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Welcome to Lovecraft, Locke! (REVIEW)

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Graphic novel Joe hill’s “Locke & Key” many on the ear, but still, nothing to hide, there was a suspicion that it is connected more with the personality of the author (after all, the son Himself!) Yes, with years of rumors about the film adaptation. In fact, however, already on the first volume it becomes clear – the product really powerful, beautiful, interesting.

In publishing the HP title, the original meaning playing chords (Locke – lock – “lock”), decided to move easier, “Locke Key”, but it is probably better than if at the end of “dances with a tambourine” would be born some family “Zapper”. Otherwise, it seems, a translation into Russian of the first part of the cycle, “Welcome to Lovecraft”, was quite successful.

So, it all starts with the fact that two psychos kill Locke’s dad. At the insistence of his brother’s widow and three children go in “the House Keys”, a Gothic mansion in New England, where the youngest of children soon finds a wonderful solution and even more wonderful the door. Opening that door can become a spirit, but as it turns out, these keys and doors in the house a lot. And one of the killers of Locke Sr. escapes from the psychiatric hospital to get some of the magic keys. But even here in the pit dwells an evil cunning creature, which has the keys of Locke in their plans. And…

Hill tells a nonlinear story, with a lot of flashbacks, but very hard boiled – those are the ones that let you stop until you finish reading to the end. Something like he tried to whip up in the novel “a Country Christmas” and got a bunch of accusations in imitation of his father. With Locke this story did not happen, although, it seems, in “Welcome to Lovecraft” the spirit of the works and motives typical of Stephen king, no less obvious than a direct reference to GFL in the subtitle. And then there’s the relationship of villains (the creature in the well and her minion is a psychopath) here have exactly the same color and the same meaning, as in “It” where Pennywise also helped Henry Bowers escape its psychiatric hospital to use that to their advantage. I, however, didn’t blame hill for the “kingolwira” in “Country Christmas”, I will not reproach his paternal heritage and “Locke Key”.

Worse than that, in the image of a dark-haired “girl” on the bottom of the well can easily be removed even no reference, direct borrowing in respect of “Call”, but I would leave it on the conscience of the young author. Fortunately, unlike the domestic AIT scribblers, hill is really talented and knows how to tell stories.

Helped him with that artist Gabriel Rodriguez. Panache the latter does not claim to be a new word in the genre of comics, but it just fits the story and style of the hill. Rodriguez acts as a great helper of the author, not trying to stick out their creativity to the fore, which are sometimes found in other comics-artists. Because of this book a page-Turner, despite the aforementioned non-linearity of the plot and even despite the fact that the story we are told from several points of view. Perhaps the best feature of tandem hill-Rodriguez is that while reading “Welcome to Lovecraft” you feel like you don’t pictures with bubble leaf and watch an interesting movie or TV series.

Summing up: a great start to a great story, strongly recommended to all, without exception, counting those of you who comics was no longer interested in. And we will continue to wait!

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