The plot follows slacker friends John and Dave, who accidentally get exposed to this mysterious new drug called Soy Sauce. One of the coolest things about David Wong’s novel is how committed he is to making it both funny and scary, and how well he succeeds in his effort. And if it’s too funny, that tends to de-claw the horror elements of the story.
Usually if your story is too horrific, your reader won’t be laughing. Horror-comedy is a tough genre hybrid to pull off. If you tossed all those brains into a blender, mixed them up into a fluffy pink froth, then reanimated them like Frankenstein’s monster, you might end up with the brain of David Wong, the author of John Dies at the End (JDatE). Lovecraft, Stephen King, comic book writer Grant Morrison, Douglas Adams, Jim Butcher, Brian Lee O’Malley (the guy that wrote the Scott Pilgrim comics), and Robert Rankin. I won’t judge you I’m sure you have your reasons.
Say you stole the brains of famous authors. For every one Jesus you get a million zombies.” –David Wong “Something coming back from the dead was almost always bad news.
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