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Scalped, Vol. 8: You Gotta Sin to Get Saved (Scalped #8)
by
Jason Aaron,
R.M. Guéra , Jason Latour , Davide Furnò , Various
#1 NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller
Fifteen years ago, Dashiell “Dash” Bad Horse ran away from a life of poverty and hopelessness on the Prairie Rose Indian Reservation in search of something better. Now he’s come back home armed with nothing but a set of nunchucks, a hell-bent-for-leather attitude and one dark secret, to find nothing much has changed on “The Rez” – short of a gli
...morePaperback, 160 pages
Published
November 22nd 2011
by Vertigo
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This flawless series continues with an excellent eighth volume, "You Gotta Sin To Get Saved", which sees Bad Horse receive an offer from Red Crow that will change everything - either he gets to take down Red Crow or replace him. Carol's presence in Granma's house has an unfortunate side effect on Poor Bear and an ominous consequence later on in the series, if the rantings of Catcher are to be believed, while the fate of Officer Falls Down is decided, the killer of Bad Horse's mother becomes desp...more
Daddy/mentor issues drive the drama in this volume of Scalped. Unlike the previous volume, which began with a subtle story about an elderly couple struggling to make ends meet, Volume 8 starts off with the familiar grit of a hard-edged sheriff with a lot of Tall Tales to tell. Gina Bad Horse's killer is also revealed in this volume and Red Crow, the mafia boss, makes Dash, his trusted confident, an important post in his organization. Red Crow also has a heart-to-heart meeting with his mentor.
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So this is a fitting end to a fantastic series. Not my favorite of all the Scalped books, but if you've read the rest, you're going to read this one. And you won't be disappointed. If you're not familiar with Scalped - get familiar. It's gritty crime fiction in the unusual setting of a South Dakota Indian reservation. You watch the vicious cycle of morally defunct getting rich on the backs of the weak-willed and the destitute, exacerbated by the wholly awful situation that is the res. To make ma...more
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Lincoln Red Crow is the hero? Wow Aaron, you sure got some balls on you. In the early days of this series, he was a ball breaking, hard-as-nails sumbitch who I was easily convinced was the villain. By the time I finished this book, I am convinced that I'd started with a very different understanding of the character than Aaron did.
This book is still drawing out the drama and suspense on addressing which circle of hell this express train of pain will crash. My patience is starting to stretch, as I...more
This book is still drawing out the drama and suspense on addressing which circle of hell this express train of pain will crash. My patience is starting to stretch, as I...more
This volume of Scalped was just as astonishing as the earlier installments in the series. I am getting the feeling that once this saga comes to an end, it will rank with Sandman, Watchmen, and Joe Kelly's run on Deadpool as one of the greatest comic book works of all time. This volume is much more plot-driven than the issues featured in the previous installment. The story is advancing toward its inevitably bloody conclusion with all of the suspense and tension of a Sam Peckinpah film. At the sam...more
Volume 8 continues to flesh out this cast of unlikable, yet somehow still sympathetic characters, but it didn't blow me away the way the last volume did. Partially, I think it's the artwork. Scalped has always been so dark that it's hard to follow action sequences, but this one seems worse than usual. I'm still not clear on the sequence of events in the showdown between Dash and Catcher at the end, for example. Also, some of the faces in this one seem more exaggerated, particularly Nitz and Catc...more
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If I could give 6 stars to this volume, I would!
A bit fast paced, the plot is cohesive throughout, very dramatic, complicated (in a good way), even funny in one spot... Everyone's histories are catching up with them, characters have learned from their pasts, dues are paid in blood. I can feel the end of the story approaching, but don't want to let go of this series!
The writer, Jason Aaron, is a force to reckon with and definitely to be watched and followed (though he's working on superheroes rig...more
A bit fast paced, the plot is cohesive throughout, very dramatic, complicated (in a good way), even funny in one spot... Everyone's histories are catching up with them, characters have learned from their pasts, dues are paid in blood. I can feel the end of the story approaching, but don't want to let go of this series!
The writer, Jason Aaron, is a force to reckon with and definitely to be watched and followed (though he's working on superheroes rig...more
This flawless series continues with an excellent eighth volume, "You Gotta Sin To Get Saved", which sees Bad Horse receive an offer from Red Crow that will change everything - either he gets to take down Red Crow or replace him. Carol's presence in Granma's house has an unfortunate side effect on Poor Bear and an ominous consequence later on in the series, if the rantings of Catcher are to be believed, while the fate of Officer Falls Down is decided, the killer of Bad Horse's mother becomes desp...more
Caught up on the last year's worth of this comic all in one night. If ever a comic cried out to be made into an HBO series, it's this one. It is as gripping as it ever was. One of the most brilliantly realized crime comics of all time. The good guys are pretty nasty and the bad guys have heart, and in the end everyone is left in the shades of gray between. This series pretty much demands to be read in large chunks, though. I can't imagine waiting for a month between issues and I'm so glad I save...more
"Scalped" is arguably the best serial I've ever read in the graphic novel sector (my only alternative to it being "Y: The Last Man" by Brian K Vaughan). In the first 3 or 4 collections of "Scalped," I grew to love and hate certain characters as their personalities and tangled histories came to life. As I turn the final page on the 8th installment, I find that the characters I least liked, I now love, and those that I loved, I hate. Nothing is stagnant on The Rez, and...much as in real life...the...more
I've gotten used to Jason Aaron's dizzy spinning his moral compass round but here he strips (literally) some major characters down and makes the spiritual god-digesting mushbrains into toxic agents of either chaos, boredom, or danger. Fear is a man's best friend. Gambling's for fools. Not sure what's going on with Sheriff Wooster T. Karnow other than another dizzy has-been plonk picking a ridiculous battle. I just hope he's not named after Stanley.
This is a really great series. Not groundbreaking or mindblowing, just damn solid. The monthly is wrapping up soon, which means there's only a couple more volumes of the trades to go. It'll be sad to see it go, but I can't wait for the final volumes.
We're over the hill and speeding quickly toward the climax in the latest Scalped volume (with only 10 more issues to go).
It's a hell of a ride, with one hell of a cliffhanger at the end. Great, great crime fiction.
The wait for the rest is going to be hard.
It's a hell of a ride, with one hell of a cliffhanger at the end. Great, great crime fiction.
The wait for the rest is going to be hard.
The big reveal of a murderer and more gritty storytelling makes this volume of SCAPLED one of the best yet. The lead story of Dash Bad Horse makes a few turns I did not see coming, but feel organic. Top notch work.
When something happens in this book it's prosaic, mundane and utterly earth-shaking. Scalped takes the desperate struggle of people trying to live their day-to-day, and makes it a commanding read.
The short stories that lead off the book are good, but it’s the main arc with all of its intertwining stories and viewpoints which makes the book (as usual) great.
Ho.ly.sh*t. I have no idea how they do it, but this keeps getting better and better and more and more gutwrenching and, oh good lord there are no words for this at all. I really, really like where this is going. Wherever that is. Scares the hell out of me on pretty much every character's behalf (and that's saying something).
This is Bad Horse losing complete control of who he is.
Enjoyable ....building up towards the ultimate climax.
Enjoyable ....building up towards the ultimate climax.
Probably my favorite arc to date. This is the turning point, the beginning of the last act. I love the progression and the changes the characters are making. And as usual the art and the coloring at off-the-charts good.
Aaron continues to delve deeper into the broken personalities of his cast of characters, and nearly every page will surprise you. People change, revert to their old ways, make decisions that seem mind-boggling, then make total sense. It's an incredible read from cover to cover. I finished this in about 2 hours.
I've run out of superlatives for this great series. It has to be the best comic out there right now. One thing I will say is that R. M. Guera's art is amazing and I really miss it every time someone does a fill-in issue.
Fantastic series building to what looks like an explosive conclusion.
Brilliantly executed as always, though there wasn't too much follow up on the storylines I was most interested in from the last volume (ie, Carol). It has been interesting watching all the pieces fall together and I'm on board for what happens next.
Easily, Vertigo's best book.
Que cena viciante! C'um catano!
One of the best series ever. Fantastic stories, human characters with real human flaws, realistic situations. Absolutely beautiful drawings.
The complexity of the love stories of Dash and Carol, Dash's Mom and Carol's Dad, and those that they set aside is continuously intriguing and heart breaking.
The complexity of the love stories of Dash and Carol, Dash's Mom and Carol's Dad, and those that they set aside is continuously intriguing and heart breaking.
I love this series. This may be some of the best writing in comics currently. And the art was superb throughout.
A quick correction: the actual title to Volume 8 is "You Gotta Sin to Get Saved".
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Jason Aaron grew up in a small town in Alabama. His cousin, Gustav Hasford, who wrote the semi-autobiographical novel The Short-Timers, on which the feature film Full Metal Jacket was based, was a large influence on Aaron. Aaron decided he wanted to write comics as a child, and though his father was skeptical when Aaron informed him of this aspiration, his mother took Aaron to drug stores, where h...more
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