Squee's Wonderful Big Giant Book of Unspeakable Horrors

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Summary: Squee's wonderful big giant book of unspeakable horrors.
Review: SICK!, Yet some of the most fun I've had with a comic in years. Any new mom or dad needs to read this, See all your fears put to an extreme! Squee lives in a world that could only be hell for a child. From parents who should not even own a pet, to the son of the devil and deviant aliens this book has it all. One of the best shorts is about dust mites, I won't ruin it, BUY THE BOOK! I have one complaint; The pages are small, so some of the print is like CIA microfilm, kind of hard to see, let alone read.

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Summary: Funny!
Review: This book was really funny! I mean it, I couldn't stop laughing. This is the lighter side of Jhonen that doesn't have as much of the brooding in it as JtHM did but it's really worth the buy.

The reason I didn't give this a 5 star review is that after you get sick of the jokes, you find yourself skipping the mini-stories and it gets annoying when you've skipped through the whole book. I've tried waiting a few months until I've forgotten the jokes and reading it again but that didn't work. So this book really doesn't get better with age. But it's still really worth buying and it sets itself apart from all Vasquez's other works. It is very different and more sketchy and a little cruder than Invader Zim and has a little morbidity in it. But it's better for kids that JtHM.

The only thing I hate about Vasquez's works is that the fans try to imitate his drawing style, his sense of humour and they make *really* bad fan fiction and butcher the characters with fan art. So the fans are the only part you should watch out for.

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Summary: Poor Squee...
Review: This is definitely the "book" for kids(or disturbed teens, or adults for that matter) that will make them have sympathy, or even empathy(hopefully not) for what happens to Todd. This is a hilarious compilation of all of Jhonen's work with Squee, and Meanwhiles which are kinda like(or are) fillers for the rest of the comics. Personally, I liked the fillers more than Squee itself. In having it in my posession since September, my cousin and my friend(as well as her sister) have borrowed it about twice each. It's one that you can find the tiny details that you might've missed the first time that you read it... or the second... or third. but still, just get it- you'll understand.

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Summary: Sucked in to the world of Squee
Review: I can't remember why I added this book to my wishlist originally; I think I had come across some Crab Scrambly illustrations on a google search, which led me to the book he and Jhonen did together and I then added a bunch of stuff from there. I had heard of JTHM years ago, but had never read that series (and still haven't, but it's on my list now)...So while I have always been a fan of dark and gruesome humor, writing, and illustration; my palate had been limited to Edward Gorey and Tim Burton prior to this.

I am happy to say Squee instantly won me over and now has a special place in the '13th circle of hellish childhood nightmares' section of my mind...Jhonen Vasquez perfectly captures just how freaked out things and people can make you as a small person and how sometimes the very things that you fear the most, can also become your best friends and confidants, helping you to cope with the insane world in which we are brought up. I look forward to expanding my collection of Jhonen Vasquez works and similar artists as well.

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Summary: Yay!
Review: Jhonen is so great! I love his comics, and I think that he draws very well. Some people may not like his style, and it is a bit weird, but I enjoy it. His comics also make me giggle, which is great. In this book I felt so bad for poor little Squee. His big eyes and the horrors that he has to face make me just want to hug him, ya know?

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Summary: Freakin hilarious!
Review: I was laughing about 20 seconds into the book, the part where Squee is praying for his dad to get what he wants because he's not very happy, and at the same time his dad says "I wish that kid were never born!". Then the story progresses from there. The whole thing is LMAO funny. And you can't forget the Meanwhiles. Those are little short comics and they are funny as hell!! I especially like the one with the guy on the date eating chicken, who gets sudden, unexpected diahrea cramps and tries to explain it to his girlfriend. I highly recommend this book to anyone with a kind of sick sense of humor. I recommend this instead of Johnny the Homocidal Maniac, because Johnny is just disgusting. Also I would only recommend Squee for 13+ ages because it swears a few times.

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Summary: Some of the creator's best work.
Review: This book was my first exposure to the work of Jhonen Vasquez. One of my roommates came home from visiting a friend's house, where he had read through Squee! just once, and proceeded to regale us with about three of the installments. From memory. With gestures and full voice characterization. That's one heck of an impression to create with a single read.

As the other reviews will tell you, Squee! is a spin-off from Jhonen's inaugural effort, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac. The gains of experience show both in the artwork and in the storytelling and pacing. The artistic style has settled down into that polish that comes only with practice. Each mini-story has a concise concept that is tightly plotted, and has a real ending (instead of one of Jhonen's signature "I'm tired of this, here's a wacky* random bit out of nowhere!" wrap-ups so common in the Invader ZIM series). And the ideas the stories revolve around are Jhonen at his creative best--both wildly original and familiar concepts, but presented in that delightfully skewed way that only he can.

The Meanwhiles and other strips, creative breaks from the incessant tedium of drawing Johnny for seven issues, are a very mixed bag. Happy Noodle Boy is just random nonsense and mental effluvia, and Wobbly Headed Bob is elitist and depressing. The various Meanwhiles, though, are (for the most part) as hilarious, and well-executed as the Squee! stories.

The upshot: Squee! is full of both inspired humor and intelligence (and if you're at all interested in Jhonen's work after reading these reviews, it's probably the best introduction).

(*yes, that's right: wacky.)

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Summary: Good!
Review: Hi this is a GREAT book that anyone with a twisted head can enjoy! The first half of the book is Squee! who is a kid who doesn't really have friends, his parents hate him, and he always seems to witness horrible things. Such as his best friend getting attacked by a dog. The second half of the book is the Meanwhiles, which are smaller strips that are just as good. BUY IT!