I’ve never read Bone, but it consistently ranks among comic readers as one of the best traded series out there, and since it’s debut in the graphic novel form in 2005 (the series ran monthly between 1994 and 2004) it has sold over 1 million copies and is claimed to be the longest running self-published Independent comic series in history.

Written by Jeff Smith, the ten time Eisner Award winning comic was pretty much inevitable as potential film fodder. During the late 90’s, Nickelodeon Films attempted to transform the series but Smith nipped it in the bud when a children’s adaptation featuring songs by artists such as Britney Spears and N Sync was revealed as their true intent.

Now Warner Brothers, the studio who seem the most aggressive in picking up graphic novels these days have picked up the rights.

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