Traumatize thy neihbor
Ah, the very beginning. We are introduced to a tortured little boy named Squee who finds out he has a homicidal maniac for a neighbor. Adventures ensue.
A man conducting a survey stops at number 777 and attempts to ask the master of the house about the recent crime waves sweeping the area. He sends Johnny C. overboard with one question and ends up the worse for wear on the sidewalk in front of poor Squee.
Johnny is at the local Taco Hell when we learn that he really dislikes the word "wacky". Unfortunately, that is the only way to describe what he did to everyone and everything in the restaurant after someone uses it in reference to him.
Summery of issue 2
Nny has an intelligent conversation with his newest victim, a man named Edgar Vargas. Edgar fails to reason with Johnny to let him go because his blood is needed to paint a certain wall in the house (more on that later). The switch is pulled on Edgar and Nny leaves none the better. This is also where we discover how Nny's nickname is pronounced:
Exactly Like "Knee"
People are screaming at Johnny from all over the house while he considers earplugs as a good investment.
Johnny has a pretty girl in his straightjacket who is about to pay the price for laughing at him with her friends. He remarks on her outer beauty and how it differs so dramatically from the inner. There is some scythe-swinging action, and Nny comes to the conclusion that he's ugly on the inside as well.
Johnny is in rare form as he is on a date and actually enjoying himself with a bookstore employee named Devi. Such happiness is foreign, and he consults the two styrofoam doughboys about what he should do. Feeling the need to "immortalize the moment" because it is so special, Nny charges at Devi with two knives. Devi kicks some homicidal a** and beats feet home while Johnny stays put, bleeding on the floor.
Johnny has an early-morning craving for a brainfreezy but takes a suicidal relapse as he finds the machine is shut off. He decides to go out with a literal bang, taking the clerk with him. He uses the only bullet in the store's gun on the clerk and promptly sets his sights on a Cherry Fiz-Wiz without giving what happened another thought.
Dear Die-ary,
I stared, motionless, before the mirror. As always, I stayed until I'm convinced that there is no glass, nothing, separating me from the room I see on the other side.
I imagine that everything is different. Over there. Better. There are people, in that world, who I would like.
But, like always, my hand hits the glass.
I know that if I'd only waited one more second...
s**t.
I'm gonna go kill a party clown.
Summery of issue 3...
Nny goes out for a stroll, listening to Beethoven. He gets side-tracked by some smokers sitting outside of a café and decides to take his business inside instead of his previous engagement at a club. After a pretty violent montage, the scene ends with flying shrapnel and a hopping Nny with a swelling chorus from "Ode to Joy".
Johnny saves Todd (Squee) from a man at the mall. He attempts to explain to Squee that something like this is nothing to devote nightmares to but goes a little overboard.
Summery of issue 4...
Johnny attempts humor. Everyone has their own ideas about what's funny.
Two new faces, Tess and Dillon, walk out a movie theatre. The latter complains about a certain someone who kept telling him to be quiet during the movie. That certain someone then zaps the consciousness out of Dillon with his tazer. Both are now in the bowels of number 777 preapring for some "intense fun".
Other-wordly powers are keeping Johnny from dying, as he duly demonstrates by jamming a tazer into his head. He puts the doughboys (who are now able to move around freely) in their place by surviving but only because he forgot to charge the batteries. And now, laughter to wake the entire neighborhood!
issue 5...
issue6..
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