Episode 199: Bone Vol. 5: Rock Jaw, Master of the Eastern Border

<p class="MsoNormal" style= "margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 106%;"><span style= "font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"> Happy Bonesgiving! In this episode, we celebrate our favorite(?) holiday with another excursion into the world of Bone, this time skipping ahead to Bone Vol. 5: Rock Jaw, Master of the Eastern Border, written and drawn by Jeff Smith, published by Cartoon Books and Scholastic!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style= "margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 106%;"><span style= "font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"> Fone Bone and Smiley Bone are separated from the rest of the book’s main cast, attempting to set an adorable baby rat creature free into the wild, when they run afoul of the menacing mountain lion Roque Ja, who plans to turn them in to Kingdok, monstrous leader of the rat creatures and servant of the mysterious Hooded One!</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style= "margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 106%;"><span style= "font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"> Can the Bones, the possum kids and a menagerie of cute young orphans evade these dangerous predators? And can they find shelter in that literary lion’s den known as ... The Comics Canon?</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style= "margin-bottom: 8.0pt; line-height: 106%;"><strong><span style= "font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> In This Episode:</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style= "margin-bottom: 8.0pt; mso-add-space: auto; text-indent: -.25in; line-height: 106%; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"> <!-- [if !supportLists]--><span style= "font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 106%; font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7.0pt 'Times New Roman';">        </span></span></span> <!--[endif]--><span style= "font-size: 12.0pt; line-height