys to the scariest place of all: the heart of Hollywood! There’s currently one other Sandman series, Nightmare Country, written by James Tynion IV and drawn by Lisandro Estherren with a guest artist each month.Ĭheck out a few of the covers and some interior pages below.įor more on this news, read the official press release below.Ĭharles Rowland and Edwin Paine have been detectives for decades-and dead best friends even longer.
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The series will feature a main cover by Nimit Malavia with variant covers by Alex Eckman-Lawn, Tyler Crook, Filipe Andrade (1:25), and Yoshitaka Amano (not shown). All this, while Charles and Edwin, two ghost detectives, are secretly craving changes themselves-in a coming-of-age story starring two boys who can’t grow up.” “This is definitely a horror book,” continued Pichetshote, “as the boys discover Thai black magic’s getting more powerful in Los Angeles (the home of the largest Thai population outside Thailand), and it might even be changing the rules governing ghosts. Each child is Thai, with power unlike anything Edwin and Charles have ever seen before, and they all died in LA at different times over the past fifty years! And perilously close by to the boys’ adventure, Thessaly the witch finds herself held hostage by dangerous magics-both a threat to her life and an insult to her ego that simply will not go unanswered…
Because Jai, along with her two friends Tanya and Melvin, are all ghosts like Edwin and Charles. So what’s The Sandman Universe: Dead Boy Detectives about?Įdwin and Charles are hired to find a missing Thai-American girl named Jai, only for her to turn up dead. Listen to the latest episode of our weekly comics podcast!
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