This series promises a good deal of potential. I am slightly puzzled how an inter-planar art thief does business. Are the artists the same and the pieces are stylistically similar but slightly varied, or are they exact copies, etc. The concept is wonderful though, and the machinery that RASL uses looks very cool, especially the face plate/mask. Why not have a former particle physicist turn into an art thief. Hello again! I haven’t actually finished “Flowers for Algernon” yet, but I’ll review this book anyway just so you have something new. I’m reading the graphic novel RASL by Jeff Smith, the creator of the Bone series. It’s about a man named Rasl who has discovered a way to drift between different dimensions using electromagnetic fields. He travels through different dimensions and steals great works of art. Everything is going fine, until one day he’s attacked by a man who has a lizard-like face. Rasl escapes, but discovers later that the lizard-man has killed his girlfriend in the original dimension Rasl came from. He visits another version of his girlfriend in another dimension, and tells her to save herself. The lizard-man shows up, however, and during their fight, Rasl discovers that he is the only version of himself throughout all the dimensions. That’s all I’ve read so far, but I think it’s really interesting. Rasl is a very well-written book, but it’s very dark and intense, so if you don’t like that kind of thing, run the other away. However, if you don’t care either way, definitely check it out. Also, if you’re a fan of the Bone series, be aware that these books are NOTHING like the Bone series. Thanks,Sasha Didkovsky
What do You think about RASL, Vol. 1: The Drift (2010)?
