Johnny the Homicidal Maniac – any fans on out there? - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

theguyondacouch · 07-04-2003, 06:03 PM

Does anyone else hear like johny the homicidal maniac?

Sun Tzu · 07-04-2003, 06:37 PM

Ah, sorry for being out of touch, but who is that?

KWSN · 07-04-2003, 06:41 PM

I love JTHM... I wish I could find the comics online somewhere, cause I hate actually having to get out of my house to read them.

Jhonen is a genius.

bermuDa · 07-04-2003, 06:53 PM

anything by vasquez is awesome! jthm, squee, filler bunny, invader zim, and everything can be beaten are the best!!

where's bondagegirl? she's got jthm as her avatar

Jadey · 07-04-2003, 09:39 PM

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Originally posted by Sun Tzu
Ah, sorry for being out of touch, but who is that?

I'm lost too. I have no idea?

anyone care to enlighten us?

RedCometChar · 07-04-2003, 11:45 PM

Yep, I like Nny.

I feel unqualified to describe it in depth, having only read it and Squee for the first time about two months ago. But...

JTHM is a seven-issue comic by Jhonen Vasquez, the guy responsible for the Invader Zim cartoon. Well, mostly responsible... just like Ren & Stimpy before it, Nickelodeon screwed around a lot with the finished product. But that's neither here nor there.

Johnny is a serial killer, and he wastes anyone who slightly pisses him off, whether it's somene who laughed at his hair, or the guy who turned off the slurpee machine at the convenience store. He also hallucinates extended conversations with a pair of styrofoam doughboys, and a dead rabbit nailed to the wall (and later, just its floating severed head).

A comic about a murderer doesn't really seem like the best source of comedy, but the book really is funny, and toward the later part of the series, it shifts away somewhat from the bloodspray. You can get it and Squee (which collects many of the incidental JTHM stories) in GN form, and I recommend it.

rogue49 · 07-05-2003, 04:01 AM

Actually Juhnny will gut you even if he likes you.
And god forbid he loves you.
To put it simply, he's a homocidal maniac,
everyone is up for grabs.

Read him years ago, interesting stuff.
Great art, wicked sense of humor.

theguyondacouch · 07-05-2003, 07:54 AM

Jesus, 6 replies and noone mentions happy noodle boy?

Stare At The Sun · 07-05-2003, 10:20 AM

The comic is cool, but i dont love how every goth teenager and his brother wear the shirts, and constantly talk about it. Its getting to be where if you dont like JTHM you're not cool. Ya know?

RedCometChar · 07-05-2003, 02:30 PM

Heh, heh... Happy Noodle Boy...

"Fucking Doughnut! Mock me?!? You fried cyclops!"

theguyondacouch · 07-05-2003, 02:36 PM

I AM TESTICLES! GOD OF RASH COVERED SCROTUMS!STARE DEEP INTO THE STINKING ABYSS OF MY INDIVIDUALLY WRAPPED SLICES!HOLY WAX! CHECK OUT MY ARMPITS!

Spinach_Indeed · 07-06-2003, 08:27 PM

Actually, the qoute is

"Well FUCK YOU, Mr.Bear! You speak Lies!"

Just being obbsesivly nitpicky.

Has anyone seen Vasquez's new mini Comic, "Everything Can be Beaten"? Jhonen did the Charector designs and wrote it, but someone else drew and colored it. It's very nice, and only 1.50.

theguyondacouch · 07-07-2003, 06:00 AM

Oops, sorry to offend Mr. Spinach Indeed

sadistikdreams · 07-07-2003, 12:49 PM

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Originally posted by UnlikedOne
The comic is cool, but i dont love how every goth teenager and his brother wear the shirts, and constantly talk about it. Its getting to be where if you dont like JTHM you're not cool. Ya know?

oh yes. and iff you dont shop at Hot Topic, and own at least one pair of chucks, you arent cool. Well, damnit, i've been wearing chucks all my goddamn life.

Anyways, i LOVE JtHM. I've been analyzing it for about a year. Psych 101 classes and shit.

Eviltree · 07-07-2003, 01:39 PM

riight, although I have no idea what anyone is talking about, I believe it is funny.

oldtimer · 07-07-2003, 02:34 PM

I loved Invader Zim. The episode scene where (Ger pretends to be "Mr. Government Man" and tries to save Zim and their spaceship) Zim is flying away on PIG and sees the reflection of the crazed alien-lover junkie in the water, screams, turns around and slaps her. She flies away in a slow motion matrix style (not really but there is little to what I comapre it to) then (scene) is sped up and she lands in an explosive fall into the lake. I repeat that in my mind and laugh everyday (well, anytime I happen to see that episode). Scary, aint it?

Nickolodeon was sooooo unworthy to air that show.

RedCometChar · 07-07-2003, 11:16 PM

Don't get me wrong, I love it too. My favorite's the one where Zim steals everyone's organs, and stuffs them inside himself until he's just this big bloated sack of guts, with intestines hanging out of his mouth. Very dark, and I was impressed they were able to get away with it on Nick. It could have been something straight from the pages of Squee.

MikeyChalupa · 07-08-2003, 06:51 AM

I guess it's one of those things where if you have to ask, you'll never know.

I've worn chucks all my life, including myself and all my groomsmen at my wedding. I've got pictures.

-Mikey

Spinach_Indeed · 07-08-2003, 01:30 PM

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Originally posted by theguyondacouch
Oops, sorry to offend Mr. Spinach Indeed

Quite alright, Mr.Couch. That is what I'm here for, To point out minute mistakes and generally be an troublesome Ass. And now I go off, to stab some kid in the eye for Mis-qouting a Gloom Cookie qoute.

*Flies away*

bondagegirl · 08-06-2003, 04:20 PM

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Originally posted by RedCometChar
Heh, heh... Happy Noodle Boy...

"Fucking Doughnut! Mock me?!? You fried cyclops!"

Holy Crap! A Jthm thread and I haven't seen it until now? WTh? Anyways happy noodle boy is awesome! That was seriously one of my favorite quotes! That was the one that got me when I first started reading them!

I love Slave Labor Graphics... Has anyone read Nightmares and Fairytales yet? Pretty good comic if you ask me...

Does anyone know if Vasquez is going to do anymore Johnny?

CSflim · 08-07-2003, 11:58 AM

In case anyone doesn't yet realise, the life of Johnny is directly modelled after it's writer, Johennen.

RedCometChar · 08-07-2003, 12:32 PM

That's not what Jhonen says. In his own words:

"I could write about a transvestite circus midget, and that midget would be every bit me, because he comes from MY mind, like all of my characters. What defines me as myself is the set of thoughts I choose to ACT uon, not just what I think... That guy in the book is JOHNNY! Not me.

Vasquez doesn't give interviews often, but there's a pretty good one at Suicide Girls. It's pretty long, so I'll just post a link, but everyone should check it out.

http://suicidegirls.com/words/Jhonen+Vasquez/

Gothmog · 08-07-2003, 01:47 PM

RedCometChar, that's a great link, thanks.

floonine · 08-07-2003, 01:54 PM

Holy jesus I love JTHM and noodle boy and invader zim and... stuff. I really don't know what else to say, actually, except I wish I actually owned anything by mr vasquez... he is the genius in a bottle

CSflim · 08-08-2003, 04:09 PM

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Originally posted by RedCometChar
That's not what Jhonen says. In his own words:

"I could write about a transvestite circus midget, and that midget would be every bit me, because he comes from MY mind, like all of my characters. What defines me as myself is the set of thoughts I choose to ACT uon, not just what I think... That guy in the book is JOHNNY! Not me.

Vasquez doesn't give interviews often, but there's a pretty good one at Suicide Girls. It's pretty long, so I'll just post a link, but everyone should check it out.

http://suicidegirls.com/words/Jhonen+Vasquez/

Aw c'mon! I even spelt his name wrong!

T'was nothing but sarcasm!

RedCometChar · 08-08-2003, 11:46 PM

No worries.

That's one of the problems with this form of communication- it's sometimes hard to interpret entirely what someone's saying just from text. That's why I love smileys!

Speaking of that subject (Jhonen's actual life), I think one of the funniest things in any of the books were the bits where he portrays a day in his own life. Y'know, the one where he battles Satan in the convenience store, and lives in a castle laboratory on a hill.

CSflim · 08-09-2003, 10:37 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by RedCometChar
No worries. That's one of the problems with this form of communication- it's sometimes hard to interpret entirely what someone's saying just from text. That's why I love smileys!

Speaking of that subject (Jhonen's actual life), I think one of the funniest things in any of the books were the bits where he portrays a day in his own life. Y'know, the one where he battles Satan in the convenience store, and lives in a castle laboratory on a hill.

...and saves the pope from the aliens!
I also loved the demented fans who come and morph together into Obsessor!
"My god! His ass is huge!

And from that link you gave:
"Dear Joehononoonannim, I'm your biggest fan."
hahah laughed my ass off at that, for some strange reason!

leon2345 · 08-10-2003, 05:30 PM

Everything Vasquez does is great and twisted. I wish they would put out Invader Zim out on dvd.

More organs means more human.

Pretend it's a taco.

I love that little Gir.

Mantus · 01-05-2004, 07:41 PM

I absolutely love this comic book. Now I am not a comic book sort of guy. In fact one could say I hate the damn things, but this one is so different. This is black humor at its best. It’s all about Johnny (or Nny) who lives the ordinary life or a total psycho: killing door to door salesmen, torturing priests, massacring whole clubs and cafés full of stereotypical college posers, painting walls with blood, talking to styrofoam pillsbury dough boys gone mad, floating rabit heads, you know, the usual stuff. Yet this isn’t just grotesque shock humor. The comic is intelligent, witty and does a great job at criticizing society. Its a work of genius.

KWSN · 01-05-2004, 08:50 PM

I love JTHM... everything Jhonen does is awesome. I miss Invader Zim

CSflim · 01-06-2004, 03:22 AM

Yeah Johnny rules! Squee is even better!

Although Happy Noodle Boy is just the epitome of greatness!

I HAVE NO NIPPLES!!!!!

synic213 · 01-06-2004, 04:07 PM

I used to read this in college.
What fond memories to drudge up...

Fire · 01-06-2004, 07:53 PM

fuck you Mr. bear, you speak lies.....

cheerios · 01-06-2004, 10:32 PM

squee rocks.

theguyondacouch · 01-07-2004, 11:38 AM

Yup, in fact there's a thread about it somewhere that I started. lol

Moskie · 01-07-2004, 12:25 PM

I've read the trade paperback of Johnny, definately good stuff. Seen a handful of Zim episodes as well. I've been meaning to pick up some of his other stuff, too... his books beckon me everytime I'm at the local comics shop

filtherton · 01-07-2004, 10:22 PM

Man, i haven't read on of those for a few years. Is he still creating new ones?

notaneel · 01-19-2004, 11:11 PM

there is nothing funnier than Filler Bunny

gilada · 01-20-2004, 11:44 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by leon2345
Everything Vasquez does is great and twisted. I wish they would put out Invader Zim out on dvd.

More organs means more human.

Pretend it's a taco.

I love that little Gir.

I just read that Zim should be out on DVD sometime this summer. It's most of the first season. If I can find the link, I'll post it.

Edit...

Here's a link to an ad for it

Invader Zim Ad

and here's a link to the article
http://tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=942

gilada · 01-20-2004, 01:01 PM

I also found this link. Says May 11.

http://www.media-blasters.com/zim.cfm?ScrW=988&ScrH=732

07-04-2003, 06:03 PM	#1 (permalink)
theguyondacouch salmon? Location: Outside Providence	WELL FUCK YOU BEAR! YOU SPEAK LIES! Does anyone else hear like johny the homicidal maniac? __________________ "Lick my frozen metal ass!"

07-04-2003, 06:37 PM	#2 (permalink)
Sun Tzu Conspiracy Realist Location: The Event Horizon	Ah, sorry for being out of touch, but who is that? __________________ *To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.- Stephen Hawking*

07-04-2003, 06:41 PM	#3 (permalink)
KWSN green	I love JTHM... I wish I could find the comics online somewhere, cause I hate actually having to get out of my house to read them. Jhonen is a genius. __________________ Your arms are broken!

07-04-2003, 06:53 PM	#4 (permalink)
bermuDa don't ignore this--> Location: CA	anything by vasquez is awesome! jthm, squee, filler bunny, invader zim, and everything can be beaten are the best!! where's bondagegirl? she's got jthm as her avatar __________________ I am the very model of a moderator gentleman.

07-04-2003, 11:45 PM	#6 (permalink)
RedCometChar Not Brand Ecch! Location: New Orleans	Yep, I like Nny. I feel unqualified to describe it in depth, having only read it and Squee for the first time about two months ago. But... JTHM is a seven-issue comic by Jhonen Vasquez, the guy responsible for the Invader Zim cartoon. Well, mostly responsible... just like Ren & Stimpy before it, Nickelodeon screwed around a lot with the finished product. But that's neither here nor there. Johnny is a serial killer, and he wastes anyone who slightly pisses him off, whether it's somene who laughed at his hair, or the guy who turned off the slurpee machine at the convenience store. He also hallucinates extended conversations with a pair of styrofoam doughboys, and a dead rabbit nailed to the wall (and later, just its floating severed head). A comic about a murderer doesn't really seem like the best source of comedy, but the book really is funny, and toward the later part of the series, it shifts away somewhat from the bloodspray. You can get it and Squee (which collects many of the incidental JTHM stories) in GN form, and I recommend it. __________________ Killing that robot makes me want to go home.

07-05-2003, 04:01 AM	#7 (permalink)
rogue49 Loser	Actually Juhnny will gut you even if he likes you. And god forbid he loves you. To put it simply, he's a homocidal maniac, everyone is up for grabs. Read him years ago, interesting stuff. Great art, wicked sense of humor.

07-05-2003, 07:54 AM	#8 (permalink)
theguyondacouch salmon? Location: Outside Providence	Jesus, 6 replies and noone mentions happy noodle boy? __________________ "Lick my frozen metal ass!"

07-05-2003, 10:20 AM	#9 (permalink)
Stare At The Sun Eh? Location: Somewhere over the rainbow	The comic is cool, but i dont love how every goth teenager and his brother wear the shirts, and constantly talk about it. Its getting to be where if you dont like JTHM you're not cool. Ya know?

07-05-2003, 02:30 PM	#10 (permalink)
RedCometChar Not Brand Ecch! Location: New Orleans	Heh, heh... Happy Noodle Boy... "Fucking Doughnut! Mock me?!? You fried cyclops!" __________________ Killing that robot makes me want to go home.

07-05-2003, 02:36 PM	#11 (permalink)
theguyondacouch salmon? Location: Outside Providence	I AM TESTICLES! GOD OF RASH COVERED SCROTUMS!STARE DEEP INTO THE STINKING ABYSS OF MY INDIVIDUALLY WRAPPED SLICES!HOLY WAX! CHECK OUT MY ARMPITS! __________________ "Lick my frozen metal ass!"

07-06-2003, 08:27 PM	#12 (permalink)
Spinach_Indeed Banned? Location: Artic Tundra	Actually, the qoute is "Well FUCK YOU, Mr.Bear! You speak Lies!" Just being obbsesivly nitpicky. Has anyone seen Vasquez's new mini Comic, "Everything Can be Beaten"? Jhonen did the Charector designs and wrote it, but someone else drew and colored it. It's very nice, and only 1.50. __________________ Spinach in Need is Spinach Indeed

07-07-2003, 06:00 AM	#13 (permalink)
theguyondacouch salmon? Location: Outside Providence	Oops, sorry to offend Mr. Spinach Indeed __________________ "Lick my frozen metal ass!"

07-07-2003, 01:39 PM	#15 (permalink)
Eviltree Psycho Location: British Columbia	riight, although I have no idea what anyone is talking about, I believe it is funny.

07-07-2003, 02:34 PM	#16 (permalink)
oldtimer Addict	I loved Invader Zim. The episode scene where (Ger pretends to be "Mr. Government Man" and tries to save Zim and their spaceship) Zim is flying away on PIG and sees the reflection of the crazed alien-lover junkie in the water, screams, turns around and slaps her. She flies away in a slow motion matrix style (not really but there is little to what I comapre it to) then (scene) is sped up and she lands in an explosive fall into the lake. I repeat that in my mind and laugh everyday (well, anytime I happen to see that episode). Scary, aint it? Nickolodeon was sooooo unworthy to air that show. __________________ Slowly but surely getting over the loss of TFP v. 3.0. Where the hell am I?.... Showering once a month does not make you a better person. "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." Martin Luther King, Jr. Last edited by oldtimer; 07-07-2003 at 02:37 PM..

07-07-2003, 11:16 PM	#17 (permalink)
RedCometChar Not Brand Ecch! Location: New Orleans	Don't get me wrong, I love it too. My favorite's the one where Zim steals everyone's organs, and stuffs them inside himself until he's just this big bloated sack of guts, with intestines hanging out of his mouth. Very dark, and I was impressed they were able to get away with it on Nick. It could have been something straight from the pages of Squee. __________________ Killing that robot makes me want to go home.

07-08-2003, 06:51 AM	#18 (permalink)
MikeyChalupa Squid Location: USS George Washington	I guess it's one of those things where if you have to ask, you'll never know. I've worn chucks all my life, including myself and all my groomsmen at my wedding. I've got pictures. -Mikey

08-07-2003, 11:58 AM	#21 (permalink)
CSflim Sky Piercer Location: Ireland	In case anyone doesn't yet realise, the life of Johnny is directly modelled after it's writer, Johennen. __________________

08-07-2003, 12:32 PM	#22 (permalink)
RedCometChar Not Brand Ecch! Location: New Orleans	That's not what Jhonen says. In his own words: "I could write about a transvestite circus midget, and that midget would be every bit me, because he comes from MY mind, like all of my characters. What defines me as myself is the set of thoughts I choose to ACT uon, not just what I think... That guy in the book is JOHNNY! Not me. Vasquez doesn't give interviews often, but there's a pretty good one at Suicide Girls. It's pretty long, so I'll just post a link, but everyone should check it out. http://suicidegirls.com/words/Jhonen+Vasquez/ __________________ Killing that robot makes me want to go home.

08-07-2003, 01:47 PM	#23 (permalink)
Gothmog Psycho Location: Angband, Middle-Earth	RedCometChar, that's a great link, thanks. __________________ Lord of the Balrogs, that's who.

08-07-2003, 01:54 PM	#24 (permalink)
floonine Insane Location: Silicon Valley, Utah	Holy jesus I love JTHM and noodle boy and invader zim and... stuff. I really don't know what else to say, actually, except I wish I actually owned anything by mr vasquez... he is the genius in a bottle __________________ Political arguments do not exist, after all, for people to believe in them, rather they serve as a common, agreed-upon excuse. Foolish people who take them in earnest sooner or later discover inconsistencies in them, begin to protest and finish finally and infamously as heretics.

08-08-2003, 11:46 PM	#26 (permalink)
RedCometChar Not Brand Ecch! Location: New Orleans	No worries. That's one of the problems with this form of communication- it's sometimes hard to interpret entirely what someone's saying just from text. That's why I love smileys! Speaking of that subject (Jhonen's actual life), I think one of the funniest things in any of the books were the bits where he portrays a day in his own life. Y'know, the one where he battles Satan in the convenience store, and lives in a castle laboratory on a hill. __________________ Killing that robot makes me want to go home.

08-10-2003, 05:30 PM	#28 (permalink)
leon2345 Tilted Location: outside LA	Everything Vasquez does is great and twisted. I wish they would put out Invader Zim out on dvd. More organs means more human. Pretend it's a taco. I love that little Gir.

01-05-2004, 07:41 PM	#29 (permalink)
Mantus lascivious	Johnny the Homicidal Maniac – any fans on out there? I absolutely love this comic book. Now I am not a comic book sort of guy. In fact one could say I hate the damn things, but this one is so different. This is black humor at its best. It’s all about Johnny (or Nny) who lives the ordinary life or a total psycho: killing door to door salesmen, torturing priests, massacring whole clubs and cafés full of stereotypical college posers, painting walls with blood, talking to styrofoam pillsbury dough boys gone mad, floating rabit heads, you know, the usual stuff. Yet this isn’t just grotesque shock humor. The comic is intelligent, witty and does a great job at criticizing society. Its a work of genius.

01-05-2004, 08:50 PM	#30 (permalink)
KWSN green	I love JTHM... everything Jhonen does is awesome. I miss Invader Zim __________________ Your arms are broken!

01-06-2004, 03:22 AM	#31 (permalink)
CSflim Sky Piercer Location: Ireland	Yeah Johnny rules! Squee is even better! Although Happy Noodle Boy is just the epitome of greatness! I HAVE NO NIPPLES!!!!! __________________

01-06-2004, 04:07 PM	#32 (permalink)
synic213 Crazy Location: Sunny San Diego	I used to read this in college. What fond memories to drudge up...

01-06-2004, 07:53 PM	#33 (permalink)
Fire Warrior Smith Location: missouri	fuck you Mr. bear, you speak lies..... __________________ Thought the harder, Heart the bolder, Mood the more as our might lessens

01-06-2004, 10:32 PM	#34 (permalink)
cheerios Banned Location: 'bout 2 feet from my iMac	squee rocks.

01-07-2004, 11:38 AM	#35 (permalink)
theguyondacouch salmon? Location: Outside Providence	Yup, in fact there's a thread about it somewhere that I started. lol __________________ "Lick my frozen metal ass!"

01-07-2004, 12:25 PM	#36 (permalink)
Moskie Pure Chewing Satisfaction Location: can i use bbcode [i]here[/i]?	I've read the trade paperback of Johnny, definately good stuff. Seen a handful of Zim episodes as well. I've been meaning to pick up some of his other stuff, too... his books beckon me everytime I'm at the local comics shop __________________ Greetings and salutations.

01-07-2004, 10:22 PM	#37 (permalink)
filtherton Junkie Location: In the land of ice and snow.	Man, i haven't read on of those for a few years. Is he still creating new ones?

01-19-2004, 11:11 PM	#38 (permalink)
notaneel Crazy	there is nothing funnier than Filler Bunny __________________ "I don't have no trouble with you fuckin' me/But I have a little problem with you not fuckin' me" - Ol' Dirty Bastard

01-20-2004, 01:01 PM	#40 (permalink)
gilada Psycho Location: Dallas, Tx	I also found this link. Says May 11. http://www.media-blasters.com/zim.cfm?ScrW=988&ScrH=732 __________________ Hey, this isn't rocket surgery. See my futurephone pics at: http://gilada.textamerica.com See my DVD's at: http://www.dvdprofiler.com/mycollection.asp?alias=gilada