RASL by Jeff Smith

When you've collected tons of awards and loads of critical acclaim for an all-ages adventure series like Bone, where do you go for a followup? If you're Jeff Smith, you pop over to the next parallel world and come back with a hard-boiled sci-noir story like RASL. His 2008 series tells the story of Robert Johnson, ex-scientist and current dimension-hopping art thief, and is the latest book discussion topic. Mike and Greg take an in-depth look at Smith's career coming out of Bone, how the different iterations of RASL (original B&W or restored one-volume color HC) affect one's possible enjoyment of the work, and what it means to be a cartoonist, something we have surprisingly different takes on. Oh, and we talk about the book itself, too. So slap on your t-suits and dial over to our specific parallel dimension for over an hour of talk on Jeff Smith's RASL!