Review: Jimmy Pudge Jumps Off the Edge
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 8, 2013
If you've ever read any of Jimmy Pudge's previous offerings you know you're in for plenty of violence and humor, mixed up in a unique outlook you won't find anywhere else.Run, Teddy Bear, Run serves up plenty of Pudge style violence, maybe even more graphic than we've seen before, and swirls it around with copious amounts of sex and drugs, and then overlays it with off-color humor.This volume is Pudge's take on the arch-typical 80s style teens-at-camp slasher movie. This is parody of a very entertaining sort. The emotions are so overwrought you can't help but chuckle. Some of the dialogue is so bad you know you must have heard it in some movie on Fearnet at two in the morning.What gives us the real twist is our anti-hero, the Teddy Bear Killer. Twenty years ago he killed a bunch of teenagers at a summer camp, and the camp had been closed. Now the camp is reopening, and he feels compelled to resume his duties. Only he's twenty years out of practice, and things don't go as smoothly as he planned.This is tragedy of a Shakespearean level- there's nobody left alive at the end! One wouldn't call this great literature, but it's not meant to be. It will get your blood pumping, give you some chuckles and take you down an ugly and dangerous rabbit hole. Just like with everything else written by Jimmy Pudge, if you're easily offended, steer clear. If you like your horror edgy and blood soaked, check it out.For an extra bonus there's a five page excerpt of Mr. Pudge's next novella!