I am a huge fan of Bone, and I had the chance to hear Jeff Smith speak at an event this summer where he talked a lot about the making of this, his second major comic. I went into it with very high hopes but this comic just didn't end up doing much for me. I really wish all of the female characters hadn't been treated as complete disposable. Having read this doesn't change my opinion of Bone but it will be a strong factor influencing how I think about his future works.

A beautifully painted and intriguingly strange story of love, jealousy and art. A new artist in town rises to popularity with the "in" crowd only to discover it's dark side. In an act of rage, she takes a mean-spirited and ugly revenge on the man she blames for her problems. She tries to hide the evidence, but it is revealed in the most public and scandalous of settings.

This book was a joy and a delight. Set in a D&D-ish fantasy world, it opens with our heroes Rickety Stitch (a reanimated skeleton minstrel) and his dear friend the Gelatinous Goo being fired from their jobs in a corporate dungeon. Seeking better prospects they hit the road. Rickety plays the part of a happy-go-lucky wanderer but when he sleeps he dreams of a haunting song, and the fact of his existence is very strange. Most animated skeletons are mindless automatons who work day and night. But Rickety has a heart, a soul, and soon, a goal: follow the path of his dream song and find the road to Epoli.