Rand and I have been reading Bone together, and I’m really, really enjoying it. The artwork is unbelievably cute, but also very expressive. And the writing is very, very good. It goes from being Looney-Tunes silly (one of the main characters reminds me a lot of Daffy Duck) to being incredibly well-written fantasy.

And yeah, it owes a lot to Tolkien, but what modern fantasy doesn’t?

Fantastic. I cried at the end, in part because I didn’t want it to be over.