Rasl Volume 2: The Fire Of St. George (RASL, 2) - Softcover

Smith, Jeff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1888963220 ISBN 13: 9781888963229

Publisher: Cartoon Books, 2010

Synopsis

Jeff Smith's fast-paced sci-fi thriller about an inter-dimensional art thief continues in this action-packed graphic novel. The secrets of RASL's technology and his hidden past are exposed when a mysterious, lizard-faced stranger starts killing the art thief's girlfriends in multiple universes. The stranger knows that RASL used to work for the military-industrial complex on a project code-named The St. George Array, and believes that RASL has stolen secrets that will unlock the power of the universe. Collects RASL issues #4-7.

About this title

About the Author:

A co-founder of the 90’s Self-Publishing Movement, and an early adopter of the graphic novel format, Jeff Smith is best known as the writer and artist of BONE, an award winning adventure about three cartoon cousins lost in a world of myth and ancient mysteries. In 2008, Smith was the subject of a documentary called The Cartoonist: Jeff Smith, BONE, and the Changing Face of Comics.

Besides BONE and RASL, his other books include Shazam: The Monster Society of Evil, and Little Mouse Gets Ready!

From Booklist:

This second volume collecting Smith’s post-Bone series, a hard-boiled sci-fi smashup, reveals much of the hero’s backstory. He’s a parallel-world-hopping art thief who not so long ago was a brainiac physicist exploring some of the possibilities buried in Nikola Tesla’s legacy. But now he’s a grim, tattooed bruiser dodging a camel-faced assassin who’s tracking his dimensional jumps. The fractured narrative spins off in some surprising new directions, and Smith’s fluid and precision-fueled cartooning works just as well in these gritty thriller environs as it does in his humor-laced fantasy epic. Sexy, bloody, and more intriguing, impressive, and ambitious by the second. --Ian Chipman

About this edition

• Publisher: Cartoon Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1888963220
• ISBN 13: 9781888963229
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112