Pepose and Santiago Jr. develop a good flow of jumping from past to present for each issue making each memory fruitful to the story. Each adolescent recall either parallels to the overall conflict, or justifies a single scene that progresses the story. These great pacing techniques help the story make sense, and all around enjoyable. Read Full Review

Dark, powerful and far more poignant than any story about a giant talking panther detective has any right to be, Spencer and Locke is set to become one of the sleeper hits of 2017, and I absolutely cannot wait to see where this story goes next. Read Full Review

Spencer & Locke # 2 is a dark thrill ride with mystery, suspense and themes that will make readers cringe and be captivated. Read Full Review

Quirky and highly unusual, Spencer & Locke tugs at the heartstrings while upending childhood innocence and destroying sentimentality. Read Full Review

SPENCER AND LOCKE #2 is an entertaining and mind-bending homage to CALVIN AND HOBBES that explores the dark nature of childhood. Read Full Review

"Spencer & Locke" #2 ups the stakes for Locke while preserving the mystery, and heart, of previous issues. Read Full Review

While Spencer & Locke #2 may be playing with a very worn out formula Pepose makes this series his own mixing physiological and action thriller aspects. This issue does take a backstep from the previous issue as the pacing seems slightly rushed at times leading for impactful moments to fall slightly flat. Santiago does his thing and makes the art memorable as the car chase scene was visually the best moment of the issue. Hear our interview with David Pepose on what lead up to Spencer & Locke and more. Read Full Review

Spencer and Locke has turned into a great mystery/noir Detective story with a little psychological twist with with Detective Locke. I could see people passing this up just because of what it is and how it was advertised as the "gritty" Calvin and Hobbes, but it has turned out much more than that. We are getting a little in depth to the psychological make up of what would make someone create a best friend out of a stuff animal and how that helps him deal with the past and we get a great mystery/thriller story to boot. Read Full Review

This "Calvin & Hobbes Meets Sin City" mash-up grows even darker in issue #2, in case if you were wondering whether that was even possible Read Full Review

The key to this book is to enjoy the homages and try not to think too much about the “how does it work?” True, it may be that in fact, adult Locke is as much a figment of young Locke imagination as Spencer is. Adult Spencer could be a form of PTSD, his missing eye alluding to the fact that Locke himself has “turned a blind eye” to his past troubles. Or it could just be a fun way to pay respect to Bill Watterson's fantastic creations and universe of yesteryear. That said, I wholly expect Moe (or some allusion to him), to be the big bad! Read Full Review

The engaging and very entertaining story for this title keeps on getting better as we go along. Somehow, there is a perfect mix of humor, action, drama and emotion filling the whole book. Don't drive like they did in this issue, but definitely get to the shop as quickly as possibly to get this. Read Full Review

Spencer & Locke #2 continues to build on the riveting, Sin City-inspired hard-boiled crime saga introduced in issue #1. Still, what really lingers after reading this story is how Locke struggles to confront hispersonal demons, courtesy of a troubled childhood. Wherever his murder investigation takes him, it's becausehe brings Spencer and every other escaped skeleton along for the ride that truly makes Spencer & Locke engaging. Read Full Review

While this issue delivers on the promised dark humor and gives us some possible insight to the limits of Spencer, it fails to follow up on the cliffhanger set before it and ends up feeling a little disappointing. Read Full Review

Listen, I just want to say that I don't like giving bad reviews. It's not what I'm all about. Check my previous reviews. I don't want to bag on something. I want to like everything. I want everything to be great and entertaining and amazing. And Spencer & Locke has bits of that sprinkled throughout. But it never comes together to make an even kind of okay thing. It's a weird combination of trying too hard to be hard and laziness, I think. That's the problem I have with this book. It's got a solid premise and the heart is there. But it just never gets there. Spencer & Locke, in my opinion, is the perfect example of a comic book giving me blue balls. Read Full Review

There's absolutely nothing cute or clever about this adaptation of Watterson's iconic strip for a different genre. Despite the other comics storytelling skills that went into its creation and the successes the creators have with those skills, it's just not enough to overcome the sheer lack of judgment at the root of the premise. Pepose didn't hitch a wagon to Watterson's star; he hitched a dumpster. On fire. The three words I can think of to describe Spencer & Locke are simply these: wrong, wrong, wrong. Read Full Review