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Out this week: Locke & Key 15th Anniversary “…Only Bad” Edition (IDW, $7.99):
It’s been — egad! — 15 years since Locke & Key first debuted? Is that even possible? (Checks Wikipedia) Yep, I guess that is the case.
Anyway, this commemorative reprint of the first issue by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez actually has a new — and bad — ending, along with concept art and other bonus material.
Happy Birthday to Joe Hill!
The Sandman Universe/Locke & Key crossover event will wrap up in August, and DC Comics has released the main cover and two variant covers for the second issue. The main cover is by series artist Gabriel Rodriquez, who, with writer Joe Hill, has really captured the flavor of the original Sandman series.
Check out the two variant covers, by J.H. Williams III and Kelley Jones.
Locke & Key/Sandman: Hell & Gone #1 (IDW + DC, $6.99): The long-awaited crossover between Neil Gaiman’s Sandman Universe and Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez’s Locke & Key finally kicks off this week, after COVID related delays pushed it back from last fall. Set in the past, the comic by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez, with some oversight from Neil Gaiman, takes Mary Locke to Hell to save the soul of her brother John — but her path first will take her through the House of Mystery and bring her into contact with The Corinthian.
The first four pages of from Locke & Key / The Sandman Universe: Hell & Gone #1, by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez, coming from IDW and DC in April.
Gabriel Rodriguez artwork for the upcoming Locke & Key/Sandman crossover
Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Bienvenidos a Lovecraft will kick off Spanish translations of the series, starting with the first volume in February 2021.
J. H. Williams III cover for the upcoming Locke & Key/Sandman crossover.
Arriving in November 2020, Locke & Key: Keyhouse Compendium will collect the original 900-page story with a new cover by Gabriel Rodríguez.
Locke & Key: …In Pale Battalions Go… is a three-issue miniseries set in 1915, when a young John Locke uses his reality bending keys during World War I. The first issue comes out this week, and the miniseries serves as a prelude to the upcoming Locke & Key/Sandman crossover.
IDW reopens the doors on the Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez series with miniseries, crossovers and more.
IDW opens the doors on the Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez series with miniseries, crossovers and more.
The crossover arrives in October, by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez.
