Review: Bubba needs his own full-length book
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 29, 2012
Bubba the Monster Hunter appears in a series of short stories written by John G. Hartness.  Why, oh why, hasn't Hartness extended his Bubba stories into full-length books?  The stories rock, with a great main character, wonderfully quirky supporting cast and a whole bunch of amazing monsters.  What's not to love?This is the first Bubba story and it's a dandy.  Bubba is sent by his bosses (no secret -- he works behind the scenes for the Catholic Church) to Columbia, Tennessee to check out reports of zombies invading a cemetery.  Sure enough, he finds some zombies, dispatches them without breaking a sweat, then finds the real problem -- a necromancer who is using a little voodoo to reanimate the dead.  With his cousin, Skeeter, speaking into his ear through a blue tooth hookup, and with the help of his weapons Tiger, Fat Man and Bertha, to name a few, Bubba kicks ass and doesn't care about taking names.  He just dispatches the walking dead so he can  get back to the strip joint and enjoy a beer while surrounded by some bouncing boobs.  What more could a man ask for?Bubba is a big ol' boy, way over six feet tall, built like a mack truck and mean as hell when he wants to be.  He has no tolerance for the monsters he hunts and that makes him a hero for the masses.  We all have someone whose ass we'd like to kick, but we let little things like laws and civility get in the way.  Bubba has little use for either the law or weak-kneed civility.  He has a job to do, he does it, then goes back to drinking beer and enjoying lap dances.I promise you, you'll want to read these stories one right after another, they're that good.  I'd recommend any of them, and you don't really need to start with the first one, I didn't, but it couldn't hurt, either.