Hopes and Screams

Hopes and Screams
Writer:	Heather Nuhfer
Artist:	Josh Howard
Release Date:	July 01, 2014
Previous:	N/A
Next:	I Only Have Eye for You
Comic shop link:	http://www.amazon.com/Monster-High-Screams-Original-Graphic/dp/0316254339

Hopes and Screams is the first comic book in the Monster High comic series by Heather Nuhfer. It was released on July 01, 2014 after having been announced on June 08, 2013 and rescheduled from December 03, 2013. The book contains six comic stories of a little under twenty pages each and a "Behind the Screams" section.

Summary

Hissy Fit

At the start of the school year, Frankie volunteers to take over the duties of the editor-in-chief of the Gory Gazette, who wishes to remain unknown. If Frankie does her job well, she may become a permanent staff member. Her first task is to find new writers for the newspaper and so, knowing that Ghoulia, Draculaura, and Clawdeen already write for the Gory Gazette, Frankie texts Cleo to see if she can add her to the staff.

Cleo has to decline, but she promises to throw a party when the next issue is out to celebrate Frankie's achievement.

Hot Couture

Stage Fright

Lost and Sound

These Boots Were Made for Rolling

Scream All About It!

Characters

Hissy Fit

Cleo de Nile Frankie Stein Draculaura Clawdeen Wolf Ms. Bloodgood Deuce Gorgon Ghoulia Yelps Sloman Mortavitch Purrsephone Meowlody Venus McFlytrap Manny Taur Mr. Hackington Toralei Stripe Lagoona Blue

Hot Couture

Clawdeen Wolf Cleo de Nile Deuce Gorgon Ghoulia Yelps Heath Burns Abbey Bominable Howleen Wolf Scarah Screams Invisi Billy Gillington Webber Spectra Vondergeist Draculaura Frankie Stein Holt Hyde Romulus Skelita Calaveras Venus McFlytrap Clawd Wolf Simon Clops Rochelle Goyle

Stage Fright

Draculaura Ms. Kindergrubber Clawd Wolf Deuce Gorgon Frankie Stein Jackson Jekyll The school nurse Abbey Bominable Invisi Billy Sloman Mortavitch

Lost and Sound

Frankie Stein Abbey Bominable Manny Taur Shiver Holt Hyde Operetta A frog

These Boots Were Made for Rolling

Robecca Steam Lagoona Blue Clawd Wolf Rochelle Goyle Gillington Webber Manny Taur Heath Burns Operetta Frankie Stein Skelita Calaveras Catrine DeMew Deuce Gorgon Ghoulia Yelps Howleen Wolf Scarah Screams Holt Hyde Rocco Gary Eyera

Scream All About It!

Ghoulia Yelps Frankie Stein Ms. Bloodgood Heath Burns Gillington Webber Draculaura Lagoona Blue Clawd Wolf Cleo de Nile Sloman Mortavitch Robecca Steam Clawdeen Wolf Manny Taur Eyera Spectra Vondergeist Deuce Gorgon Iris Clops Holt Hyde Abbey Bominable Howleen Wolf

Notes

References

• "These Boots Were Made for Rolling" is a play on the 1966 song "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'".

Continuity

• All the SKRM teams in "These Boots Were Made for Rolling" previously appeared in the TV special "Friday Night Frights".

Milestones

• 40 characters make their comic debuts, as do the frogs.
• Create-A-Monster's female insect, female three-eyed ghoul, female blob, female ghost, and female mummy all make appearances.
• The school nurse makes her fiction debut.

Errors

• According to her 'School's Out' diary, Cleo has an innate ability to charm snakes and explicitly rejects the use of flutes for that, yet in "Hissy Fit" she has to resort to using one.
• Frankie's non-petrified hand in "Hissy Fit" switches between being a right hand or a left hand.
• Iris is miscolored in "Scream All About It!", sporting blue skin and red hair instead of shades of green.

Other

• In the catalogue of Little, Brown and Company, the series is announced with a small version of a textless comic page. This page is not included in the comic nor is there a story that could've logically included the scene due to the peculiar presence of Toralei Stripe that would need some context. "Hot Couture" does have a minimal fearleading scene though.
• The announcement also promised seven stories instead of six. It is possible the "Behind the Screams" section was counted, but it is also possible a story was scrapped or even transferred to I Only Have Eye for You.
• The following fashions are worn in "Scream All About It!": Frankie and Deuce wear their Dawn of the Dance outfits, Cleo wears her Scaris: City of Frights dress, Clawdeen, Lagoona, and Ghoulia wear their Ghoul's Night Out clothes, Abbey and Spectra wear their 'To Howl For' fashions, Robecca wears her 'My Wardrobe and I' dress, and Draculaura wears her Music Festival ensemble.