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Summary: A Well Developed Fantasy/Adventure
Review: I love this series. It is fun enough for a young audience(the ages 9-12 that it is attributed to by Amazon), but contains serious enough themes for young adults and adults. The characters fit any fantasy description and the story fits the best definitions for a romance(the Roman kind as well as the kind we are most familiar with). As a fantasy, the situations are exaggerated to be, in a way, more interesting than real life. As a romance, the series is full of hope and optimism; adventure and trials. Fone Bone and the other characters are forced to change their goals as they experience doubts about themselves and their world. The conclusion will be one, very large accomplishment affecting the story's entire valley.
Bone is definitely a page turner. It is humorous. Throughout the adventure the reader is invited to laugh with and at the antics of its characters. They are likeable(even Phoney) and the reader has instant, additional sympathy for them because of their youth. With the drive of concern for the characters, the artwork catches and keeps the interest of the reader. The style is unique(black and white), fun, consistent while improving, and communicates the tone and the shifts of the tone. Jeff Smith's artistic timing inspires the reader's respect.
Finally, Bone is appropriate for all. The tale is tightly woven and carefully mastered. Nothing in it, distracts or detracts from the story. I would loan or recommend it to my eight year old niece, who loves Harry Potter; my brother in high school; or my mother who just, plain likes a good adventure. It is a rich story with a fun and interesting potential.
Rating:
Summary: A Well Developed Fantasy/Adventure
Review: I love this series. It is fun enough for a young audience(the ages 9-12 that it is attributed to by Amazon), but contains serious enough themes for young adults and adults. The characters fit any fantasy description and the story fits the best definitions for a romance(the Roman kind as well as the kind we are most familiar with). As a fantasy, the situations are exaggerated to be, in a way, more interesting than real life. As a romance, the series is full of hope and optimism; adventure and trials. Fone Bone and the other characters are forced to change their goals as they experience doubts about themselves and their world. The conclusion will be one, very large accomplishment affecting the story's entire valley.
Bone is definitely a page turner. It is humorous. Throughout the adventure the reader is invited to laugh with and at the antics of its characters. They are likeable(even Phoney) and the reader has instant, additional sympathy for them because of their youth. With the drive of concern for the characters, the artwork catches and keeps the interest of the reader. The style is unique(black and white), fun, consistent while improving, and communicates the tone and the shifts of the tone. Jeff Smith's artistic timing inspires the reader's respect.
Finally, Bone is appropriate for all. The tale is tightly woven and carefully mastered. Nothing in it, distracts or detracts from the story. I would loan or recommend it to my eight year old niece, who loves Harry Potter; my brother in high school; or my mother who just, plain likes a good adventure. It is a rich story with a fun and interesting potential.
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Summary: just brilliant
Review: I will only say three things:First: Bone is brilliant. Second: Bone is timeless. Third: ... aren't one and two enough?
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Summary: Delightful!
Review: In this wonderfully drawn comic we are introduced to three characters, each with a different personality - the responsible one, the greedy one, and, well, the dumb one. They are on the run due to the misdoings of the greedy one, escaping through the desert into the land of rat creatures, talking bugs, beautiful girls, and mysterious grandmothers. The style of the art reminds that of Carl Barks - plus it's definitely a classic. A must for enthusiasts of good fantasy and graphic novels. I highly recommend it for the art, the story line, and the well-developed characters. Hats off to Jeff Smith.
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Summary: A great mixture of humor, fantasy, and great storytelling!
Review: In this, you meet Fone Bone and his Cousins, a beautiful young lady named thorn, Ted, who is not just any ordinary bug, and Crazy old Gran'ma, who races cows and thwarts Rat Creatures. I'd recommend this to anyone looking for a good storyline. This is in a comic-book form, but there are no annoyingly over-powerful superheroes. This is in the form of a comic book, a long one, and it really enhances the feel of the story. But be forewarned, if you buy this, I guarantee that you'll HAVE to get the next one, and the next, and so on..... By the way, it doesn't say on this page, but there are 3 more Bone compilations. Search for author Jeff Davis (there'll be a LOT of entries) and the following are Bone books: Out From Boneville The Great Cow Race Eye of the storm Dragonslayer
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Summary: Wonderful entertainment for the whole family!!
Review: It is perfect reading--- fun, lovable characters, a great plot and wonderful humor. If you read any sort of comic whether in the newspaper or in comic books, you'll LOVE Bone!!
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Summary: Bone: Mad funny!
Review: Jeff Smith has a great style of illustration. The book can go from serious to comical almost faster than you can move from one frame to the next. The characters are well thought out and stay very true to form throughout the book. No single character serves as the straight man (woman/bone?), or the absolute hero. I havn't finished the series yet, but the plot gets better every time somthing else is revelaed. WARNING: Watch for running gags (some of them are really bad!)
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Summary: Timeless storytelling and essential reading
Review: 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. 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. Those new to "Bone" should know this: Throw away the term "comic book." It's a term that for many has become defined by superheroes, but Smith's "Bone" is much more than that. 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. 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. "Out From Boneville," the first volume of nine, is in the grand scheme of things little more than an introduction to the people and places that make up the "Bone" epic. We meet Thorn, the sweet girl who our protagonist Fone Bone pines over, the unnaturally tough grandma, the grumpy bar tender, and, of course, the bones themselves. It's a light-hearted introduction to what becomes a more serious tale, and it's good fun to read. As a first chapter "Out From Boneville" is hardly representative of what "Bone" becomes, but then neither is "A Long Expected Party" in "The Lord of the Rings." Both ease the reader into what becomes an increasingly compelling, tense tale. It's a nice way to introduce us to these characters. "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.
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Summary: A rather bald-faced rip-off
Review: Sure, sure, the art and the story were great (even full of enough suspense to choke you), but the main characters, especially Fone Bone (and ESPECIALLY the cigar-chomping Smiley Bone) look very much like long-lost Casper ghosts of certain well-known characters from an ancient comic strip that met an unfortunate tragedy in the modern funnies. Not even the presence of Bone's corrupted, money-hungry twin or the nubile young girl that he befriended or the whole swarming army of so-called "Rat Men" would be enough to distract the reader from such an open fact. Even the organizers of Pogo Fan Club seemed to accept - and even warmly embrace it. So what's next? Felix the Cat in prehistoric setting with roaring dinosaurs and busty cavewomen and Betty Boop in a futuristic anime with slimy tentacles?
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Summary: One of the best stories today
Review: This book is one of the best story lines that I have read in a long time. It has a wonderful sense of comic timing and is one of the funnier stories in comics today.
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