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Title: Barrelhaven
Series:
Bone #5
Author: Jeff Smith
Rating: 3.5 of
5 Stars
Genre: Comics
Pages: 28
Words:
1K
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Synopsis: |
From Boneville.fandom.com
The rat creature surround the farmhouse and Gran'ma Ben tells Fone Bone and Thorn to run while she fights off the rat creatures. While running the two get surrounded by rat creatures and Fone Bone calls out for The Great Red Dragon's help. The dragon appears and chases the army away. The dragon returns Fone Bone and Thorn to the farmhouse to find it destroyed. Phoney Bone arrives at the Barrelhaven Tavern and finds Smiley Bone who is working there as a bartender. He also meets Lucius Down, the owner of the tavern and gets on his bad side as well. Phoney learns that they don't use money here, meaning that he has to work at the tavern to pay of his debt.
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My Thoughts: |
Man, Phoney Bone just can't seem to keep his mouth shut or to stay out of trouble. 10 minutes in the tavern and he's already a problem child. It makes me wonder how he got so rich in the first place! He's not that clever, just more clever than either of his cousins. Which isn't saying much, hahahahaa!
Gran'ma Ben reveals a side that while not unexpected (she does race cows and wins after all), isn't what you'd expect. Busting through her own walls, throttling the rat creatures and saying how she'd be just fine because she fought in the “Big War”. There is history to this valley that none of the Bone's are aware of nor does it seem like Thorn is either. The dragon reveals himself fully to Thorn in rescuing Fone and in the process reveals that there is some sort of agreement between him and Kingdok (the king of the rat creatures), probably going back to said “Big War”.
With just a few phrases, Smith has given the readers clues that this valley is not just an idyllic place that the Bones have stumbled into and brought trouble with them. Trouble has already been here and beaten back. What is amazing is the fact that he just used a few phrases. He isn't spending the next 6 issues fleshing out the history and telling us every single detail and removing our chance to use our imagination. But he doesn't leave the past alone either. It's a fine line to walk (a line which Spawn failed miserably at) and I think he does an admirable job of balancing it all.
★★★✬☆
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