Locke and Key show???

This is a terrible idea. I hate it. This story is not for live action and never should be butchered in such a way.

I've caught upon Locke & Key as of today, and am anxiously awaiting the final issue of the Clockworks story arc. It has been the most unique and wonderful comics experience in recent memory. Possibly the best comic I've ever read. I'll pretend I didn't hear a rumor that Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez are concluding this masterwork and starting a project at Marvel. I would go on a completely different rant if I startedtalking about that. Instead, I just want to express my disdain for the idea that you would want to disservice this brilliant series with a live action TV adaption. Remember the Silent Hill movie? I do. I hated it, because I loved the first few games so much. I felt that sad feeling that I felt for that movie whileI was watching this trailer. Nobody looks right. The house does not look like the iconic, colonial house from the book. I just can't see this working. The biggest concern is the fact that I was expecting it to be animated. Gabriel Rodriguez' artwork is so perfect for this story, that I can't see it in any other visual medium than he has presented it. In any case, Fox, in it's infinite wisdom, has scrapped this show, but I hear that MTV has expressed interest. Well, MTV, take a hint from your own playbook and present it like the MAXX show from the 90's. Directly ripped from the comic and beautifully animated.

 This show was awesome. It was exactly what the fans of The Maxx wanted in a show about an awesome comic. The comic, but in motion. Not that crap motion comic garbage that Marvel has been making, that look more like fan-made flash movies. This is how comics should be made into shows. Hell, this is how comics should be made into movies. Take Rodriguez' artwork, make it move, and add sounds and voices. Done. Joe Hill won an Eisner for this book, don't make a mockery of it with this show. Do it right. I know you won't listen, powers that be. I also know that IDW and the creators of this comic probably have no influence after the option was sold to a television network. I love your books, and I hope this doesn't ruin it for people who haven't read it.

Locke and Key Vol 1 - Welcome to Lovecraft

The week I get my new Kindle Fire, and Comixology has a sale on all Locke & Key digital comics. I've never read any L&K, but I'd heard good things about it. Well, I bought the first trade for $4.99, which falls well within my I-don't-believe-in-buying-digital-comics-for-more-than-a-dollar-each rule. I read the first issue and went back and bought the remaining 4 volumes. It's really enjoyable.

The story is basically that a 17-year-old kid named Sam Lesser ends up murdering Rendell Locke because he wanted to know the where-abouts of a key that goes to something that we don't know yet. He ends up getting bludgeoned with a brick by Rendell's oldest son, Tyler and sent off to juvenile hall.

Tyler, his sister Kinsey, younger brother Bode and his mother ditch town and move to the town of Lovecraft into a house that has been in the family for awhile. Anyway, Bode opens a door with a black key he found and, upon stepping through the door, is separated from his body and can float around as a ghost while his lifeless husk drools at the door. Well, no one believes him because they assume he is just making stuff up to cope with his father's murder. As a ghost, he starts to find more strange things going on inside and outside of the house. Meanwhile, Sam Lesser escapes from prison and starts his murderous trek across country to finish what he started a year ago.

My summary really does no justice to how well dialogued and laid-out this story is. Gabriel Rodriguez pencils the books and it seems as though this is one of those perfect duos of art/story that I, for one, will remember. It's a thick-line, slightly caricatured style for the characters he draws, on top of a very cohesive and realistic backdrop. It's gorgeous. The big chins on the guys bothered me at first, but as soon as I started reading it, I understood what a perfect fit it was. On the topic, it is very graphic and there is alot of gore and disturbing imagery. This is not for children. I loved it, however.

I can't recommend this series enough and can't wait to start the second volume.

Unfortunately, the %50 of sale that comixology has ended, but I would pay full price for these in a heartbeat.

I give Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft two drunken mothers up and one gaping exit wound to the eye socket also up.