A series focuses in anti-hero Johnny C., also referred to as Nny (pronounced “knee�), the half-crazed serial killer who interacts with various more characters, largely torturing and murdering them.

Johnny a Homicidal Maniac is told within a disjointed, non-linear fashion that mirrors the title character’s mental instability. A reader is typically left unawcome when to which cases in the story are objective & which are then subjective. This ambiguity once again reflects Johnny’s character.

The humourous tone diarrhea through the act, tied by having irony & social criticism. the comedian is around prominent a share a irony of society’s fascination by owning violence. Despite this, a comedian itself has been criticized for glorifying violence.

Setting
A series is placed inside the mid-1990s in an unidentified Western city resembling Los Angeles. Decaying suburban streets, dark back alleys & filthy convenience places help nearly solely when a locations for the series’ action. Crumbling & covered by owning litter & graffito, all about is inside the state of bleak decompose, overlit per ne signs of trashy consumer capitalist economy.

Johnny dwells amid the urban sprawl inside the suburban street in total 777, a weak, individual-story home that has an extensive labyrinth of basements & tunnels beneath it.

The down the road a share of the story requires place in the afterlife, though whether or does'nt this vary of setting actually go on actually is left uncertain. Once he is shot, Johnny journeying to each Heaven and Hell, and two turn bent keep around sir thomas more around park by owning a city than Johnny potential.

Story
the story begins once a immature son known as Squee & his personal move within in the adjacent house to Johnny. Johnny utilizes a subterranean rooms of his home for dungeons & torture chambers. the tunnels too provide him a network to various locations, like Squee’s home. Johnny apparently noticed a home & moved inside a few instance prior to a beginning of the series, & utilizes it as a base of operations for his homicidal violent disorder.

Johnny believes there is the monster residing behind a wall of his home. Sequentially to keep a monster confined, Johnny keeps a wall covered sustaining blood. Each instance it becomes as well dry, he applies a recently coat to keep it from either cracking & releasing the monster.

To launder this, Johnny intricately & sadistically murders anyone who potentially slightly irritates him, so drains their blood & proceeds to paint a wall. In case a situation dictates, Johnny is likewise quite unforced to murder comparatively harmless humans. Too, Johnny typically kills humans only for the satisfaction he derives from either it. A total of Johnny’s those is in the 12, whenever does'nt 100s. For reasons at first indecipherable to him, a constabulary come unable to capture Johnny, though his crimes come typically found publicly.

At one point in the story, the monster apparently breaks loose & goes in a violent disorder across Johnny’s home, sidesplitting numerous of the outdoor enthusiasts imprisoned there.

Human characters

Johnny C.
Nothing is known of Johnny’s personal, or even of his past. He possesses an old car that potty however begin. He is typically depicted when devoid of the conscience, though this is arguable since he is as well harebrained. Though his precise age is non known, Vasquez has been quoted saying Johnny is inside his early twenties. Because a comedian was black & white, it was non known until Squee! that Johnny has dark blue hair & sickly yellow skin. At a prevent of the comedian, Johnny tries to reform himself by losing his emotions. Now and again, Johnny does indicate feelings of self-self-disgust for the evil items he does.

The running off theory in Johnny‘s origin is that he was once the brilliant creative person (according to of these incident, the painter) world health organization misused his talent, & later on went insane. But, this has there is no confirmation. Nailbunny does chastise Johnny for drawing his Happy Noodle Son comedian, "A goddamned stick figure!", instead of painting. Vasquez writes that a idea of returning Johnny an origin doesn't appeal to him in the least. He feels that yielding Johnny the backstory would dilute his mystery, stating, "[I] find the blurriness of it all much more appealing than making him go nuts over being pantsed in school once. 'YAAAARGH!! I have been pantsed!! I kill like the damned now!!' That's just not done."

Squee
As well referred to as Todd, however nicknamed Squee, a namesake originating from either a healthy a baby makes whilst scared. Johnny's semi-friend & next-door neighbor, Johnny likes to scare him. Squee's mother seems to sole notice him on & off, & his father resents his super being and has there are no qualms all about constantly telling him and then. Squee has the teddy bear named Shmee, who is conscious around Todd's have psyche; Shmee happens to become the trauma sponge, & constantly tells Squee to launder evil items. Vasquez late authored the comical series, Squee!, with this character when a protagonist. Johnny is the individual that is nighest to Squee, serving when his least evil friend, though he constantly frightens him accidentally. Johnny has hinted on occasion that his interest within Squee is part due to his want to assure that Squee doesn't develop as much as exist as rather him.

Devi D.
Likewise referred to as a a single that had away. The woman world health organization befriends Johnny & the likely love interest, she is unaware of his extra antisocial behavior. The struggling artist, she works within a book store for half a duration of the comedian, the more half is spent painting in her flat. She was late the subject of a doubleshot comedian by Vasquez known as I Feel Sick.

Tess and Dillon
Tess & Dillon come deuce population world health organization play a portion of the goth parody in the series. Tess' personal moved in much therefore she has the protective period making friends. She occurs as pseudo-goth in order to make friends by owning others. She dates Dillon because he's inside the band. Dillon utilizes a goth culture as a means of excluding & ridiculing others. Anne Gwish (view beneath) makes the information to him within the little strip all about her. It inherit Johnny's grasp due to Dillon's constant torment when you took Kafka, & Johnny make sure of ignoring Tess & tormenting Dillon, unaware of the fact that she dislikes him. Fallowing Johnny's accidental 'dying', each tried to escape, found Nail Bunny & a doughboys, & although Dillon & a jerk dubbed 'Krik' world health organization freed Tess from either Nny's captivity were quite literally pan, Tess presumptively escaped. Although at this point there appears to stand been there are no universe to escape to, since she was non actually flushed she can own survived it used to be that a universe was "reloaded".

Jimmy
Jemmy appears late in the comedian. Likewise referred to as Mmy (his have favorite way of mimicking Nny), he has a striking similar appearance to Johnny, including his original haircut, skinny person, & the equivalent material. His face is yearn & he's taller than Johnny. His infatuation sustaining Johnny's hobby began while he found the destruction of a "Taco Hell" outlet by Johnny from either the "CD Cesspool" store through a street. He is the single known human successful inside hunt down Johnny's page in his have volition. He decided to mimic Johnny's function, to the extent of assembling the traveling bag good of surgical devices & murdering at least his first grade teacher and a girl world health organization resembled soul world health organization bullied him in high school, but not before raping her in an alley behind a mall. This is referred to earliest in the story by Tess & blamed in Johnny. Still, his tries at mimicking Johnny come an abomination within Nny's eyes, world health organization is disgusted that Jemmy's sociopathy "is a more reasonable facsimile of [Johnny's] own work than [Johnny would] like to admit." Despite run tierce chances to leave, Jemmy doesn't survive for hanker, when Johnny kills him when teaching him various lessons.

When he is preparing Jemmy to exist when flushed, Johnny makes particular information to the rape of the girl, which he finds inexcusable, stating that he himself would never run such the tool, as he considers potentially basic contwork by having population to exist as foul, & that he considers such an act to become rendering inside to emotion, something else which he also finds repugnant. Jemmy's final statement that it is then like is replied by Johnny great the maul into Jemmy's face, & stating ''"I don't like myself much"''.

Tonja
The friend of Devi's. She possesses the squeaking toy molded such as the cute skeleton known as Mr. Flighty. Her role inside JTHM is fairly unimportant. She is does'nt to become confused by owning Tenna from either I Feel Sick, who besides possesses a said screaky toy, & survives in the equivalent flat complex when Devi. Number one known as "Tonja" around JTHM issue #4, she seems to exist as a equivalent character late known as "Tenna" within I personally Sense Infected.

Non-human characters

Nail Bunny
Likewise referred to as Spooky Swimming Bunny Head. Johnny's 1st & previous pet, the rabbit whom he nailed to the wall. Simply a preserved head (that was chisel a person by one of a doughboys) remains, a rest of the system apparently unneeded for the afterlife. These are unknown whether a bodiless head was given a ability to levitate per supernatural click that permeates a home, or even that Johnny is only hallucinating. When Johnny's apparent dying, Nail Bunny didn't indicate higher any longer, at least physically; his voice keeps running in, good deal prefer his previous self. Nail Bunny is apparently Johnny's conscience & voice of understanding.

The Doughboys
According to the mascots for a certain company (Pillsbury) that produces muffins. There are ii of the two: Psycho-Doughboy & Mr. Eff. Originally repainted by Johnny, it tend personalities across supernatural means per tool on the other side of the wall. It despise Nail Bunny, & come constantly contradictory by having both more.

Psycho-Doughboy is Johnny's mentally unstable depressive side, and wishes for nothing further than to with success cause Johnny to commit suicide & end his being, thereby giving to the void when nothingness, and to serve his master (Tool on the other side of the wall).

Mr. Eff, Johnny's frenzied side, occurs as psychopathic sadist who inspires Johnny to commit some of his virtually all gory & prolific murder sprees, such as massacring an entire coffee bar. Unlike Psycho-Doughboy, he desires to survive as a singular suspire, unhampered each Johnny & a supernatural click that created (or even even at least gained control of) a Doughboys, which is how come he attempts to keep Johnny alive, until he profits plenty power to keep around free might & exist as slave to cypher or nothing.

There exists occasionally confusion astir which is which. Bewilderingly, Psycho-Doughboy's person is labeled by owning a word FUCK, while Mr. Eff's has the "Z?" (Wonder Sleep) painted in his chest. Mr. Eff's eyes come blank by having the nigrify outline, when Psycho-Doughboy's eyes come spirals.

Based on data from Reverend Meat, & Johnny himself, it is each manifestations of the monster that utilized to sleep in Johnny's home & come animated per voices inside his head. At a prevent, Johnny disregards their ideals totally & sets dead set locate complete emotional desensitisation.

Appearently, Mr. Eff's title is actually Mr. FUCK, a word "Eff" utilized to refrain from either fans from jumping to a guide that Eff himself occurs when cuss, as the title can lead humans to imagine. A sentence "Mr. FUCK" is utilized lone it used to be that (inside issue #4), however these are undecipherable at a instance whether Johnny is utilizing his proper noun or even guy of it. Even so, a few populatiin refer to him intrinsically on their fansites.

Mr. Samsa
Known as fallowing a independent character of Franz Kafka's short story "The Metamorphosis", Mr. Samsa occurs as on the face of it immortal cockroach that lives in Johnny's basement. To Johnny, a insect is complete desensitisation & restrained intellection, the state for which Johnny begins a quest at the prevent of the series. A insect's just supernatural aspect appears to exist as its apparent immortality (despite Tess' guide that supplementary than a single roach lives); otherwise, it's a normal bug, & is non one of the supernatural voices that high-pressure pester Johnny.

Reverend Meat
A complete opposite of Mr. Samsa, Reverend Meat occurs as Bub's Burger son world health organization constantly urges Johnny to give into his each urge & want stupidly. He claims that he is non one of the doughboys, saying that it is mere manifestations of a manifestation, & that he's holding higher the gargantuan hamburger. Johnny dislikes him, & tends to forget about him pro Mr. Samsa. In the actual comedian book, Reverend Meat's title was never mentioned; Jhonen gave it around an locate.

St. Peter
Works a front desk within Heaven. Wears great glasses, & gets violently sick after he consult a ugly acts Nny has done.

God
He occurs as jumbo tot-baby-wise human that gives Johnny there is no aid. Catchphrase from either this moment is: Oh our God, it's GOD!

Damned Elize
One of a damnably, works within Heaven.

Señor Diablo
A devil.

Other storylines

Anne Gwish
Anne Gwish occurs as goth girl that has her own strip in the afterwards section of the series. Her plot line is wholly unrelated to Johnny’s, though she sleep in the equivalent fictional universe. She occurs as parody of the certain nature and severity of goth. She is self-important & loves to exist when different, and sol long as she looks full to everyone else when doing so.

Happy Noodle Boy
Additionally to existence the serial killer, Johnny is the author of the comic strip called Happy Noodle Boy, the comic-inside-the-comic.

Happy Noodle Son occurs as stick figure with an otherwise normal head appearing in the comic drawn by Johnny and see primarily by "the homeless insane". Each issue has one-site insert of a Happy Noodle Son comedian itself, detailing the typically all nonsensical dangerous undertaking. Happy Noodle Sin lives good deal of his instance standing on the wooden pack & yelling nonsense at piteous walker, typically provoking his have dying.

He appears inside the backgrounds of numerous of the strips of the independent plot line, ordinarily around crowd scenes, & pictures of him pop up often in Squee's room. Johnny seems to exist as in the habit of allowing his drawings prevarication in.

Wobbly-Headed Bob
Getting his have a single document risible around every book of a series, Wobbly-Headed Bob occurs as biped animal by using an outsized head world health organizatiin roams the land spreading his depressing views on life. A effect is typically either utter despair & hopelessness within people world health organization listen to him or even Wobbly-Headed Bob becoming filled sustaining disgust at what he understands when their have stupidity. Meanwhiles

Meanwhiles in a Johnny a Homicidal Maniac series come strips that, largely, keep around nothing to run by owning the independent plot line, & come unremarkably exclusively two or three web sites hanker. It start out by using titles that start out sustaining "Meanwhile..." the bit of of the meanwhiles watch a public service announcement motif, while others part a title "...True Tales of Human Drama." Vasquez himself makes an appearance within many of the meanwhiles.

Commentary on the Goth subculture
Johnny a Homicidal Maniac has turn into particularly popular among participants of the status quo and subcultures (most conspicuously a Goth movement) that it frequently satirizes out of a good-humored appetency for self-parody; a require self-self-reformatiin of people world health organization latch on to said subcultures when missing a point or even model themselves stereotypically pertinent that it there is no protracted could have for "anything substantial".