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Scalped, Tome 9 : A Couteaux Tirés (2013)

by Jason Aaron(Favorite Author)

4.41 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

2365772641 (ISBN13: 9782365772648)

languge

English

genre

Graphic Novels & Comics

publisher

Urban Comics

series

Scalped

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 of the story.As this excellent series barrels to a conclusion, storylines start to get tied off. There are shootouts galore as a criminal empire crumbles and characters start to get what they deserve. This trade is genius-level work that probably reads better as a chapter of a longer crime epic than a stand alone book. Still, this is one of the two great comic book series from this period at the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics.
review 2: As the noose starts closing around Lincoln Red Crow... more and all his allies start slinking away, its interesting that for me anyway, the tension inherent in this doomed tale of too-late redemption for all our "heroes" seems to lack the tension of the last few books.Previous tomes have made it impossible to see how the runaway express train of bad decisions would possibly be averted - how are they gonna get out of this fix? Somehow this book feels more like a peaceful balletic ending to a parable with "the only ending that possibly fits". Not quite a nail-biting climax, more like an inevitable conclusion - just desserts for people that we couldn't hope to save from themselves.Then just when things seem to be set in stone, Aaron throws us another of his utterly-improbable chaotic moments and the fire starts burning out of control. That's when I know a Scalped story is good - when I can hardly believe what's happening and *still* keep reading voraciously. Final chapter is pretty awesome.Not sure about the art - seems a little less finished than Guera's usual work - which I can't tell if his pencils & inks are sloppier, or if the colourist has always been able to make up for these flaws. Still carries the story along, but not the usual stellar quality I've fallen in love with. less

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