Boneheads

Boneheads is the friendship between Manny Calavera, Manolo Sanchez, Jack Skellington, Lewis Pepper, Sir Daniel Fortesque, Brook, Sans and Papyrus from the Grim Fandango, Book of Life, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Mystery Skulls Animated, MediEvil, One Piece and Undertale fandoms.

Canon
All of the characters have being skeletons, or skeletal in nature, in common. Some of them are confirmed to be undead humans (Brook, Manolo, Lewis and Sir Daniel), others are more ambiguous about it (Jack, Manny, Sans and Papyrus), with the nature of their settings implying they were born without flesh.

Atomi-Cat
Boneheads is a webcomic written and illustrated by Atomi-Cat on tumblr, featuring skeleton characters of different pieces of media interacting with one another as one large friend group.

The webcomic had its start in February 2015, when the artist just randomly decided to depict five popular skeleton characters they personally like together, noting how Jack would feel like the odd one out due to his lack of a past life and thus not having the same tragic backstory as the others. Brook was added in March of that year, when the artist noticed that the five skeletons are all one head taller than each other (Manny is the shortest, Lewis is the tallest), so they added the 9 feet tall Brook for hyperbole.

Eventually, the bar setting that would become the main "hub" of the group was established in May of that year, when the artist needed to depict Brook trying to shoot his shot with some women, to showcase how different he is from the others when it comes to courting. In June, Manny was first depicted as the bartender, which would become the main role he would eventually settle into. Later, after the "Follow Up" storyline, the bar was firmly established as the Calavera Cafe.

The first story arc "Follow Up" dealt with Lewis lashing out against Brook, causing Jack and Manny to hold him off, putting out the fire, Lewis left the group for a while. Later, Manolo finds out about it, in disbelief that Lewis would ever do such a thing, but Sir Daniel shows him his burnt hands as proof. When Jack tries to figure out what Brook could've said that Lewis could've taken offense to, the flashback clearly shows Brook making fun of the idea of getting hurt in a cave, unaware that Lewis died by getting impaled by a stalagmite. Manny eventually sets out to find Lewis, but Brook tries to stop him, fearing that Lewis would try to hurt him too. Manny fully believes that Lewis won't hurt him and goes off. Much like Manolo predicted, Lewis didn't go far off and Manny finds him sulking by a pier in the rain. Lewis apologizes for lashing out, but found Brook to be incredibly insensitive about caves, to which Manny calls him out he never told anyone what he was sensitive about, they're not mind-readers. Lewis realizes just how terrible he came off, but Manny tells him that it doesn't matter if Brook forgives him as long as Lewis actually apologizes. Lewis tells Brook that he shouldn't have taken what Brook said personally, but Brook reminds him that it's his choice to keep his past a secret and they laugh about how silly the whole situation was.

A storyline about Jack taking his skeleton friends to Halloween Town was teased early on, with Lewis and Manolo thinking he's delusional for claiming that he's the spirit of Halloween and that holidays have their own towns. In an early strip, Jack had visited Thanksgiving Town and saved the Thanksgiving Turkey, this comes up later, with Jack and Sally having adopted him as a second pet and given the name "Sunny".

In November, Atomi-Cat showed hesistancy about adding Sans and Papyrus to the cast beyond small cameos, due to fears of losing focus on the established six members and people getting entitled over seeing their own favorite skeleton characters "officially" added. However, barely two weeks later, the Skelebros were added to the cast. This led to a non-canon "What If?" scenario about Lewis taking the place of Frisk when fighting Flowey to save his friends. December has the group celebrate Christmas at Sans' and Papyrus' house, along with the rest of the Undertale cast and the respective skeleton families. Later strips show Papyrus impersonating other Boneheads. Though to this day, Atomi-Cat refused to draw an official strip showing how Sans and Papyrus met the others, they just started showing up one day.

Cast crossovers outside of the skeletons have also been featured, in an early storyline, Glottis becomes best friends with Arthur after Vivi accidentally summons him.

Reception
The crossover comic was very well-received and spawned multiple recursive pieces of fanart and comic dubs. Due to Atomi-Cat's refusal to add more characters outside of the original six (later eight), some fans have unofficially depicted newer skeletons, like Héctor from Coco as part of the group.

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