Comic Cover Appreciation 020 - Johnny the Homicidal Maniac (Slave Labor Graphics, 1995) Indie comic written and drawn by Jhonen Vasquez, who went on to create Invader Zim.

Jan 5, 2019 9:25 PM

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Thank you so much for this! I loved his comics and had a few

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Nail Bunny and Psycho Dough Boy were my faves.

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I love JTHM! I have the directors cut and squee's big book of unspeakable horrors

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

7 years ago | Likes 81 Dislikes 1

My favorite was the comic within a comic "Happy noodle boy". https://youtu.be/K8jW5KB09ZE (may wanna mute)

7 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

WHERE THE FUCK IS THE BACTINE!!?!?!

7 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

7 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I still have all these. Hoping to kick start my nephew's goth phase in a few years.

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My mother burnt all of my JTHM comics. Bummer

7 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Happened to my garbage pail kids. Found a better hiding spot after that.

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

OH MY GOD! SOMEBODY PUT SHIT IN MY PANTS!!

7 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

I was going to quote this, but I'm kinda glad that you did it, instead, so I'll just upvote.

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Mr. Stabby, doo doo doodoo doodoo

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Love this eerie atmosphere!

4 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I re-read it recently after about 15 years. Still a great book and the artwork is still awesome

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yep, this seems like a good guy to be writing kid's shows

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Most will know Inavder Zim as his only works. Hopefully people will be enlightened from this post.

7 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Huh so that's why I kept thinking how similar this looked to Invader Zim.

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It's only in the title.

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I cant even remember the last time I read a JTHM. Late middle school early highschool.

7 years ago | Likes 44 Dislikes 1

Probably mid HS for me.

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Same.

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

“Dear diary, some friends came around today...”

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I can't believe I almost scrolled past this. I'd forgotten about this series

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I remember reading these back when I was a teenager.

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Yes papa?

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I have to keep the wall wet!

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Also check out Squee! It features a man with diarrhea so bad that the blood overflows the toilet and leaks out of the stall.

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

nny

7 years ago | Likes 33 Dislikes 0

A buddy of mine named John used darthnny as his handle online. I envy that level of clever.

7 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Got to keep the walls wet!

7 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 0

Or the demons will get out.

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

It changes color when it dries!

7 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I tried to collect all his stuff, I gave it away my freshman year bc my friend who I shared it w/ said I need to grow up. Damn peer pressure

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Has the new Zim cartoon come out yet? Supposed to be released soonish.

7 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

Not yet! I follow him on Instagram and they’re still working on it.

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I met Jhonen Vasquez at SDCC a few years ago. A friend of mine had dated him. He seemed cool, but he couldn't walk 2 ft w/o getting stopped.

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

I felt kinda bad for him, because they would stop him then not say anything.

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I fucking love this series. Squee is a close second.

7 years ago | Likes 184 Dislikes 0

Happy Noodle Boy.

7 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

Call me NNY

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I Feel Sick is great too

7 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

SQUEE!

7 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

And Filler Bunny?!?!

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Milk & Cheese: Dairy Products Gone Bad was my jam.

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Happy Noodle Boy was and is my jam.

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I remember he quit doing this comic because of the fan mail he received. Apparently, he didn't realize just how many sick fucks are out ther

7 years ago | Likes 115 Dislikes 0

He streams on twitch sometimes

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I never understood how he could crank out so much content in just a few years and then just stop except for random non-comic bullshit.

7 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 0

Even more crazy is a lot of the time he didn’t even have scripts prepared. Just wrote the dialogue as he was doing the art :O

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

He cranks out multiple legendary series in a decade and for the next twenty years he makes one browser game a couple pieces of cover art.

7 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

I'm out of the loop so I don't know what this is about? Explain?

7 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

I couldn't find anything beyond him apparently not liking the audience he drew when his work went mainstream, as in started selling 1/2

7 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

in major chains and he also was apparently uncomfortable with the young zim fans reading Johnny because of the violent content. 2/2

7 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

From what I heard he got fan mail from people who wished they were Jonny and would go into great detail about what they'd do to people.

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

If they could murder and get away with it.

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

The main character is a serial killer. It's been a while since I read the comics, but I believe he also couldn't die? Edgy teens loved it.

7 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

He did eventually die.

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Spoiler alert!

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

But.... one of pictures is from the comic where he died. It says right there Johnny the Dead Homicidal Maniac.

7 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Johnny lived in a house with a magic wall that needed to be fed blood. The wall was kind of magic and demanded Johnny kill for it and >

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Feed it blood. The wall cloaked Johnny from being discovered for the murders but also drove him kind of insane, hence him becoming Johnny >

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

The Homicidal Maniac. He terrorized a neighbor kid named Squee unintentionally and drew a comic of his own, the Happy Noodle Boy. It was >

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

A goth/dark humour where JTHM (nickname Nny) usually killed people who were jerks and bullied him others. This is likely how it spoke to >

7 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Yup. This was pre-mainstream internet as well.

7 years ago | Likes 67 Dislikes 1

I'm unfamiliar with this title, what was the controversy?

7 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

People would send him fan mail wishing they could be like jonny, getting away with murder, and go into detail about what'd they do to people

7 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

A gory & zany goth comic unsurprisingly is gonna appeal to people who lack restraint and enjoy drawing negative reactions out of others.

7 years ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 0

Too many people identifying with a psychotic serial killer main character.

7 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

I think there was one comic where a dude was talking loudly in a movie theater so Nny shot him with a bow and arrow with a "Kick me" sign

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

If I remember right it was a lot of sexual stuff, like Johnny raping people, or him going after random people for fun when he's more of a>>

7 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

'punish bad people' type of character.

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

He despised rapists.

7 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Ah yes, that was it. Thank you :) Haven't thought about JtHM for... Over a decade? XD;

7 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0