Dead Boy Detectives #2

Spinning out of the world of Neil Gaiman's Sandman, Dead Boy Detectives #2 drops readers into "Schoolboy Terrors Part 2: Ghost-Knives," with writer Toby Litt and artist Mark Buckingham bringing a wonderfully eerie sensibility to Vertigo's teen-rated mystery series. The cover by Buckingham captures a wide-eyed young woman kneeling over an open suitcase, wide-eyed with surprise as a jacket and striped tie seem to move on their own — while behind her, a framed portrait shows the two ghost detectives themselves in their school uniforms, watching with quiet intensity. It's a perfectly unsettling domestic scene that balances the mundane and the supernatural in exactly the way this series does best.