In this episode, we look ahead to the Feb. 7 debut of the Netflix series Locke & Key with a look at the six issue arc that launched the popular saga—Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez, published by IDW!
The Locke family falls prey to a violent home invasion in which guidance counselor Rendell Locke is shot and killed. His widow and three children move across the country to Keyhouse, the family’s ancestral home, which houses a few secrets. Meanwhile, Rendell’s killer, Sam Lesser, is on their trail, under the thrall of an unearthly woman imprisoned in a well on the Keyhouse estate!
Can this fractured family overcome their inner demons and stop the devious Dodge from acquiring the mysterious Anywhere Key? And can they unlock the right door to gain entry into that house of horrors known as … The Comics Canon?
Discussed in This Episode!
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- The 2011 Locke & Key pilot
- Lovecraft? Really?
- Our episode on The Walking Dead #100 and Violence in Comics
- The Locke & Key Unlocked podcast from Comic Book Club
- Nuts by Gahan Wilson
- Concrete Vol. 5: Killer Smile
- Basketful of Heads
- Full Throttle
- And, um, 8 Heads in a Duffle Bag
Join us in two weeks as we tackle one of the biggest comics events of last year: Jonathan Hickman’s House of X/Powers of X!
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