Jimbo Yojimbo

This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader.
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“Ready to make it official?” said his father.Jimbo closed his cuttlefish eyes and prayed the revenge vow.Let me kill ‘em, he thought. Let me exist only to punish them that wronged me, for such is the pain of my life that only the pleasure of their death will weigh it equal. Amen.“Now that's what I'm talking about,” his dead father said.

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 [a] fast-paced post-apocalyptic redneck samurai tale of love, revenge, and a whole lotta mutant sumbitches.

My Cousin, My Gastroenterologist

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Disclaimer: I was provided a copy of this in exchange for my honest opinion – I greatly appreciate it (the book wouldn't have appeared on my radar if not for that), but it didn't make an impact on my opinion (beyond giving me something to have an opinion about).