Lock and Key Hill Art Poster Oe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez
Locke and Cardinal Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft
Words past Joe Hill
Fine art by Gabriel Rodriguez
IDW, 2008
As we move into the last week of October I'm be spending the remainder of my fourth dimension exploring some Lovecraft and Lovecraft influenced fiction. While not quite Lovecraftian in tone and theme Hill & Rodriguez's series Locke and Key, the start arc of which is collected in this merchandise, proper name their island setting Lovecraft in honor of the New England writer. The novel begins with an almost idyllic summer afternoon spent with typical teenage griping but veers sharply into darker territory as the father of Bodie, Ty, and Kinsey Locke is murdered by a deranged student. What appears at first to be a unproblematic act by a deranged entity is slowly revealed to be something of dark portent and more supernatural bent.
Following the decease of their begetter the remaining Locke family unit, the children and their mother, move in with their Uncle to the ominously named Keyhouse. There the graphic novel takes a rather poignant wait at how each of the children is coping not only with the grief of their begetter's expiry, but with the lingering fright left by the harrowing events that saw him expressionless. Each deals with it in a different way Ty's serenity and somewhat dangerous stoicism and Kinsey'south desire to fade into part of the crowd but perhaps the nigh poignant and disturbing is that the youngest child Bodie.
Bodie is the first to discover some of the supernatural elements of the Keyhouse literally stumbling through a door way that unlimber his spirit from his torso. It is during Bodie'southward frequent sojourns equally a ghost that Hill and Rodriquez are able to reveal each of the characters in their most intimate settings. In Bodie the reader gets a strong perspective to latch onto and an insider's viewpoint on how each of the family unit members is handling their grief. In these section Bodie's narration provides a often razor truth that is all the more powerful cheers to the unfiltered and unburdened heed of a child.
Of course Bodie is the first to detect the thing in the well business firm and that same childhood innocence becomes something less touching and more than dangerous. I'm not going to spoil how things go from there but when things come to a head for the Locke family there are quite a number of unsettling consequences. Perhaps the near interesting part is that all the way though the novel only nosotros the reader and Bodie remain certain and sure about the supernatural events that occurring. Even the older characters, when confronted face to confront by the supernatural, somewhen find a manner to explain away what happens. There is a method to the madness hither, relating to the as-however unexplained powers of the Keyhouse, but is never completely explained.
My slip in using the word novel above wasn't completely unintentional. Unlike many comic series, particularly by what I stand up to be an ongoing serial, manage to convey as sense of unity of evolution in terms of both plot and grapheme development. I'm curious as to how the series really reads in serial form as I am uncertain how each individual issue holds up i its own. Regardless, Welcome to Lovecraft feels like a complete volume and comes across as a tightly woven piece of fiction by two men with a programme. Hill's writing is every bit superb as ever, more in line with his work in 20th Century Ghosts and then with the however-excellent Centre-Shaped Box. Gabriel Rodriguez is a man with an impressively wide pallet of talent and skill. He is equally skilful at crafting a tense action scene as he as poignant character piece of work. I admit the the latter, especially as it pertains facial expressions, is maybe my favorite aspect hither. At that place is one particular panel toward the terminate of graphic novel that, despite the character involved, is heartbreaking. Equally the final promo pages of the graphic novel testify information technology looks similar in that location is a lot more planned for the earth of Locke and Key. I for i an both excited and terrified to delve deeper into halls and doors of mysterious Keyhouse.
Source: https://kingofthenerds.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/review-locke-and-key-welcome-to-lovecraft-by-joe-hill-and-gabriel-rodriguez/
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