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The new horror embossment from DC , dubbedHill House Comicshas officially begun its run with the arrival ofBasketful of Heads # 1by author Joe Hill . And it only took on upshot to show why fans of Stephen King may want to be paying special tending to this story .
Parallels between the two writers have been made for years ( it makes common sense , as father and boy ) . But as Hill ’s own composition course credit have produce to includeLocke & Key , NOS4A2,In The Tall Grass(recently accommodate into a Netflix film ) , and more , both authors ' earth have come up to stand on their own . But thanks toBasketful of Heads , it appear Hill is taking a playful step into the macrocosm build by Stephen King ’s greatest novels .
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The first thunderbolt is dropped in the pages ofBasketful of Heads # 1by Joe Hill and Leomacs , in a single board containing references toboth Shawshank Prison and Derry , Maine . The former being the background of King ’s novellaRita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption , best known as the germ material for Frank Darabont ’s filmThe Shawshank Redemption . For the most part , it ’s a break of serve from King ’s common repulsion fare , telling the story of a captive who take to the woods by digging a tunnel footling by little over the row of decades .
It ’s far from a raw idea toconnect Stephen King ’s authorship into a singular existence . It ’s not even the first metre we see the connection between Shawshank and Derry – multiple case fromItserved clip there . Itis full of references to other King book : The Shining ’s Dick Halloran ( who returns inthe continuation , Doctor Sleep ) was one of the subsister of the fire that kill Mike Hanlon ’s parent . fiber inDreamcatchersand11/22/63have been treated to glimpse of It as they travel through Derry , and the otherworldly " Macroverse " that birthed It also provides demon for books likeThe Mistand theDark Towerseries .
Basketful of Heads ' propinquity to the vicious influence of Derry suggests that something very sorry is brewing for its heroes , but their place is already jolly frightening . In the first payoff , June Branch and her cop boyfriend Liam are entrap in the family of Liam ’s boss with four prisoner who ’d escaped from the Shawshank van . The trice - forward on the first page suggests she wo n’t be the same once she leaves , showing a figure blot out under a yellow raincoat carrying the titular basketful of heads – and the brain are still talking . And the plot synopsis suggests things are only go to get horrible :
Now she must struggle for her life story with the aid of an impossible 8th - century Viking ax that can pass away through a human race ’s neck in a undivided swipe - and result the severed fountainhead still conscious and capable of supernatural speech . Each disembodied top dog has a malevolent story of its own to tell , and it is n’t long before June finds herself in a desperate battle to chop through their Trygve Lie and manipulation … cannonball along to save the man she loves before time runs out .
With more closed book promise to be amount in each issue , it ’s likely devotee will see even more connections to the Billie Jean Moffitt King universe as the serial go on . Let ’s just trust Pennywise is n’t somehow involved .
Basketful of Heads # 1is available now fromDC Comics .
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