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Dead Boy Detectives turns Neil Gaiman’s ghostly duo into “Hardy Boys on acid”

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · 2 days ago - 20:39 · 1 minute

Enlarge / Edwin (George Rexstrew) and Charles (Jayden Revri) are the Dead Boy Detectives, ghosts who solve paranormal mysteries. (credit: Netflix )

For those eagerly anticipating the second season of Netflix's stellar adaption of Neil Gaiman's Sandman graphic novels, Dead Boy Detectives —the streaming plaform's new supernatural horror detective series—is a welcome return to that weird magical world. Co-showrunner Steve Yockey ( Supernatural ), who created the series, aptly describes it as "the Hardy Boys on acid." You've got vengeful witches, demons, psychic mediums, cursed masks, foul-mouthed parasitic sprites, talking cats—and, of course, the titular ghostly detectives, intent on spending their afterlife cracking all manner of mysterious paranormal cases.

(Some spoilers below, but no major reveals.)

Sandman fans first encountered the Dead Boys in the " Seasons of Mist " storyline, in which the ghost Edwin Paine and Charles Rowland meet for the first time in 1990. Edwin had been murdered at his boarding school in 1916 and spent decades in Hell. When Lucifer abandoned his domain, Hell was emptied, and Edwin was among the souls who returned to that boarding school. Charles was a living student whom Edwin tried to protect. Charles ultimately died and chose to join Edwin in his afterlife adventures. The characters reappeared in the Children's Crusade crossover series, in which they decided to become detectives.

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Dead Boy Detectives review – this fun paranormal romp will make you feel young again

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 6 days ago - 07:00 · 1 minute

The latest Neil Gaiman story about two ghosts on the run has spells, shenanigans and supernatural horrors galore. It’s impossible not to be entertained by such escapist adventures

Given the amount of exposition clunked out, the first episode of Dead Boy Detectives sure is confusing. But I think I have it worked out. There are two boys – best friends Charles (Jayden Revri) and Edwin (George Rexstrew). They are both dead – lippy Charles carked it in the 1980s, stiffly Edwardian Edwin in 1916. Somehow they are both still on Earth (though we learn that Edwin spent some time in hell before escaping) and are using their time to find souls trapped less happily here and release them. The first we meet is a maddened first world war soldier in a cursed gas mask they must slice off before Death (Kirby, formerly known as Kirby Howell-Baptiste). They always have to hide from Death lest she collect them too. They are actually dead boy detectives on the lam. Fortunately, they can jump into mirrors to escape and to travel. Charles also has a backpack that holds an infinite number of items, which is such a cheat by the creators that you can only applaud wildly. What else do you need to know? Oh, they can be hurt by iron. Iron’s a thing for them.

So now, on with the show! Which is aimed at a young audience, who should love it. It whips along and, after the confusing start, finds a clairvoyant and a groove that work brilliantly. The clairvoyant, Crystal Palace (Kassius Nelson, with screen presence to burn) joins the pair after they release her from a demonic possession. She can’t remember a thing about herself but has a psychic vision that tells her where a missing child is being held, surrounded by black magic and supernatural horrors.

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The Instagram photos of Jarvis Cocker, Kamila Shamsie, Rachel Whiteread and other creatives – in pictures

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Friday, 8 September, 2023 - 08:00

Broken chairs, pick-up trucks, frozen-food cabinets: the surprising images from the Instagram accounts of various artists, writers and musicians are brilliantly captured in “ Seeing Things ”, published by The Redstone Press

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Jon Hamm is an amnesiac archangel lost in Soho in Good Omens S2 trailer

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 7 June, 2023 - 14:00 · 1 minute

Trailer for the second season of Good Omens .

We loved Prime Video's 2019 TV adaptation of Good Omens , the classic 1990 satirical fantasy novel by Neil Gaiman and the late Terry Pratchett . Stars David Tennant and Michael Sheen were perfectly cast as a demon and angel joining forces to avert Armageddon. But is it possible to recapture that magic in a second season, especially when it was originally meant to be a six-part limited series ? The official trailer just released, and we're hopeful that the answer might just be yes.

(Spoilers for S1 below.)

As I've written previously , Good Omens is the story of an angel, Aziraphale (Sheen), and a demon, Crowley (Tennant), who gradually become friends over the millennia and team up against the forces of both Heaven and Hell to save Earth from destruction. They've come to be rather fond of the Earth and all its humans with their many foibles, you see—not to mention the perks that come with our big blue orb, like sleek electronics and quaint little restaurants where they know you. The supernatural pair doesn't really want the Antichrist—an 11-year-old boy named Adam (Sam Taylor Buck) who has grown up unaware of his pivotal role in the coming apocalypse—to bring an end to all of that.

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Good Omens s’offre une date de sortie officielle, et c’est pour bientôt

news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Thursday, 11 May, 2023 - 08:43

Good Omens Amazon Prime Video Saison 2

Aziraphale et Rampan sont de retour, pour une seconde saison démoniaque.

Good Omens s’offre une date de sortie officielle, et c’est pour bientôt

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Review: Netflix’s exquisite The Sandman is the stuff dreams are made of

news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Monday, 29 August, 2022 - 15:35 · 1 minute

Enlarge / Neil Gaiman's classic "unfilmable" graphic novel series gets the adaptation he always wanted. (credit: Netflix)

Like many nerds of a certain age, I have long adored Neil Gaiman's Sandman graphic novel series; it was an enormous influence on my younger self. So I was thrilled to hear of Netflix's planned adaptation when it was announced in 2019 —but I also experienced some trepidation given the past misguided efforts to bring the story to the screen. That trepidation was unwarranted because The Sandman is a triumph. It's everything I had hoped to see in an adaption, and it has been well worth the wait.

(Warning: Some spoilers for the original graphic novels and the Netflix series below.)

The titular "sandman" is Dream , but he is also called Morpheus, among other names. He is one of seven entities known as the Endless. (The other Endless are Destiny, Destruction, Despair, Desire, Delirium, and Death.) Gaiman's 75-issue revival of the DC character is an odd mix of mythology, fantasy, horror, and history, rife with literary references and a fair bit of dark humor. There really is nothing quite like it, and the series proved to be hugely popular and enduring. One standalone story , "A Midsummer Night's Dream" ( The Sandman No. 19) even won the 1991 World Fantasy Award for Best Short Fiction, the only time a comic has been so honored.

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Sandman : 5 comics à lire après avoir vu la série Netflix

news.movim.eu / JournalDuGeek · Monday, 8 August, 2022 - 15:30

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Vous avez aimé la série Sandman sur Netflix ? Nous aussi. Après avoir relu l'œuvre monumentale de Neil Gaiman, on a eu envie de profiter de l'été pour étoffer notre culture comics. Si la série d'Allan Heinberg vous a fait rêver, on vous conseille aussi cinq lectures graphiques pour continuer à rêver encore un peu.

Sandman : 5 comics à lire après avoir vu la série Netflix