SQUEE!
Poor little Squee. He lives with his mother and father,of whom the former spends her time in a prescription drug induced haze and the latter is supremely dissatisfied with his life and dislikes his son to an extreme extent( quote: I wish that kid[Squee] had never been born") and who watches the video of Squee's birth in reverse. Yes, poor little Squee(whose real name is Todd Casil) has a seemingly unbearable family life. But it gets worse...school doesn't have any allure for the wittle boy. His one true friend, Andy, was killed by a dog who wanted his peanut butter and jelly sandwich on the way to school in Squee! #1 and everyone else at his school dislikes him because he might "Go home and read or write or somethin'"(schoolyard bully). TOdd's other classmates include the girl with the incredibly huge finger and Pepito, aka the son of Satan. Pepito seems to have taken a liking to Todd, which scares the little fellow out of his mind. At night, Squee's only companion is Shmee, his teddy bear, and the posters in his room(and on one night,the little girl who choked on Boompy the Dog). It'd too bad that every night Squee is plagued with nightmares and the occasional alien abduction. It is a rare even when he actually does go to sleep:
...it usually doesn'y last to long. One morning, two days after being taken and experimented on by aliens, Todd appears at his family's front door and his mother lets him in. 
"Hello," his mother says, oblivious to the fact that her son has been missing for two days or that this little nekkid boy is her son at all. "Mommy" says Squee, with a weird electro=cap thingie on his head "The aliens did spooooooky things to my head. Can I stay home from school?" His mother loooks up from her coffee, startled(as if she forgot he was there), and says "Of course you can go to school. I thought you had already graduated."
As if all of this weren't bad enough for the little dude, he has the immense misfortune of living next door to Nny(who reaches his house either by his underground tunnel or through Squee's broken bedroom window). It's routine for Todd to see a corpse hurled out of the window in front of his little tricycle or hear the muffled screams coming from Nny's cavernous basement late at night. Face it, this kid's gonna have problems. Big problems.
In Squee! 4, Squee discovers that he is going to be abducted by aliens, so he convinces the aliens to take his parents instead. When his parents return, they are brainwashed, neurotic, and have beeping asses. Convinced that their son is insane, they have Squee commited. The last shotwe see of Squee is of him strapped into a rather restraining device, with a voice warning him "Don't move, kid, or your brain will melt." I feel a little sad for Todd, but I think we'll see him again, somehow.
You see, in my view, the beauty of Squee is that he is the little, scared, cowering boy inside of all of us who worries about homicidal maniacs and aliens when he should be thinking about school and his friends. And although everyone at his school hates him, Squee doesn't hold it against any one:
"Why would I want anyone to feel like I hate feeling?"Yes, Squee is indeed a more complex and interesting character than many a JTHM fan is willing to admit. And while many may continue to dismiss SQUEE!'s four-issue mini-series as "just a spinoff", I like it. But then again, there's always wisdom in anything Jhonen does. I really like his work. I am not sucking up. My introduction to the wondurous and brillant world of Sir Vasquez was SQUEE! #3. I instantly fell in love with all of the characters. So I'll always *sniff* hold a special little place in my deep twisted mind for little Todd.Issues
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Now that Squee 4 is out, Jhonen has finished with the Squee miniseries, and is planning to return to JTHM after doing a full color Devi single. I think we'll continue to see Squee in JTHM, tho.
Mail the insane queen of the dungeon now. Or she won't smile.
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