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Sep. 24th, 2010 12:25 pmI've finished Bone! ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jothra, you were right - that ending was SERIOUSLY EPIC.
To give the rest of you guys an idea of the trajectory of Bone and its tonality, over the couse of nine volumes we go from this:
(Look! A wacky cow race! Lolarious costumes!)
to this:
(Look! Badass Grandma Rose making an impossible stand to singlehandedly defend the city from AN ENTIRE FREAKING ARMY.)
Other plot points involve doomed love, family betrayal, attack of the giant zombie dragon, and, of course, the end of the world. (I would like to make an especial note about the doomed love, because when was the last time the tragic love affair between badass seventy-somethings was the major focus of a fantasy epic?) Tiny Ted the adorable bug also continues to play an important role. I would totally recommend this from beginning to end.
I also read the prequel, Rose, which I enjoyed but not as much - I am sorry, Charles Vess, your drawings are very pretty but somehow not as adorkably endearing as Jeff Smith's. Also I was bothered by how apparently fifty years ago, no one had yet learned how to use contractions. Also also, the ending, SO SAD. ;_; (I . . . am aware that I probably should not find it sadder than Bone, but Bone was also funnier! AND ALSO I'M SORRY BUT I DO.)
jothra, you were right - that ending was SERIOUSLY EPIC.To give the rest of you guys an idea of the trajectory of Bone and its tonality, over the couse of nine volumes we go from this:
(Look! A wacky cow race! Lolarious costumes!)
to this:
(Look! Badass Grandma Rose making an impossible stand to singlehandedly defend the city from AN ENTIRE FREAKING ARMY.)
Other plot points involve doomed love, family betrayal, attack of the giant zombie dragon, and, of course, the end of the world. (I would like to make an especial note about the doomed love, because when was the last time the tragic love affair between badass seventy-somethings was the major focus of a fantasy epic?) Tiny Ted the adorable bug also continues to play an important role. I would totally recommend this from beginning to end.
I also read the prequel, Rose, which I enjoyed but not as much - I am sorry, Charles Vess, your drawings are very pretty but somehow not as adorkably endearing as Jeff Smith's. Also I was bothered by how apparently fifty years ago, no one had yet learned how to use contractions. Also also, the ending, SO SAD. ;_; (I . . . am aware that I probably should not find it sadder than Bone, but Bone was also funnier! AND ALSO I'M SORRY BUT I DO.)
