By: Jason Aaron (writer), R.M. Guera (artist), Giulia Brusco (colors), Sal Cipriano (letters), Mark Doyle (associate editor) & Will Dennis (editor) The Story: The big throw-down between Dash and Shunka is here. Bring it on! Five things [SPOILER WARNING]: 1. Good lord this is a violent and gritty fight. – Most comic fights are highly [...]
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By: Jason Aaron (writer), R.M. Guera (artist), Giulia Brusco (colors), Sal Cipriano (letters), Mark Doyle (associate editor) & Will Dennis (editor) The Story: Someone dies, Dash still can’t talk and there’s a lot of double-crossing going on at the Prairie Rose Reservation. Five Things: 1. Beginning to thin out the supporting characters. You could think [...]
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By: Jason Aaron (writer), R.M. Guera (art), Giulia Brusco (colors), Sal Cipriano (letters), Mark Doyle (associate editor) & Will Dennis (editor) The Story: Is it curtains for Red Crow after last month’s cliffhanger? Five Things: Full SPOILERS appear below…. 1. Shunka is the main character of this issue. It all starts with the resolution to [...]
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By: Jason Aaron (writer), R.M. Guera (artist), Giulia Brusco (colors), Mark Doyle (associate editor) & Will Dennis (editor) The Story: The final explosion of violence on the Praire Rose reservation is starting to build. What’s Good: Scalped is a really hard comic to review in single issues when Jason Aaron is writing one of his [...]
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By: Jason Aaron (writer), R.M. Guera (artist), Giulia Brusco (colors), Sal Cipriano (letters), Mark Doyle (associate editor) & Will Dennis (editor) The Story: Only 10 issues to go! Red Crow is trying to go straight, but will his criminal underlings let that happen? What’s Good: This issue starts a new story cycle and sets up [...]
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By: Jason Aaron (writer), R.M. Guera (art & letters), Giulia Brusco (colors), Mark Doyle (associate editor) & Will Dennis (editor) Pin-ups contributed by: Tim Truman, Jill Thompson, Jordi Bernet, Denys Cowan, Dean Haspiel, Brendan McCarthy & Steve Dillon The Story: It’s an anniversary issue, so we take a break from our regularly scheduled story to [...]
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By: Jason Aaron (writer), R.M. Guera (artist), Giulia Brusco (colors), Sal Cipriano (letters), Mark Doyle (associate editor) & Will Dennis (editor) The Story: Things come to a head between Dash and Catcher. What’s Good: It isn’t really going to be possible to discuss this issue in a coherent way without getting into SPOILERS, so you’ve [...]
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By: Jason Aaron (writer), R.M. Guera (art), Giulia Brusco (colors), Sal Cipriano (letters), Mark Doyle (associate editor) & Will Dennis (editor) The Story: Dash and Red Crow grow closer, and since you know it isn’t legit, you wonder who is conning who. What’s good: It has taken a few issues, but Jason Aaron has almost [...]
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By: Jason Aaron (writer), R.M. Guera (art), Giulia Brusco (colors), Steve Wands (letters), Mark Doyle (associate editor) & Will Dennis (editor) The Story: What have Carol and Dino been up to the last few months? What’s Good: Even though it has been really nice to get back to an ongoing Scalped story a few issues [...]
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By: Jason Aaron (writer), R.M. Guera (art), Giulia Brusco (colors), Steve Wands (letters) & Mark Doyle (editor) The Story: The ongoing saga of Office Falls Down and Catcher continues… What’s Good: I’m mostly just excited that Scalped is back into telling an ongoing story again (with this being the second issue of the arc). I [...]
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By: Jason Aaron (writer), R.M. Guera (art), Giulia Brusco (colors), Steve Wands (letters) & Will Dennis (editor) The Story: A new story arc begins on our favorite Lakota reservation. What’s Good: It’s nice to get plunged back into an ongoing Scalped story. For quite a few months, we’ve has done-in-ones and short arcs that were [...]
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By: Jason Aaron (writer), R.M. Guera (art), Giulia Brusco (colors) & Steve Wands (letters) The Story: The finale of the Unwanted story arc. Will Dash & Carol get back together? Will Carol keep the baby? Can Dash and his father unite against a common enemy? Yeesh, it sounds like a soap opera. What’s Good: The [...]
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by Jason Aaron (writer), R.M. Guera (art), Giulia Brusco (colors), and Steve Wands (letters) The Story: Dash and Carol begin two very different kinds of drug rehab. What’s Good: It’s always enjoyable when a writer is able to bring together to plots that are dramatically opposite into a single, coherent issue and that’s pretty much [...]
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by Jason Aaron (writer), R.M. Guera, Giulia Brusco (colors), and Steve Wands (letters) The Story: From the Vietnam War to the reserve, a character crucial to Scalped’s history is illuminated for the very first time. What’s Good: It’s hard to write a comic centred on a character in existential crisis. The problem is that it’s [...]
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by Jason Aaron (writer), RM Guera (art), Giulia Brusco (colors), and Steve Wands (letters) The Story: Red Crow and Nitz instigate competing manhunts to find the witness as the Hmongs finally reach the Rez. What’s Good: I’m not sure that there’s ever been a bad month of Scalped, and #33 continues that trend. This is [...]
Filed under: DC Comics, Reviews, Vertigo | Tagged: Alex Evans, Catcher, Comic Book Reviews, comic reviews, Dashiell Badhorse, DC Comics, Diesel, Falls Down, Hmong, Indian Reserve, Jason Aaron, Johnny Tongue, Newsome, Nitz, noir, Prairie Rose, R.M. Guera, Red Crow, Rez, Scalped, Scalped #33, Scalped #33 review, Shunka, Vertigo, weekly comic book reviews | Leave a Comment »
by Jason Aaron (writer), R.M. Guera (art), Giulia Brusco (colors), and Steve Wands (letters) The Story: Dash tries to save a murder witness from Red Crow and Carol’s life continues its tailspin. What’s Good: The high-paced chase sequence that results from the conclusion of last month’s issue was certainly a lot of fun. Aaron has [...]
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By Jason Aaron (writer), R.M. Guera (art), Giulia Brusco (colors) Another excellent issue in the can by Jason Aaron and R.M. Guera. It feels like it’s been forever since I read the last issue, but I’m pretty sure the book’s coming out on time. I think it might be because this story arc has been [...]
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By Jason Aaron (writer), R.M. Guera (art), Giulia Brusco (colors) With two trades of Scalped already out in stores, there’s no excuse (unless you’re broke) to not be reading this series. It’s really as good as everyone says! Jason Aaron and R.M. Guera are in full stride with issue #15. And that the cover? Brilliant [...]
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By Jason Aaron (writer), R.M. Guera (art), Guilia Brusco (colors) Jason Aaron wastes no time getting to the nitty gritty of this issue. We learn right from the beginning how Bad Horse’s mother died. He plays it cool, but there’s one panel where we actually see him show a hint of sadness. I like how [...]
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By Jason Aaron (writer), R.M. Guera (art), Guilia Brusco (colors) Scalped #13 begins a new story arc, “Dead Mothers”. After four issues of side stories and stuff I consider “filler” material, the main story gets back on track! This issue starts off in all the right ways. We get three beautiful pages (by R.M. Guera) [...]
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By Jason Aaron (writer), John Paul Leon (art), Guilia Brusco (colors) Issue #12 brings Bad Horse back into the story line. He’s plagued with reoccurring dreams of his death. Each time, he dies by Red Crow’s hand and it’s beginning to overcome him. We also learn why he’s working for the FBI – he’s trying [...]
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By Jason Aaron (writer), R.M. Guera (art), Giulia Brusco (colors) Issues #6-11 deliver the grand opening of the Lakota casino. Things aren’t going very smoothly for the opening and Red Crow’s forced to deal with some Asian gangsters who send one of their own to deal with his protester problems. However, he never shows up, [...]
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By Jason Aaron (writer), R.M. Guera (art), Lee Loughridge (colors) Scalped continues strong with its second story arc, “Hoka Hey”. It’s a two issue story that carries a lot of flashbacks. These flashbacks, however, give excellent perspective on the supporting cast. These character moments that show just how complicated things are in Red Crow’s shoes. [...]
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By Jason Aaron (writer), R.M. Guera (art), Lee Loughridge (colors) Scalped #1-3 contains the first story arc of the series. The arc follows an undercover FBI agent named Bad Horse as he returns to his Indian Reservation in Nebraska. Like many reservations, this one is overrun with poverty, lawlessness, and full of drugs and alcohol. [...]
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