THAT ENDING! Holy cliffhanger!

Things are looking really bad now for the townspeople of Barrelhaven. The rat creatures have invaded the valley and destroyed the town with everyone holed up in Old Man's Cave as a last redoubt. The Lord of the Locusts is also revealed and it's awesome. I really like how Smith widens the scope of the book with each arc, ratcheting up the danger and drama. Even though Smith has an animated cartoon style, he's fantastic at delivering tension in his art.

The epic story of the Valley is gradating and (almost) finishing here. I exactly didn't like that the story actually did not ended here, just some sort of "erupted", calmed and somehow continue. I just missed the grand finale, but I got cliffhanger and more question. I did not enjoyed this book as much as previous ones...

This gripping fantasy continues to develop and refine the magical conflict. “The dreaming is a great river of power that flows around us in all directions... “When we dream, we peer through a foggy glass into the river and see a world connected to all other living things.“That dreaming world exists even when we are awake.”

This series just makes me extremely happy; I love the mix of high fantasy and humor, and Jeff Smith's artwork is just excellent as always.

Not the best in the story line so far. I really don't care about the stupidity of the gullible villagers or long discourses on the metaphysics of the world (especially since both topics have been covered in detail the entire series to this point). I really just want more adventures of Fone Bone and Thorn and maybe Smiley. Even the two outcast Rat Creatures are more interesting characters. Heck bring back the Possum kids the other orphan gang. Next

War. War never changes.

Lots of twist and turns in Bone Volume 6. One twisty revelation made me laugh out loud and one was gruesome. I enjoyed the drawings in the first dozen pages of this addition. There were several close-ups of human faces, which I don't remember seeing before in this series. The artist said so much in the worried expressions and tired, care-worn faces. I also liked the two page spread that was part landscape and part action with the dialogue happening across the bottom of the page as the rat creatu...

The cast aren't in their happy place as the book starts. Thorn is worried she can't trust Grandma Ben. The village has been attacked and rat creatures are swarming everywhere. The villagers hate Phoney Bone, but the rat creatures want to kidnap him for some sinister sacrifice. Thorn's dreams are haunted.But at the same time we have the usual goofy interactions between the cast that keep this from being just an epic fantasy graphic novel. And we have the big reveal of why Phoney is marked by dest...

Oh baby, how about that! Best one yet.

So, Bone continues to get stranger, and stranger.Gran'ma Ben has been found once more, setting up a stronghold with Lucius in Old Man's Cave. Here, the people of the Valley are preparing for what appears to be a last stand against the rat creatures. Phoney Bone learns just why everyone and their mother seems to be after him. Thorn reveals why she is avoiding, rather than joining everyone else. And the dragons? Nowhere to be seen, not really...Who is the Lord of Locusts? We learn this for certain...

It's all serious business now.

Originally reviewed here.Why I Read It: Next in a series.In this volume, we finally, FINALLY, figure out why the Hooded One wants to find Phoney Bone. I rejoiced because question has been bugging me for the ENTIRE series thus far. Seriously, what could he want with that stupid guy? But the answer I was given kind of... confused me. At first I thought: "Wait, wut?" Then I thought it was all kind of funny. Then it felt sort of anti-climatic, but still mostly funny. Then I got over it and thought i...

This is a big improvement on volume 5. The story gets back on track and the most interesting characters return to the story. I would say it's not as good as the first four volumes though. The story has shifted into epic mode, so a lot of the small character driven moments that made the earlier volumes endearing are missing here.

Pretty high action in this volume!The war is on! And our heroes are kind of strewn about the valley. I like that the characters keep getting split up and then meeting again always under dire circumstances. The cutesy-ness of the last volume lasted about as long as I expected and now I'm looking forward to more changes to the status quo.The villains plan was stopped right at the last second and do to pretty funny means. However, getting rid of our first antagonist (who was pretty bad) means that

Smiley and Fone bone are trying to stop the hooded one from getting Phoney and releasing an ancient enemy of the dragons known as the lord of the locusts

Well, that's not creepy or anything.

It is adding to the storyline of the rat creatures trying to take over the world. In the end the rats attack a lot of the people in the town.

This book reveals more of the plotting between The Hooded One and the Lord of the Locusts, and follows the inhabitants of the valley as they pick up the pieces after the attacks by the Rat Creature army.I took that from the description, but it basically says all there is to say. The longer I read this, the more sure I become that I would not have continued reading if I had to wait for the installments. The difference in the material between book 1 and this one is worlds. I love where the story i...

Ooooo great look what "The one who bears the star on his chest"did."The one who bears the star on his chest" started this war between us(Barrelhaven)and the rat creatures.Because he wanted to be dumb and pull off a bet with this big guy named Lucius.But The one who bears the star on his chest is phoney Bone made a bet and phoney Bone made a promise to us, that he would slay a dragon and betrayed us but the bet is in Book 4. This comic book is really good because its very discriptive it has good