12.Dec.2009 Bone: Old Man’s Cave and Ghost Circles
The holiday time is coming closer and I find myself just want to indulge in light reading. I came back from the library last week with heaps of graphic novels. I heard a couple of times before how people who never read comics can get confused about where to look on the pages, since there are many panels and text floating all over the place. That amused me. For me comics are my comfort reads. I often have to hold myself not to go nuts over them, otherwise I can just keep reading days after days, forgetting to do anything else.
But it’s (almost) holiday time, I finished almost all of my challenges, and I’m giving myself a break over serious reading.
I started with Bone Vol 6: Old Man’s Cave and Vol 7: Ghost Circles. Good old adventure story with light humour. I quickly reserved the next and last two volumes from the library and they’re on my bedside now. (There are 9 volumes of Bone altogether, and there are a couple of standalones based on the series.)
In Old Man’s Cave we get to know more of Lucius and Grandma Ben’s past and who the Lord of the Locust is. More of that in Ghost Circles. I still don’t quite get what Ghost Circles are. Some parts of storyline get a bit confusing.
The references to Moby Dick is endearing like always. The part where the Bone brothers turn into characters from Moby Dick is so funny!
for both
1999, 2001
Challenge: Graphic Novels 2009 (book #18, 19)
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