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The streaming service announced on Tuesday that Jackson Robert Scott (It) will be joining the cast of Locke & Key, a one-hour horror/fantasy drama adaptation of the IDW comic book series from writer Joe Hill and artist Gabriel Rodriguez. Scott is set to play 8-year-old Bode Locke opposite Frances O'Connor's matriarch of the family, Nina[...]

Looks like Hulu has found their Nina Locke, as the streaming service announced Friday morning that actress Frances O'Connor (The Conjuring 2, The Missing) has been signed as the matriarch of The Locke Family in Locke & Key, a one-hour horror/fantasy drama adaptation of the IDW comic book series from writer Joe Hill and artist[...]

Hulu's adaptation of Joe Hill's Locke & Key has made a switch at director Originally being helmed by Doctor Strange's Scott Derrickson, the series pilot will not be directed by Andy Muschietti (Stephen King's It) Derrickson had to step aside due to scheduling conflicts with another project, the TNT pilot adaptation of Snowpiercer. Muschietti seemed like[...]

The new reading experience is available now on Amazon Fire tablets as well as on the Kindle app on Android and iOS devices. "A good story is magical and you really feel that with comiXology's Guided View with the way the story flows along," said Joe Hill, bestselling author of the Locke and Key series of graphic novels,[...]

The streaming service has ordered a pilot for the TV adaptation of the IDW comic by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez, according to a report from Deadline Hill himself will write the pilot, while LOST alum Carlton Cuse will serve as showrunner (so don't expect any payoff in the finale – yes we're still butthurt about[...]

In the 1990's, Joe Hill (Locke & Key) asked his father for help on writing a cover letter for a short fiction submission I think his dad nailed it. For those of you who don't know, Hill's father is another writer you may have heard of, Stephen King. In the late 1990s I asked my Dad how to write[...]

In the world of Locke and Key Small World, a dollhouse in this case directly represents the house the Locke family lives in, which can only mean trouble. Storytellers Gabriel Rodriguez and Joe Hill craft an easy to follow tale focusing on Jean and Mary, sisters in the Locke Family When Mary receives a dollhouse for[...]

Coming for Christmas, Locke & Key: A Small World by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez…  It's been a while since the horror series from IDW concluded in 2013 And this is a chance to go back one more time. LA Times has the PR scoop… Joe Hill: So I had written a couple stand-alone "Locke & Key" stories[...]

Back in February we told you about a new Tales from the Darkside series from Joe Hill and Garbiel Rodriguez published by IDW Seems that there was a possible TV revival at the same time spearheaded by Hill But alas, that series did not happen. "When I was offered a chance to reinvent Tales from the Darkside,[...]

Locke & Key's Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez and working together again on Tales from the Darkside,  a comic-book revival of the horror anthology TV series of the same name. The four-issue series will feature Hill's re-imagining ofTales for a contemporary take on the cult classic Structured to have the scope of Locke & Key while exploring a[...]

But I did get an elongated box delivered to the door recently in freezing weather and tonight decided to break it out at a full 1 Pint and 6 ounces in volume. It's a beautiful bottle for one thing, substantial and Mignola-art decorated, and the heft of the bottle makes you think it would fit Hellboy's[...]

There's certainly a retro-futurism going on here that's fascinating, with cassettes and the Soviet Union existing alongside advanced technology, but let's hope Sebela digs a little deeper with a character that risks superficiality if not handled with the right touch. Shadow Show #1 (IDW Publishing) By Bart Bishop I am not that familiar with Ray Bradbury, having only[...]

With cross-media writers like Joe Hill, Neil Gaiman, and Harlan Ellison contributing stories to the original volume of prose, it's only fair that comic artists get a chance to make that statement too, in their own way. The first issue of Shadow Show from IDW arrives today in shops, featuring the work of Joe Hill, Charles[...]

Joe Hill visited Late Night with Seth Meyers to promote his film Horns In the interview Hill gives his opinion on the devil who he believes gets a bad rap and is in ways more like a superhero on the Avengers scale Hill's proof is that in his first adventure the devil saves two people[...]

Joe Hill fans, do you own a copy of Heart-Shaped Box? Then listen up Bit.Lit is giving away a Joe Hill prize package to folks that use their app And to get you to use their app, they are giving you a free ebook copy of Hill's Heart-Shaped Box And the prizes are print copies[...]

I just met Joe Hill and they gave me Locke & Key and The Wraith, so I'm really looking forward to that because I liked his books. JS: Did you like Horns? MW: I loved Horns. JS: And NOS4A2? MW: I just picked up NOS4A2, but I haven't read it yet So I get to have a crossover event[...]

When I arrived a few minutes late, to my consternation since I have a deep reverence for thoses guys and their work, to the Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez IDW panel, I had a strange moment of transition realizing that the fans were just sitting there (in a very full room) talking to the creators[...]

Frazer Brown writes for Bleeding Cool Daniel Radcliffe turned 25 this week (feeling old yet?) he was in Hall H promoting his upcoming movie, Horns, which looks amazing and a radical departure for the former master potter. Horns is based on a story by Joe Hill an will be released later in the year. [youtube]http://youtu.be/SPiDfX6JC1M[/youtube] (Teaser trailer here) [...]

Here is the first trailer for Horns, the new movie from director Alexandre Aja, starring Daniel Radcliffe, Juno Temple and Heather Graham based on the novel by Joe Hill The movie is being released in the UK on Halloween No US release date has been set. [youtube]http://youtu.be/64yyhOegiN0[/youtube] We got the teaser poster a couple days ago,[...]

The long anticipated adaptation of Joe Hill's novel Horns gets a release date and teaser trailer The new movie starring Daniel Radcliffe and Juno Temple played the festival circuit last year, but now the Alexandre Aja directed film is on the schedule as well as a San Diego Comic Con panel coming up. In Horns, Ig[...]

Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez changed our expectations of horror comics in the many arcs of the long-running "season" based series Locke & Key from IDW They convinced us that horror could be as strangely upbeat as it was unsettling, as prone to sudden revelations as prolonged mysteries, and perhaps most fundamentally, they convinced us[...]

Vertigo are lucky to have this book. Wraith is back from IDW, written by the great Joe Hill, and illustrated by the under-your-skin stylist CP Wilson, with colors always apt by Jay Fotos It's another fully-constructed book like The Wake where attention to detail and a serious focus on quality deliver in spades for the reader[...]

Locke & Key saw its last issue release this week and many are singing its praises and mourning the close of an instant classic. But though Locke & Key may be over, Joe Hill's new book, Wraith: Welcome To Christmasland is doing okay Considering orders. A prequel to his bestseller novel, NOS4A2: A Novel, it had a[...]

How long depends on everything else. — Terry Moore (@TerryMoore) December 17, 2013 Replying to Joe Hill, he wrote: @joe_hill I'm still on it but the orders keep dropping like the comic is bad So frustrating I ended sip when it got this low Frustrating — Terry Moore (@TerryMoore) December 17, 2013 Man cannot live on TV option[...]

Here is the cover for the final issue of Locke & Key: Alpha #2, out tomorrow, and the conclusion of the long running series by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez… And, as a fan of the series, if you find that too distressing, there are others to choose from… including a Dave Sim Spider-Man riff. [...]

This is likely to be a fan favorite if the storylines generate their own momentum around this already superstar character in our public imaginations. Ongoing Titles Let's start with the return of Wraith: "Welcome to Christmasland", from IDW, by the masterful Joe Hill (writer), C.P Wilson III (art), Jay Fotos (colors), and Robbie Robbins (letters)[...]

They even come in three "labels", color-coded to denote the ferocity of your obsession with Locke & Key, by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez With the beloved series wrapping up in less than 2 weeks, that comforting impulse to start commemorating the comics is setting in, and just in time for the holiday season, it's[...]

Looks like there are a lot of behind the scenes legal shenanigans keeping an adaptation of Joe Hill's IDW comic series Locke & Key from seeing the light of day, and I'm not sure I understand how all of it works. Basically, Universal studios and super producers Robert Orci and Alex Kurtzman picked up rights[...]

Image and Dark Horse continue to roll out new titles along with some of their ongoing that are gaining a following, and noir and occult comics are still prominent from both, with IDW jumping in with Joe Hill's Wraith debuting But I'm going to settle on three that have contributed to my reading experience and[...]

Since then, New York Times Best-Selling author Joe Hill and artist and illustrator Gabriel Rodriguez have intricately crafted thirty-two issues of the gripping, heartfelt, horror comic, now in its final two issues: "Alpha #1" and "Alpha #2" Meanwhile, Hill has added to his oeuvre by producing another best-selling novel, NOS4A2, and is heralding the publication[...]