Review: Change of Jimmy Pudge pace
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 29, 2012
This latest work from Jimmy Pudge is a departure from his usual balls to the wall lunatic plot. What we have in Corn Bred is a relatively straight forward tale of what used to be refered to as multiple personality disorder, or split personality, and is now refered to as dissociative identity disorder.Joshua and Corn Bred inhabit the same body, and Pudge does an excellent job of differentiating between the two characters. We witness the birth of Corn Bred as a defense against years of abuse by the world around Joshua. The main problem is Corn Bred is a murderous psychpath.We're treated to plenty of Jimmy Pudge's patented violence, but his prose in this story is more assured, more focused. While Pudge's easrlier works seem to take place in some crazy other world full of vampires and porn star detectives, this work is set firmly in this world, the world we all live and breathe in. And in the realization that Corn Bred could be the librarian next door, comes the unsettling fear.I spent the whole time reading this story waiting for the bizarre twists I expect when reading something by Jimmy Pudge, and they never came. And THAT'S the twist. This story starts out at point A, and soldiers on to the inevitable ending. This is not a fault, just something unexpected from Jimmy Pudge. Really, isn't that what Jimmy Pudge always does? He never gives us the expected.This is a different tale from Jimmy. The horror is more psychological, more realistic. There are people just like Joshua and Corn Bred all around us. And that's scary.