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JOHNNY THE HOMICIDAL MANIAC
Mayhem and violence rule in Jhonen Vasquez's Johnny The Homicidal Maniac. Dark and disturbingly
funny, JTHM follows the adventures of Johnny (some call him Nny). He kills people, a lot. He lives alone
in an old shack of a house. Although, technically he's not alone. There's a pair of styrofoam doughboys named
Mr. Eff & Psychodoughboy (a.k.a. D-Boy) that encourage his madness. And the only thing that speaks to Johnny's sanity
is Nailbunny, an old pet of his that he decapitated and nailed to the wall. They are all voices in his head. Johnny
also visits his frightened little neighbor boy named Todd, but is better known as Squee. In Johnny's spare time, he
draws Happy Noodle Boy, a loud mouthed, opinionated stick figure that is always demonstrating (on paper) just how angry Johnny
is at the world. But unfortunately for society, Johnny can't keep his ideas limited to the paper. Johnny goes
on killing sprees, but mostly it is all done in attempt to keep a fresh coat of blood on a wall in his home. He claims
that unless he keeps it fresh, the creature behind the wall will be unleashed upon the world.
SQUEE
This series features familiar faces from Johnny The Homicidal Maniac, but focuses on poor little Squee, Johnny’s
little trauma magnet neighbor. Squee reminds us all of what childhood was all about – witnessing vicious dog attacks,
being abducted by aliens, discovering your schoolmates are all zombies, and having dinner at Satan’s house. Remember
a time of pure innocence... when you were terrified of just about everything – from your smelly Grandpa to marauding
dust mites. Ahh, youth.
Squee's father hate's Squee's very existence. Ever since his birth, his
father attributes everything that went wrong in his life to Squee. His mother, a blank sheet of mental paper, is too
lazy to be a parental figure. The only real friend Squee has is his teddy bear Smee, who sometimes talks to Squee.
I FEEL SICK
This book chronicles the history of Devi. Devi was the one true love of Johnny, and she is the only girl who got
away from his homicidal attacks. Kicked his butt, too.
Devi has quit her job at the bookstore
after being offered to paint pictures for NERVE publishing. She found the job to be her calling in life, but that was
until she stopped living one. Devi has isolated herself away from the rest of the world, painting pictures that are
asked to be revised and painted again. She believes she's going crazy, and she just might be. Even her friend
Tenna can't get her to return to reality. But if Devi can survive an attack from Johnny, why can't she beat the thing
that's slowly driving her insane?
FILLER BUNNY
You loved him in the Squee! collection and I Feel Sick, now revel in this 16-page spectacular as Filler
Bunny strains to entertain you. Filler Bunny's sole purpose in life is to entertain the masses. When he doesn't
do just that, he's torchured and experimented on to help change his mind, either willingly or chemically. Filler Bunny
has moments of extreme bliss, followed by the sharp realization that the fragile world around him is collapsing and he is
but a mere tool in making other people happy. Injection!
Drawn in a mere 24 hours, Fillerbunny
lets you witness Jhonen Vasquez at his frenzied best as he struggles to met his own self-imposed deadline.
THE BAD ART COLLECTION
Quality takes a vacation as Jhonen Vasquez demonstrates in The Bad Art Collection. We're reminded of our
drawings we all drew in preschool, even the ones that got a little violent and sometimes downright vulgar. Proper English
and line work have never been so ignored. Bravo!
INVADER ZIM
Invader ZIM is an eccentric alien soldier from the planet Irk. He was banished from the Irken Empire after nearly
destroying his home planet on Operation Impending Doom I. After begging his superiors, the Almighty Tallest (Red and Purple),
for another chance, they decide to get rid of him once and for all. They trick him into going on a "secret mission"
to a fictional planet on the outer edge of the known universe, in hopes that he'll die wandering in space. But it just
so happened there was a planet there, Earth. Their trick backfires when ZIM safely reaches Earth and begins his ever-so-subtle
conquest of it. He disguises himself as a schoolboy, and now the only person who can stop him is one kid - Dib, a somewhat
insane kid who aspires to be a paranormal researcher, who sees straight through ZIM's disguise and is intent on stopping his
reign of "terror". The only problem is that neither of them is very good at stopping the other.
This was an odd affair, and by the time it was done, Jhonen pledged that he would rather shoot himself in the head rather
than participate in animation again. On the show Invader Zim, he did a few voices, but was listed in the credits under
a pseudonym "Mr. Scolex."
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