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The story is much [[DarkerandEdgier darker]] than Bone. The artwork is [[AwesomeArt stunning]] and the storytelling is tight. The series was collected into four 10" by 12" volumes, called the "Giant Artist Editions", and the first two volumes are also available in a single smaller book.
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The story is much [[DarkerandEdgier darker]] than Bone. The artwork is [[AwesomeArt [[SugarWiki/AwesomeArt stunning]] and the storytelling is tight. The series was collected into four 10" by 12" volumes, called the "Giant Artist Editions", and the first two volumes are also available in a single smaller book.
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* {{Antihero}}: RASL, who is not a bad guy, but [[spoiler:still cheats with his best friend's wife and then accidentally kills her while blowing up the compound. No to mention his friend Annie the prostitute.]]
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* {{Antihero}}: RASL, who is not a bad guy, but [[spoiler:still cheats with his best friend's wife and then accidentally kills her while blowing up the compound. No Not to mention his friend Annie the prostitute.]]]]
* BittersweetEnding: RASL manages to land a critical blow against his former employers, [[spoiler:kills Sal]], and is able to [[spoiler:keep digital copies of Tesla's lost journals after destroying the originals.]] But he's estranged himself from Annie, [[spoiler:killed Maya]] to stop his tech from being misused further, [[spoiler:Miles]] ultimately died of his injuries after all, and he's still a vagabond on the run with no way of knowing if he'll ever shake his pursuers for good.
* BittersweetEnding: RASL manages to land a critical blow against his former employers, [[spoiler:kills Sal]], and is able to [[spoiler:keep digital copies of Tesla's lost journals after destroying the originals.]] But he's estranged himself from Annie, [[spoiler:killed Maya]] to stop his tech from being misused further, [[spoiler:Miles]] ultimately died of his injuries after all, and he's still a vagabond on the run with no way of knowing if he'll ever shake his pursuers for good.
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* CerebusSyndrome: The interdimensional art thief angle is dropped at the story's midpoint to put more focus on the military research conspiracy centred around [[spoiler:Tesla's lost journals.]]
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* DeadAllAlong: By the time RASL meets her, [[spoiler:Uma Gilles had long since been subsumed and replaced by Maya.]]
* ExpendableAlternateUniverse: Sal tries to insist this of the multiverse sans his "home" dimension, considering them to be disposable shadows of his own that can be freely exploited for the raw energy the arrays can provide.
* ExpendableAlternateUniverse: Sal tries to insist this of the multiverse sans his "home" dimension, considering them to be disposable shadows of his own that can be freely exploited for the raw energy the arrays can provide.
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* ScienceHero: RASL, the vigilante physicist.
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* ScienceHero: RASL, the vigilante physicist.physicist.
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: More on the cynical end, at least, in comparison to Smith's other works.
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism: More on the cynical end, at least, in comparison to Smith's other works.
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RASL is comic book creator Jeff Smith's follow-up to ComicBook/{{Bone}}. A science fiction series with [[FilmNoir noir elements]], it follows RASL, AKA Robert, a former physicist who travels between parallel worlds as an art thief using stolen equipment. As the story goes on, we learn more about RASL's past research into parallel worlds - and the consequences of leaving the project.
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RASL is comic book creator Jeff Smith's Creator/JeffSmith's follow-up to ComicBook/{{Bone}}. ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}.'' A science fiction series with [[FilmNoir noir elements]], it follows RASL, AKA Robert, a former physicist who travels between parallel worlds as an art thief using stolen equipment. As the story goes on, we learn more about RASL's past research into parallel worlds - and the consequences of leaving the project.
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* {{Anti-Hero}}: {{Antihero}}: RASL, who is not a bad guy, but [[spoiler:still cheats with his best friend's wife and then accidentally kills her while blowing up the compound. No to mention his friend Annie the prostitute.]]
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* {{Antihero}}: {{Anti-Hero}}: RASL, who is not a bad guy, but [[spoiler:still cheats with his best friend's wife and then accidentally kills her while blowing up the compound. No to mention his friend Annie the prostitute.]]
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RASL is comic book creator Jeff Smith's follow-up to {{Bone}}. A science fiction series with [[FilmNoir noir elements]], it follows RASL, AKA Robert, a former physicist who travels between parallel worlds as an art thief using stolen equipment. As the story goes on, we learn more about RASL's past research into parallel worlds - and the consequences of leaving the project.
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RASL is comic book creator Jeff Smith's follow-up to {{Bone}}.ComicBook/{{Bone}}. A science fiction series with [[FilmNoir noir elements]], it follows RASL, AKA Robert, a former physicist who travels between parallel worlds as an art thief using stolen equipment. As the story goes on, we learn more about RASL's past research into parallel worlds - and the consequences of leaving the project.
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** There's also the part at the end where [[spoiler: Sal shoots her multiple times and alternate universe versions of her keep on coming]]
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** There's also [[spoiler: Maya]], who pretends to be an alternate universe counterpart unaware of the parallel universes.
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* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:The crew of the ship from 1943, who got phased into bulkheads and grew extra limbs. RASL's hand splitting and the bartender with the enormous tongue, once things start going squirrely.]]
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* BodyHorror: [[spoiler:The crew of the ship from 1943, who got phased into bulkheads and grew extra limbs. RASL's hand splitting and the bartender with the enormous tongue, once things start going squirrely.]]There's also what happens to the residents of Sells, Arizona and the police that come to help them]]
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* InterdimensionalTravelDevice: RASL has one. [[spoiler:Invented it, actually.]]
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* InterdimensionalTravelDevice: RASL has one.one called an immersion suit. [[spoiler:Invented it, actually.]]]] It looks like 4 airplane turbines strapped to his shoulders and legs with an African mask covering his face.
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* HumanResources: The "free energy" Tesla wanted to tap into is actually [[spoiler:the lifeblood of alternate universes. Utilizing his technology to tap into that would wipe out countless lives ad infinitum.]]
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* KillAndReplace: Traveling to another universe will [[spoiler:subsume the version of you that exists there, effectively killing them as you take their place.]]
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* GoMadFromTheRevelation: Crow came to understand the magnitude behind the technology RASL built and the implications behind the parallel dimensions it created. He didn't take it very well.
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: Though they have his tech, RASL's old bosses and their minions can't use it to do anything except track RASL across time and space with the sole exception of [[spoiler:Crow]], who managed to figure out a way to [[spoiler:travel to new dimensions regardless]], but keeps mum about this knowledge.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: NikolaTesla, and his associates.
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: NikolaTesla, UsefulNotes/NikolaTesla, and his associates.
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