Vasquez, Jhonen – Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: Director’s Cut

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Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: Director’s Cut

I’ve always thought that it was a cop-out for any reviewer to say “Well, I just don’t know” about any book. You have to have some opinion about the thing that you just spent the last two hours reading. Well, I do have an opinion, but it’s mostly indifferent. Don’t get me wrong, I strongly disliked large chunks of this, but when it was all said and done I also liked chunks of it quite a bit. I didn’t like his ripping off Evan Dorkin, but maybe it was a tribute. I doubt it, but I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt. This is about, strangely enough, a homicidal maniac who goes around killing everyone. The first two issues are pure mayhem, and it was disgusting. Maybe I’m getting old, but excessive meaningless violence doesn’t really do it for me. Starting with the third issue, Johnny started to get a reason for killing as many people after the third issue, and I started to like it. Simple as that. This might be the kind of thing that’ll grow on me, or might be the kind of thing that I can’t stand the second time around, but the important thing is that I’m going to read it again at some point, and probably his other book too. Tell you what, I’ll get a highlighter. Send me your copies and I’ll highlight the pages that I think are great. Other than that, it’s at least worth a read to find out about this for yourself.