Locke & Key: Clockworks #3

The vertigo-inducing cover of Locke & Key: Clockworks #3 pulls you right into the series' distinctive blend of wonder and dread — a young figure lying on a wooden floor clutches a small key, gazing upward at a glass ceiling through which an older, menacing figure with glowing eyes stares down, surrounded by intricate clockwork gears and a pendulum. Gabriel Rodriguez's perspective work is genuinely dizzying, collapsing the boundary between above and below while making that key in the boy's hand feel both tiny and enormously significant. Joe Hill's "Clockworks" arc continues here, and this issue's chapter — "The Tamers of the Tempest" — promises the kind of layered, atmospheric storytelling that makes this IDW series so compelling.