Animation Comic - The Halloween Special

Animation Comic - The Halloween Special (originally titled Animation Comic - The Haunted Pandas but months later was changed) is the first 2D American animated fantasy comedy(dark as well) drama science-fiction special that reduced the hiatus of the original Animation Comic series and is the first film in the Halloween Franchise. However, it was not counted as an episode in the original series but a special episode instead. It was officially released on October 28th, 2017 by 25UltraGamer. This special episode features an original song called City of The Dead by Eurielle and Me and My Broken Heart by Rixton.

It would be then followed by two sequels with Animation Comic - The Halloween Sequel (2018), Animation Comic - Haunted Memories (2019) and an upcoming third sequel Animation Comic - Unholy Spirits (2020).

The characters contains:
 * 1) Michael L.(Lorrence) Conway
 * 2) Daniel Armstrong
 * 3) The Mysterious Killer Person

Plot
At a night sky to where Michael is telling a spooky story to the children, all of the children were getting terrified. Once Michael ends with his story, the light turns on and Daniel is wearing a scary dragon mask to scare the children out the house and head home screaming. Literally Michael said bye and Happy Halloween, just to be a little nice gentlemen.

Daniel thinks that Michael may be too much to scare away the kids like that. Michael thought that he was being sarcastic with him, but he meant it seriously. Just then, Daniel wanted to know if Michael was scared of anything in his childhood or remember his dark memories. Michael found that uninteresting to himself and told Daniel that he isn't afraid of anything. Daniel had to take a step forward to assume with a serious face that Michael is one-hundred percent sure. Then, Daniel agrees, but did not dismiss the possibility truth of his fear entirely.

After that inspection of Michael's fear, Daniel asked if he wanted to come to the Halloween Party at Arktown School. Michael accepts the participation of the invite, and wanted to get something before he goes there with him. Once he has got the material he needed, which is the scary mask face, he heard a sound coming from his backyard. He then risked himself to take a look to who's messing around his backyard. Michael looked terrified as he got closer to the noise, and then a voice whispers to his ears saying, "I see you...". Michael immediately runs inside and tells Daniel that he is ready and doesn't want to be late for the party. Daniel wasn't sure what was that about, but he seemed to buy it. After they left off, a mysterious killer appears for only seconds with a knife in his hand and then himself withers away.

Once they've arrived at the Arktown School, they head off to the cafeteria to join the party. Daniel was wondering why Michael was looking less-stable than usual. Daniel then asks if Michael is okay, and he replied with a "fine" quote. Behind them two, was again, the mysterious killer. Michael then turns his head only to find nothing behind him but an eerie sound that only he can hear, not his friend Daniel or anyone else.

Once they've got to the party, the music was getting into Michael and Daniel's beats and decided to go with the flow with the music and Michael tries to forget about what he saw back then, but somehow he couldn't. He told Daniel that he needs to use the bathroom very quick. Daniel accepts his favor and Michael goes to the restroom and takes a look in the mirror. He then sees the mysterious person with the knife in front of the mirror and Michael potentially gets frightened. He looks down for seconds, telling himself that he is just seeing things.

Afterwards, Michael sees the Mysterious Killer and is ready to kill him. He uses "the force" to grab Michael on his neck and The Mysterious Killer grabs out his knife and is ready to stab him. He tells him to come join him to be his sidekick of killing people and think about the children being murdered. Michael does not accepts. He then escapes freely and immediately tells Daniel that he wants to leave the party now. Daniel does not believe him and thinks he's making that up. Suddenly, the DJ person notices that the discs has stopped working and all the people who were dancing stopped and questioning.

The bright colors initially blacked out to blood red, then the mysterious killer hovers over a blood red colored spotlight. Michael sees the mysterious killer, so as Daniel finally. Daniel now knows what he is afraid of, but doesn't want to tell him about it, or else he'll make Michael embarrassed. The Mysterious Killer uses "the force" to grab him on the neck again, and Michael uses the Pint of Blood bottle to blind the killer's eyes. He then falls and Daniel tells Michael that they need to come up with a plan fast.

Michael sees what the killer dropped, a knife. He plans on throwing the knife into his body at a perfect angle, and he only got one shot to do it. After The Mysterious Killer wipes out the fake, liquidity blood out his face, Michael throws the knife into his stomach at a perfect angle, and The Mysterious Killer was stabbed to death. The killer falls down to the ground, and teenagers are inspecting the aftermath of the kill. Michael feels relieved.

A day later, the killer was sent to the hospital and Michael feels depressed. Daniel walks up to him and wants to know why he is sad. Michael felt sad because he thought that everybody was being good and also that he had his fear was revealed. Daniel said it's okay, as long as you're not too scared of anything that cannot destroy you. Daniel then asked if Michael wanted assistance with him. Michael agrees, and then they went to the chemistry classroom. Michael opened the door and looks in front of the audience and says, "Happy Halloween everyone."

Production
Derek was planning to have holiday episodes since late 2016. The first one of his idea was originally a Christmas special, but was canceled in 2016, due to unfinished business. Then he decided to have a Halloween special and reveals that this will not be counted as an original episode, but will be the first episode in the Animation Comic-Special Episode playlist. He first originally titled the special "The Haunted Pandas", but then considered to change the name to "The Halloween Special", making it more simple to the special episode. The illustrations he began working with began on the last week of September and concluded on October 27th, 2017. He plans to upload the special episode at 6:00 p.m. CST on October 28th, 2017, with a trailer following on a later day. However, he wanted to release the special episode earlier, making the fans not to wait a whole day for one special episode.

Release
The special episode was released on YouTube under the channel "25UltraGamer" on October 28th, 2017. It was also released on the Animation Comic website the same day. It was also released on November 2nd, 2017 in Challenjam.com.

Reception
On Twitter, Derek released the two teaser images and a poster, representing and promoting the Halloween special and received some positive ratings of engagements and impressions, including the engagement rate. In the two teaser images, the average engagement rating is 11.4% and the poster holds an average of 17.6%.

On October 3rd, 2017, Derek posted a thumbnail revealing the Animation Comic Halloween Special preview. The engagement rate was 25.0% but then was dropped down to 3.8%. On October 23rd, 2017, Derek posted another teaser on Twitter, saying, "What has #Daniel invented?". As the engagement percent will continue to drop because Derek thinks and says "Well, people are excited to see this, and when they see the teaser image, they go 'Oh my gosh! It's coming', but then leave the image and then comes dropping down with the percentage of engagements. Who knows when it will stay to that number?"



Some Dark Content of Humor & Violence
In some scenes will feature some dark humor, meaning that there will be some disturbing images for younger audiences. Parents/guardians may wanna take a look at this first before letting their children watch it. The dark content will also might contain some violence in the final battle scene.

Sequels
Main articles: Animation Comic - The Halloween Sequel and Animation Comic - Haunted Memories -- Animation Comic - Halloween Franchise

Derek (the creator of Animation Comic) has thought of a sequel to the film. It was followed by Animation Comic - The Halloween Sequel, and was released on October 27th, 2018, just one day prior to the first film special. A second sequel, titled "Animation Comic - Haunted Memories", was released on July 25th, 2019.