#85 Free Country: A Tale of The Children's Crusade by Neil Gaiman ,Toby Litt, Alisa Kwitney,

Free Country: A Tale of The Children's Crusade

by Neil Gaiman ,Toby Litt, Alisa Kwitney, Jamie Delano , Peter Gross, Mark Buckingham , Chris Bachalo , Mike Barreiro

This is a collection of 2 old comic issues with a new comic written for this collection to bridge the missing story pieces that were originally mixed in another comic.  The Dead Boy Detective comic was a spinoff of minor characters of Gaiman’s Sandman series that became a feature for a crossover event that this collection covers.  The story covers the ghosts being hired by the sister of a boy who has gone missing along with every child in their village. She was spared because she was out of town the day it happened.  The actual Children’s Crusade is part of the back history of this story and it also blends in the Pied Piper mythos. The overall story was good but the middle part felt a bit weak.   I enjoyed it and now I want to track down some of the other comics that the Dead Boy Detectives appeared in.

Digital review copy provided by the publisher through Edelweiss