This is the book that made us understand that black and white comics that use cartoony characters that when done right can make a riveting read (before we stumble across other stuff like Walking Dead and Chew) ...
Basically the tale opens with no time wasted for back story as we see the Bone cousins from Boneville out of breath running away from the townspeople and from the dialogue captions, we learnt that Phoney Bone (guy wearing star on his shirt) is the richest man in Boneville owing to his many schemes while Smiley Bone (tall wearing vest and always smoking) is the easy going one of the trio who can at times be brave or wise but never appears so. And then there is our protagonist the naked Bone called Fone (for no apparent reason)
So while they are stuck on a mountaintop, the areas oddness began to assail them first with a swarm of locusts (Phoney even tried to stick his tongue out) that totally blanketed them until Fone found himself running on air, literally and tumbled down into the valley
Thus begins his trek to find his cousins and find a way out of wherever it is he has stumbled into relying only on a grotty map that Smiley found earlier and hoping that the other two are on the same trek direction as him
Characters he came across in this first issue that will be back in subsequent issues include tiny Ted, a leaf insect kid ... the Red Dragon ... and the clumsy supposedly nasty but comical rat creatures
The panels are definitely fluidly drawn and yet there is so many hidden gems and what - not. Author Smith has certainly spent a lot of time thinking about the story, the backstory of each of his characters and painstakingly create a landscape totally unique - love the arrival of winter!
Ratings: 9/10
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