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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: 2010-04-27 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!