“Another really good volume in the set.
The only thing that concerns me, because I’m a worrier (sometimes misheard as “warrior” which is hilarious because quite the opposite) is that this series makes a lot of promises, or at least sets up a lot of interesting stuff. Which always worries me because then you have to wonder
A) if the series will ever actually come to a conclusion.
B) does the high level of intricacy mean take us always further from the possibility of a satisfactory ending?
For example, in Marvel’s Civil War event we had Spider-Man revealing his secret identity. Which was pretty cool, but because Amazing Spider-Man is an on-going series in which the secret identity business plays such a big part, it’s difficult to enjoy the fun of having the reveal when you know that it will be undone sooner rather than later.
Lost is another classic example of a storyline that was so complex that it was nearly impossible to end it in a way that wasn’t outright terrible.
However, Locke&Key is pretty awesome so far. And Joe Hill writes some tense novels. So it’s not out of the question to assume that the ending will be good. He also, as of 2010 or so, had a definite timeline/plan for where the series would end, which I honestly believe is the hallmark of many a good comic. If the writer has a beginning and doesn’t plan to be working on the end for the next 50 years, that says to me that we’re dealing with a fully-conceived narrative instead of a premise that has to continue looping and warping in order to put a book on the shelves every month.
I guess I’m just damned to loving comics, which means that it matters to me how they turn out. Which means I worry about it the way a prospective parent worries about the health of an unborn fetus. I end up scouring the internet for rumor the way that parent scours the ultrasound for what may or may not look like the first ever in utero pegleg. “