Dead Boy Detectives series review: This Sandman spin-off is boundless fun [Video]

Edwin Paine (George Rexstrew) and Charles Rowland (Jayden Revri) are 16 years old and run a detective agency. They are also dead. Edwin died in 1916 as part of a ritual sacrifice at his boarding school and some 60-odd years later, in 1989, Charles died of hypothermia and internal bleeding thanks to the tender ministrations of bullies at the same boarding school.

Edwin escapes after spending an eternity in hell “due to a clerical error” (the demon dragging him to hell actually apologises). He sets up the Dead Boy Detective Agency with Charles to help ghosts and others who have been forgotten or no one cares about. When a child from the Victorian Age, complete with a clunky coin purse, asks the boys to help her psychic friend Crystal (Kassius Nelson) get rid of the demon possessing her, it is their first step into a wilder and more wonderful world.

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