Product Description

This intense crime drama that mixes organized crime with current Native American culture.

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, and a once-proud people overcome by drugs and organized crime.

In this volume, Dash makes a dark and fateful decision that will forever affect his future on the reservation as he learns more secrets from his former girlfriend's past.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #50091 in Books
• Published on: 2009-04-28
• Released on: 2009-04-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781401221799
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

Don't Want to Watch, But Can't Look Away
Part of me can't stand the wait between volumes of Scalped, and part of me isn't sure I could handle much more of it. Jason Aaron is crafting a tour de force crime drama, and volume 4 takes us closer to the inevitable bad ending for two of the principals on "the Rez", Chief Red Crow and Dash Bad Horse. That we have been given so much history and characterization for these two men allows us to feel the decisions they make here that much more intensely. None of the main characters in Scalped are completely heroic or unsympathetic; we can understand why they make the decisions they do (and in one case, perhaps even respect that decision - and it may not be the character you'd think), even as we know those decisions will lead to their downfall.

One of the reasons it's great that this is a comic book is that the story has room to breathe and build. The other is the chance to see Aaron's partner, R.M. Guera provide great visuals that contribute to every element of the story. In this volume, guest artist Davide Furno pitches in to provide some gritty work on Dash's more intimate story.

A fantastic addition to one of the best comics being produced today. Check it out, starting from the beginning. And then read everything else Jason Aaron has written. (Quick suggestions: The Other Side for the non-capes crowd; Ghost Rider Vol. 1: Hell Bent and Heaven Bound (v. 5) for the Wednesday crowd)