FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Fone Bone and his cousins plan to return home after visiting the village of Barrelhaven with Thorn and Gran'ma Ben. But Phoney risks everything on one last get-rich-quick scheme for the town's annual Great Cow Race.
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Part two of the first Bone trilogy has the three Bone cousins further entrenching themselves into their new valley home: Fone Bone is still pining for the lovely Thorn, Phoney Bone is plotting more schemes, and Smiley Bone is still, well, smiling! While it's hard to upstage the hilarity and operatic chaos of the cow race, one of the really special moments of this book is from the first chapter when Fone Bone tries to outdo a beautiful country boy in a battle for Thorn's attention. Bone: The Great Cow Race is funny, joyful, and bittersweet in a way that only the immensely talented Jeff Smith can deliver.
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The saga of the Bone cousins picks up steam in the second collection of one of the most acclaimed new comics. Now that the three refugees from Boneville--our hero Fone Bone, scheming Phony Bone, and happy-go-lucky Smiley Bone--are firmly established in the outside world, the Tolkienesque aspects of the tale become more apparent as we see more of the loathsome rat creatures and catch glimpses of the mysterious childhood the Bone cousins' friend Thorn spent among dragons. But the fantasy doesn't come at the expense of the humor and charm always prominent in Smith's work. "Bone" --and comics generally--don't get more uproarious than the pivotal cow race here, in which cantankerous Gran'ma outruns a herd of bovine contestants. Smith's animation-inspired storytelling, with its traces of Walt Kelly and Carl Barks and its impressive balancing of humor and adventure, continues to astound. Smith's neotraditional approach may not be cutting-edge, but as a graphic novel series that appeals to an audience of more than just comics enthusiasts, his is the "Bone" to pick. Gordon Flagg
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This review is from: Bone Volume 2: The Great Cow Race SC (Paperback)
Jeff Smith's "Bone" series is a critically acclaimed but criminally overlooked epic for a reason. Critics recognize Smith's masterful storytelling abilities and are drawn to his mix of all-ages humor and decidedly adult darkness, but the black and white art and lack of superheroes is anathema to most comic book readers, making it a hit only in the "underground" sense.Smith combines the kind of classic storytelling perfected by the likes of the legendary Carl Barks and Bill Watterson - gleefully funny cartooning with outrageously expressive faces and gestures - with the epic and engaging plotting of a sweeping fairy tale. "Bone" walks a tightrope and walks it well, managing to be something fans of both Donald Duck and Bilbo Baggins can enjoy. Timeless is every way, "Bone" is an expansive story about three "bone creatures" (you'd have to see them to understand) that find themselves in a valley peopled with an assortment of crazy and interesting characters. Looming over it all is the menace of a great evil, first glimpsed by the ferocious (and funny) rat creatures, but later revealed to be something much more disturbing. Thank goodness for trade paperbacks, which have allowed new readers unaccustomed to weekly stops at the comic store to follow this marvelous, epic, enchanting series. In this second volume (out of nine total), Smith ramps up the humor - the idea of an old lady racing a bunch of cows is hilarious - while slowly, deliberately dropping hints that all is not as it seems with some of the village folk, specifically grandma. "The Great Cow Race" continues to sparkle with humor and retains the light tone of the first volume, "Out From Boneville," while Smith offers us just enough looks at the larger tale to keep us going. A fine effort on his part. "Bone" is essential reading that no lover of the comic artform should skip. Little doubt people will still be reading "Bone" 50 years from now. Broad in scope yet personal and quaint, this is a charming story in every way that will long outlast 90 percent of other comic works on the shelf.
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Comics gone epic,
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This review is from: Bone Volume 2: The Great Cow Race SC (Paperback)
The Bone series by Jeff Smith are the best news to hit the comics world in a number of years. All caracters are cute yet intriguing. For anyone with a fascination of Li'll Abner, classic european farietales and Moby Dick, Bone is a must read
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Bone is the greatest!,
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This review is from: The Great Cow Race (Bone, Book 2) (Hardcover)
The Bone series is the greatest group of books that I have! "The Great Cow Race" contains fantasy, adventure, humor, mystery, and more! And it all comes in one book! I really recommend it!
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