Bone - Jeff Smith

Bone is a really cool book, the characters Fone Bone, Phoney, and Smiley all feel like the walked out of an old comic strip. They're very simple and very appealing. The comedy between Smiley and Phoney is pretty stooges-esque. But despite what you expect looking at the cover Bone is a fantasy epic and it's pretty entertaining as things turn.

Normally i wouldn't dream of mixing such silly looking character with realistic ones. The bones don't look like they came from another town, the look like the came from an entirely different comic. But it works so well. It's in the way it's written how the characters respond to eachother's antic. Because real life IS funny. People sometimes act like cartoons. Rosie and Lucius can have big reaction and make jokes aswell, it's not reserved to the Bones. Sometime that rat creatures have you fearing for the heroes life. Sometimes you're laughing at the rat creatures for bickering about quiche! There are distinct personalities in Jeff Smith's writing. but the characters are all very relatable.

I know it was one of the really silly stories but the Great Cow Race cracks me up. It highlighted how low Phoney was, how silly Smiley could be. The second Phoney says he wants to take part in the race you just know somehow things are going to go wrong. But you don't know just how wrong things go until you read it. But that mess of spread with the rat creature colliding with the cows is pretty unforgettable.