Bone (graphic novel)
Bone is a Once Upon A Wintertime graphic novel by Jeff Smith. It was originally serialized in an independently, irregularly published comic book series for 55 issues, from 1991 to 2004, notable as one of the longest-running self-published comic book series by a single writer/artist.
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Out From Boneville
[edit]Chapter One: The Map
[edit]- Phoney: ...so a couple of shady business deals went sour...is THAT any reason to run th' most BELOVED BONE in Boneville out on a RAIL?!
- Fone Bone: Yes.
- Smiley: Beloved? The mayor declared a school holiday just so th' kids could come and throw rocks at you!
- Smiley: Hey cousins, look what I found! I thinks it's a map!
- Fone Bone: ?!
- Smiley: Sure enough! Look! It's a map of that mountain range!
- Phoney: I'm saved! Give it to me!
- Smiley: Gimme a dollar first.
- Phoney: What?
- Fone Bone: Go on Phoney, give him a dollar!
- Phoney: WHAT?!
- Fone Bone: We're lost in the middle of the desert! Give him a dollar!
- Phoney: All right, all right...HEY! What is this? This looks like it was drawn by a five-year-old! This thing is WORTHLESS!
- Smiley: It's worth a dollar!
Chapter Two: Thorn
[edit]- Fone Bone: Those rat creatures would have to be pretty stupid to follow me on this frail little branch.
- [both rat creatures jump onto the tiny branch]
- Fone Bone: STUPID, STUPID RAT CREATURES!!!
Chapter Three: Phoney Bone
[edit]Chapter Four: Kingdok
[edit]Chapter Five: Barrelhaven
[edit]Chapter Six: Phoney's Inferno
[edit]Landmark quotes
[edit]- "STUPID, STUPID RAT-CREATURES!"- Fone Bone to the Rat Creatures
- "Monsters do not behave themselves - that's the whole idea!"- Rat Creature
- Fone Bone: "Why is Smiley wearing a cow suit?"
- Smiley: "I'M not Smiley, I'm a REAL cow! Moo!"
- Phoney Bone: "My world is crumbling around me"
- "Upon your feet / You have ten toes / They look just like / Po-ta-toes!" (one of Fone Bone's more atrocious lyrical attempts)
- "If I didn't learn it in the fourth grade, it didn't need learning."- Smiley Bone
- "You know what? I've just about had it with you. First you messed with my cousin, now you're messin' with my girl! Let's go -- right now!"- Fone Bone
- "Surrender Small Mammal!!" - Rat Creatures
- "Never play an ace where a two will do"- Dragon
- "QUICHE"- Rat Creature
