Books by Jason Aaron
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review 1: I really enjoyed the first issue as it steps back to the roots of the Prairie Rose reservation. However we see some major developments in the plot and Dashiell and Shunka finally end up with the showdown foreshadowed throughout the series. However there was also an interesting t...
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review 1: I got into Garth Ennis' run on The Punisher a few years ago, mainly because the MAX line from Marvel let creators show Frank Castle in the type of story that would only work for him: no holds barred. Ennis has since departed the title, leaving the duties to Jason Aaron. Kingpin i...
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review 1: Jason Aaron did it again... Like his masterpiece 'Scalped', this book is a punch in the gut that leaves you aching, breathless, astonished...yet wanting more, more of this hauntingly beautiful stuff about some ugly sons of redneck bitches and one man who dares to give a shit and,...
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review 1: The end wasn't as climactic as I was expecting, but it still gave good closure, often in surprising ways. There were many twists and turns I didn't expect, and character role switches that were surprising. There is a major moment in the burning remnants of the casino that is pow...
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review 1: This is the volume where things start heating up and we begin to understand that Dash Bad Horse is more than just a surly thug-- he's an anti-hero driven by self-doubt and some deep, dark regrets. We also learn that "villain" Lincoln Red Crow is just as conflicted and complicated...
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review 1: I went in intrigued and by the end, I was glad to have finished it. (Some spoilers may follows, please be advised)What really didn't work for me was that this arc of the new title had a brand of humor that to me was reminiscent of a '70s or '80s sitcom. The hokey schtick of,"what...
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review 1: In The Gnawing, all hell breaks loose.This is easily the fastest-moving and most action-packed volume of SCALPED so far. Many of the threads laid out in previous volumes come together here, so suddenly and violently that there's no room for flashbacks or introspection this time. ...
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review 1: Full of gratuitous violence, some really amusing black humor deaths and The Punisher! I should love this comic. I did not. The story is set up well, with great promise for the plot but the development is not the best. This is essentially an origin story for the Kingpin and nothin...
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review 1: Much of the best crime fiction of the last decade or so has appeared in graphic novel form rather than simply in prose. Scalped is at the very top of that particular phenomenon.This volume is made up of five vignettes each focusing on a different character from the series (four ...
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review 1: Proving there's a very fine line between the American passion for yielding a dangerous stick as a baseball bat and the American passion for yielding a dangerous stick as a lethal weapon, this dark and moody strip hits home very well. Trading on stereotypes perhaps, and preaching...
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review 1: I like that it has so many action scenes, it'd just be good to be able to see what's actually happening in any of them. Kitty gets pregnant with microbroods, Abigail gets totally damselled despite being an epically kick-ass character, and wandering womb syndrome becomes an epidem...
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review 1: Aaron kicks off this arc with a bang. And for those who wish to complain about the changing of hands, please remember two things: 1. This is the same author as the ongoing storyline. No one swept in and ruined your picture of masculinity. 2. Thor the man is- even without his ham...
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review 1: A few long-standing plot threads are (more or less) tied up in Volume 8 of Scalped, but first a couple of "prelude" type chapters: in the first, minor recurring character and grade-A shit-talker Sheriff Karnow finally has to live up to his outsized reputation, and his failure set...
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review 1: Scalped as a series has been powerful, but this book blows the rest away. From the quiet one-shot about a long-married couple to the two-issue arc exploring the 'rabid dog' Schunka and gender identities in the Native American populace, to the story of Dashiel's father in Vietnam,...
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review 1: Jason Aaron takes on a hard chore in Knuckle Up, this volume of the SCALPED series. In the last book, his lead character Dash Bad Horse, was shot in the side of the face with the bullet ripping through both cheeks. In this book, Dash does not speak or even pass notes for the bulk...
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review 1: The five-star rating is not only for this volume, but for the series as a whole. I read the final three volumes in the last week. I tried to read them slowly to savor them, but found I couldn't. The writing throughout the series has been amazing, and by the end, everything pays o...
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review 1: Me encantan Iceman, Firestar, Nighcrawler y los Bamfs. Pero la historia es absurda. ¿Piratas? ¿A quién le agradan los piratas? La historia solo tiene destellos pequeños por momentos, pero son muy pocos.Ese es mi problema con Marvel, tienen buenos personajes, pero pésima narrativa...
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review 1: There aren't enough superlatives for this review. This being the sixth in the series, chances are you're as enamoured of these characters and their world as much as I am and are maybe wondering if this book is as good as the last book. It's not - it's better!The Hmongs are coming...
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review 1: So I decided to read this in between the other book I'm reading now because these go pretty quick. After the ending of the last one I was hoping for a really gripping continuation but this has been for me the weakest of the three so far that I've read. The suspense didn't hold up...
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review 1: Crime noir has begun to become popular thanks to HBO's Boardwalk Empire. However, just like Walking Dead, Mad Men, Once Upon a Time and other popular episodic television, the genre seems to stay in the setting that the first hit takes place in. For example, there is a rise of cri...
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review 1: Bachalo as artist on this new book? Sounded annoying.No epic storyline to start off? Just lighthearted dilemmas. Could have been bad, but so many things, concepts, characters, Billion of things going on in the background, made for an interesting read. I guess it's not bad if you...
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review 1: I deeply dislike this run. Mostly I hate the art. I really hate how Bachalo does faces, especially noses. I dislike the lines, I dislike the the colours. Bachalo and Bradshaw doing art together.... ugh. I does nothing for me. I also hate the writing. I've liked some of Aaron's ot...
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review 1: Light and silly story of the first day of school at Wolverine's The Jean Grey School for Higher Learning. I found it to be funny. I actually laughed out loud reading the classes list in the back of this trade. This was my first introduction to many of the new students and I'm int...
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review 1: There's a lot of personal history in this volume for Chief Lincoln Red Crow; we see his relationship with his daughter and also with Gina Bad Horse. Red Crow has a lot of control over the lawmen in the town, and when he does something very impetuously, they cover for him. Dash is...
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review 1: I'm always a little conflicted about this title because I'm not sure what the point of it is -- the unrelenting darkness seems more like an aesthetic pose than a worldview (using noir for noir's sake rather than to actually say anything, which is an issue I have with a lot of neo...
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review 1: Even given Thanos's previously established history, the amount and explicity of violence is surprising and disturbing. For starters, early in the story Thanos is shown performing a vivisection on-panel.The art for the most part is good, but if you took a drink for every time a wo...
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review 1: My grandaddy was full blooded Cherokee that come outta the Smokey Mountains in eastern Tennessee and ended up setting himself down outside of Memphis in a town called Ripley right around 1940. He'd already had one family on a reservation out east and just up and left them to fend...
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review 1: Sencillamente: un asco. Resumamos el argumento: un Capitán América rebelde que peleó en Vietnam secuestra al clásico y le hace ver todas las barbaridades que el ejército estadounidense hizo en el mundo. El Capi clásico (mejor dicho, el Ultimate, que había aprendido a querer en ci...
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review 1: And so I dip my toe into what is generally considered to be one of the most frustrating storylines in recent Marvel history. It's not difficult to see why it had so many people grinding their teeth and printing up Cyclops was right t-shirts. It's utterly unfathomable anyone's int...
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review 1: Best team-up I've ever read. You wouldn't expect these two to work together, but their dynamic is excellent to read and their characters very well-written. The writing was pretty hilarious, and the art fantastic and perfect for the mood. Everything was great - Czar and his future...
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review 1: An enjoyable volume, but with this series I always get the sense that writer Jason Aaron is trying too hard to offer a flood of ideas. There's some fun plotting here, notably Wolverine and Quentin Quire heading to an interstellar casino to get money to keep the school running. Bu...
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review 1: I'm really liking this series. Sure, this volume has a little less madcap action than the first, but it has enough of the same elements to be successful. The formula of mutant school colliding with real-world problems seems to be working, because now Wolverine is up against that ...
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review 1: Ahh, the introduction had this whole bit about how noir shows the inevitable downward spiral of everyone and even though you see it coming you enjoy the ride, and I was all, "Wait, what? There won't be a happy ending?" But then that book focused on someone else and I thought, "Ok...
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review 1: Scalped is an amazing comic book series. It is the Breaking Bad of the genre. A gritty, dark, realistic, and unpredictable crime story filled with fascinating but extremely flawed characters. This volume is one of the strongest in the series so far because it dials down some ...
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review 1: Several new stories told here. The stories are told well but for the first time I felt they interfered with the continuity.We finally are told about Shunka and his secret. This was a surprise and engaging.We learn more about Dashiel's father. Felt repetitive. Yet, like father lik...
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review 1: Nice modern X-men tale. Wolverine sees that some of his students are at risk of straying from the school, so he takes them to the Savage Land for a survival exercise to bring the group together. In true teen fashion, the kids squabble their way through dinosaur attacks and old dr...
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review 1: Ultimate Captain America has Captain America up against another Super Soldier by the Name of Nuke in other words the Captain America of Vietnam. Captain America goes rogue again to find answers about a secret SHIELD kept from him again. Captain America ends becoming Nuke's prison...
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review 1: This is a fun series. I enjoy the sense of humour (despite initially being unsure about it). This book, and a very good addition to the story, giving us more background and development of the characters and their relationships.That being said, this takes place right in the middle...
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review 1: I'm sure this book would have been just as great as the last if it hadn't been forced into the AVX crossover bullshit. A few milliseconds of character development/power evolution aside, it was just a drawn out chase and replaying of the exact same ethical dilemma I've already rea...
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review 1: I liked Garth Ennis' take on the Punisher, the only Punisher stories I ever really enjoyed, as I felt Ennis really understood the character like no other writer before him had. Frank Castle is not really an anti-hero, and he's sure as hell no hero. He's an insane homicidal maniac...
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review 1: I'd heard good things about this team-up and they're well deserved. Jason Aaron is basically given free reign to write a ridiculous story involving a whining Pete and a grumpy Logan jumping around time trying to work out what the hell is happening and why. It's complete fun, ba...
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review 1: Public library copy.I like the writer and artist, but their collaboration wasn't as good as it should have been. Sadly, a lot of Ed McG's Marvel work hasn't been anything to rave about story-wise. I think he's been poorly served by the writers. The effort by Aaron, I can give a...
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review 1: Hoo boy, this was pretty awful. I was curious about Jason Aaron's take on the Hulk, since I've generally liked what I've read of his, but this is just bad, bad, bad. There's a germ of an interesting idea here (although I'm sure it's been done before), with the Hulk and Bruce Bann...
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review 1: I probably would have made this volume 5 stars but there is one issue where a majority of the dialogue is in Russian and you have to use the marvel AR app to get the translation. I don't agree with doing that to someone who paid to read/own the story and then can't read the whole...
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review 1: Do not read pick up this book if you have something else to do immediately after - you won't. This one slices through you. If the earlier 3 books were knives this one is a high caliber sniper's bullet. The book tears through you - every character is stripped naked for the people ...
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review 1: This is just such a saccharine farewell to a generally sweet book about teenagers who fight with superpowers. Except poor Toad. A little silly also to do the "Everything works out in the future." The future is even more untrustworthy than death in the Marvel comics universe. ...