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An AnimatedAdaptation has been in DevelopmentHell for quite some time. In the 1990s, Creator/NickelodeonMovies, having just released the hit film ''WesternAnimation/TheRugratsMovie'', had an alarmingly misguided vision of what they wanted it to be, and Smith was the one who bailed out of the deal. The film rights were then bought by Creator/WarnerBros, and [[http://www.printmag.com/comics-and-animation/jeff-smith-bone-film/ the reports on the production team]] were that Creator/AnimalLogic, the studio behind ''WesternAnimation/HappyFeet'' and ''Film/TheMatrix'', would animate, P.J. Hogan (''Film/MyBestFriendsWedding'', ''Film/ConfessionsOfAShopaholic'', the 2003 live-action ''Film/PeterPan'') would direct, and it would be adapted for the screen by Patrick Sean Smith (Creator/ABCFamily[='=]s ''Series/{{Greek}}''). In [[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/kung-fu-panda-director-mark-osborne-helm-adaptation-cult-comic-bone-947977 2016]], Mark Osborne (''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'', ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Prince|2015}}'') became the new director, while he and Adam Kline replaced Patrick Sean Smith as the screenwriters.

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An AnimatedAdaptation has been in DevelopmentHell for quite some time. In the 1990s, Creator/NickelodeonMovies, having just released the hit film ''WesternAnimation/TheRugratsMovie'', had an alarmingly misguided vision of what they wanted it to be, and Smith was the one who bailed out of the deal. The film rights were then bought by Creator/WarnerBros, and [[http://www.printmag.com/comics-and-animation/jeff-smith-bone-film/ the reports on the production team]] were that Creator/AnimalLogic, the studio behind ''WesternAnimation/HappyFeet'' and ''Film/TheMatrix'', would animate, P.J. Hogan (''Film/MyBestFriendsWedding'', ''Film/ConfessionsOfAShopaholic'', the 2003 live-action ''Film/PeterPan'') would direct, and it would be adapted for the screen by Patrick Sean Smith (Creator/ABCFamily[='=]s ''Series/{{Greek}}''). In [[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/kung-fu-panda-director-mark-osborne-helm-adaptation-cult-comic-bone-947977 2016]], Mark Osborne (''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'', (''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda1'', ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Prince|2015}}'') became the new director, while he and Adam Kline replaced Patrick Sean Smith as the screenwriters.
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* ComedicStrangling: At the end of the first book, Phoney and Fone Bone reunite. Fone Bone happily runs up to Phoney, only to start strangling him as Phoney gets comically big eyes and his tongue hangs out.
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* TheGhost: Boneville. Jeff Smith has outright said that he prefers never to depict it, as not only is it not the focus of the story, but it's better to leave it up to the reader's imagination.

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* TheGhost: Boneville. Jeff Smith has outright said that he prefers never to depict it, as not only is it not the focus of the story, but it's better to leave it up to the reader's imagination. That being said we do actually get glimpses of it in spinoff material. ''Stupid Stupid Rat Tales'' ends with Big Johnson Bone establishing his trading post which would eventually become the center of Boneville, Quest for the Spark shows the inside of Percival’s house, and even ''Bone Adventures'' does seem to take place in Boneville. (Granted, all we see is a paved sidewalk, stairs and a park bench.)
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* CityMouse: The Bones are typically depicted as this, contrasted with the CountryMouse people of the Valley. Though Boneville is never seen in the original story, Boneville’s amenities are occasionally name-dropped: conveniences like comic books and corn dogs are treated as natural where whey come from, suggesting Boneville is more akin to our world than anything else. Among other things, the Bones have never had to prepare their own food (i.e. killing chickens and milking cows), and are aware of—but aren’t used to dealing with—the Valley’s barter system.

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* CityMouse: The Bones are typically depicted as this, contrasted with the CountryMouse people of the Valley. Though Boneville is never seen in the original story, Boneville’s Boneville's amenities are occasionally name-dropped: conveniences like comic books and corn dogs are treated as natural where whey come from, suggesting Boneville is more akin to our world than anything else. Among other things, the Bones have never had to prepare their own food (i.e. killing chickens and milking cows), and are aware of—but aren’t of — but aren't used to dealing with—the Valley’s with — the Valley's barter system.
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* CityMouse: The Bones are typically depicted as this, contrasted with the CountryMouse people of the Valley. Though Boneville is never seen in the original story, Boneville’s amenities are occasionally name-dropped: conveniences like comic books and corn dogs are treated as natural where whey come from, suggesting Boneville is more akin to our world than anything else. Among other things, the Bones have never had to prepare their own food (i.e. killing chickens and milking cows), and are aware of—but aren’t used to dealing with—the Valley’s barter system.
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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Fone Bone and Thorn destroy the Lord of the Locusts (bringing balance back to the Dreaming) and Thorn becomes Queen of the reborn Kingdom of the Valley (with peace being re-established between the Rat Creatures, Pawans, Atheians, and dragons)... but Lucius Down & Jonathan Oaks both die, and the Bone Cousins all go back to Boneville. Fone Bone and Thorn will likely never see each other again. On the upside, in the recent ''Bone: Coda'' book, Smiley implies they will visit the valley again soon.]]

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* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Fone Bone and Thorn destroy the Lord of the Locusts (bringing balance back to the Dreaming) and Thorn becomes Queen of the reborn Kingdom of the Valley (with peace being re-established between the Rat Creatures, Pawans, Atheians, and dragons)... but Lucius Down & Jonathan Oaks both die, and the Bone Cousins all go back to Boneville. Fone Bone and Thorn will likely never see each other again. On the upside, in the recent ''Bone: Coda'' book, Smiley implies they will visit the valley again soon.]]
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* AnimalTalk: It's a little inconsistently handled, but the rule of thumb seems to be that wild animals can talk but domestic animals can't. After a while it's also made clear that not all humans understand what the wild animals say -- Thorn, Gran'ma Ben and Lucius do, but otherwise the ability seems to be rare. ([[spoiler:Or it can be circumstansial -- When he lies dying, Jonathan understands what Ted says, but he's unaware that he's talking to a bug.]]) The Bones and the Rat Creatures seem to occupy some space in between human and animal (with the Bones closer to the human side and the Rat Creatures closer to the animal side) and as such they can talk to both humans and animals.

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* AnimalTalk: It's a little inconsistently handled, but the rule of thumb seems to be that wild animals can talk but domestic animals can't. After a while it's also made clear that not all humans understand what the wild animals say -- Thorn, Gran'ma Ben and Lucius do, but otherwise the ability seems to be rare. ([[spoiler:Or it can be circumstansial circumstantial -- When he lies dying, Jonathan understands what Ted says, but he's unaware that he's talking to a bug.]]) The Bones and the Rat Creatures seem to occupy some space in between human and animal (with the Bones closer to the human side and the Rat Creatures closer to the animal side) and as such they can talk to both humans and animals.


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* ArtStyleClash: The Bones like they're out of old newspaper funnies or Steamboat Willie-era inkblot cartoons. They're thrust into a ''Lord of the Rings''-style adventure with mostly realistic humans and ''monstrous'' monsters. Compare Thorn, a blonde who looks like she walked out of a 70s Sword and Sorcery book cover, whenever she interacts with Bone, or her grandma and the dragon, both of whom look like they're from a Disney movie.
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Smith initially fought for the film to use traditional 2D animation, since he used to run his own animation studio called Character Builders that contributed to films like ''Film/SpaceJam'', and was the studio that was originally slated to animate the film. According to the interview above, however, Smith is fine with the change in style because the outcome of the film is not in his control, even though he will have executive-producing credit. ([[http://geeksofdoom.com/2010/04/19/c2e2-2010-bone-animated-movie-still-in-the-works/ He STILL remembers his original preference, though,]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeNqQxzB4-U and fans continue to prove this.]]) However, it was not to be. After several years with little progress made (and no release date appearing on Warner Bros.' slate of upcoming animated films), the rights to adapt the comic went up for sale again. [[https://deadline.com/2019/10/bone-netflix-will-animate-jeff-smith-acclaimed-comic-book-epic-1202761594/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter In 2019]], Creator/{{Netflix}} secured the rights to the franchise with plans to adapt the comic into an animated series; unfortunately, [[https://www.yahoo.com/now/netflix-animation-erased-executives-fired-220251819.html layoffs at the streamer's animated studio in 2022]] have dashed any hopes of progress on the series.

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Smith initially fought for the film to use traditional 2D animation, since he used to run his own animation studio called Character Builders that contributed to films like ''Film/SpaceJam'', and was the studio that was originally slated to animate the film. According to the interview above, however, Smith is fine with the change in style because the outcome of the film is not in his control, even though he will have executive-producing credit. ([[http://geeksofdoom.com/2010/04/19/c2e2-2010-bone-animated-movie-still-in-the-works/ He STILL remembers his original preference, though,]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeNqQxzB4-U and fans continue to prove this.]]) However, it was not to be. After several years with little progress made (and no release date appearing on Warner Bros.' slate of upcoming animated films), the rights to adapt the comic went up for sale again. [[https://deadline.com/2019/10/bone-netflix-will-animate-jeff-smith-acclaimed-comic-book-epic-1202761594/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter In 2019]], Creator/{{Netflix}} secured the rights to the franchise with plans to adapt the comic into an animated series; unfortunately, [[https://www.yahoo.com/now/netflix-animation-erased-executives-fired-220251819.html layoffs at the streamer's animated animation studio in 2022]] have dashed any hopes of progress on the series.
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''Bone'' is a lengthy independent comic book series by Creator/JeffSmith that took 13 years to complete, [[JustForFun/XMeetsY mixing]] the sweeping story of an epic fantasy à la ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''. with the sensibilities of a joke-of-the-day comic strip like ''ComicStrip/{{Pogo}}''.

In fact, the comic did start life as a joke-of-the-day comic strip named ''Thorn,'' which Jeff Smith created for the Ohio State University's newspaper, ''The Lantern,'' when studying at the university. After graduating he tried and failed to get the strip syndicated, and after a while decided to ReTool it into a comic book series, now with the name ''Bone.''

Jeff self-published the series in its original run, collecting the issues in groups of six or so in nine total volumes, until Image Comics picked it up for a time. A second printing came under Scholastic, Inc., for which Jeff's friend Steve Hamaker colored each and every page. The series eventually won several Eisner Awards and Harvey Awards, and propelled Jeff Smith into immense indie comic book acclaim.

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''Bone'' is a lengthy independent comic book series by Creator/JeffSmith that took 13 years to complete, [[JustForFun/XMeetsY mixing]] the sweeping story of an epic fantasy à la ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings''. ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' with the sensibilities of a joke-of-the-day comic strip like ''ComicStrip/{{Pogo}}''.

In fact, the comic did start life as a joke-of-the-day comic strip named ''Thorn,'' ''Thorn'', which Jeff Smith created for the Ohio State University's newspaper, ''The Lantern,'' Lantern'', when studying at the university. After graduating graduating, he tried and failed to get the strip syndicated, and after a while decided to ReTool it into a comic book series, now with the name ''Bone.''

Jeff
''Bone''.

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self-published the series in its original run, collecting the issues in groups of six or so in nine total volumes, until Image Comics picked it up for a time. A second printing came under Scholastic, Inc., for which Jeff's Smith's friend Steve Hamaker colored each and every page. The series eventually won several Eisner Awards and Harvey Awards, and propelled Jeff Smith into immense indie comic book acclaim.



There are also two prequels: ''Rose'', which tells the story of a young Gran'ma Ben, and ''Stupid Stupid Rat-Tails'', a {{tall tale}} of how Big Johnson Bone, the founder of Boneville, once visited the valley, fought off the rat creatures and caused them to begin their tradition of cutting off their tails. The Scholastic run packaged ''Stupid Stupid Rat-Tails'' with new Big Johnson Bone stories as ''Tall Tales''. Tom Sniegoski, who wrote the original ''Rat-Tails'' and the new ''Tall Tales'' stories, also wrote a novel trilogy called ''Quest For The Spark'' that features a RagtagBunchOfMisfits coming together to fight a new threat. A second ''Tall Tales'' book was released in 2023.

Additionally, as a 25th Anniversary MilestoneCelebration, Jeff Smith put out a short epilogue book simply titled ''Bone: Coda''. He also released two PictureBooks featuring the Bone cousins, ''Smiley's Dream Book'' in 2018, and ''Bone Adventures: A Graphic Novel'' in 2020 -- which reprinted ''Smiley's Dream Book'' and also added a short story about the Bone cousins as kids. In 2024, the crowdfunded ''Thorn: The Complete College Strips'' will release, which will for the first time ever reprint all the original ''Thorn'' strips.

An AnimatedAdaptation has been in DevelopmentHell for quite some time. In the 1990s Creator/NickelodeonMovies, having just released the hit film ''WesternAnimation/TheRugratsMovie'', had an alarmingly misguided vision of what they wanted it to be, and Jeff was the one who bailed out of the deal. The film rights were then bought by Creator/WarnerBros, and [[http://www.printmag.com/comics-and-animation/jeff-smith-bone-film/ the reports on the production team]] were that Creator/AnimalLogic, the studio behind ''WesternAnimation/HappyFeet'' and ''Film/TheMatrix'', would animate, P.J. Hogan (''Film/MyBestFriendsWedding'', ''Film/ConfessionsOfAShopaholic'', the 2003 live-action ''Film/PeterPan'') would direct, and it would be adapted for the screen by Patrick Sean Smith (Creator/ABCFamily[='=]s ''Series/{{Greek}}''). In [[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/kung-fu-panda-director-mark-osborne-helm-adaptation-cult-comic-bone-947977 2016]], Mark Osborne (''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'', ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Prince|2015}}'') became the new director, while he and Adam Kline replaced Patrick Sean Smith as the screenwriters.

Jeff was initially fighting for traditional 2D animation, since he used to run his own animation studio called Character Builders that contributed to films like ''Film/SpaceJam'', and was the studio that was originally slated to animate the film. According to the interview above, Jeff is fine with the change because the outcome of the movie is not in his control, even though he will have executive-producing credit. [[http://geeksofdoom.com/2010/04/19/c2e2-2010-bone-animated-movie-still-in-the-works/ He STILL remembers his original preference, though,]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeNqQxzB4-U and fans continue to prove this.]] However, it was not to be. After several years with little progress made (and no release date appearing on Warner Bros.' slate of upcoming animated movies) the rights to adapt the comic went up for sale again. [[https://deadline.com/2019/10/bone-netflix-will-animate-jeff-smith-acclaimed-comic-book-epic-1202761594/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter In 2019,]] Creator/{{Netflix}} secured the rights to the franchise with plans to adapt the comic into an animated series. Unfortunately, [[https://www.yahoo.com/now/netflix-animation-erased-executives-fired-220251819.html layoffs from Netflix in 2022]] dashed any hopes of making a series.

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There are also two prequels: ''Rose'', which tells the story of a young Gran'ma Ben, Ben; and ''Stupid Stupid Rat-Tails'', a {{tall tale}} of how Big Johnson Bone, the founder of Boneville, once visited the valley, fought off the rat creatures and caused them to begin their tradition of cutting off their tails. The Scholastic run packaged ''Stupid Stupid Rat-Tails'' with new Big Johnson Bone stories as ''Tall Tales''. Tom Sniegoski, who wrote the original ''Rat-Tails'' and the new ''Tall Tales'' stories, also wrote a novel trilogy called ''Quest For The Spark'' that features a RagtagBunchOfMisfits coming together to fight a new threat. A second ''Tall Tales'' book was released in 2023.

Additionally, as a 25th Anniversary MilestoneCelebration, Jeff Smith put out a short epilogue book simply titled ''Bone: Coda''. He also released two PictureBooks featuring the Bone cousins, cousins: ''Smiley's Dream Book'' in 2018, and ''Bone Adventures: A Graphic Novel'' in 2020 -- which reprinted ''Smiley's Dream Book'' and also added a short story about the Bone cousins as kids. In 2024, the crowdfunded ''Thorn: The Complete College Strips'' will release, which will for the first time ever reprint all the original ''Thorn'' strips.

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An AnimatedAdaptation has been in DevelopmentHell for quite some time. In the 1990s 1990s, Creator/NickelodeonMovies, having just released the hit film ''WesternAnimation/TheRugratsMovie'', had an alarmingly misguided vision of what they wanted it to be, and Jeff Smith was the one who bailed out of the deal. The film rights were then bought by Creator/WarnerBros, and [[http://www.printmag.com/comics-and-animation/jeff-smith-bone-film/ the reports on the production team]] were that Creator/AnimalLogic, the studio behind ''WesternAnimation/HappyFeet'' and ''Film/TheMatrix'', would animate, P.J. Hogan (''Film/MyBestFriendsWedding'', ''Film/ConfessionsOfAShopaholic'', the 2003 live-action ''Film/PeterPan'') would direct, and it would be adapted for the screen by Patrick Sean Smith (Creator/ABCFamily[='=]s ''Series/{{Greek}}''). In [[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/kung-fu-panda-director-mark-osborne-helm-adaptation-cult-comic-bone-947977 2016]], Mark Osborne (''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'', ''WesternAnimation/{{The Little Prince|2015}}'') became the new director, while he and Adam Kline replaced Patrick Sean Smith as the screenwriters.

Jeff was Smith initially fighting fought for the film to use traditional 2D animation, since he used to run his own animation studio called Character Builders that contributed to films like ''Film/SpaceJam'', and was the studio that was originally slated to animate the film. According to the interview above, Jeff however, Smith is fine with the change in style because the outcome of the movie film is not in his control, even though he will have executive-producing credit. [[http://geeksofdoom.([[http://geeksofdoom.com/2010/04/19/c2e2-2010-bone-animated-movie-still-in-the-works/ He STILL remembers his original preference, though,]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeNqQxzB4-U and fans continue to prove this.]] ]]) However, it was not to be. After several years with little progress made (and no release date appearing on Warner Bros.' slate of upcoming animated movies) films), the rights to adapt the comic went up for sale again. [[https://deadline.com/2019/10/bone-netflix-will-animate-jeff-smith-acclaimed-comic-book-epic-1202761594/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter In 2019,]] 2019]], Creator/{{Netflix}} secured the rights to the franchise with plans to adapt the comic into an animated series. Unfortunately, series; unfortunately, [[https://www.yahoo.com/now/netflix-animation-erased-executives-fired-220251819.html layoffs from Netflix at the streamer's animated studio in 2022]] have dashed any hopes of making a progress on the series.
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* TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: The Disciples of Venu.



* SupremeCouncilOfVagueness: The Disciples of Venu.
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** The villagers are not better. Lucius indemnified them for the food they lost betting on Phoney's "Mystery Cow" ([[spoiler:Smiley Bone]]). The villagers don't show any gratitude at all and stand up for Phoney against Lucius during the dragonslayer arc. [[spoiler:They eventually improve.A bit.]]

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** The villagers are not better. Lucius indemnified them for the food they lost betting on Phoney's "Mystery Cow" ([[spoiler:Smiley Bone]]). The villagers don't show any gratitude at all and stand up for Phoney against Lucius during the dragonslayer arc. [[spoiler:They eventually improve. A bit.]]



* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:The Hooded One's attitude to the Pawan armies. She says she was "done with them"]].

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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler:The Hooded One's attitude to the Pawan armies. She says she was "done "finished with them"]].
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* HiddenDepths: Phoney, who demonstrates that he's actually very intelligent and charismatic for a scammer, and is also the one to deduce [[spoiler:where the Crown of Horns is]].

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* HiddenDepths: Phoney, who demonstrates that he's actually very intelligent and charismatic for a scammer, and is also the one to deduce induce [[spoiler:where the Crown of Horns is]].
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* AnimalTalk: It's a little inconsistently handled, but the rule of thumb seems to be that wild animals can talk but domestic animals can't. After a while it's also made clear that not all humans understand what the wild animals say -- Thorn, Gran'ma Ben and Lucius do, but otherwise the ability seems to be rare. ([[spoiler:Or it can be circumstansial -- When he lies dying, Jonathan understands what Ted says, but he's unaware that he's talking to a bug.]]) The Bones and the Rat Creatures seem to occupy some space in between human and animal (with the Bones closer to the human side and the Rat Creatures closer to the animal side) and as such they can talk to both humans an animals.

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* AnimalTalk: It's a little inconsistently handled, but the rule of thumb seems to be that wild animals can talk but domestic animals can't. After a while it's also made clear that not all humans understand what the wild animals say -- Thorn, Gran'ma Ben and Lucius do, but otherwise the ability seems to be rare. ([[spoiler:Or it can be circumstansial -- When he lies dying, Jonathan understands what Ted says, but he's unaware that he's talking to a bug.]]) The Bones and the Rat Creatures seem to occupy some space in between human and animal (with the Bones closer to the human side and the Rat Creatures closer to the animal side) and as such they can talk to both humans an and animals.

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There are also two prequels: ''Rose'', which tells the story of a young Gran'ma Ben, and ''Stupid Stupid Rat-Tails'', a {{tall tale}} of how Big Johnson Bone, the founder of Boneville, once visited the valley, fought off the rat creatures and caused them to begin their tradition of cutting off their tails. The Scholastic run packaged ''Stupid Stupid Rat-Tails'' with new Big Johnson Bone stories as ''Tall Tales''. Tom Sniegoski, who wrote the original ''Rat-Tails'' and the new ''Tall Tales'' stories, also wrote a novel trilogy called ''Quest For The Spark'' that features a RagtagBunchOfMisfits coming together to fight a new threat.

Additionally, as a 25th Anniversary MilestoneCelebration, Jeff Smith put out a short epilogue book simply titled ''Bone: Coda''. He also released two PictureBooks featuring the Bone cousins, ''Smiley's Dream Book'' in 2018, and ''Bone Adventures: A Graphic Novel'' in 2020 -- which reprinted ''Smiley's Dream Book'' and also added a short story about the Bone cousins as kids. In 2024, another ''Tall Tales'' book is set to come out, as is the crowdfunded ''Thorn: The Complete College Strips'' which will for the first time ever reprint all the original ''Thorn'' strips.

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There are also two prequels: ''Rose'', which tells the story of a young Gran'ma Ben, and ''Stupid Stupid Rat-Tails'', a {{tall tale}} of how Big Johnson Bone, the founder of Boneville, once visited the valley, fought off the rat creatures and caused them to begin their tradition of cutting off their tails. The Scholastic run packaged ''Stupid Stupid Rat-Tails'' with new Big Johnson Bone stories as ''Tall Tales''. Tom Sniegoski, who wrote the original ''Rat-Tails'' and the new ''Tall Tales'' stories, also wrote a novel trilogy called ''Quest For The Spark'' that features a RagtagBunchOfMisfits coming together to fight a new threat. \n\n A second ''Tall Tales'' book was released in 2023.

Additionally, as a 25th Anniversary MilestoneCelebration, Jeff Smith put out a short epilogue book simply titled ''Bone: Coda''. He also released two PictureBooks featuring the Bone cousins, ''Smiley's Dream Book'' in 2018, and ''Bone Adventures: A Graphic Novel'' in 2020 -- which reprinted ''Smiley's Dream Book'' and also added a short story about the Bone cousins as kids. In 2024, another ''Tall Tales'' book is set to come out, as is the crowdfunded ''Thorn: The Complete College Strips'' will release, which will for the first time ever reprint all the original ''Thorn'' strips.




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* ''More Tall Tales'' (2023; includes the story from ''Bone: Coda'')



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** ''Bone Adventures: A Graphic Novel'' (2020; includes ''Smiley's Dream Book'' and a new story)

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* ''Smiley's Dream Book'' (2018),
* ''Bone Adventures: A Graphic Novel'' (2020)

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* ''Bone Adventures: A Graphic Novel'' (2020)
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Smiley's big hat in the framind story. He claims that wearing the hat gives him big ideas and that wearing the hat means he only tells true stories. Ringo and Bingo buy into it, Todd doesn't... but when he goes to sleep wearing the big hat he has a vivid dream of Big Johnson Bone's adventures in the valley in ages past. When he wakes up, he wonders if the hat somehow gave him that dream, and if somehow he dreamed of things that actually happened. Given that the entire book is essentially a collection of stories that may or may not be true, the ambiguity is clearly intentional.

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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Smiley's big hat in the framind framing story. He claims that wearing the hat gives him big ideas and that wearing the hat means he only tells true stories. Ringo and Bingo buy into it, Todd doesn't... but when he goes to sleep wearing the big hat he has a vivid dream of Big Johnson Bone's adventures in the valley in ages past. When he wakes up, he wonders if the hat somehow gave him that dream, and if somehow he dreamed of things that actually happened. Given that the entire book is essentially a collection of stories that may or may not be true, the ambiguity is clearly intentional.

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