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 Locke & Key co-creator Joe Hill will oversee Hill House
Comics, a "pop-up line" of horror comics. Hill is the son of Stephen King and he
told EW, “I’ve always been a comic book writer first. When I started writing
comics, I felt almost instantly that I had discovered my element. It was the
version of writing I liked best. I felt, when I worked in comics, that my
strengths were amplified, and the stuff I struggled with as a writer almost
completely vanished. Working on Locke & Key was one of the most satisfying
creative experiences of my life. But it’s tremendously exciting to get back into
it: scripting again, working with artists, working with other writers. Working
in comics is the closest you can get as a storyteller to feeling like what it
must be like to be in the Rolling Stones.” The line will consist of five limited
series: Basketful of Heads by Hill and Leomacs; The Dollhouse Family by Mike
Carey and Peter Gross; The Low, Low Woods, by Carmen Maria Machado and Dani;
Daphne Byrne by Laura Marks and Kelley Jones; and Plunge, by Hill and an artist
to be named later. Each limited series will include a Hill written two-page
backup strip called Sea Dogs. Basketful of Heads will tell of a young woman who
comes into possession of a magical ax. The Dollhouse Family will explore Alice,
who was given a dollhouse filled with a magical family of dolls. The Low, Low
Woods will be set in a Pennsylvania mining town cursed by a mysterious plague
that eats memories. Daphne Byrne will be set in 1800s New York and she will be
possessed by strange insidious demon. Plunge will be King’s version of John
Carpenter’s The Thing. Sea Dogs will explore how during the American Revolution
the Royal Navy wiped out the entire American Navy but we won the war two years
later. King’s solution was to have the Americans hide three werewolves aboard
one of their ships to kill the sailors.
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