"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."

Once again, I refer back to Girard in reference to his theory on triangular desires with the point to make, that once the presence of the mediator is felt, one's grasp on reality is shaken. In Johnny, this triangular desire is felt again and again. However, unlike the book Don Quixote, upon which Girard's essay is based, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac also deals with the concept of what happens when these triangles are all together absent.
Edgar Vargas, who was first introduced in Issue #2 of the Johnny series, was a relatively minor character with a high impact on the storyline. He is the first character which we see who has truly stepped outside the triangular desires that the other characters deal with. In fact, he is the only character who does not feel the presence of the one mediator which hangs over the entire series; death. His only goal in life is contentment, a straightforward goal which is achieved without the presence of a mediator. Of course, one might argue, as Girard did, that there is a mediator in the form of God or Heaven. However, it is my hope that the argument for this will be dispelled by the end of this essay.

This is a statement made by the character of Damned Elize in reference to the people residing in Heaven, who are all sitting around in chairs. However, it is this statement that I wish to dwell on for the moment, because it is with it that we first begin to break away from Girard's viewpoint, due to the fact, as was stated earlier, that it has been suggested that Girard felt Catholicism was promoting these same "triangular" desires in the form of Christian doctrine and in the statement "only through God shall you be saved". Therefore, we begin to see how Jhonen contends with the absence of triangles in the form of contentment, because, as was stated before, contentment is its own mediator. It is the process as well as the goal and therefore, a straightforward path towards a goal is finally achieved.
Need further proof? Here is an excerpt from Issue #6, of the Johnny the Homicidal Maniac series, dealing with a conversation Johnny had with a man in hell.
"Hey you look hungry. What say you let me buy you a bagel."
"Um... yeah okay. That's very kind. Why the hell are you here?"
"I must be here by mistake. No other explanation."
Now at first glance, we assume that this character is truly a good hearted Christian, with no other desire than contentment for all. However, this begins to break down when we see how he reacts to not having enough cream cheese on his bagel, and even more so by how he is "propelled by his own grief" into the streets. It is with this that we begin to see the error, for it is not through kindness that he performs this act, but as a proof that he is a good person. Also, we see in the cream cheese episode, that he, in turn, expects people to respond to him as if he is a good person, and we see also why it is that he is in Hell.
We also see that God is not at all concerned whether or not people feel contentment, for his only concern is contentment as well. His conversation with Johnny, may be misconstrued as heartlessness, but this is not necessarily so. If we look at it on the basis of free will, what would it matter if God was concerned? As he puts it "Ooooh sorreeee! I only created the universe. You're right, I should be out running laps."
On the other hand, we see that Senor Diablo is very much concerned with the dealings of man. He confesses to having watched Johnny's exploits, and explains to Johnny why he is the way that he is. Through these actions, we see that the devil feels no contentment, but attempts to find it through quenching Johnny's desires, and thus we see the "triangular" desire, at play, where Johnny and all of humanity become the mediator through which Senor Diablo works to reach his goal of contentment!
Thus, we see the "triangular" desires at work in Hell and we also see why they are absent in Heaven and in God. Likewise, we begin to see why Johnny neither feels this contentment, therefore not belonging in heaven or in Hell, because his goal is not that of contentment, but that of desensitization. We, also begin to understand why it is that he is sent back to Earth, as there was no place for him in either of these two worlds, and because of this, we also see why he was sent back to earth to once again do battle with his internal voices.