Did you like (or not) the series Locke & Key on Netflix and want to know more about Keyhouse Manor? Take advantage of the release of new episodes at HiComics to get started in comics.
New rooms of the manor
The team that built this special mansion is back to offer you a new visit. Joe Hill continues to write the story of this strange family as Gabriel Rodriguez portrays these visions. If you have not yet had the chance to read Locke & Key, you will discover in the comics stories much richer and darker than the series. Heaven and Earth is not a new series – the previous excellent saga is sufficient in itself – but the duo of artists offers you in this short volume three very different new episodes. 
A trip to the Moon
This episode is perhaps one of the best episodes of the saga and American critics were not mistaken in designating it as the best short story at the Eisner Award of 2012. In the earlytwentieth century, the Locke family enjoyed a beautiful summer night. The father wants to make his son dream by explaining that the starry sky is only a decoration concealing a whole mechanism to rotate the stars. This moment of filial love is abruptly interrupted by the tremors of the son shaken by violent epileptic seizures. Upset, the father is ready to do anything to make his son's fragile life as happy as possible. He buys a hot air balloon and uses singing metal to forge a last key to power as splendid as it is dangerous: it allows to go to the Moon. This trip makes the son happy but less for the father but shh I'm not going to reveal everything. This touching family narrative is also political in showing that the United States has become a film since the end of the Wild West. These pages are beautifully illustrated by Gabriel Rodriguez who plays on colorization to separate the two parts of the trip.
Grindhouse!
Through this short story, Locke & Key goes from horror to thriller in this tribute to B series. A trio of criminals has just managed a very lucrative heist. They go to the Keyhouse mansion waiting for the night to leave the country. One is very vulgar and another is a pedophile. Still, the owners remain surprisingly calm including the children. Hoping to find a deal, these thieves search the mansion but Keyhouse turns out to be much more dangerous than these criminals. Taking place in the 30s, we clearly feel that Joe Hill was inspired by hard boiled thrillers and Z movies as the title indicates. By a very different inking, it is difficult to recognize the style of Gabriel Rodriguez probably to stick to the genre and pay tribute to EC comics like Tales from the Crypt. 
In the Can
Here you will have the joy of following the three children of the Locke family again. Bode, Kinsey and Tyler Locke in a funny story where, in a few well-torched pages, the screenwriter has fun with pop culture.
Lovecraft, in stone and bone
This last part reveals the backstage of Lovecraft, the imaginary locality where Locke & Key takes place. Through a report and a photo-novel we discover the places that inspired Joe Hill. The book closes with portraits of the Locke family with sketches. Locke & Key, Heaven and Earth is far from being a collection of anecdotal episodes but an indispensable new stone at Keyhouse Manor. The artist duo is largely at the level of the main series. We can also salute the efforts of the publisher HiComics who offers this short volume a very low price that can encourage neophytes to start. If you are interested in haunted houses, we recommend the chronicle of The Plot from the same publisher and, if you are interested in a trip to the moon, read Selenie.
