Locke & Key: Keys to the Kingdom #5

The penultimate issue of Keys to the Kingdom arrives with one of the arc's most unsettling cover images: an ornate, intricately decorated box — a key already inserted in its lock — supports a dark, crown-wearing feminine figure rising dramatically above splayed, blade-like petals, all framed by sweeping smears of red that dominate the pale background. Gabriel Rodriguez's cover art is meticulous and genuinely eerie, balancing delicate craft with an unmistakable sense of menace. Joe Hill's "Detectives Part 1" promises that the secrets locked inside Keyhouse are far from finished revealing themselves.