Rasl #5

by Jeff Smith

Okay, so Smith has decided to turn out less pages, more frequently, making the book only 22 pages, but trying to put it out five times a year. I'm perfectly okay with that, as it means that the story will be coming into my hands more often, and with less time between issues to forget what has gone before. Cool.

Thing is, I don't feel like a whole lot happened in this issue, and I don't want to see the book become 'decompressed' but more frequent.

Rob chats with his girl, and flashes back to his former girl. He also sweats a lot, and bleeds from the nose. There are some hints as to where the story is going - the undiscovered Tesla journals make an appearance, which is surely going to have some significance, but that's about it.

The coolest part of this issue would be during the flashback, where the weird mask that Rob wears while jumping makes an appearance on a wall with some other 'African' style artifacts, suggesting that he only wears it to look cool..... It's a small touch, but I liked it.