Jhonen based Psychodoughboy and Mr. Eff on two real Styrofoam Pillsbury Doughboy display figures that he found and painted. Vasquez intended a tapeworm named Scolex to be one of Johnny's voices, but the character never made it into the finished series.
Like many alternative comics, and other Slave Labor Graphics titles, Johnny is creator-owned. By September , Vasquez announced in his introduction to the sixth issue of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac that he had reached sufficient success in his artistic career to be able to quit his day-job and devote himself full-time to his art.
As his comics moved from dedicated comic book shops into shopping malls, Vasquez bemoaned the attendant change in his audience. Samsa and Nailbunny. Rob Schrab provides a foreword. The cover of the trade paperback features the logo "Z? Johnny the Homicidal Maniac spawned two spin-offs: a four-issue series titled Squee! The comic is high-contrast black and white with stylized and geometric cartoon characters. Graphical perspective is often very loose. The panel borders are jagged, and certain strips have messages hidden in the complex designs of the borders.
Many of the characters are thin nearly to the point of being stick figures. Several of the characters, including Johnny, wear T-shirts with expressive messages that change from panel to panel. Vasquez often breaks the Fourth wall with side comments to talk about the book, its audience, or himself. The speech balloons change with the moods of the characters. For example, Johnny's word balloons grow thorns when he becomes angry.
The series focuses on Johnny C. He drains his victims of blood to paint over a wall in his house to prevent a monster from escaping. He is five feet, nine inches and one hundred and fifteen pounds. He likes stars, the emotionless function of insects, watching people get abducted by aliens, Cherry 'FizWiz', Cherry 'Brain-Freezies', all kinds of movies, Fruity Pops, the moon, little chubby babies, pop rocks and soda, and drawing Happy Noodle Boy. Not that much is known about Johnny's history.
All that is known is that his parents were killed by an evil man, thus setting the course for NNY's life as a masked crime fighter, or, perhaps not.
At present, NNYs more his own enemy than any external mind could be. What with the decomposure of what may have been, at one time, a fine, intelligent mind.
Johnny is, possibly, more hideously mentally malformed than the people he seems to think have ruined his world. Todd Casil, better known as Squee after the noise he makes when frightened, is a young boy who lives next door to Johnny. Both of his parents have no care for him especially his father who works countless hours and leads a miserable life after having Squee as a child and his only shown friend other than Johnny is a small Teddy bear that he carries around named Shmee.
Shmee tells Squee that all his fears and nightmares are inside him in a dream. Squee is also friends with Satan's son, with whom he attends school. He has his own series called Squee! The series is set in the mids in an unspecified city. Crumbling and covered with litter and graffiti, everything is in a state of bleak decay, overlit by the neon signs of trashy consumer capitalism. Johnny lives in a decrepit, single-story house with the street address A later part of the story takes place in the afterlife.
The story is told in vignettes that reflect Johnny's disjointed mental state. The series begins when Squee wakes in the middle of the night to find Johnny in the bathroom of his family's new house. After a confrontation with Squee's Teddy bear, Shmee, Johnny leaves, informing Squee that they are neighbors. Later, a survey-taker tries to collect Johnny's opinion on a recent rash of murders around the city. JTHM pic.
While that is hardly a confirmation that anything further is in the works and it is entirely possible that Vasquez was just having a bit of fun with his old creation, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac has a fervent cult following that would be eager for the character's return. Johnny the Homicidal Maniac was Vasquez's first comic book. The black comedy began life as a comic strip running in the goth magazine Carpe Noctem in the early s and was later published by Slave Labor Graphics from as a seven-issue black-and-white limited series.
The series was then collected into trade paperback form as Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: Director's Cut. For many of us Jhonen Vasquez fans, this is where it all began. Just us, Johnny, Nail Bunny and a few dead bodies laying around. He is a young man who struggles with more than just mental illness. He has psychotic episodes, hallucinations, and more than that a desire to commit murder. He stuffs rats into stuffed animals and puts them into blenders.
He Nails animals to the wall and then speaks to them. Creepier yet, they speak to him! He keeps people in the basement to exact his need for violence and bloodshed. And he constantly battles with the desire to commit suicide. This is one of my most favorite comic book series. I love the artwork that Jhonen Vasquez presents. It is both creepy and stimulating to the eye. But as the creator of the Invader Zim series I would expect nothing less.
JTHM was his first adventure into creation via art and I have to say it's most definitely his best. The distain for living day today and the characters disgust for the rest of humanity are really felt through his artwork. JTHM is both extremely comical and horrifyingly terrible.
But obviously it is only that way for a select type of reader. I feel that most people would find this comic very unsettling. However I also feel that this is geared more towards the younger generations who would see the comedy of irony in it. I could speak volumes on this work but I will stop there to restrain myself from babbling LOL.
I would highly recommend this comic book series to anyone who likes Invader Zim or creepy comics in general. Thank you, Best Buddy, for lending me this one to read.
As strange as this may sound--given the title--this was a very satisfying read. Despite the fact that Nny a. It's stark, and honest, and holds nothing back. Given the fact that this is also an incredibly gory story to read--seriously, all kinds of killing in all kinds of ways happen here, so take a peek before you pick it up--there's a sort of twisted and yet viable shockingly! A little treat, albeit difficult to read without several breaks in between parts. Author 7 books followers. I've been asking people if they remember this, and so far nobody I've talked to does.
Which is weird because it was such a thing for me! Jessica B. This comic book is not for the faint of heart. It chronicles the experiences of Nny short for Johnny C. It can be someone who trips him for no reason, or has a tie that he doesn't like.
However, the story is way deeper than just ruthless killing. There are supernatural influences behind Nny's killing sprees, making it impossible for him to be caught, even when brutally killing someone in public. Nny says he must kill in order to paint a certain wall in his house with his victim's blood in order to keep a monster from breaking through.
Nny also has his internal voices having lives of their own, in the form of two possessed styrofoam Pillsbury Doughboys, and the decomposed body of a rabbit that Nny brought home and fed for three days before nailing it to a wall.
The main theme of the story is Nny questioning his place in the world, and why things are the way they are. Recommended for anyone who likes deep thinking and is okay with graphic murder scenes and almost continual profanity. There are also sequels of sorts, called Squee and I Feel Sick, which follow the stories of two side characters from the original comic.
Lorien Anderson. Like any other self-respecting high school goth kid of the early s, I was a teenage Jhonen Vasquez fan. I've been pretty dismissive of Vasquez in the past, mentally categorizing him based on the "taco cheese moose of doom! There's more going on here than gratuitous blood and shock humor - although there's a healthy dose of that, to which I do not, in principle, object.
When I finished it last night, I was actually surprised to realize that I wanted there to be more. Nny has basically no backstory, but the little bit that's revealed about him during his trips to heaven and hell in JTHM 6 started to set up a unique cosmology that the series doesn't have time to further develop.
In conclusion - "Kids, don't be scared! He don't bite! This is an amazing book! I highly recommend it! Jacqueline Quackenbush. Rather than sneaking under high school bleachers to read this and feeling uber cool for reading something about a psycho killer, I read this in college and felt uber cool for reading something about a psycho killer. In my defense, I was all of about 6 when this first came out and I was not an uber cool toddler what with the whole not-brushing-my-hair phase and all.
I really liked this; really seriously loved it. When I first picked it up, my much more comic savvy room mate told me that while it was cool back in high school that she'd grown past it and it's shock value. So, I pretty much walked into this expecting blood, gore and not much else. Honestly though, I think there is much more merit in this little book than the senseless and creative violence although it certainly does get points for that.
While the title and reputation may attract the droves of black clothed rebellious pre-teens, there is a lot here for the post-pubescent reader; the dark humor is funny and entertaining throughout and although all of Johnny's monologues are obviously the rantings of a disturbed and melodramatic individual, I think a lot of his musings will keep any philosophically inclined person interested.
But then again, as I've moved from the depressed and angsty teen to the intellectually pretentious and sophomoric college student I am today, perhaps I am simply inclined to over analyze something that should have just been good old American gore fun. Aron Fischer. But a little earlier than midway, his tendency to inject Sandman-like philosophical rants into his lovable homicidal protaganist gives the book a much needed second dimension, and by the time a supernatural element sneaks it's way into the story, the reader may find themselves hooked.
This zany orgy of blood and guts has an existential core that creeps up on you, placing you into a mode you wont really find anywhere else: horrified, laughing uncontrollably, and in serious doubt about the fine line between stability and destruction. Author 54 books 95 followers. Just angsty angst from start to finish. Yes, there's some murder, but mostly this is a long-form rant about hip kids in subcultural groups goths, punks , who make fun of other people to make themselves feel better.
It's really talky and kind of repetitive. Johnny kidnaps someone and tortures that person while proselytizing about the wrongs of mistreating people. Eventually, it gets a little deeper, but it's kind of like punk rock. You really have to get into it when you're a teenager for it to hit you the right way.
How have I never reviewed this? Nny's struggles and journey is one of the best, most horrific hero's stories I've ever read. He makes Dexter look like an amateur and Deadpool a saint. I'm putting these two together, because they really do form one larger piece - the craft of an artistic mastermind.
Although perhaps "mastermind" isn't the best word to use here. What do you call the person that they lock up when they're about fifteen because they keep saying things to their teachers like, "The human body has ten thousand miles of blood vessels in it and I can feel my hate for you coursing through every one? Or the angry hobo who lurches up to your car as you wait at the stop light, a bucket of dirty, grey water in one hand and a rotten squeegee in the other and proceeds to molest himself with it, afterward demanding that you gave him change, quote, "For the show" That kind of guy.
What would you call him? Whatever it is, welcome to the world of Jhonen Vasquez. Strap yourself in. Johnny the Homicidal Maniac is the story of Johnny C. Nny is rail-thin, yet something of a fashion plate, and lives in a broken-down house with two evil Styrofoam doughboys, a dead bunny nailed to a wall, and a gateway to a creature of infinite evil somewhere in one of the many basements of the house. In his free time, Johnny kills people in horrible and graphically interesting ways.
Not because he's a bad person, necessarily. He does have the wall to feed, after all - a wall that has to be continually painted with fresh blood, lest the Evil come out of it. But he is, by his own admission, "quite horrendously insane. He murders the people who feel superior to others while at the same time feeling that he is superior to them. The kills the smug and the self-possessed, the materialistic and the bored, the lowbrows and the posers and the jerks who seem to infest every corner of his world.
And while he does kill with great glee and abandon, he occasionally takes the time to wonder if what he's doing is worth it. If murder is all that his life has become. If maybe it would be better off to just end it all and kill himself.
Fortunately - or not - he has The Doughboys to keep him company. Two Styrofoam figures, painted by Nny, which talk to him constantly. One urges him to live and kill to his heart's content. The other presses him to commit suicide and leave this world behind.
Whichever wins will be freed from his plastic prison and reunited with his evil master. As a balance to them is Nailbunny, which is pretty much just what it sounds like - a bunny rabbit that Johnny bought from the pet store and then one day nailed to the wall.
Nailbunny or at least its floating head is the voice of reason in Johnny's life, urging him to be suspicious of the Doughboys and all they want. Despite his nihilistic view of the world, Johnny discovers that he does indeed have a purpose in life.
Just not a very good one. Johnny is, naturally, hard to sympathize with. Part of that comes from his almost cavalier attitude towards killing, but more than that, he's rather adolescent in his view of the world and how it works. Like so many teenagers, he has yet to grow a buffer between himself and the world, and cannot differentiate malicious acts from merely thoughtless ones. He feels every barb and every sting like hooks in his flesh, and the only way he is able to deal with it is through murderous rage.
A later part of the story takes place in the afterlife. After accidentally shooting himself, Johnny journeys first to Heaven and then to Hell , and both turn out to have more in common with Earth than he expected. Jhonen Vasquez Wiki Explore.
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