# Jhonan Vasquez..any fans here? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 30, 2002, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jhonan-vasquez-any-fans-here/100919 "2002-03-30T13:21:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![fitandhappy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/48db29/32.png) [@fitandhappy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fitandhappy)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jhonan-vasquez-any-fans-here/100919/1 "2002-03-30T13:21:56Z")
i picked up a few editions of ‘johnny the homcidal maniac’ a few months ago and have been hooked since, i now have the complete JTHM series and ‘fillerbunny’, though at the moment thats all, i’m still waiting for ‘sqee’ and ‘i feel sick’ to be shipped. and other fans here? ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jhonan-vasquez-any-fans-here/100919/2 "2002-03-30T13:59:44Z")
I’ve never read the comics, but I’m a big fan of _Invader ZIM_. It comes on Fridays at 9:30pm on Nickelodeon. But not for long. As soon as the last batch of new shows play, it gets the axe. Hopefully, Cartoon Network will pick it up so that others can enjoy it. ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jhonan-vasquez-any-fans-here/100919/3 "2002-03-31T01:35:38Z")
Man, I was into Jhonen **before** he was cool… well…almost… I wasn’t one of his San Jose friends whome he used to give drawings to…I never read _Carpe Noctem_ magazine where he was first published…and, um…the first _Johnny the Homicidal Maniac_ I bought was the last issue. OK…so… Man I was into Jhonen when he was right, you know, on that cusp where his coolness was already evident to creepy underground misanthropes and he was, like, three or four years away from breaking into the mainstream. Anyway…yeah, Jhonen’s a god. Some of **the** funniest facial expressions outside of a Chuck Jones (RIP:( ) cartoon. **To all Invader Zim fans…** check out Jhonen’s earlier stuff if you want to but be warned…the darkest moments in Zim are as napping Teletubbies compared to the world of _Johnny._ Dark, violent shit…and I mean that in the best possible way. ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jhonan-vasquez-any-fans-here/100919/4 "2002-03-31T01:41:43Z")
Jhonen was at the San Jose Alternative Press Expo in 1998 and took part in one of the forum discussions. Someone asked him about future projects and when he mentioned that he had been approached by Nickelodeon to develop a series, the entire room burst into laughter…🙂