1.What was your graphic novel about?
- My graphic novel was about a family's struggles after losing their father/husband. When Sam Lesser goes to Mr. Locke for guidance, since he is his guidance counselor, he recieves a cry for help from a painting in the office. Sam learns that Mr. Locke has the answer of how to help the person in the painting, but doesn't know what Sam is talking about when he confronts him at his summer home. Mr. Locke is killed by Sam, leaving behind his wife and three children. They move to Lovecraft, where he grew up to move in with his brother who helps them to cope. The youngest Locke child, Bode starts to unravel mysterious going ons within his new home. No one believes him though, until Sam returns to find what he is looking for and tries to do in the rest of the family in his quest for the anywhere key. The anywhere key will allow the spirit to escape the well it's stuck in.
- The main characters were Tyler, Kinsey, and Bode Locke. The three children find different ways of coping, or in Tyler's case not coping, with the loss of their father. Bode is the one who discovers the secrets of Keyhouse, the house they are staying in. He is the youngest, and is possibly the one who learns the most from their father's death, especially with the help of a door that turns him into a ghost. Kinsey turns to running and making a new her, while Tyler tries to exact revenge and blames himself for his father's death.
- I would probably say that the main theme of my graphic novel is that some secrets are better left uncovered. When Sam learned that he would need to obtain the anywhere key to help the person in the painting he had to attack others. If you would have decided not to listen the painting it wouldn't have left to Bode discovering secrets about Keyhouse, and the 'echo' wouldn't have been released to wreak its havoc. So those were all dangerous secrets for the people involved.
4.What was the main conflict?
- The main conflict was between the Lockes and Sam Lesser. Sam wanted the anywhere key because he was being comanded by the spirit in the well. The Lockes were just trying to preserve their family, but Sam kept attacking them and trying to kill them all off. It's a constant battle through out the novel.
- My favorite part is when the spirit first shows itself to Bode. This is my favorite part because we get the first glimpse of the real evil behind everything. The spirit had been telling Bode that she was his echo, but then after a dream and some investigation he realizes she isn't really his echo. Then it's like he has the revelation but she turns on him, but she can't really get him because she can't leave the wellhouse without the anywhere key.
- I will tell you who shouldn't read this book, people who don't like gore. It's a pretty graphic novel, and not because it has pictures, but because it's very violent. So if you are into action interspersed with some mystery this is your kind of book. If you aren't into series though you shouldn't read it, which I didn't realize it was a series.
