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“I love Bone” Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons
“Jeff Smith can pace a joke better than anyone in comics” Neil Gaiman, author of Coraline, The Wolves in the Wall and the Sandman series
“Bone combines the humour and look of early Disney movies with the scope of the Lord of the Rings cycle. The best all-ages novel yet published in this medium” Time Magazine
“This is first-class kid lit: exciting, funny, scary and resonant enough that it will stick with readers for a long time” Publishers Weekly
"Delightful and charming. Cult cartoon strip that tells a decent story." The Gateway
"Sheer genius between the covers – welcome to cartoon heaven and prepare to laugh…lots!! This is ultra clever stuff which you can't fail to enjoy!" From Bump to Grump
“This sprawling, mythic comic is spectacular” Spin Magazine
“Charming, character-driven fantasy with an elegant design and masterful story-telling” Publishers Weekly
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One of the most highly acclaimed comic book stories of recent times launching as a stunning full colour graphic novel series.
Things seem well in the valley: Fone Bone is still living with Thorn and Gran’ma Ben, while his cousins Phoney and Smiley are working in the inn at Barrelhaven.
But peace never lasts for long when the Bone cousins are around. Soon Phoney Bone is up to his old con tricks again, trying to throw the bets on the annual Cow Race with a ‘mystery cow’ – really Smiley in a cow suit.
Will Phoney be run out of the valley just like he was run out of Boneville? It may not even matter, because there are dark stirrings in the woods – ominous signs that indicate the rat creatures are ready to go to war again…
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
How can you weave the following into a book: Giant smoking bees, egg currency, a Grandma racing against cows, stupid stupid rat creatures, Moby Dick and love poems? Well get this book and find out how Jeff Smith manages to do this and in the process produces one of the funniest books of the Bone saga.
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Destined to be a classic series
10 May 2004
Format:Paperback
Jeff Smith's "Bone" series is a critically acclaimed but criminally overlooked epic for a reason. Critics recognize Smith's masterful storytelling abilities and are drawn to his mix of all-ages humor and decidedly adult darkness, but the black and white art and lack of superheroes is anathema to most comic book readers, making it a hit only in the "underground" sense.
Smith combines the kind of classic storytelling perfected by the likes of the legendary Carl Barks and Bill Watterson - gleefully funny cartooning with outrageously expressive faces and gestures - with the epic and engaging plotting of a sweeping fairy tale. "Bone" walks a tightrope and walks it well, managing to be something fans of both Donald Duck and Bilbo Baggins can enjoy.
Timeless is every way, "Bone" is an expansive story about three "bone creatures" (you'd have to see them to understand) that find themselves in a valley peopled with an assortment of crazy and interesting characters. Looming over it all is the menace of a great evil, first glimpsed by the ferocious (and funny) rat creatures, but later revealed to be something much more disturbing.
Thank goodness for trade paperbacks, which have allowed new readers unaccustomed to weekly stops at the comic store to follow this marvelous, epic, enchanting series.
In this second volume (out of nine total), Smith ramps up the humor - the idea of an old lady racing a bunch of cows is hilarious - while slowly, deliberately dropping hints that all is not as it seems with some of the village folk, specifically grandma. "The Great Cow Race" continues to sparkle with humor and retains the light tone of the first volume, "Out From Boneville," while Smith offers us just enough looks at the larger tale to keep us going. A fine effort on his part.
"Bone" is essential reading that no lover of the comic artform should skip. Little doubt people will still be reading "Bone" 50 years from now. Broad in scope yet personal and quaint, this is a charming story in every way that will long outlast 90 percent of other comic works on the shelf.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Comics gone epic
29 Aug 1998
Format:Paperback
The Bone series by Jeff Smith are the best news to hit the comics world in a number of years. All caracters are cute yet intriguing. For anyone with a fascination of Li'll Abner, classic european farietales and Moby Dick, Bone is a must read
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Bone is the greatest!
2 Dec 1998
Format:Hardcover
The Bone series is the greatest group of books that I have! "The Great Cow Race" contains fantasy, adventure, humor, mystery, and more! And it all comes in one book! I really recommend it!
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