My holiday gift from my sister-in-law was the marvelous Bone: The Complete Cartoon Epic in One Volume, Jeff Smith's career-defining work.
Bone is quite the gift to receive. It's almost one thousand four hundred pages long, and it's big enough that you can lose your coffee cup behind it. I have to confess: at first it was a little intimidating.
But a nice quiet day happened along, and there it was, waiting for me, and so I dove in.
Well, there went 2.5 months!
Bone is everything you could want from a fantasy epic. It has demons, dragons, monsters and villains galore. It has the lovely Princess Thorn and her force-of-nature grandmother. It has cow races!
But most of all, it has Fone Bone, the most lovable and approachable hero in many a year.
It takes a while to read a 1400 page book, even if it is a graphic novel.
But it was worth every page and I enjoyed it through to the end.
I hope Bone is read for generations to come, it's definitely got staying power.
Confession time: the dragon was the best, but Ted the cricket was superb, and I really liked Roque Ja.
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