Jeff Smith's RASL

Bone creator Jeff Smith always seems to have something new up his sleeve. Recently, we've seen the release of Smith's take on DC's Shazam! with "The Monster Society of Evil".If you're not reading this, do yourself a favor and pick it up, it's very good and even non superhero readers can appreciate it's charming take on Captain Marvel . Also, as I previously reported, he is prepping the cover art and introduction for the re-release of Walt Kelly's Pogoseries. Just two weeks ago we got "The Art of Bone," an gorgeous look at the creation of his magnum opus, that is essential to any Bone fanatic like myself.

However, as reported on Boneville.com, Smith has a new original series called RASL scheduled for 2008. This is very exciting news my friends. As Smith explains, "The image above is the cover for a 6 page preview comic I'm working on for the San Diego Comic-Con International. It's also going to be the cover of RASL no.1 when the series starts coming out from Cartoon Books in 2008." Unfortunately, there has been very little other info released on RASL.

Our own Kevin Gaussoin will be at the San Diego Comic Con so I will try to have him get the inside scope from Smith himself. Hopefully, all will go well for Kevin, but if you know how busy San Diego gets with comic "enthusiasts" the Bone booth might be swarmed. I can just see it now, Smith muttering "Stupid, Stupid Rat Creatures" for an entirely different reason than intended in Bone . Just kidding convention goers.

I will keep you updated on RASL as more info is released.

-Jon