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Squee's Wonderful Big Giant Book of Unspeakable Horrors
Squee's Wonderful Big Giant Book of Unspeakable Horrors collects together the four issues of the Squee comic book series from SLG Publishing. It also contains reprints from the popular Jhonny the Homicidal Maniac series that didn't appear in the JTHM: Director's Cut book.
Paperback, 144 pages
Published
August 1st 1998
by SLG Publishing
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Squee was a mini-series offshoot of Vasquez's Johnny the Homicidal Maniac strip, in which Squee was originally Johnny's very young and ever-so-frightened neighbor. These short strips further explore Squee's general state of good ol' fashioned little-kid-peeing-his-pants terror. Squee's all-encompassing phobia is not unwarranted, of course; he is, after all, the intended victim of multiple bumbling space aliens with anal probes and a dust mite the size of a St. Bernard, among other things.
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Mar 10, 2009
Dan
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Vasquez Fans, Goth kids with a sense of irony about themselves
This is a graphic novel compilation of Vasquez's comic Squee. Squee was an offshoot of the comic Johnny the Homicidal Maniac (JtHM.) JtHM is about a maladjusted young man in his late teens / early 20s who goes around killing people. Squee is about Johnny's young neighbor, a little boy who is perpetually terrified of everything around him. While reading these comics, one gets the impression that both Johnny (or Nny for short) and Squee represent different aspects of Jhonen's self image. Nny is th...more
I see a lot of negative ratings for this but none of the reviews touch on why I hate this book. To me, it reads like an artist selling out and patronizing an audience he won over with a far superior work while trying really hard to win over the average Hot Topic shoppin' yahoo. The art has improved, for sure. Unfortunately, the writing is awful, usually relying lazily on the same kind of grating, unfunny, subculture-specific (to put it gently) humor as Invader Zim (granted, in a more adult way)...more
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Jan 30, 2010
Rachel
rated it
2 of 5 stars
Shelves:
comic,
disturbed-protagonist,
fantasy,
fantasy-magical-realism,
fantasy-urban,
graphic,
ya,
soapbox
While I love Squee as much as the next girl, I just couldn't get behind this compilation of all things left out of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac. Fillerbunny wasn't even remotely entertaining, the "autobiographical" comics had some entertainment value, but they didn't really grab me. About the only (non-Squee) one I really enjoyed was the wannabe vampire finding out that it's not all it's cracked up to be, but that even rubbed me the wrong way given the nature and message JTHM.
Squee is a lovable little boy, except his parents don't really like him all that much. He gets abducted by aliens and they don't even notice or care. Squee meets some weird people, like Johnny the Homicidal Maniac and the son of Satan. Poor Squee rarely gets to meet nice normal people. He has nightmares and there are monsters in his room. But enough about Squee. Inside this book you'll also find Filler Bunny, Happy Noodle Boy, Wobbly Headed Bob and a whole lot of Meanwhiles. So what are you wait...more
Oct 25, 2007
Justinthunderliger
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
All of the voices in your head
Basically a catch-all of the stuff that was in the original JTHM books but didn't get put into that awesome trade. SQUEE, you'll remember is the doe-eyed next door neighbor of Johnny. His parents really wish there was a 105 month abortion, and they pretty much let him know it constantly. Everyone at school hates him, teachers included, except for his best friend (whether he likes it or not) Pepito, who also happens to be the son of the Devil. Hi-jinx abound, including the "dooky blood" that had...more
Man I love this book! Squee, humanity's only hope. Constantly frightened out of his mind and being forced to fight off the forces of darkness alone.
Thanks to the reviews here, I discovered Vasquez created a close cousin to Squee in animation: Invader Zim. How did I miss this? Time to catch up with the rest of the world and watch me some Zim.
Then reread Squee!
Thanks to the reviews here, I discovered Vasquez created a close cousin to Squee in animation: Invader Zim. How did I miss this? Time to catch up with the rest of the world and watch me some Zim.
Then reread Squee!
Jhonen Vasquez and Anne Rice go hand-in-hand in my mind. Neither is bad, but both a bit over rated. This book is especially overrated. Squee is only in half the book and his stories aren't all that great. Where the book shines are the random stories at the end. Honestly I would have rather had a book filled with random Jhonen stories and that would have been great.
Well, it's certainly no Johnny The Homicidal Maniac but still very entertaining. The thoughts "POOR SQUEE!" went through my head numerous times whilst I laughed aloud uncontrollably.
I wasn't so sold on the compilation of non-Johnny comics in the second half of this book; it was all a bit too much craziness at once.
I wasn't so sold on the compilation of non-Johnny comics in the second half of this book; it was all a bit too much craziness at once.
While in my heart im a nny fan squee is a very cute character. Poor little guys parents hate him, his neighbor is a crazy killer :), and one of his classmates is the son of satan. You never know whats going to happen next. The only complaint i had was it needed more nny but im sure squee didnt mind lol.
I have to admit that Squee is not nearly as good as Johnny the Homicidal maniac, but this is never the less an edition worth having for all Vasquez's fans, especially for it's brilliant inclusion of all Meanwhiles, Wobbly-headed-Bob stories, and side comics spawned from Jhonen's mostly brilliant (sometimes just gooey) mind.
Mar 07, 2012
06MirandaH
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The puppy! D: ( you know the one I'm talking about. with the ball? and the bike and car? yeah that puppy.)
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