I never see people talk about the Bone series very much. I discovered this series back in 6th grade when it came out, and it was such a big part of my childhood. Used to read these almost every day after coming home from school and always begged my mom to get me the next one when it came out.
Jeff Smith made a damn good series.
I only read that fantasy series where they end up embroiled in a more grounded setting. I remember liking it a lot.
Didn't actually know there was a more typical comic series behind it.
convos about it here just don't hold for whatever reason
I've seen several threads on here dedicated to it. Since I didn't read it as a kid, it was pretty meh for me.
The problem is it's pretty much universally agreed to be great. There's just not a lot to discuss there. Bone threads tend to be "Bone is great, isn't it?" "Yep." Conversation over.
There's nothing to discuss because we all agree that it's great.
It's hard to have some form of discussion on it because, it is unanimously agreed to be good, or decent enough that the positives drown out the negatives. Looking back at it now, I wouldn't have enjoyed it as much as I did growing up.
Did anyone else think the Rat Creatures cropped ears were horns at first?
Pogo and Nausicaä had a baby and it's this
This is always the excuse. I think people who actually read comics fucked off from this website.
This is partly true, but if you have anything to say about Bone yourself I'm sure everyone in the thread would love to hear it.
Yea Forums is only attracted to controversy. "Bone" is one of the greatest comics ever made. What is there to talk about? It's not even like "Watchmen" where there is a big enough hatedom to keep discussions going. Most people on this pos website have either not read it or they love.
>post yfw quiche
>Yea Forums is only attracted to controversy.
What's funny is that Jeff Smith does have some of his own controversy, but most people don't know who Dave Sim is either.
>Jeff Smith made a damn good series.
he was a good artists and I enjoyed the black and white illustrations at a time when everything was in color but Bone should have been called S O Y
hippy dippy "humming" that explains everything
strong men are all cucked and bitter and have no role beyond being angry and finally sacrificing themselves
women and so ylent bone creatures are the protagonists and posses inexplicable strength and/or luck to succeed in battle situations where fighting men were killed
there's a (((greedy))) so ybonelet that despite being completely evil is still protected and coddled as a important person because he's one of the tribe
Jeff Smith went on to punch Dave Sim over muh femnism, which is really so y overload because Bone owes at least a 1/3rd of its style and subsequent audience to Cerebus.
anyways if you read Bone as a kid I just hope you're not trans by now.
oh totally
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>that diarrhea of the s-word
post disregarded
This happens with literally anything people generally agree is good without them making a concerted effort to keep a thread(s) afloat.
Bone is wonderful. Easily my favorite book ever. But that's probably why you don't see many threads about it. Most people who read it just sort of agree it's good and we move on. Not really a lot of room to shit post. Just aces.
a well-made cartoon that follows the story to a T would be such a great watch
I don't think it's great. It's alright.
>Easily my favorite book ever.
Why?
>LALALALA THIS ISN'T HAPPENING LALALALA
truth knocking at your door will never go away user
>Why?
I like the way it builds it's characters and how the story escalates naturally from being basically a goofy gag book to a fantasy epic.
>there's a (((greedy))) so ybonelet that despite being completely evil is still protected and coddled as a important person because he's one of the tribe
Phoney is the most dunked on character in the entire comic
>tfw Phoney didn't even get to keep the treasure after all the bullshit he pulled with Smiley, enough to make a whole book based around it
Phoney was based, I don't give a fuck. He was the equivalent of a Fallout character that chose the snarkiest responses to all dialogue trees but dumped all his points into Charisma anyway.
>Phoney is the most dunked on character in the entire comic
pffft no,
Lucius Down is the the long suffering man who lives only to suffer in isolation and at least finally find peace in death in Smiths' woke fantasy where grannies don't need no men and have fast cows and can beat the shit out of monsters with their bear hands
Phoney is protected and loved despite being pure evil and causing all the problems
Lucius is the hero and he's treated worse than one of the rat creatures
Bone universe is totally subversive, the wicked and weak are adored and the strong and moral are ground up into a paste to feed the wicked and weak.
a little bit like real life if you allow the similarities
hardworking people will suffer more because they take paths that are more challenging and have more risk
it is usually easy to do evil, it is rarely easy to do good
I remember it was talked about a lot more on Yea Forums in the late 00s, probably because it was still recent at the time.
I appreciated all that when I read it, but I felt that the actual substance was lacking. I didn't really care about the characters by the end, either. I enjoyed the art, though.
nothing like real life in my experience except for the part where male feminists are full of cope
i don't know any kick ass grannies and the relatively kick ass ones are all married to even more kick ass grandpas
bone is just another male feminist fantasy in a world where men are either vanishing or there are no positive male role models.
Its just amazing how people can't even imagine a positive form of masculinity without completely subverting or discarding it in their head canon.
I was real happy when i found out it had been ongoing already, i rented all the old black and white versions from the library
Phoney isn't loved. At most he's tolerated.
Why is she so perfect?
I powered through the whole series in a day a short while back. It was pretty good and definitely inspiring, but for some reason I don't look back on it with the same reverence as I do other comics. I don't know why.
>i shitposted a bunch of meaningless trash and masquerade it as an informative post LEL GET KEKED BASEDBOY
Go back to /pol/.
3/10 you're trying way too hard.
I was really passionate about it back when it was still coming out and I would try to share it with a whole bunch of people. For some reason even the friends I had who ended up collecting the series never seemed to like it for the same reasons I did which honestly really annoyed me, lame as that sounds. Trying to be excited with others about the lore or backgrounds of the characters but then the only thing they can recall are the comic relief moments is super frustrating. Don’t get me wrong, I love the running quiche gag as much as the next user but ‘muh dreamin’ and ‘muh dragons’ etc.
Reminder that Fone Bone got to bathe with his waifu
I've tried picking up Bone, but the beginning really turns me off. When the author should be hooking me in with a unique concept, he mostly just tries to imitate Pogo. Smiley is such a xerox of Albert the alligator, it just makes me want to read the original stuff by Walt Kelly instead of someone referencing him so hard.
I really should stick it out sometime since it apparently gets good later, but it sure rubs me the wrong way when the author starts by showing me how derivative he is.
someone explain me Thorn flying in the last volume
Been a while since I've read the books but I think it was something like she was so connected to the dreaming that she could basically do things that you could only do in a dream
Dragon I think
Hey, since we all agree that Bone is great, anyone wanna discuss the quiche
Has Jeff ever mentioned Nausicaä? It seems like an obvious influence.
I love talking about jeff smiths work but only from an artistic stand point. Ive read very little of his comics but love to study his masterful brushwork
Lord of the Rings, Huckleberry Finn, Star Wars, Moebius, Carl Barks, Pogo have been mentioned. In what way is Nausicaa an obvious influence?
Veni-Yan-Cari, I ain't gotta 'splain shit
Pretty much all of the food looked hella good, even the stuff the old coot who had the kitchen on a rooftop was making
Also what kind of pre-monetary store of value are fucking EGGS
the rat creatures are fluffy Ohmu
Thorn is a magic flying princess who restores the land
A mystical order of hooded monks with eyes on their hoods
I like it alot. Turned out to be a smaller adventure that I expected. Happy that it was paced well and ended at a good time. Lucius dying felt bullshit but expected though.
>the rat creatures are fluffy Ohmu
That's a stretch.
>Thorn is a magic flying princess who restores the land
>A mystical order of hooded monks with eyes on their hoods
These make more sense but I've seen these in other stories.
Why do people seem to hate the colorized version?
Pretty confused why we never got a movie or tv show this shits Sunday funnnies meets lord of the rings, honestly it could really work as an adapted film
Because she’s a princess
there were motions toward such
but he refused to go with any of them because of things the studios wanted to add in
Cane Bones even bone?
Crazy magic and dreaming shit
I hear Nick wanted a musical or som
>all this Lord of the Locusts hype
>oh shit he's got their Queen, end game keikaku all this plotting and planning and murder has come to fruition
>100,000,000 dragons fart out of the earth and take her down
>the end
it was so very close, but it blew the last part
Yeah pretty much this. It felt like he didn't know how he actually wanted to end it.
ghost circles were a good supernatural obstacle at least
>Be primordial dragon queen and ruler of both realms
>Go bat shit after 1 spirit possession and forcibly sealed for thousands of years by other dragons
Has there ever been a bigger jobber? Sure she was a butch to put down but they did for a long time
>has there ever been a bigger jobber
Tarsil
Oh yeah forgot about that guy he’s got completely fucked the second he went against Briar
Apparently he’s in talks right now
So anyone else feel bad for Kingdok guy got seriously fucked in the end
>I HAVE FACED DRAGONS
More like been dabbed on by dragons lmao
That guy was all bite and no bark
We had amazing storytelling thread like 3 years ago. Now I own all 3 tomes and I LOVE IT
The two stupid, stupid rat creatures were the best part of the book desu.
Why were there no female bones? The love interest happens to be a blue eyed blonde white women. Is this some kind of metaphor?
Correct and there are no new things, so it will be less remembered or discussed.
Its the natural way things go.
Noone discuss Earth X or Kingdom come only if there happens to be something that its related to it. Or someone decided to storytime it.
Remember when he cartoon physics-d up a beefy arm? He'd probably be able to expand dong similarly.
>Warner Bone Movie
>Stated to be a trilogy
>Directed by Mark Osborne (Kung Fu Panda, Little Prince
>Still in development hell
>Instead we're getting a shitty Scooby Doo movie and Space Jam 2 to cash in on the meme market
Fuck WAG
It could be worse. We could've got the nickelodeon bone movie
There were in the supplementary material and spin off books it’s just the the three brothers hot tge biggest focus, side not anyone things it’s hulati how technologically speaking the Bones outpace the entire valley by thousands of years?