Locke and Key: Alpha #1 Review

It’s an amazing feeling, watching five years of storytelling all come together at once. Locke and Key: Alpha #1 is the first of a two-part series finale, and boy does it emphasize the idea of finality. Starting with the mostly wordless, pulse-pounding opening pages, we get our first major casualty, and then the body count only goes up from there. This is the beginning of the end, and it is bloody fantastic.

Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez have been meticulously setting up this finale not by dwelling on plot threads, but by emphasizing the humanity of the characters they have so lovingly created. From the main trio of Tyler, Kinsey, and Bode, all the way down to supporting characters like Scot and Detective Mutuku, everyone has been given an endearing quality, an all-too-human flaw, and a unique spark that makes them feel more like a real person than a comic book character.

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