A Man With An Agenda

They did it.

'Locke & Key' promises a lot going into 'Alpha & Omega', and Hill and Rodriguez deliver. After all of the fights, the planning, the history, the magic, the family drama, and high school, Dodge has won.

Lovecraft Academy's students are preparing for the annual epic after-prom party at the drowning caves not knowing the horror that's about to be unleashed. Like all endings this story punches all of the emotional buttons, but there's nothing cheap, or taken for granted. Every horrible thing that happens expects the reader to react because even the ancillary characters are ones who've been around since almost the beginning.

I wouldn't have expected Hill and Rodriguez to pull their punches, but it got a little too intense for my liking at times, and just the logistics of the story - its a good thing this is the last arc, I mean, who's going to live in this town after this? I hate to reference it, because my bitch G.R.R. did not invent the killing of major characters, but that TV show certainly popularized it. You see it everywhere. I still did not expect what came here.

The story is amazing. The art is amazing. This was a great partnership. I don't need to tell you that if you've come this far, and if you're reading this before starting 'Welcome to Lovecraft', what the hell is wrong with you? Go to the beginning and read it!

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