The Dragonslayer (Bone, Book 4)

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Summary: BONE ROCKS!
Review: Bone Vol 4: The Dragon Slayer is a great addition to the series. BONE is one of the best humor/fantascies I've read. This one of the better in the series. The story takes yet another bizarre Twist as a war unfolds.

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Summary: *Great* Book!
Review: Bone: The Dragonslayer is sure to please any hardcore Bone fan, and even not so hardcore ones! With humor, action, mystery, and beautiful pictures, this installation in the Bone series is sure to please.

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Summary: Wonderful Reading
Review: If you are looking at this book, you probably don't need me to tell you how good the Bone series is - it continues to delight.

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Summary: This book is great
Review: Jeff Smith has again astounded me with the hardback publishing of the Dragonslayer series. A great plot, witty dialogue, and precise drawings make this one a must for any hardback collector.

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Summary: This book is great
Review: Jeff Smith has again astounded me with the hardback publishing of the Dragonslayer series. A great plot, witty dialogue, and precise drawings make this one a must for any hardback collector.

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Summary: This is my favorite comic novel I've ever read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: Jeff Smith, like always satisfes you, although this is his best book out of all the bones, for people reading this and thinking "WHAT IS IT ABOUT?" well, here's a introduction that you will find in each bone book... after being run out of boneville, the three bone cousins,Fone Bone,Phoney Bone,Smiley bone, are separated and lost in a vast and uncharted dessert one by one they will find there way into a deep forested valley filled with wonderful and terrifying creatures.

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Summary: A realistic fantasy on human nature
Review: This comic has it all:the zany poetry of Peanuts,the wry criticism on human fallacies of Doonesbury,and the philosophy of Calvin and Hobbes,plus a scent of the best Pogo.Phoney Bone is the real negative hero of this book:his manipulation of the brainless masses superb,his total lack of scruples joined whit a nietzcheian rationalization ("People like to be victims! There's a sort of moral superiority attached to it...)unparalleled.If he fails,it is only for the spirit of sacrifice of the Dragon,a real Christian image,I dare say.Phoney Bone is a veritable Stavrogin of comics.

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Summary: BONE ROCKS!
Review: This is the fourth book in the Bone series. It is a wonderfully told cartoon featuring the Bone Trio: Fone Bone, Smiley Bone, and Phoney Bone. Each has a totally different personality from one another. The black and white style blends perfectly with the book, and makes it interesting to read. Anyone who is interested in starting to read the series should read the first three books in consecutive order. The characters start to build and then you will fully appreciate this book. This book finally starts to have a plot. The first three books have a little bit, but it is mostly introducing the characters. It starts to tell you the story of Thorn's past (another character in the book), and what she is. There is also an interesting tale with Phoney. I would tell you more, but it would spoil the book. Go read this book. You will dive right into it.

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Summary: The continuation of a wonderful and exciting series.
Review: This is the fourth book in the Bone series. It is a wonderfully told cartoon featuring the Bone Trio: Fone Bone, Smiley Bone, and Phoney Bone. Each has a totally different personality from one another. The black and white style blends perfectly with the book, and makes it interesting to read. Anyone who is interested in starting to read the series should read the first three books in consecutive order. The characters start to build and then you will fully appreciate this book. This book finally starts to have a plot. The first three books have a little bit, but it is mostly introducing the characters. It starts to tell you the story of Thorn's past (another character in the book), and what she is. There is also an interesting tale with Phoney. I would tell you more, but it would spoil the book. Go read this book. You will dive right into it.

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Summary: Vol. 4 takes "Bone" into overdrive
Review: 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.

"The Dragonslayer," the fourth in the nine-volume "Bone" series, ramps up the tension and dramatically increases the scope and scale of the story, while retaining touches of its all ages humor.

This volume picks up where the third left off, as revelations about the main characters and the evil looming over the peaceful valley central to the tale draw the reader more fully into Jeff Smith's wonderfully-woven plot. Though still geared towards an all-ages audience, the deeper issues that make this compelling reading for adults really begin to show here, taking prominence over the humor through a good portion of the book.

Smith combines the kind of classic storytelling perfected by the likes of the legendary Carl Barks (Donald Duck, Uncle Scrooge) and Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes) - 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.

Jeff Smith's "Bone" series is a critically acclaimed but criminally overlooked epic. Critics recognize Smith's masterful storytelling abilities and are drawn to his mix of all-ages humor and more mature darkness, but the black and white art and lack of superheroes turn off many comic book readers, making it a hit only in the "underground" sense.

And that's too bad, because this deserves to be read. Readers able to look past the lack of men in tights and color artwork will delight in this series. 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 surely outlast 90 percent of other comic works on the shelf.