Alpha 2

Locke & Key: Alpha #2 is the second issue of the Alpha series, and the thirty-seventh issue overall, as well as the final issue of the comic series.

Synopsis

"The End." A door claps softly shut. A key scrapes in a last rusted lock. It ends here: the story of the Locke children and their desperate, tragic battle with the monster set on destroying them... the past. Join Gabriel Rodriguez and Joe Hill for the final chapter of Locke & Key.

Variant Covers

Trivia

• The issue was originally expected to be released on October 30, 2013^[1], before being shifted to November 27, 2013^[2], and later confirmed to be released on December 18.^[3]
• The F-Variant cover by Dave Sim is an homage to Amazing Spiderman #29.^[4]
• In symbolic end to the initial series, the last panel of the issue, with the Death's Head Moth flying over a door, mirrors the first panel from Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft #1. Only, instead of the door of the Locke's former home in Mendocino Valley, it was the door of the Wellhouse.

References

Issues
Locke & Key
Welcome to Lovecraft	Chapter One • Chapter Two • Chapter Three Chapter Four • Chapter Five • Chapter Six
Head Games	Intermission • Chapter One • Chapter Two Chapter Three • Chapter Four • Army of One
Crown of Shadows	The Haunting of Keyhouse • In The Cave • Last Light Shadow Play • Light of Day • Beyond Repair
Keys to the Kingdom	Sparrow • White • February • Casualties Detectives - Part 1 • Detectives - Part 2
Clockworks	The Locksmith's Son • Smash! • The Tamers of the Tempest The Whispering Iron • Grown-Ups • Curtain
Omega	Our Regrets • The Soldier • Last Dance Human Sacrifices • The Fall
Alpha	Omega & Alpha • The End
World War Key
Golden Age	Small World • Open the Moon • Face the Music • ...In Pale Battalions Go... 1 • ...In Pale Battalions Go... 2 • ...In Pale Battalions Go... 3 • Hell & Gone 0 • Hell & Gone 1 • Hell & Gone 2 Guide to the Known Keys
Short stories	In the Can • Grindhouse • Dog Days