This review of RASL appeared in the Nov. 15th 2010 issue of Booklist:

Rasl, v.2: The Fire of St. George.

Smith, Jeff (Author) , Smith, Jeff (Illustrator)

Nov 2010. 120 p. Cartoon, paperback, $15.00. ( 9781888963229). 741.5.

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