The Final ’90s Countdown, Part Twenty-Seven.

Next up in the countdown, another two-voter: Johnny the Homicidal Maniac (Slave Labor Graphics, 1995 – 1997) So let me tell you about this comic, and how it did for us at my former place of employment. Jhonen Vasquez’s JTHM series ran for only seven issues (plus some spin-offs, more on those in a moment), but the individual issues were kept in print for years and years. It’s kind of like the Absolute Batman of its day! But we kept all seven issues (and spin-offs…gettin’ to ’em, hold your horses) on a special rack devoted only to titles like these, the alternative indie comics with perennial interest such as Milk ‘n’ Cheese and Lenore and other goth-y type titles. (Yes, I know Milk ‘n’ Cheese isn’t goth…mostly.) And we sold a lot of them, primarily to teenagers, and mostly young women. Given we were on the main drag in town, and having a high school on the next corner over, we had heavy traffic for the target audience for this comic, coming through day after day. Eventually, the…

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