The pair returned in the "Vertigo Anthology" series, a trio of one-shots published in 2012 that revived the DC anthology series "Ghosts", "Time Warp", and "The Witching Hour". With a positive reception for their brief return and the revived interest in Neil Gaiman's Sandman due to the prequel, "", Vertigo announced a Dead Boy Detectives ongoing series written by Toby Litt and Mark Buckingham with art by Buckingham and Gary Erskine. The series ran for only 12 issues, published over the course of 2014.