Out from Boneville
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| Author | Jeff Smith |
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| Illustrator | Jeff Smith |
| Cover Artist | Jeff Smith |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Series | Bone |
| Genre(s) | Fantasy, comedy |
| Publisher | Cartoon Books |
| Released | May 29, 1996 |
| Media Type | Hardback and paperback |
| Pages | 144 |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-9636609-4-2 (hardback) ISBN 0-9636609-9-3 (paperback) |
| Followed by | The Great Cow Race |
Out From Boneville is the first book in the Bone series. It collects the first six issues of Jeff Smith's self-published Bone comics. It marks the beginning of part one (of three) of the Bone series, titled “Vernal Equinox”. The book was first published by Cartoon Books in its original black-and-white version in 1996. Paperback and hardback coloured editions were published in 2005 by Scholastic, and excerpts from this volume were printed in Disney Adventures over the course of 1994-1998.
The first volume follows the three Bone cousins as they meet the inhabitants of a mysterious valley and seek their help in finding the way back to their home in Boneville.
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[edit] Synopsis
[edit] Out From Boneville
The three Bone cousins, Fone Bone, Smiley Bone and Phoncible P. "Phoney" Bone, have been driven out of their home town of Boneville after Phoney's mayoral election campaign goes disastrously wrong. After wandering lost in the desert for two weeks, Smiley finds a map, but the trio are shortly attacked by a vast swarm of locusts and are separated. Fone Bone wanders lost and alone with only the very vague map and a trail of Smiley's cigar butts to guide him. Before long, he has attracted the attention of a pair of carnivorous Rat Creatures, but a mysterious red dragon is also following him and protecting him. Fone Bone eventually makes it to a lush forested valley, where he meets Ted the Bug, who promises to lead him to Thorn.
[edit] Thorn
Winter has fallen in the valley, and Fone Bone is doing his best to survive, having befriended a family of possums. The Great Red Dragon steps in to save Fone Bone again when the Rat Creatures attack him and the possum children. Fone Bone finally meets the "Thorn" Ted mentioned, discovering she is a beautiful young woman, and is instantly smitten.
[edit] Phoney Bone
Fone Bone is staying at Thorn's house, and helping with chores prior to the arrival of Thorn's grandmother, Gran'ma Ben, who is coming for the annual Great Cow Race. Bone shows Thorn the map they found in the desert, which Thorn finds strangely familiar. Meanwhile Phoney Bone meets Gran'ma Ben, and instantly gets on her wrong side. He and Fone Bone are reunited when Gran'ma Ben arrives at the farm house.
[edit] Kingdok
The day before the Spring Fair at the nearby town, Fone and Phoney are helping out at Thorn and Ben's farmstead. Seeing the opportunity to make some money, the greedy Phoney sneaks out to go to town early, but en route he encounters the two Rat Creatures and their ruler, Kingdok. He overhears the Rat Creatures are on the lookout for a "small bald creature with a star on its chest", a clear description of Phoney Bone himself. The Rat Creatures are called to high council with The Hooded One, who sends every Rat Creature in the valley to attack the farm house.
[edit] Barrelhaven
With the farm house under attack, Gran'ma Ben fights off the Rat Creatures, giving Thorn and Fone the chance to escape. When Thorn and Fone get surrounded Fone calls out to the Great Red Dragon for help, who chases the Rat Creature army away. They return to the farm house to find it wrecked and smouldering. Meanwhile, Phoney Bone arrives at the Barrelhaven tavern and discovers to his astonishment Smiley Bone working there as a barman.
[edit] Phoney's Inferno
Thorn, Fone and the Dragon arrive back at the farm house to find Gran'ma Ben alive. Clearly she and the Dragon have a past together (the Dragon addresses her by her first name, Rose). However, Gran'ma Rose Ben remains distrustful of the Dragon, despite his driving off the Rat Creatures. Meanwhile, Phoney Bone is forced to work under Lucius Down, proprietor of the Barrelhaven tavern, to pay off his bar tab (his coveted Boneville money being worthless in the valley). As he plans ways to get rich off the villagers' goods instead, he is visited by The Hooded One, who claims to want his soul. When Thorn, Ben and Fone Bone arrive in town for the Spring Fair, the three Bone cousins are reunited at last.
[edit] Video game
Bone: Out From Boneville, a video game adaptation of this book developed by Telltale Games, is available for the PC, and is the first in a series of Bone games from the same developers.
[edit] External links
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Bone series
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| Comics: | Out from Boneville | The Great Cow Race | Eyes of the Storm | The Dragonslayer | Rock Jaw | Old Man's Cave | Ghost Circles | Treasure Hunters | Crown of Horns |
| Spin-offs: | Stupid, Stupid Rat Tails | Rose |
| Games: | Out from Boneville | The Great Cow Race |
