title: A Vampire in Hollywood: And Other Tales of Supernatural Law
author: Batton Lash
description: Cartoonist Batton Lash studied at the School of Visual Arts with comics greats Will Eisner and Harvey Kurtzman. In the 1980s-1990s \"Wolff & Byrd, Counselors of the Macabre\" was a syndicated weekly strip. It became the comic book "Supernatural Law" in 1994 and a webcomic in 2007. The comics have been collected into numerous trade paperbacks. Batton has also done comics for Archie and for The Simpsons.
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  ## Box Office Poison
  
  
    
  
  
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  _( Linnet Ellery - 2 )_
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Phillipa Bornikova
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  What happens when exquisitely beautiful elves start getting all the roles in
  Hollywood? Human actors sue, that’s what. In a desperate attempt to keep the
  squabbling inside the Screen Actors Guild from going public, the president of
  SAG forces the two sides into arbitration.
  
  
  Enter Linnet Ellery, a human lawyer working for a vampire law firm, to serve
  as arbitrator. Linnet discovers that there are sinister forces at work in
  Tinsel Town determined to shatter the fragile peace between elves, vampires,
  werewolves, and humans. Someone has been coercing famous elven actors into
  committing sudden and terrible acts of violence against humans in a series of
  tragedies that could turn the tide of public opinion against all the
  supernatural Powers.
  
  
  During the course of her investigations Linnet realizes that a puzzling secret
  surrounds her, and th