"What I hope is that they all need each other and that she is going to provide a lot of missing pieces in Charles working out who he is and where he comes from and Edwin, too." He's kind of seen the worst outside the world. "I spoke to Neil about the characters, and he said to me that the big difference between Edwin and Charles is Edwin's actually the scarier and the deeper of the two in a way because he's been dead for much longer and he spent a huge amount of that time in hell. "She's brave and sometimes brave when she shouldn't be," Litt explains. Certain experiences in Crystal's past have shaped her - such as her strange upbringing as the child of a performance artist and a rock star - and she's been a loner living in her virtual worlds and not making connections and fostering real friendships.Ĭrystal wants to find out desperately about ghosts, and she's suddenly going to be friends with a couple of them. Longtime Dead Boy fans will see some common ground between the teens they know and the new girl, according to Buckingham. There's a big contrast between their attitudes." Charles is into the hardboiled stuff and he really wants to cut to the chase. So when he tells a story, he'll go in a similar way. "Edwin's a fan of Sherlock Holmes and that sort of detective fiction that is quite slow. "They will jump in and try to save the day, which is what we see them doing in issue 1, and they may not always have the means to do that but they certainly have the will," Litt says. They're always growing up, but the fact is that they're always the same."įor Litt, Charles and Edwin are both "enthusiasts," and the writer admires them in that they're heroic but also slightly foolhardy. "They're in our world, and sometimes they're not very well equipped for it despite the fact they can do some fantastic things. "He sees it as almost magic - she's able to find to stuff about his past with a couple of clicks of a mouse that he would never have found out. "In many ways they've sort of been in their own little bubble these past two decades having their little adventures," Buckingham says.Ĭharles, who was reasonably up to date back in 1990, is utterly bewildered with all the stuff that Crystal can do, Litt reports. She's vital to the new book because she's going to blow Edwin and Charles' minds with aspects such as video games, Japanese manga and the Internet that show them the way the world has been changing around them. What sends them on that journey - which takes place soon after Litt and Buckingham's recent "Run Ragged" story, told over three anthologies - is Crystal, a young, very alive and tech-savvy 13-year-old girl whom the boys meet and has a link to the undead herself. Time hasn't improved them," Buckingham says. "There's a whole bunch of crazy people in that school, and let's just say some of them are still there.
Now they find themselves heading back to their old haunts and still dealing with their own deaths.
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