Johnny the Homicidal Maniac

There's a fandub of the entire series on youtube

>tfw as a kid my friend's sister loved this and worshipped Jhonen's cock, to the point of getting and supporting anything with his name on it.
Jesus I wonder if this holds up.

I have read it. It's definitely not for everyone. Super edgy, often melodramatic, and probably the least actually funny thing Vasquez made.

However if you get that Johnny's self-important melodrama is a joke and you have a stomach for gore there are plenty of good jokes and interesting concepts in it. Plus this is as undistilled as you can get vasquez.

My favorite jokes end up being the shit he writes on the T-shirts and wall-hangings that often change from panel to panel. Probably because that was my kind of humor when I made comics in school.

>fandub

Ehhh JTHM can be cringe enough without amateur voice acting behind it.

Attached: trisshquestionquestionquestionquestionquestion.png (441x333, 86K)

Is Yea Forums ready talk about JTHM now? Huh? About fuckin time.

As others have said, you either need to currently be a dumb edgelord or to have formerly been one to get too much out of it. If it makes any difference to you, I do think that it's mostly written mostly for older, "grown-up" people who can laugh at themselves than directly for the thirteen-year-old Hot Topic type---like, I think the ideal reader would be someone who would have taken the comic very seriously at some point in their life, but now they know better, if that makes any sense. It also does some kindof interesting things in terms of format, narrative, and continuity that make it pretty interesting for people who have read a lot of comics. I recommend it, but it's a soft recommendation.

I've seen threads before but basically every response is just "hot topic edgy"

The voice acting is actually really fucking good, for johnny at least

Yep. "Used to be an edgelord but isn't anymore" really is the ideal audience. People who never were just don't get the appeal, people who still are miss the point.

It had some interesting moments.
Too edgy at some points, but the comic itself made clear you you shouldn't take it too seriously.

Yes it's very good

Whackey, even

You have to be literally retarded to not think JTHM was not ironic self-deification edge humor. It was literally the sum of how 90s people identified a and coped with nihilism. Which is the decade these comic were originally printed before they blow up from the indie scene for reprints near the end of the decade. Giving Jhonen Vasquez a large and loyal fanbase in which a corporation like Nick could leech from.

When I was a teenager with depression I thought it was the coolest, most awesome shit ever. Then I grew up and moved out, got a job... A few years back I tried to re-read it. Nope. Cringy melodramatic corny self-pitying... I gave it away to a thrift store. Maybe some poor depressed kid will find it and feel some comfort, but I outgrew JTHM.

I actually read this for the first time like a year ago.
Its actually really good. Jhonen's commentary about not wanting to be forever labeled as "goth" but knowing it will inevitably happen is smart and also sad.
I know all his stuff, especially earlier stuff, gets labeled as edgy goth shit that doesn't hold up, but there's some good stuff in here. Its genuinely good.

Attached: c02ca7f943a08a4991b8505913b48e0a.gif (500x414, 32K)

I read it like 20 years ago.

Yup

2edgy4me

that said, Devi might still be one of my waifus