'My
Addiction to Bone': Written By Nickie
Bone... gotta have
it, eat it, drink it, sleep it... how do normal, everyday people end up
Bone addicts? Is it a government conspiracy, something in the tap
water? Or is it just that Bone is the greatest comic in the
world?
My first experience
with Bone comix came in the form of a "Disney Adventures" magazine.
It had printed a piece of Issue 2 and had a little prologue reading "For
those of you who came in late..." Late? What were they talking about?
I had subscribed to this magazine for a year now and had never seen anything
about a small, bald, cartoon character. Intrigued, I began to read
about Fone Bone, a cute little guy who was looking for his cousins, a bug,
and something (or someone, as it turned out to be) named Thorn. I
kept reading. Suddenly, right as Fone was trying to get the rat creatures
(in which I saw no resemblance to rats) away from the possum kids, a little
caption appeared: "To Be Continued". And that's how I became a Bone-i-fide
BoneHead.
Every since, I've
gobbled up all I could about Bone. I read and re-read the bits in
my magazines. I anticipated the arrival of each issue. Then,
I began to search the Internet. That's where I found Issue 1, and
everything else I needed to catch up on the story (I was surprised to find
out Bone was a black-and-white series!). But then (dum-da-DUM-DUM),
my source dried up. "D.A." had stopped running Bone. And they hadn't
even concluded the Great Cow Race! I was shocked, saddened, and sunk
into a deep depression which lasted for 3 days. I was having Bone
withdrawal pains. In school, I tried to draw Fone Bone, but couldn't
get him just right. I ended up drawing Ted the Bug instead.
I drew him everywhere, even on the bottom of my shoe!
I also completely
visualized the Bone movie: what the characters should sound like, who should
provide the voices, even if there'd be any visual effects involved.
Eventually, I came
out of my depression with a new determination: to spread the word about
Bone. So that is what I'm doing here, as part of the staff at the
Bone Fan Page. I don't know how Bone is so addictive; all I know
is this comic should come with a warning label!
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