Warning: this review may contain strong language and may not be suitable for younger readers

            Hello comic book lovers and fellow followers! I hope you’re ready for a special kind of review today, as I talk about one special type of comic that (to my opinion) pretty much made up the early two thousands. For those of you who may know and love the old TV show, “Invader Zim” you will know exactly who I am going to be talking about. Today, I will be giving you my review of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, written and illustrated, by Jhonen Vasquez. There are a good amount of things I can say about this comic and it’s classification into web comics in general, but you’ll read about that soon enough. Now before I begin the review, some of you may be asking, “Popular web comics? Then why not read/review Scott Pilgrim?” and to that I say, that web comic seems more “trendy” and too popular for people who seem to have or are reading web comics, so I decided to go further back and talk about something more twisted and darker. With that being said, let’s start the review…

            For those of you who are or aren’t familiar with this series or Jhonan’s work (aside from Invader Zim), you certainly will be in for a real sick and twisted treat. The best way for me to describe Johnny the best way possible that it is simply one of the most fucked up, young, murderous, edgy, angstiest, piece of illustrated literature that I have ever read. Just looking at this art style and what the characters were wearing, just screamed early two thousands pop punk culture. Jhonen Vasquez certainly seems to have the mental capacity of a younger Allen Moore but with more of a graphic and disturbed method of story telling. In one joking way of looking at it, if my eyes and nose could swap functions, my eyes would be able to smell the stench of Hot Topic during it’s hay day during the early two thousands. Now I’m not necessarily saying that this series is bad (except to younger kids, obviously) it’s that it’s just something out there that cleared the road to more graphic experimentation in the world of literature, illustration and over all comic book culture in general. Johnny the Homicidal Maniac is simply a collection of short stories of one extremely well disturbed individual that the creator just wanted to have fun and play around with in a method of creating more of a shock value to the general readers. It is something not everyone should read (if willing) but should definitely know about, especially now since the creator, Jhonen is currently working on his beloved children’s cartoon, Invader Zim and finishing up more of its story from the animated world in the comic book world. I would definitely recommend checking out his artwork mainly for the warped simplistic detailed methods he uses for characters anatomy and subtle background texture formations that give more narrative structure to the scenes and panels in his stories. But of course, younger viewers should be recommended to stay clear from this series, until they are old enough of course. Preferably until they are around fourteen years old.

            Alright my followers, I believe it is time for me to go and bid you all a due, until the next latest installment of my comic book world review!