Out From Boneville is the first of nine volumes in the Bone Adventures. The Bone stories are a series of graphic novels that have been compared to the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I think the setting reminds one of Middle Earth, but the stories themselves are completely different. This volume begins with three cousins who are Bones from Boneville (no explanation is ever given of that), and they have very different personalities. They were run out of town because one of them, Phoney Bone, is a crook.A massive swarm of locusts separates them, and before they are reunited Fone Bone comes into contact with various creatures including a dragon, rat creatures (one of which loves quiche), bugs that look like leaves, a family of opossums, and people. As this is the first volume, here the characters mostly meet and get to know each other, and the reader is left knowing that more is going to happen in later volumes. It is a fun graphic novel to read, and the artwork is simple and enjoyable.
Review by David Dunkerton
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