Also it sucks that he went back and re-lettered the whole thing on computer
― Fantastic. Great move. Well done (sic), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 17:47 (four years ago) link
“Orphaned, salt-of-the-earth adolescent learns that s/he is descended from royalty/power” is a compelling storyline — and while Bone is hardly the first to employ it, it uses it well (and it predates, say, Harry Potter!).
― Murdered-Out Highlander XLE (morrisp), Sunday, 1 March 2020 04:17 (four years ago) link
The revelation of why all the bad guys are fixed on Phoney Bone is (as mentioned above) pretty clever. The book’s pretty exciting around this point, too.
― Murdered-Out Highlander XLE (morrisp), Monday, 2 March 2020 04:33 (four years ago) link
The section (apparently) leading up to a siege on the old city gets very dense with the politics and minutiae of the story’s main armed conflict... there’s even a blockade of trade routes and a merchants’ guild (I can’t help but assume The Phantom Menace was an influence, which seems to track with the publication timeframe).I guess I’m not so into this aspect of the story... reminds me of how every time I tried reading LOTR as a teen, I would get bored and quit halfway through, lol.
― tamagotchi revival artist (morrisp), Thursday, 5 March 2020 04:54 (four years ago) link
(I also should note that my son is reading chunks of the book on his own during the day, and then we’re picking it up together at bedtime; so I’m only reading parts of the story, and getting filled in on what I missed, which obv. doesn’t make for a fair basis to review it.)
― tamagotchi revival artist (morrisp), Thursday, 5 March 2020 05:00 (four years ago) link
My son has now read Bone three times (largely on his own), so I’m fully sold on its gold status as a kid’s book.
― morrisp, Thursday, 2 April 2020 06:15 (four years ago) link
aww that's great
― Dollarmite Is My Name (sic), Thursday, 2 April 2020 07:01 (four years ago) link
Any good suggestions for follow-ups; maybe something similarly detailed & epic? I've Googled around a little, but don't know kids' comics very well (and I mostly know superheroes, which he's only mildly into). Thx
― morrisp, Wednesday, 15 April 2020 04:03 (four years ago) link
Amulet, maybe?https://kids.scholastic.com/kids/books/amulet/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 06:19 (four years ago) link
Also the Barks books are kinda urgent and keyhttps://www.fantagraphics.com/series/the-complete-carl-barks-disney-library/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 15 April 2020 06:20 (four years ago) link
Thanks — Amulet came up in my search, I’ll look into that.
― morrisp, Wednesday, 15 April 2020 06:58 (four years ago) link
Not quite as epic (only six volumes) but Cleopatra in Space might be up your alley.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 15 April 2020 08:45 (four years ago) link
I showed the boy these options, and he chose Amulet; we’ll see how he likes Book 1 (I notice, er, that the kids’ father dies in the beginning... *tugs at collar*)
― morrisp, Thursday, 16 April 2020 03:05 (four years ago) link
my 2 year old daughter absolutely loves smith's book for the spiegelman/mouly kids books imprint toon. it's called little mouse gets ready. from where i was sitting tonight i could see her face as my wife read it to her and it was really ridiculously delightful. actually pulled out my big bone phonebook to try and judge when it can be deployed. not yet.
― adam, Thursday, 16 April 2020 03:09 (four years ago) link