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Scalped Vol. 6: The Gnawing |  | Author: Jason Aaron
Creator: Jock
Publisher: Vertigo
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 128
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Dimensions (in): 10.4 x 7 x 0.5
ISBN: 1401227171
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN: 9781401227173
ASIN: 1401227171
Publication Date: May 25, 2010
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Product Description
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 glimmering new casino run by a corrupt leader named Red Crow, and a once-proud people overcome by drugs and organized crime.
In this volume, Red Crow commits a murder in front of witnesses and the FBI finally thinks they have the dirt they need to put him away. Meanwhile, Dash's loyalty to Red Crow is tested as his addiction to heroin intensifies.
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 Continuing excellence June 11, 2010
Manwich
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is the best comic book being published today, or at least, I believe, the best one I have read. Being a cast made up of creator-owned characters, the stakes are real, and any fate can befall any member of it. This was made known in volume two.
Another thing that makes Scalped great is that the characters talk very much like real people, or at least how I imagine real people would talk if living the lives of the characters within the context of the story.
I always tell people that this is the one serialized story that I cannot miss, and I believe it. However, reading it in trade as I do, I really only understand my own stated love for this work every five to eight months, or however often it is that a new trade comes out. It is superb.
Aaron has the single best approach to writing both chapters within a story arc and story arcs as chapters of the larger, overall work of any scribe in comics today. His pacing is unparalleled.
I absolutely love how inevitable every twist seems as it is happening, and immediately after. This is because, despite the seeming predictability, I am squirming every panel of the way, heart racing, rooting for nearly every cast member to somehow come out on top, or at least alive. Some of them manage this.
Also, Guera's art is really nice, though I didn't like it until volume two. I'm not positive, but my memory tells me that the coloring was not complementary early on. It may just be that I wasn't ready to like the art at first, though.
Basically, if you like comics and are not offended by cursing, cartoon nudity, etc., you should be reading this series.
I Love You Dash, but you're bringing me down... August 5, 2010
Ryan Chidester (Salt Lake City, UT, USA)
SCALPED STRIKES AGAIN!!! If you've been reading Scalped so far keep on reading! It just keeps getting better and better and better. There is some wild #*^@ in this volume and yes, people will die.
 Dash, how low will he go? June 12, 2010
Stan FREDO (BORDEAUX, Aquitaine, France)
In this sixth installment in the series, all characters remain as dark, manipulative, murderous, scheming, doomed etc. as ever. Except for an Indian Sheriff who's trying to make sense of all the killings. In this Indian reservation, all kinds of trafficking and killings happen, and the FBI tries to arrest Chief Red Crow for the murder of a cop in 1975. However, it seems that everybody will die before the truth is out on that murder (and on another one too but shhh, no spoiler!). The co-creators, AARON and GUERA are back together for the 5 issues collected here, and this volume stands as one of the best in the series.
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