1594 - BOMC: Locke & Key, Vol. 1

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🗓️ 1 March 2016

⏱️ 101 minutes

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By listener demand, the Geeks cross the threshold into supernatural horror, mystery, and adventure as they dare to review the first six-issue arc of Locke & Key, by acclaimed horrorsmith Joe Hill and master illustrator Gabriel Rodriguez. Eavesdrop with us on the trials and tribulations of the three Locke children, who take refuge in Keyhouse, their family's ancestral home, after the murder of their father. Will the hidden wonders of Keyhouse be enough to save the Lockes from sharing their father's fate? Vivid characters, fine-wrought suspense, and beautifully detailed artwork await you as you seek the answer--let this episode be your key! (1:41:02)

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0:00.0	This is Comic Geek Speak episode 1594.
0:03.2	Book of the Month Club, Lock and Key.
0:23.5	I'm Adam Murdo.
0:24.6	I'm Shane Kelly.
0:26.0	I'm Chris Eberley.
0:27.5	And I'm Danny O'Brien.
0:38.2	Welcome back, friends, to this culturally elevated episode of Comic Geek Speak, one of our Book of the Month Club episodes in which we choose a fairly seminal text from the comic medium to discuss
0:44.3	at length and in depth. And this is the book of the month selection you demanded.
0:50.4	Well, maybe not you specifically, but the listeners in general, we did get a lot of people telling us this is a book that you should be paying more attention to CGS.
0:57.6	And so your voices have been heard, folks.
0:59.4	And we are going to talk in this episode about the first volume of Joe Hill's Lock and Key, Volume 1, Welcome to Lovecraft from IDW.
1:09.2	It's horror, it's suspense, it's fantasy, it's coming of age.
1:13.5	It's kind of interesting stuff.
1:15.3	And we thank you for the suggestion.
1:17.8	It was well worth our time, I think.
1:19.7	Amen.
1:20.6	And we'll be getting down to the nuts and bolts of that in just a moment.
1:23.3	But first, to address our sponsor for this episode, which, as always, for Book of the Month Club episodes, is In Stock Trades at In Stocktrades.com.
1:33.2	They're a sister site to our friends at the Discount Comic Book Service.
1:36.8	And their specialty is collected editions of comics, hard covers, trades, omnibuses, the whole nine yards.
1:43.6	It's your place for one-stop shopping for collected editions of comics online.
1:48.6	They always have deals going on there, as their sister site does at DCBService.com.
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