Locke & Key (25 books in series)
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review 1: Joe Hill knows how to write beautifully. Everything in Locke and Key is woven extremely well. I liked how he depicted the mother's utter breakdown into alcoholism. The children's thrust into adulthood and childhood belief into what the keys can actually do. I hate how Hill is tea...
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review 1: This story gets better and stranger with each book. Lots of character development in this volume, with a healthy does of strange-scary. The writing is excellent and the art is great. I do have one beef with the art, though. All the characters look too similar to me. It's just a s...
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review 1: Absolutely awesome. You name it - Hill's writing, Rodriguez's artwork, depth of character (and making me care what happens to them!), imagination, creepiness - it's good. Honestly, it's a joy to read this series.Enlarged Tyler crawling out of Key House; shadow wars; a battle of g...
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review 1: I can not adequately express how much I love this series! The secrets behind the creation of the keys, and what happened to Dodge and the 'keepers of the keys' are finally revealed! The twist with the fishing lure was a nice touch. My guess is it will be used to pull that thing o...
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review 1: Much needed backstory (okay, not really, a good story never requires every detail to be made known) but my guess about the entity possessing Dodge was totally off so it's good to have the correction.We follow Tyler and Kinsey as they, in turn, follow the events of the past, start...
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review 1: This is the first series of graphic novels I have ever read before, and I have to say... Whatever series I decide to read next has some HUGE shoes to fill. Hill & Rodriguez write wonderfully together. This story, full of all the best things I look for in a story... Twists, turns,...
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review 1: Hill has an uncanny way of delivering the message exactly where it hits. In a homage to Bill Waterson, cartoon-y art doesn't hold back in depicting its typical violence with a strong sense of morality. Hill reinforces in first chapter again that one need not be top of food chain ...
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review 1: Gory, smart, vulgar, real, artful, creepy, exciting. Hill and Rodriguez throw everything into Vol. 4. The violence has reached a different level now. I promise you won't forget a certain kiss. And chances are you won't look at fencing or sparrows in quite the same way again.Zack'...
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review 1: Reading a Joe Hill book is almost as good as taking a creative writing class. He's clearly at the top of his craft, and only getting better.Gabriel Rodriguez, too, is amazing. I find myself taking a few extra minutes to study two different panels that have shifted just the slight...
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review 1: Have I mentioned how much I love this graphic novel? The illustrations are amazing. The story line superb. I am sad that it is over.So what can I say that won't spoil book 1... In this graphic novel a new key is discovered which does something super freaking creepy and kind of co...
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review 1: After the phenomenal setting off the first book I expected a bit more than unlocking heads and putting whole books in. Maybe I'm already too old and don't enjoy a kids' joke anymore. Apart from that there are great artworks of getting inside characters' heads which reminded me of...
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review 1: Talk about a head game! While I know two doesn't make a pattern, I love how the atmosphere of the first two collected volumes reflect the key on the cover. Volume 1 with the ghost key and it's high body count + grim narrative. Volume 2 now with some big reveals, we know what's be...
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review 1: Testament to how good this comic is: I just had to finish it once I started reading. Which was late last night. And then I really had to go to sleep, but I hesitated because this comic is so eerie and creepy that it does get in your head and I didn't want to suffer from nightmare...
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review 1: This 3rd volume was just as good as the first two. It makes me happy to know I'm so invested in the story. This story was just as messed up as the last ones. The third key was super creepy. I liked what it unlocked but not who unlocked it. (It's hard to review this book without...
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review 1: I cannot creatively give this book review any justice! This volume is and will be epic compare to the other volumes especially the pathetic 4th volume! This volume dealt mostly of the origins of the key and what led the downfall of these children's father's high school friends!We...
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review 1: Just read the whole Lock and Key graphic novel series by Joe Hill, Stephen King's son. Joe is always solid, but never outstanding. Clean, competent writing, but not really a distinct style. He seems to start with a great premise, keeps it interesting as he runs through the develo...
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review 1: If you like any mystery, horror, or even fantasy this series is an important read. This is one of the best examples of amazing writing in graphic novels. It's full of suspense, the characters are engaging and real, the mystery is so well created that you'll be dying to read the n...
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review 1: Lo recommended this to me like a year ago, and I finally got around to it. Surprisingly good, but definitely one of those comics that desperately needs a change in illustrator. Rodríguez has a cool style, but a limited range of facial expressions, and his kind of baroque lines we...
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review 1: Just read the whole Lock and Key graphic novel series by Joe Hill, Stephen King's son. Joe is always solid, but never outstanding. Clean, competent writing, but not really a distinct style. He seems to start with a great premise, keeps it interesting as he runs through the develo...
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review 1: When Tyler stumbles upon his father being murdered, he takes action and turns into a killer himself. Despite his desperate situation, he can't help but have guilt over the circumstances. After the funeral, Tyler, his 2 siblings, and mother leave town to live with an uncle in a ho...
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review 1: Wait, reviewers I followed didn't like this? What? It's true it's pretty cheesy, but it's comic book cheese, it's good cheese, it's there's a scary-sexy-cryptkeeper lady in the well cheesy! It's madness and ghosts scary! It's psychopathic scar-faced teenager cheesy! It's twisted ...
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review 1: Just read the whole Lock and Key graphic novel series by Joe Hill, Stephen King's son. Joe is always solid, but never outstanding. Clean, competent writing, but not really a distinct style. He seems to start with a great premise, keeps it interesting as he runs through the develo...
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review 1: A great start to a creepy comic series. After a tragedy sends them fleeing from their normal lives, the family seeks shelter at their ancestral home, each trying to find solace in their new environment. But it turns out that there are secrets in this old house, fantastical keys...
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review 1: I'm so sad to come to the end of this series! Real tears for the Lockes of Lovecraft! Now I want to go make jewelry from old keys. I wouldn't want to give anything specific away, but this volume is a super climatic, action-packed, heart-wrenching conclusion to the Keyhouse gang w...
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review 1: I love Locke & Key. This volume provides lots of background information on the creation of the keys and the birth of evil Dodge through the use of the clockwork key. Kinsey and Tyler travel back to 1775 to see the opening of the black door as well as the suffering of the Locke an...