Sunday Trade: Scalped
May. 24th, 2009 02:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Scalped: Indian Country written by Jason Aaron, Art by R.M. Guera, Colors by Lee Loughridge, Letters by Phil Balsman
Jason Aaron is one of comics rising stars. He's infusing new life into old properties at Marvel and, along with co-creator Guera, is doing one of Vertigo's latest flagship titles with Scalped. The book looks at various characters living on or involved with the Prairie Rose Indian Reservation. Focusing heavily on recently returned prodigal son Dashiell "Dash" Bad Horse. After fifteen years away he returns and gets hired on by local crime boss, tribal chief and chief of police Lincoln Red Crow. Red Crow used to be a major part of the activist movement, alongside Dash's mother Gina Bad Horse. But now he's a corrupt and violent bastard determined to get his new casino up in running at any cost...
Adding to the mix are other activists former and current (like crazy white boy Diesel), FBI agent Nitz looking to pin a 20 year old murder of two FBI agents on Red Crow, Red Crow's self-destructive daughter and other crooks, cops and citizens on the Rez. Not that its always possible to tell those last three apart...
Aaron and Guera are telling a hyper-violent cops/noir/gangster/tribal life/spiritual journey mash-up of a story. And with its diverse cast and interlocking story arcs its no wonder its often looked at as the succesor to the recently ended 100 Bullets...
