TheCC Staff
06-20-2008, 02:40 PM
RASL Is One Of The Best And Most Original Comics Currently On The Market
by Justin Leiter (http://keepersnotes.blogspot.com/)
June 20th, 2008 - OK, let's cut to the chase. Plain and simple, RASL is one of the best and most original comics currently on the market. It's only two issues in, but there are so many good things taking place on in this book that the possibilities ahead are very exciting.
Going in, you know you're dealing with a master storyteller. Jeff Smith has only a couple of comic titles to his credit, but one of them, Bone, happens to be a 1,300 page fantasy epic produced over more than a decade; it is a modern literary and artistic masterpiece. You know this guy can deliver the goods.
In between the completion of Bone and the beginning of RASL, Smith worked on the DC four issue, limited series Shazam-Monster Society of Evil, which was a fun, entertaining read, with some beautiful art. It was a nice stop-gap for Smith fans before he got back to the serious business of telling a long form tale over the course of what—with RASL—are likely to be many issues.
While the first issue only hinted as to what was going on, issue #2 starts to pick up the pace, but still leaves a lot of open-ended questions.
The story revolves around our protagonist, Rasl, a guy that could pass for the mutant off-spring of John Mellencamp and a cave-woman, and who is some sort of inter-dimensional traveling art thief. He uses thermo-magnetic engines to bend space to achieve his dimension hopping and when he does come through to the other side he is somewhat the worse for wear–disheveled, in pain, and looking like he's been beaten to mashed potatoes.
Click Here To Read The Whole Review (http://thecomiccollective.com/Comic_Books/Reviews/2008/Justin_Leiter/RASL_2/)
by Justin Leiter (http://keepersnotes.blogspot.com/)
June 20th, 2008 - OK, let's cut to the chase. Plain and simple, RASL is one of the best and most original comics currently on the market. It's only two issues in, but there are so many good things taking place on in this book that the possibilities ahead are very exciting.
Going in, you know you're dealing with a master storyteller. Jeff Smith has only a couple of comic titles to his credit, but one of them, Bone, happens to be a 1,300 page fantasy epic produced over more than a decade; it is a modern literary and artistic masterpiece. You know this guy can deliver the goods.
In between the completion of Bone and the beginning of RASL, Smith worked on the DC four issue, limited series Shazam-Monster Society of Evil, which was a fun, entertaining read, with some beautiful art. It was a nice stop-gap for Smith fans before he got back to the serious business of telling a long form tale over the course of what—with RASL—are likely to be many issues.
While the first issue only hinted as to what was going on, issue #2 starts to pick up the pace, but still leaves a lot of open-ended questions.
The story revolves around our protagonist, Rasl, a guy that could pass for the mutant off-spring of John Mellencamp and a cave-woman, and who is some sort of inter-dimensional traveling art thief. He uses thermo-magnetic engines to bend space to achieve his dimension hopping and when he does come through to the other side he is somewhat the worse for wear–disheveled, in pain, and looking like he's been beaten to mashed potatoes.
Click Here To Read The Whole Review (http://thecomiccollective.com/Comic_Books/Reviews/2008/Justin_Leiter/RASL_2/)