I am really digging this series, ya’ll. The artwork is still hit or miss for me when it comes to the characters, but the story more than makes up for it. So in Vol. 1 we were introduced to the Locke family, who have just lost their patriarch due to a violent murder, and have moved to their family home, a house that is so stately it actually has a name: Keyhouse. We were also introduced to the idea that something is off at Keyhouse, […]
Joe Hill delivers a super creepy fantasy horror comic.
Okay, so I liked this! It was creepy but not scary, and it was intriguing without being overly complicated. I liked the art overall, and the coloring struck just the right balance between bright colors and the darker tones you would need to connote creepy and scary. I’ve only ever read one thing from Joe Hill before, and that was dark and WEIRD AS HELL (Horns). So I was cautious going in to this, hoping for weird, but not that weird. This trade is the […]
One Final Installment, Out With a Bang
The concluding volume of Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez’s comic series Locke & Key is full of carnage, and I didn’t expect anything different. There is resolution, and yet so many more mysteries left to be explored in this world and with all the magical keys and the history of key house. The only truly bad thing about this book was that it had to end, after everything came to a head and we were left to see where the resulting pieces would end up. […]
When You Can’t Change the Past, Try to Learn From It (and also Avoid Creating Paradoxes)
The penultimate collected volume of Joe Hill’s Locke & Key series (illustrated by Gabriel Rodriguez) provides some history regarding the Lovecraft residence, the history of the magical keys, and how the patriarch of the Locke family became implicated in the history of the house and what is occurring now, back when he was just a teenager. Unlike the previous volumes of this dark and inventive series, past events are the focus of “Clockworks,” and we get some answers as to what the house and keys […]
I can think of a number of situations when it would be convenient to have a Head key.
This review may contain spoilers for the first volume in the series, so if you want to remain unspoiled, you may want to proceed carefully. Following a shocking death that dredges up memories of their father’s murder, Kinsey and Taylor are thrown into choppy emotional waters, and turn to their new friend, Zach Wells, little suspecting Zach’s dark secret. Meanwhile, six-year-old Bode Locke tries to puzzle out the secret of the head key, and uncle Duncan is jarred into the past by a disturbingly familiar […]