>>109404991Between them, JTHM, Squee, and I Feel Sick, kind of form a neat meta-arc about Jhonen himself. He starts out as the weird kid sketching a violent revenge fantasy where he's nonetheless the sensitive put upon protagonist.
Then about midway through JTHM he seems to go off the charachter. He has the copycat killer show up and Nny kills him while going on this long rant along the lines of: "Imagine an artist who runs into a fan who eagerly presents him with something patterned after his own work. And it's a fucking mess! What's worse, the artist can see that it bears more than a passing similarity to the artist's own work". Yeah. I don't think that was a co-incidence.
Basically you can see his maturation as an artist and (I think to a degree) as a person, over the series.
Of course it could just be me. I like ramshackle ambitious messes more than I like really polished works a lot of the time. Though, it's also possible I just have terrible taste.
