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skygiantsI have been meaning to write these up for ages! So ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jothra recommended the Bone comics to me; I have now read through the first three volumes (Out From Boneville, The Great Cow Race, and Eyes of the Storm) and I am totally, utterly charmed. They're so adorable! There are also hints that eventually they're going to get Epic, but right now I am stuck on 'charmed'. I am also super impressed that Jeff Smith manages to write dialect that is neither over-cutesy or cringeworthy.
Basically, the story focuses on three cousins from a village that is apparently entirely composed of people who look like this:
This is our protagonist, Fone Bone, trying to write love poetry. (Despite having read Moby Dick multiple times, he's not very good at it.)
The Bones get kicked out of Boneville because of all the money-scams perpetrated by one of the cousins, Phoney Bone (the names: not subtle), wander through the wilderness for a while, and end up somewhere completely different where no one has ever seen a Bone before and most people look like this:
This is Thorn, Fone Bone's objet d'crush, and her incredibly badass legendary warrior grandmother. (That is kind of a spoiler, I guess, but it is a spoiler that is so awesome I don't mind telling you and I expect you don't mind knowing either.)
As the series goes on, it seems to be veering more away from cow races and baby possums and more towards dragons and long-lost heirs to the throne and, possibly, the devil? There's a soul-selling plot, anyway, so who knows where that's going.
This is a hilariously long-suffering dragon, and with that I will leave you.
jothra recommended the Bone comics to me; I have now read through the first three volumes (Out From Boneville, The Great Cow Race, and Eyes of the Storm) and I am totally, utterly charmed. They're so adorable! There are also hints that eventually they're going to get Epic, but right now I am stuck on 'charmed'. I am also super impressed that Jeff Smith manages to write dialect that is neither over-cutesy or cringeworthy.Basically, the story focuses on three cousins from a village that is apparently entirely composed of people who look like this:
This is our protagonist, Fone Bone, trying to write love poetry. (Despite having read Moby Dick multiple times, he's not very good at it.)
The Bones get kicked out of Boneville because of all the money-scams perpetrated by one of the cousins, Phoney Bone (the names: not subtle), wander through the wilderness for a while, and end up somewhere completely different where no one has ever seen a Bone before and most people look like this:
This is Thorn, Fone Bone's objet d'crush, and her incredibly badass legendary warrior grandmother. (That is kind of a spoiler, I guess, but it is a spoiler that is so awesome I don't mind telling you and I expect you don't mind knowing either.)
As the series goes on, it seems to be veering more away from cow races and baby possums and more towards dragons and long-lost heirs to the throne and, possibly, the devil? There's a soul-selling plot, anyway, so who knows where that's going.
This is a hilariously long-suffering dragon, and with that I will leave you.
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Date: 2010-04-26 05:12 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-04-26 05:13 pm (UTC)Now you're making me want to re-read it, dang it.
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Date: 2010-04-26 05:49 pm (UTC)I fully encourage all rereading. *helpful*
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Date: 2010-04-26 06:45 pm (UTC)*giggles* I just went down to the basement to my comic book box to grab the comics I tore out of the DAs.
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Date: 2010-04-26 06:58 pm (UTC)I'M NOT PROUD OF MY TEN-YEAR-OLD READING HABITS OKAY. ;_;
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Date: 2010-04-26 07:20 pm (UTC)[Okay, I -totally- just got startled. I went to the ElfQuest website, then switched over this tab while I waited for it to load, and suddenly my computer started howling at me!]
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Date: 2010-04-26 07:27 pm (UTC)[*cracks up* And another reason not to go to that website at work! My coworkers, uh, might not be amused.]
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Date: 2010-04-27 01:43 am (UTC)(I got into ElfQuest in part through Piers Anthony too, but I feel it's a far superior work on the whole. At least it was when the Pinis were writing it.)
*judges*
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Date: 2010-04-27 04:04 am (UTC)Yeeeeah, I know what you mean. That's why I loved it when "The Searcher & the Sword" and "The Discovery" came out. It was new Richard and Wendy story and art!
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Date: 2010-04-26 05:46 pm (UTC)I so want to grow up to be Gran'ma Ben!
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Date: 2010-04-26 06:17 pm (UTC)I am also really excited to find out what on earth is going on with Phoney Bone, because I have to say I kind of love that Phoney is the prophecied one everyone is looking for.
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Date: 2010-04-26 06:38 pm (UTC)You mean the scene where Fone first sees Thorn and his hat catches on fire? I remember noticing the difference myself when I read the comic in the graphic novel. XD
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Date: 2010-04-27 01:01 am (UTC)Last year the arts center on campus had a Jeff Smith exhibition. It was awesome! ...And I had no money so I didn't get Bone then, and I keep ending up buying other things.
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