Jason Aaron continues to blow me away with this book. It is one of the most enjoyable stories I have ever read, populated by characters that I hate or pity or fear. It is the proverbial train wreck that I can’t stop watching. Everyone here is wretched, addicted, disgusting, evil. We are watching them destroy themselves and each other. We are compelled by this story, drawn into this world of horrible crimes. And there is no stylish or romanticized violence. It’s brutal. There’s nothing cool about...

Catcher says, "Hookah Hey Motherfuckers".I had to see meaning of this which meant "A good day to die".I really love this series.

Wow. Jason Aaron has already made it to my top 5 comic writer list, and with this kind of work, he could make the jump to favourite of ALL genres. This is crime noir that sits comfortably alongside Elmore Leonard, Raymond Chandler, and in his own medium, Ed Brubaker. The best noir ironically requires shades of grey; many...not quite 50...but a lot. Aaron has a cast in this series we have been getting to know, but here in this volume, we delve into the back stories of some of the more important m...

This entire series is awesome but this particular trade can be read first or by itself and you'll get drawn into the entire sick and fascinating world of SCALPED.

Good grief this is a great series! This volume like the four previous was almost impossible for me to put down. Dash isn't the only great character, every character in the series brings something entertaining & twisty to the table. I'm just glad this isn't a brand new series because I'd hate to have to wait to see how this is gonna end. Gonna start Vol. 6 immediately. Highly recommend.

When i was a kid, i looked forward to the color comics in the Sunday newspaper, especially on rainy fall mornings like this. As a high-school freshman paperboy (still a kid), i dreaded delivering the Sunday editions on mornings like this, but at least i'd alway have a few envelopes with the customers' weekly payment to spend on a half-dozen donuts that i'd scarf down while watching World Wrestling Federation "bouts," followed by reading the sports section of the paper and the color comics.Today

Just a hair below the first four books, because it’s somewhat scattered. But the writing is as good as ever. Once again, Aaron takes time to flesh out side characters and give them complexity and pathos, while using flashbacks to excellent effect. I find it interesting that the first half of Scalped has relatively little plot progression. It’s been much more concerned with characterization and establishing history. So it’s highly impressive that Aaron has never once dipped into exposition dumpin...

Reading Scalped Vol: 5 is like getting fucked with a steak knife.Going all the way back to the Indian Wars of the mid to late 1800's to the dismal present, Jason Aaron has managed to write a story truly varnished with blood, guts, and more blood. From Wounded Knee and Little Bighorn, the roots of the sins of the past have given full flower to a ferocious growth, thorny with oppression and butchery. Grimy lines display the internecine flow from the past to the very tangible now. What starts as a

Scalped, Volume 5: High Lonesome is the best volume thus far in this high operatic noir crime series set on a South Dakota Prairie Rose Indian Reservation. I’m late to this party so I won’t tell much of the story, but I love how it is historically framed by the nineteenth century Indian Wars, Wounded Knee, Little Bighorn. It takes a lot of blood to take destroy a native people, and yet, as Aaron reminds us: They are still here.It’s all tragedy all the time in this volume, where a con man comes i...

A superbly crafted and very much a human interest tale with its no holds barred look at the dark side of the modern Native American communities that have been set-aside by the 'Americans'. In this volume we get to see the 'res' through the eyes of a con-man, who might seriously bad news to at least one member of the regular cast. The intense drama continues. 8 out of 12.

In this fifth book in the series, we are introduced to a con-man who hustles blackjack, we learn more about FBI Agent Nitz, there's background on Diesel's troubled childhood, and Bad Horse's heroin addiction gets worse as he's roped into a heist to save Red Crow discovering that he's an undercover FBI Agent. And the killer of Gina Bad Horse is revealed. There's a lot going on in "High Lonesome" and it's definitely the best in the series so far with revelations and action coming thick and fast. T...

Right when I thought I had this series figured out and thought it was growing stale, it punched me in the dick with two enormous plot twists. This is a series about so much more than cowboys, Indians, guns and casinos. This is a series about bounds that run deeper than an entire generation of people.SCALPED continues to entertain me more than anything I've been reading.

From the introduction to this volume by Jason Starr: It's everything great crime fiction should be - raw, honest, ironic, in-your-face, and dark as hell. And why shouldn't it be dark? Crime be definition is dark, and Aaron refuses to give it to us any other way.Not much I can add to that. As in each installment, we constantly move back and forth in time and between various perspectives. It is rather astounding how well Aaron keeps all those threads and plot lines so tightly woven together. It's

That was some of the most compelling storytelling I've read in *long* while. Why can't all graphic novels be that good? Wow, at this rate Aaron's going to ruin me for 90% of the decent authors out there.Aaron comes up with character flaws and the perspective to explain (even glorify) them so good that I actually want to meet these disgusting excuses for humanity. The secondary characters featured in this book are amazing - makes me wonder how many personality disorders Aaron is carrying around t...

High Lonesome isn't that action-packed as the 4th volume. But hell, this is surprisingly good as things turn out to be evil I cannot even root for even one character (except you Officer Falls Down, you are one helluva good cop). Dash and his drug addiction, Nitz and his vendetta, Diesel the 1/16 Kickapoo sociopath.Volume 5 is no midseasom finale. It is a necessary motivation for the worse events to come.

Read on, this comic is really good.

3.5 stars. This is a bit of an up and down volume. The chapter featuring Falls Down, Belcourt and Catcher is exceptionally good, and reveals important back story information. Diesel and Nitz's chapters are both interesting, and help to flesh out both characters. The arc featuring Dash and the "mystery" guests feels underdeveloped, and the ending stretches the limits of realism and "believability". Not a bad volume by any stretch, but not the series' strongest.

Oh my gods!!! This may be one of the best noir adventures I have ever read!!! Just when you think you have reached the nadir, the author takes you to a darker hole! Yet, i still hold hope for Dash's redemption. Onward and downward fellow travelers!

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 for themselves before he took up with my granma and started a whole new family out there in the cotton picking fields of western Tennessee. He never talked about like on the reservation, never made a mention of his prev...

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 en...