Bone 1: Keluar dari Boneville
by Jeff Smith
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Read in May, 2008
recommends it for:
Grades 3 and Up
No CIP. From book jacket: After being run out of Boneville, the three Bone cousins- Fone Bone, Phoney Bone and Smilely Bone- are separated and lost in a vast, uncharted desert. One by one, they find their way into a deep, forested valley filled with wonderful and terrifying creatures. Eventually, the cousins are reunited at a farmstead run by tough Gran'ma Ben and her spirited granddaughter, Thorn. But little do the Bones know, there are dark forces conspiring against them and their adventures a...more
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Bone is a graphic novel about these living bones that got kicked out of their city. As they try to find their way back they all end up getting split up now since all of them are separated, none of them know how to get back home because they don’t function very well when they are separated. The book focuses on one of the characters through most of the story. He got trapped in a forest because when winter comes you can not leave the forest until it is gone. Bone was trapped in the woods...more
Bone is a graphic novel about these living bones that got kicked out of their city. As they try to find their way back they all end up getting split up now since all of them are separated, none of them know how to get back home because they don’t function very well when they are separated. The book focuses on one of the characters through most of the story. He got trapped in a forest because when winter comes you can not leave the forest until it is gone. Bone was trapped in the woods...more
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Read in April, 2008
Bone is a graphic novel about three ‘bones’. Bones are fictional beings that interact with, talk like, and live like humans. The three bones, Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone, start off the book in a desert-like area where we find out that Phoney got kicked out from Boneville, their hometown.
All three Bones fall into a valley and get lost. Fone Bone, the main character, is lost all by himself. He is stuck in the wilderness alone. While Fone Bone is looking for his cousins, he fi...more
All three Bones fall into a valley and get lost. Fone Bone, the main character, is lost all by himself. He is stuck in the wilderness alone. While Fone Bone is looking for his cousins, he fi...more
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Read in August, 2008
I read Bone way back in the early 90s when it was serialized in comic book form, before these gorgeous collections by Scholastic. I recently revisited these and found them to have aged incredibly well. Like the best narratives for young audiences, the adventures of the three cousins Fone Bone, Smiley Bone, and Phoney Bone resonate with adults as well. The only other analogue that comes to mind is some of the work by Pixar. Jeff Smith has created a timeless series that I hope to read to my childr...more
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Read in December, 2007
recommends it for:
especially dull eight-year-olds
People I love think this is a friggin masterpiece, and I love them less for it now.
I picked up the first volume of Bone because I'd heard it had such amazing comic timing, a great storyline and relatively solid artwork. No one mentioned that the dialogue reads as though it were written by a fifth grader, the humor is predictable and the story is so threadbare and uninteresting I began making up my own story for the panels. And to say that the artwork is well done is like saying the dreamcatc...more
I picked up the first volume of Bone because I'd heard it had such amazing comic timing, a great storyline and relatively solid artwork. No one mentioned that the dialogue reads as though it were written by a fifth grader, the humor is predictable and the story is so threadbare and uninteresting I began making up my own story for the panels. And to say that the artwork is well done is like saying the dreamcatc...more
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This star rating is the average of two factors:
1 star because I can't stand to look inside for long because it's soooooooooo ugly to me. It's the most disgusting looking world, and I can't imagine choosing to immerse myself in it. Barren landscapes, rocky hills covered with bones and caves and menacing tangles of dead-looking plants. Red eyes, hag lady, enormously muscled, hairy arms.
5 stars because my students are STILL reading these like mad. I never shelve them because they're immed...more
1 star because I can't stand to look inside for long because it's soooooooooo ugly to me. It's the most disgusting looking world, and I can't imagine choosing to immerse myself in it. Barren landscapes, rocky hills covered with bones and caves and menacing tangles of dead-looking plants. Red eyes, hag lady, enormously muscled, hairy arms.
5 stars because my students are STILL reading these like mad. I never shelve them because they're immed...more
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Read in February, 2008
recommends it for:
fans of american, in-color comics
It was ok, but not really anything special. A friend loaned me it so I felt obligated to read. I wouldn't have picked this one up otherwise. Three cousin, humanish but not-quite-human, are driven out of their hometown, get lost in the wilderness, are separated, find their way to a jungle where the animals and plants talk, and then enter a human village. The evil rats in the jungle seem to have an agenda with the cousins and a dragon looks out for one of them. There's also a cow-racing grand...more
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Read in January, 2007
recommends it for:
walt kelly/tintin/asterix fans
Bone didn't make it onto my radar until a coworker recommended it for my TinTin-obsessed eight-year-old cousin. realizing that I, too, am TinTin-obsessed, I decided to give it a shot.
And, wow. Bone has the adventure of TinTin and the impeccable comic timing and sensibility of Walt Kelly's Pogo; in short, it's the funniest, most exciting, smartest comic book you've never heard of.
Let me put it another way. Regardless of whether or not you read comic books at all, if you have a pulse and you c...more
And, wow. Bone has the adventure of TinTin and the impeccable comic timing and sensibility of Walt Kelly's Pogo; in short, it's the funniest, most exciting, smartest comic book you've never heard of.
Let me put it another way. Regardless of whether or not you read comic books at all, if you have a pulse and you c...more
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Read in January, 2008
I'm interested in viewing this series as a whole since it's supposed to be nearly a classic by now. I have a problem with the name of the cousins. Like Fone Bone. Is it pronounced phoney bone or phone bone? I don't get it. The Bones' bodies also are kind of weird. I like to know what I'm looking at and they just seem to be these little white dudes...the furry rat creatures are cool 'cause Smith constantly draws the reflections of what they're seeing in their eyes. I think I just need to read mor...more
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Read in April, 2007
Wow. Bone is just as great now as I remember. What I'd forgotten, though, is just how quickly the story gets underway. In my mind, the first three or four volumes were establishing the world and the relationships, with a little drama of the rat creatures, cow races, and all that. But no--the story moves, from the instant it starts.
Not worth reviewing each individual volume, because they'll all say the same thing: WOW. This is a fantastic series.
Not worth reviewing each individual volume, because they'll all say the same thing: WOW. This is a fantastic series.
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Read in April, 2008
With an evenly flowing plot and vibrant illustrations, this graphic novel will definitely attract readers. Although the cover with a cute creature named Bone made me think that this was a graphic novel series intended for elementary students, Bone’s companion smokes a cigar and later there is a suggestive picture of a female. The reading level and content is 5th and up, but if you place this in an elementary school library be prepared to defend your purchase.
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Read in March, 2008
Rereading earlier Bone volumes since No. 7 came out in color recently. Out from Boneville is a great intro to the series, balancing the comic Bones and stupid, stupid rat creatures with the more ominous locust swarm and the Hooded One. There are all kinds of great details, like Rose's expressionless face-off with the dragon to the shower of petals that falls when Bone and Thorn take a bath in the lake.
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I do love graphic novels, and in terms of visuals, this is just the way i like it. Colorful, beautiful, rich, with thick and thin lines mixing to form more visual awesomeness. Not perfect, and the story/characters, while great (gotta love the dragon), do often sound like they were conceived after eating a bunch of Elmer's glue and subsequently sticking one's hair into a light socket. But wonderfully so. I admit i do like randomness and zaniness. Worth a read, and i gotta read the other ones.
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Read in November, 2007
Bought this on a whim and loved it! Hilarious, fun, interesting, cleanly executed art, plus I have a crush on Thorn. This is the sort of thing I always wanted to write and illustrate myself, but haven't had time or discipline for. I've thought Bone looked interesting for years, but only got around to picking it up now, and I've really enjoyed it. Even those of you not into graphic novels might like it!
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Read in January, 2003
recommends it for:
Any and All, no reservations
Bone is a lost little soul finding himself caught up in an age old struggle of mythic proportions. This first volume is the set up and introduction of truly memorable characters. I would never trade my copy or let anyone get their grubby hands on it. It's signed by Jeff Smith hisself. I don't care how many eggs you offer me.
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Jeff Smith does a superb job with the art. It’s full of detail and colour, but it doesn’t overshadow the story or the characters. He combines simple lines along with fine details to create a world I couldn’t have created better in my imagination.
If you haven’t read a graphic novel before (and even if you have), I highly recommend you read Bone. It’s funny, engaging, and an excellent graphic novel overall.
If you haven’t read a graphic novel before (and even if you have), I highly recommend you read Bone. It’s funny, engaging, and an excellent graphic novel overall.
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Read in September, 2008
I read this on the recommendation of a GR friend. He said it was a good way to break into graphic novels -- I'm expanding my genres.
I really enjoyed this book. The graphics are vibrant, and the story is fun. The Bone cousins and true characters with amusing interactions and tensions. I love the twists the story took, and can't wait to read the other books in the series!
I really enjoyed this book. The graphics are vibrant, and the story is fun. The Bone cousins and true characters with amusing interactions and tensions. I love the twists the story took, and can't wait to read the other books in the series!
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this is a book/comic about 3 'bone people' (fone bone, phoney bone and smileybone) who are thrown out of their town, but get separated during their journey. it is unlike any book i've ever read...
it's really funny so i reccommend it to people who have a sense of humor
my teacher reccommended it to me because it has hidden philosophical meaning...read to find out
it's really funny so i reccommend it to people who have a sense of humor
my teacher reccommended it to me because it has hidden philosophical meaning...read to find out
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Read in December, 2007
I like it because I think the Red Dragon is kind of funny because the rat creatures just scream and run away every time they see him. When Fone Bone asked, "What's the matter, can't you breathe fire?" his head was singed by the flames that the Red Dragon breathed.
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recommends it for:
everyone!
You don't have to like comics to like this series! If you like humor, if you like fantasy, if you like adventure, if you like surprising plot twists, you should read it. I can't say the Bone series is like anything else, because it's not. Just read it!
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