Bone is a graphic novel I’ve been aware of but never read. Recently I took the plunge and bought the Complete Bone Saga in the original black and white. 1400 pages of Good stuff! While I don’t think it’s as ground breaking as Watchmen, or The Dark Knight Returns, or as important as Maus, it’s an expansion of what the graphic novel format can be. Really Jeff Smith admits, he was trying to channel Walt Kelly’s Pogo and it shows.

It’s a good yarn, entertaining for adults or kids. Fone Bone and his cousins Smiley Bone and Phoncible P. “Phoney” Bone get lost escaping Boneville and the results of one of Phoney’s many scams. Large rat creatures, dragons, talking animals a major quest and a war of good versus evil follow. If you like stuff like that, and I do, I highly recommend it.