It's fun to see them play off each other.' The two stories are a cat's cradle together of narrative. The example that I give is I did a bunch of writing for the first season, and I had this idea for the Matchstick Key, which was thrown into the show. 'They each have their personality and way of walking and talking, but I feel like they're close to one another and in constant conversation with each other. 'I think of them as fraternal twins, the show and the comic,' Hill said. With Hill and Rodriguez still hard at work at the Locke & Key comic, CBR asked if the television series informed their continued comic book work and shed new insight on the world they created. Hill added that the Small World Key also alludes to his mother Tabitha King's first novel Small World, crediting his mother for teaching him as much about storytelling as his father Stephen King. Hill explained that the Small World Key was something of a nod to noted science fiction and horror author Richard Matheson, in addition to naming Locke & Key's primary small-town setting after him. I really enjoyed getting to see more of the siblings interacting with one another in this volume! The two older siblings reactions to Bode opening up his head was hysterical.Rodriguez praised the show's use of the Small World Key and loved how it was brought to life in a live-action format. These flashbacks gave us more backstory for Duncan as well as information about Ellie and her connection to Zack Wells. There were also a few flashback sequences in this one, but not nearly as many as in the first volume.

Again, it started with a bang and then continued in a fast pace. I really enjoyed the storyline in this volume as well. One student runs out of the house, while the other, “Zack Wells,” is just a bit too interested. And by cramming, he means literally shoving textbooks into their heads after opening them up with the key. Unfortunately the siblings don’t keep the key to themselves Tyler brings two friends from school over to help them cram for a test. Bode shows what happens to his siblings and finally gets them to believe all the other paranormal things he had tried to tell them. After searching the house, he discovers that this key doesn’t open a door… it opens up a person’s head! And when their heads are open, it is possible to put things in as well as take things out. The death is hitting Kinsey very hard, and even she isn’t sure why.

This volume begins with the death of a teacher at the Locke siblings school. 2: Head Games by Joe Hill, Gabriel Rodríguez 2: Head Games was amazing.Ĭlick here if you missed my review of Volume 1: Welcome to Lovecraft. I am SO glad that I checked out both Volume 1 and Volume 2 of this series from the library at one time so I could immediately jump into this second volume after finishing the first.

Locke & Key, Vol. 2 by Joe Hill