joe hill locke & key vol 1 welcome to lovecraft

Even the older characters, when confronted face to face by the supernatural, eventually find a way to explain away what happens. Perhaps the most interesting part is that all the way though the novel only we the reader and Bodie remain certain and sure about the supernatural events that occurring. 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. Of course Bodie is the first to discover the thing in the well house and that same childhood innocence becomes something less touching and more dangerous. In these section Bodie’s narration provides a frequently razor truth that is all the more powerful thanks to the unfiltered and unburdened mind of a child. In Bodie the reader gets a strong perspective to latch onto and an insider’s viewpoint on how each of the family members is handling their grief.

It is during Bodie’s frequent sojourns as a ghost that Hill and Rodriquez are able to reveal each of the characters in their most intimate settings. Each deals with it in a different way Ty’s quiet and somewhat dangerous stoicism and Kinsey’s desire to fade into part of the crowd but perhaps the most poignant and disturbing is that the youngest child Bodie.īodie 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 body. There the graphic novel takes a rather poignant look at how each of the children is coping not only with the grief of their father’s death, but with the lingering fear left by the harrowing events that saw him dead. What appears at first to be a simple act by a deranged entity is slowly revealed to be something of dark portent and more supernatural bent.įollowing the death of their father the remaining Locke family, the children and their mother, move in with their Uncle to the ominously named Keyhouse. 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. While not quite Lovecraftian in tone and theme Hill & Rodriguez’s series Locke and Key, the first arc of which is collected in this trade, name their island setting Lovecraft in honor of the New England author. 1: Welcome to LovecraftĪs we move into the last week of October I’m be spending the remainder of my time exploring some Lovecraft and Lovecraft influenced fiction.

Joe hill locke & key vol 1 welcome to lovecraft