I was intrigued to read it as I had heard that it was one of the funniest comic books ever. Turns out I was thinking about Chew.
Regardless, Jeff Smith's Bone was fucking nuts.
I didn't know what to expect, I have the 1300 page black and white omnibus on my desk. It is a behemoth. The most apt way to describe it is if Carl Barks and J.R.R Tolkien put their works in a blender. It's an epic, high fantasy powerhouse.
Three Bones from Boneville get lost in a medieval Valley. Fone Bone (Mickey Mouse), his cousin Phoney Bone (Scrooge McDuck) and his other cousin Smiley (Goofy) get ran out of Boneville and have to find their way back.
That's pretty much the story. Until they end up siding with the dragons against the rat creatures in a war that leaves no man or bone safe.
It's nuts. It has everything. The blurb for The Princess Bride would fit perfectly on the back of Bone.
I'm stoked that I didn't read Bone until after it was completely released. The individual volumes were released from 1991 until 2004. My life until I was 13 would have been waiting to find out what happened next. Reading it as an omnibus if I ever wanted to know what happened next I would just read another 100 pages.
The pacing was amazing, the character development was amazing, the world was completely fleshed out. I loved the heroes, the villains, the background characters. It would be amazing to own the coloured version, but an extra $90 for colours was too much for me, personally.
I'd recommend buying the book, because I like to flip through pages and smell them. But if you are interested Issue #1 is available for free, and in colour, on Boneville, Jeff Smith's website.
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