At the Locke & Key: Season 1 premiere fan event in Los Angeles, author Joe Hill, and illustrator Gabriel Rodriguez revealed that there are more comics on the way.
While Hill and Rodriguez already announced plans for a new Locke & Key six-volume series, titled World War Key, back at San Diego Comic-Con in 2019, the creators teased another comic that they’re going to announce soon. “And then we have another thing that we’re doing, that we’re really excited about,” Hill told IGN. “We’ve been dreaming about it for years and it’s been a helluva thing trying to pull it together.”
For a look at Locke & Key: Season 1 and everything else coming to Netflix in February 2020, check out the video below:
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Rodriguez went on to explain how this new series will connect the original six-volume run to World War Key. “It’s going to be the way we wrap the series of short stories that we’ve been doing in what we call the ‘Golden Age’ for Locke & Key, the stories of Chamberlin Locke and his family,” Rodriguez said. “The book is going to be the doorway that will communicate the first Locke & Key series with World War Key. We’ve been discussing these ideas for four years. And we feel like this is the right time to return to this universe.”
Hill also shared some more details about World War Key in terms of its story. “The very first book takes place during the Revolutionary War and it’s about how the magical keys won the Revolutionary War,” Hill said. “And then the next book, World War Key: Resurrection, leaps forward to the modern-day, [where] we visit some favorite characters from the Locke & Key series, and we see how they’re doing. And we all see the events of the Revolutionary War staining through into the present.”
Locke & Key: Season 1 premieres on Netflix on February 7th. For more on Locke & Key, check out our spoiler-free review of Season 1 and learn everything you need to know about the source material graphic novel.
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Source: IGN.com Locke & Key Creators Reveal More Comics on the Way