497: Dead Boy Detectives

Geek History Lesson

Jason Inman

Film History, Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Arts

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Whisk away with Jason and Ashley as we traverse the eerie and enchanting corridors of Neil Gaiman's imaginarium to the world of Dead Boy Detectives. On today's episode prepare to be spellbound as we unravel the comic book lore of Charles Rowland and Edwin Paine, paranormal investigators from the pages of The Sandman. With the clock ticking towards their Netflix series debut on April 25th, it's time to dust off your detective hats for a spectral podcast investigation.

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0:00.0	Neil Gaiman, a celebrated author and comic book writer and wizard, based Edwin Payne and
0:18.8	Charles Roland who you may know as the Dead Boy Detectives.
0:21.6	He based their story on two popular English
0:24.5	children's literature genres. Jason. Yes. Any guesses as to what those genres
0:29.1	might be? Well I'm going to hazard a guest that, a guest and a guess,
0:33.8	that the first one is in the name of the story you just said.
0:37.9	I'm going to say they're detectives, so the executive genre.
0:40.6	Ding, ding, ding, ding one for two.
0:41.8	And then I'm going to say that the other genre is, I'm going back to the title about a bunch of
0:45.4	dead boys.
0:46.4	Oh, you're so close.
0:47.4	The dead boy genre.
0:48.4	It's very popular.
0:51.4	It was, it was big.
0:52.4	Plague was big in Europe. I don't know if you heard that. So it's big. big.
0:53.0	Plague was big in Europe.
0:54.0	I don't know if you heard that. So it's actually the detective story genre which you nailed and the boarding school stories obviously.
1:00.0	I didn't know they were in a boarding school.
1:02.0	That's so funny.
1:03.0	Yeah yeah yeah but obviously with a sandman-esque twist so now Jason now I have to follow up and
1:07.3	ask that knowing that their stories are... I did not go to a boarding school I'm sorry.
1:11.4	Yeah, neither did I.
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