Johnny the Homicidal Maniac

Johnny the Homicidal Maniac (often abbreviated JtHM) is the first comic book by Jhonen Vasquez that survived through his highschool years from just being a doodle he made in class. The series tells the story of Johnny C. "Nny" (pronounced knee) and a bit of his little neighbour Todd or "Squee" that later got his own comic in 1997. Αs Nny tries to find meaning to the psychological and possibly supernatural forces which compel him to commit a string of murders. JTHM began as a comic strip in the 1990s that ran under Carpe Noctem, a goth magazine that Jhonen Vasquez worked on, then it ran under alternative comics publisher Slave Labor Graphics as a limited series of seven issues that run from 1995 to 1997. Even though it looks like a simple funny, dark humor, gore comic. The way it was written, getting deeper into philosophical matters as the story went on, is the reason it got a cult following that even up το recent years still exists

Here are some interviews with jhonen vasquez where he talks about jthm and other wacky stuff a bit more https://youtu.be/JDV0dsRM4zU?si=sufAKarfFj2_K_fF https://youtu.be/M-FjzlXUaoY?si=DsV4D3XtSUFL86H_

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The series is set in the mid-1990s in an unspecified city; the city resembles the same one seen on Invader ZIM. Decaying urban streets, shadowed back alleys and filthy convenience stores serve as the series' backdrop. 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 777. The house has an extensive labyrinth of tunnels underneath. Johnny uses the subterranean rooms as dungeons and torture chambers, as well as a storage place for corpses, though he also buries the remains of his victims. The tunnels also provide him with a network to various locations, such as his neighbor Squee's residence. Johnny perceives the layout of the house as constantly changing, though he does not state if this shifting is the result of the supernatural forces at work within the house or his own psychosis. Johnny states that he found the house and moved in some time ago. He also constructed an unidentified flying object landing pad on the roof. Throughout the series, there is no case where the authorities or the police are looking for Johnny, and seem unaware of his existence.

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. He is Kind of a Father figure For this one Kid with Shitty Parents

(also to the 12 year olds who delete the previous description and replace all of it with a dumb memes or stupid stuff, why? i mean someone sat there and wrote it so people can do research. Yeah thank physics and math wikipedia exists, And now i learned that you can see previous edits, but if you want to do something fun by editing a fandom page. Better just write a little funny reference and keep it as it is.)

(The first part was written by Evvie Jee and a little help from Wikipedia, and from characters till settings by Marisa.neu)

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