How does one store memories? How does one perceive reality? Joe Hill expands on this idea that he teased with in the first volume and takes it up a notch. A key to open head and stuff books in it, extract information - fear, memories and stuff them in a glass jar. It's such a unique idea! Its eve...
Loved this one, and I thought the drawings were spectacular, especially when he's showing characters as teenagers and then in their 40s, he was able to illustrate them to add the look of aging while still making it clear that they're the same person. The two-page spreads when the characters would...
Holy fucking shit. Okay, let me compose myself.*deep breaths*I wasn't too stoked on the 'Welcome To Lovecraft' volume, not sure why. Just didn't feel it too much. THIS VOLUME WAS INCREDIBLE. It was dark, and weird, and twisted, and horrifying. Just great.A couple of comments on the art; I think i...
I’m really enjoying the Locke & Key series. “Head Games” is the second volume in the series which introduce us to another key, the Head Key, which literally unlocks a person mind. I mean the key removes the top part of someone’s head and inside you are able to see their memories and emotions. Whi...
Let me start out and say that Brian K. Vaughan, the creator of Y: The Last Man, wrote the sensational foreword to this volume and described perfectly how I feel about this series. Joe Hill is absolutely brilliant with this series and with his collaboration and the artwork makes it spectacular to ...
Joe Hill se luce en este volumen y hace cosas increibles con el medio. Desde el tributo a Bill Waterson en el primer número (Sparrows) hasta el estilo de narración alternativo que nos cuenta todo un mes en el tercer número (February).El hecho de haber puesto este número, que desarrolla la histori...
The fourth installment of Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez's Locke and Key series takes creative storytelling to another level. Highlights include a chapter illustrated by Calvin and Hobbes's artist Bill Watterson, a chapter entitled "February" organized by days, a touchingly eerie chapter entitled...
Dieser 4 Band der Reihe war bisher leider am schlechtesten für mich. Die Zeichnungen waren teilweise sehr wirr und auch die Story war sehr sprunghaft so dass ich nicht wirklich in die eigentliche Story hineinfand und die Geschehnisse viel zu schnell abliefen.Zum Ende hin ging es dann wieder etwas...
Everyone should read this series.The first three volumes were terrific, but this one just blew me away. The different art styles were a great touch. This volume had the right mix of drama, suspense, humor, and action. Joe Hill is a master at his craft. If any of his other stuff are half as good a...
This one was over too quickly. The art-work in this series is amazing. I'm frequently astounded by how incredibly well the scenes are portrayed. Some of this stuff is really hard to conceptualize visually, but the artist did an exceptional job.In this volume, a large part of the mystery was solve...
A well drawn, well written graphic novel spanning about 6 volumes, with rich character development right down to the toddler in the family. Locke & Key explores the character flaws, strengths of its cast against the backstory of a magical key (or keys) that can open a portal to an otherworld fill...
I did this book a disservice by reading it so long after reading the other volumes. Several of the characters I had forgotten about or lost my investment in. That being said, the vast majority of the characters are developed very well in the collection so that the events manage to have their em...
5/5And so it ends.This comic has been one of the most interesting, imaginative, and beautiful books on the stands. I put it right up there with Saga among the best comics out there that I would recommend to anyone. It deserves the Eisner award it won.And I'm not going to lie: I got choked up read...
A trucker chases a biker gang across the Nevada desert. Carnage ensues.Stephen King and Joe Hill team up for this tale which originally appeared in a Richard Matheson tribute anthology. Fittingly enough, it prominently features a father and son in a biker gang called The Tribe.Fresh from a meth...
So many things are revealed in this volume dealing with major back story behind the house. The characters we have been seeing now and then are now tied to the story and we finally come to know the origin of the keys and Mr. Locke's role in it. All references - people, photographs, anecdotes are a...
This volume of the Locke & Key series gives you a complete back story on the Locke family. Tyler and Kinsey use the clock key to time travel, first going way back to an execution in the Locke family. Then they find out what happened with the children's father when he was in high school and how he...
The Locke family drama/horror continues. Tyler and Kinsey find a new key that allows them to travel back in time. They can't change any past events because they are insubstantial there, but they can observe and learn more about the keys, their ancestors, and what's in the caves under the house. T...
I love this series. Everything about it is awesome: the characters, the history, the keys, the art. Excellent new additions to the key collection. We know who made the keys and why, but hoping to find out more about this 'iron that is not iron' and who Crais is. Also, WTF is that multi-eyed thing...
I read this in about an hour on a plane. This series is pretty consistently amazing. It's creative and I care about the characters and it has elements of horror writing that I've loved since I was 14 without the horror/supernatural aspects becoming annoyingly intrusive. I know, as a text-based...
I love everything Joe Hill does, and this graphic novel series is amazing. I'm constantly in awe of Gabriel Rodriguez's artwork. It's so detailed and technically perfect, even when handling surreal/supernatural elements like spirits and shadows. This series is epic, full of wonder and horror, and...
The story's action-based, yet takes time with characterization - in particular as the father considers the man his son has become, and later on as Vince learns and thinks of the trucker's motivations. Really good, complex character work amongst all the fun stuff. The action, yes, that's the fun s...
A novella by Stephen King and his son Joe Hill, about a biker gang led, appropriately, also by a father-son duo. The short story describes the group being chased by a crazed trucker. It was a quick easy read, and I suppose for its length it was a good story but not enough transpired nor enough of...
I thought that the illustrations throughout this short story were well done, I found they were not really needed. As with nearly everything I have ever read that King has had his hand in strengthened is almost too much descriptive prose that doesn't leave room left for the reader's imagination.T...
I can't say much about this short story without spoiling it that isn't already in the blurb. My overall reaction to the story is heavily influenced by the ending and I don't want to give that ending away. This is a "coming of age" type of story, with imaginative children who discover an actual pl...
Well, I bought this one thinking it was the full anthology of stories at a very much reduced price, only to discover after the purchase that it is, in fact, only a single story from the collection.Ah, well.As it is, though, this little tale is 99 cents well-spent. Hill is very much his father's ...
Despite having a general curiosity about the paranormal, I never read so many books regarding the subject. The only time I ever read something similar to this book was when I was fourteen years old; a book from Stephen King which I had borrowed from a friend. Years passed, I forgot even the name ...
La vida de Ig Perrish es un verdadero infierno desde que su novia Merrin fuera asesinada un año atrás, en un episodio que si bien le fue ajeno tendió sobre él un manto de sospechas que nunca pudo sacudirse. Una mañana, después de una fuerte borrachera, se encuentra con unos cuernos creciendo en s...
Mal was eight months back from Abu Ghraib, where she had done things she regretted. She had returned to Hammett, New York, just in time to bury her father. He died ten hours before her plane touched down in the States, which was maybe all for the best. After the things she had done, she wasn’t su...
She was coasting on autopilot, her thoughts not on her work. She had finally made up her mind to buy her son, Josiah, the Nintendo DS he wanted, and was calculating whether she could get to Toys “R” Us after her shift, before they closed. She had been resisting the impulse...
He glanced up from his Financial Times and there it was, out on the platform, a wolf six feet tall with a scally cap tucked between his bristly, graying ears. The wolf stood on his hind legs, wore a trench coat, and held a briefcase in one paw. A bushy tail whipped impatiently back and forth, pre...
Rugs hang from wooden racks, scarlet and indigo. In the corners of the alleys, men without legs perch on wooden carts, telling their stories to a crowd of ragged children, making coins disappear into the air. Women from the mountains, their faces prematurely old from sun and suffering, call to me...