DC’s Useless Boy Detectives Are Again!
The Sandman Universe grows as two of its most beloved characters return to the highlight!
Charles Rowland and Edwin Paine have been detectives for many years—and lifeless greatest pals even longer. However their investigation right into a Thai American woman’s disappearance from her Los Angeles house places them on a collision course with new and terrifying ghosts straight from Thai folklore that would give even a lifeless boy nightmares! Eisner Award-winning author Pornsak Pichetshote (The Good Asian, Infidel) is joined by celebrated artist Jeff Stokely to take the Useless Boys to the scariest place of all: the guts of Hollywood!
The Sandman Universe: Useless Boy Detectives kicks off on December twenty seventh with a bloodthirsty krasue—a floating, severed head whose inside organs path beneath it—and amps up the mysteries and horrors from there!
“The genius of Sandman is how seamlessly it matches completely different genres, histories, and folklores collectively, one thing that positively impressed Jeff and I for Useless Boy Detectives,” mentioned Pichetshote. “As a Thai-American, I grew up round all this glorious Thai folklore that’s by no means made it to American popular culture, so by introducing a few of my favourite Neil Gaiman characters to the really terrifying and weird world of Thai ghosts, we’ll give horror and Sandman followers one thing new.”
In Pichetshote and Stokely’s new six-issue comedian guide miniseries, Edwin and Charles are employed to discover a lacking Thai-American woman named Jai, just for her to show up lifeless. Besides not. As a result of Jai, alongside together with her two pals Tanya and Charles, are all ghosts like Edwin and Charles. Besides not. Every baby is Thai, with energy not like something Edwin and Charles have ever seen earlier than, they usually all died in LA at completely different instances over the previous fifty years! And perilously shut by to the boys’ journey, Thessaly the witch finds herself held hostage by harmful magics—each a menace to her life and an insult to her ego that merely won’t go unanswered…
“That is positively a horror guide,” continued Pichetshote, “because the boys uncover Thai black magic’s getting extra highly effective in Los Angeles (the house of the most important Thai inhabitants exterior Thailand), and it would even be altering the foundations governing ghosts. All this, whereas Charles and Edwin, two ghost detectives, are secretly craving adjustments themselves—in a coming-of-age story starring two boys who can’t develop up.”
The Sandman Universe: Useless Boy Detectives #1, written by Pornsak Pichetshote with artwork by Jeff Stokely, colours by Miquel Muerto, letters by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou and a canopy by Nimit Malavia, arrives wherever comedian books are bought on December 27, 2022. The Sandman Universe: Useless Boy Detectives #1 may even function variant covers by Alex Eckman-Garden, Tyler Criminal, Filipe Andrade (1:25) and Yoshitaka Amano (1:50).
THE SANDMAN UNIVERSE: DEAD BOY DETECTIVES #1
Written by PORNSAK PICHETSHOTE
Artwork by JEFF STOKELY
Cowl by NIMIT MALAVIA
Variant cowl by ALEX ECKMAN-LAWN
Variant cowl by TYLER CROOK
1:25 variant cowl by FILIPE ANDRADE
1:50 variant cowl by YOSHITAKA AMANO
$3.99 US | 32 pages | 1 of 6 |
Variant $4.99 US (card inventory)
ON SALE 12/27/22
The Sandman Universe grows as two of its most beloved characters return to the highlight! Charles Rowland and Edwin Paine have been detectives for many years—and lifeless greatest pals even longer. However their investigation right into a Thai American woman’s disappearance from her Los Angeles house places them on a collision course with new and terrifying ghosts that would give even a lifeless boy nightmares—together with a bloodthirsty krasue. Even scarier than the ghosts? Although neither needs to confess it, the boys is likely to be rising aside. And perilously shut by to the boys’ journey, Thessaly the witch finds herself held hostage by harmful magics—each a menace to her life and an insult to her ego that merely won’t go unanswered…
Eisner Award-winning author Pornsak Pichetshote (The Good Asian, Infidel) is joined by celebrated artist Jeff Stokely to take the Useless Boys to the scariest place of all: the guts of Hollywood!
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