Scalped (18 books in series)
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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...