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Screamland
''Screamland'' is an independent comic book series that was created by Harold Sipe and Héctor Casanov.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.geeksofdoom.com/2008/05/09/conversations-with-god-harold-sipe )〕 The series was first launched as a five issue miniseries in 2008 and was followed by a second five-issue miniseries, ''Death of the Party'', in 2011. Both miniseries were released through Image Comics. Sipe served as the writer for both miniseries and Casanov worked as the artist for the 2008 miniseries and as the cover artist for ''Death of the Party''.
There are currently plans to create a third miniseries that follow the character of Frank as he travels to Japan and meets with other horror movie icons.
==Synopsis==
''Screamland'' follows the lives of three monsters turned Hollywood movie actors, Frank, the lupine Carl London, and The Count. Frank and Carl are washed up "has beens" that find it extremely difficult to gain regular work and are often forced to make money by very dodgy means- something that is made more difficult by Frank's rampant alcoholism and Carl's short temper and tendency to overindulge in everything. The Count has been more fortunate, as his eternal youth and an ongoing fascination with vampires has ensured that he will always have lucrative work, but the public scrutiny also has his price. While The Count is still popular, he feels that he has to hide his homosexuality in fear that the public will turn on him. The comic frequently mentions a fourth monster, The Mummy, that is only shown in flashbacks, various media, and in conversations by various characters.
The first volume is episodic in nature and looks at the daily lives of Frank, Carl, and The Count and sets up some of their personal history and interactions with one another. During this volume we learn about Frank's drinking problem, Carl's rampant and self-destructive hedonism, and The Count's willingness to achieve fame at the cost of his own personal happiness. Readers are shown that Carl and Frank's lack of work is something a direct result of their own actions, especially in Carl's case as his own actions frequently leads to him pushing all but his most steadfast friends away from him. Volume two, ''Death of the Party'', tells a more linear story and has Carl and his friend, former television star Travis Walters, investigating the murder of "Izzy", The Invisible Man. He was murdered after promising to show ''Phantasmagorgya'', a pornographic film starring several movie monsters that was deliberately kept out of the public eye. Carl and Travis solve the mystery, but almost ruining their fragile friendship in the process when Travis is told that ''Phantasmagorgya'' was never released because it was a sex tape turned snuff film that could ruin the lives of multiple monster stars. (Prior to this Travis believed that the film was merely a sex tape recorded during a party he and Carl had attended in the 1970s.) Travis is horrified that Carl and other monsters murdered two women during ''Phantasmagorgya'', as the monsters covered it up and did not do "the right thing" by reporting it. Carl responds by saying that Travis would have participated in the snuff film if he had not been passed out from drinking too much and that while the monsters may have killed her because of their own natures, Travis would have participated because he could and because he would have been able to get away with it. It's ultimately revealed that Izzy faked his own murder in order to receive attention but did not plan on the police and media paying little serious attention to his murder. He had been following Travis and Carl around during their investigations and realized that he was the biggest monster of them all, as he was willing to put all of monster-kind at risk of being hunted due to the snuff film, all in the pursuit of fame. Izzy gives Travis and Carl the movie, as he has decided to remain "dead" and spend the rest of his life in obscurity. Travis and Carl then reconcile.
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