Bone #1- Out from Boneville

This first of nine volumes, Out of Boneville, begins with greedy Phoney Bone being run out of Boneville for cheating and his cousins, Fone and Smiley, join him. The three blobby creatures get seperated and stumble into a valley full of monsters, magic, farmers, an amazing girl and a huge dragon. Fone makes friends with a country girl, her no-nonsense gran'ma and some possums. Phoney must contend with ferocious rat creatures who are led by the mysterious "hooded one" and who wants his soul. Smiley is working his bill off a bar in Barrelhaven. All keep looking for each other and want to get back to their normal life.