Bone: Crown of Horns

Rating:
Summary: The end of a great thing
Review: [This will offer spoilers]

I can go on and on about how wonderful Jeff Smith's Bone series is. I'm more fond of this series than any other comic ever created, and collect only the hard cover books for my collection. Crown of Horns is the last of the series, and it delivers a pretty solid punch. All of our favorite characters make their appearance, and all the things we wanted to see happened pretty much happened.

Nevertheless, it was probably the weakest with storyline than all of the other books. It felt a little rushed, and was actually anti-climactic as a whole. The attack of Alethia could have been mined for at least a few extra comics on its own, without overdoing it. The release of Mim and her continued possession by the Lord of the Locust could have been a mini-series! But the action ended about halfway through the book, making everything except the "road home to Boneville" seem like a summary as opposed to the story itself. Since this was the last venture into the Bone reality, I really needed alot more!

I loved this book, and will read it many times before I finally put it on the shelf with the rest. In fact, I'll probably read the the series as a whole a few times before I give another series a go. Smith is brilliant in these comics, as no other writer and illustrator before him. Criticizing his work is almost like criticizing gold because it weighs too much. This is a must read, and a must buy. But take note, if you loved this series as much as I did you probably will be depressed over the same things I mentioned above, and a whole lot more.