{"id":2455,"date":"2025-03-06T23:01:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T04:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?p=2455"},"modified":"2025-03-07T09:42:17","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T14:42:17","slug":"ive-finally-read-jeff-smiths-bone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?p=2455","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve Finally Read Jeff Smith&#8217;s Bone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bone is a graphic novel I&#8217;ve been aware of but never read. Recently I took the plunge and bought the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bone-Complete-Cartoon-Epic-One\/dp\/188896314X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Complete Bone Saga<\/a> in the original black and white. 1400 pages of Good stuff! While I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s as ground breaking as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Watchmen-Alan-Moore\/dp\/0930289234\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watchmen<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Batman-Dark-Knight-Returns-Anniversary\/dp\/1401263119\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Dark Knight Returns<\/a>, or as important as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Complete-Maus-Art-Spiegelman\/dp\/0679406417\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maus<\/a>, it&#8217;s an expansion of what the graphic novel format can be. Really Jeff Smith admits, he was trying to channel Walt Kelly&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/I-Go-Pogo-Best\/dp\/0486838358\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pogo<\/a> and it shows.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/images\/Bone.jpg\" alt=\"Bone\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good yarn, entertaining for adults or kids. Fone Bone and his cousins Smiley Bone and Phoncible P. &#8220;Phoney&#8221; Bone get lost escaping Boneville and the results of one of Phoney&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bone is a graphic novel I&#8217;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&#8217;t think it&#8217;s as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?p=2455\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/?author=1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2455"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2473,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2455\/revisions\/2473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mrboch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}