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Scalped, Vol. 5: High Lonesome (2009)

by Jason Aaron(Favorite Author)

4.36 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1401224873 (ISBN13: 9781401224875)

languge

English

genre

Graphic Novels & Comics

publisher

Vertigo

series

Scalped

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 regular characters and one new one). Many big mysteries are solved, almost casually. Two of the most opaque characters are given some depth. And a heist attempt on the casino gives some narrative umph that isn't driven entirely by the longer storylines.Amazing stuff.
review 2: This volume has a lot of backstory, histories of many of the players. We finally find out who killed those two FBI agents way back when, and how the relationships were tangled so greatly among the Dog Soldiers ... moreof fictional reservation when the killings happened.So much killing though! It's hard to read more than one of these in a sitting.I still recommend the series, for the intrigue and insight into modern day Rez life for Native Americans. (again, I'm not a Native American from a reservation, so its hard to know how fictionalized this story is, but having read quite a few books by them, this story rings true enough.) less

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