BOOK REVIEW: JIMBO YOJIMBO BY DAVID BARBEE

by JOHN BODEN 

David Barbee is a Southern Gentleman. He'd probably not want me telling ya'll that, but I've met him and he is. Now once those fingers of his commence to tyoing, I can no longer assert this as truth...see, weird shit happen when he lets his words out---

In a frog-flooded future, an evil empiric entity known as the Buddha Gump Shrimp Company rules the roost. Backed by an army of crawfish humanoids and redneck sword-swingers.  Our main character, Jimbo is imprisoned. He's had a cuttlefish sewn to his face as punishment, you know because locking a feller up isn't enough.  He wants revenge on the company for killing his family and well, for the thing on his face.

After an escape, overseen by the ghost of his father, Jimbo works his way up the ladder of revenge. Rungs slick with slime, shrimp juices and sarcasm.  Will he reap his vengeance? Will he get that fucking tentacled thing off his face?  Will you ever read a more gonzo, wacky romp through Shrimp & Samurai madness than this?  I won't say.  I will say this was a fun read. A fast read that made me smile numerous times and grimace probably more than that.  It's an oozy doozy of a novella and I urge you to check it out.
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Jimbo Yojimbo is available from Eraserhead Press

From the author of Bacon Fried Bastard and A Town Called Suckhole, comes a countrified samurai epic in the vein of Squidbillies if directed by Akira Kurosawa. 
A flood of frogs drowned the cities and gunked up all the guns. Now an evil restaurant chain called the Buddha Gump Shrimp Company rules a finger-licking shogunate of seafood mutants and murderous redneck swordsmen like Jimbo Yojimbo. Jimbo wants revenge on the Company for killing his family and stitching a cuttlefish to his face. After a daring escape, he will hack his way through hordes of crawdad soldiers, a church of quacking gun nuts on a jihad, and Bushido Budnick, the master chef who rules them all. But with every step he takes, Jimbo Yojimbo’s sweet revenge will surely begin to taste like shit gumbo.
JIMBO YOJIMBO is fast-paced post-apocalyptic redneck samurai tale of love, revenge, and a whole lotta mutant sumbitches. 

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