“Locke & Key” is ending, and the world of comics is all the worse for it. It’s a bittersweet finale in that we can’t wait to read it, but at the same time we have no interest in not being able to read new “Locke & Key.”
However, there is no particular need to fear! Fans of “Locke & Key,” Joe Hill noted that there were a few plans in the works for additional bookends to “Locke & Key” in an interview over at CBR. While “Locke & Key: Omega” ends in two weeks and “Alpha” picks up with two over-sized issues to tie off the story, there are also plans for “Locke & Key: Battleground,” something that had been mentioned in the past but not fully elaborated on. The story, as described by Hill, is as follows:
Gabe and I have some other projects we want to work on, and I have some other stuff I’d like to do in comics, but eventually — maybe in two or three years — we’ll circle back and tell a story called “Locke & Key: Battleground.” It’s from World War II and will explore a different set of characters, and also a couple of keys we haven’t had have a chance to get into. It will tell the last days of adults in the universe being able to see the magic from the keys, and I have a story that will sort of elegantly explain that.
So for those wondering about that last loose end (which wasn’t really a loose end, regardless), an explanation is coming eventually.
Not only that, but Hill makes mention of “Locke & Key: The Golden Age,” a seventh hardcover collection that is coming up that will collect the one-shots “Open the Moon,” “Grindhouse” and a few others that Hill and series co-creator Gabriel Rodriguez have planned for the future.
There’s also that rumor of Hill and Rodriguez working on a Marvel one-shot, so that’s fun too.
“Locke & Key: Omega” #5 is out the first week of June. Joe Hill’s latest novel “NOS4A2,” with spot illustrations by Rodriguez, is on sale now. It’s quite good.
