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Fifteen years ago, Dashiell "Dash" Bad Horse ran away from a life of abject poverty and utter hopelessness on the Prairie Rose Indian Reservation searching for 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. Is he here to set things right or just get a piece of the action?
This "edition" represents volumes 1-10 of the Scalped series.
This "edition" represents volumes 1-10 of the Scalped series.
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First published January 1, 2007
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About the author
Jason Aaron
2,344 books1,672 followersJason 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 he would purchase books from spinner racks, some of which he still owns today.
Aaron's career in comics began in 2001 when he won a Marvel Comics talent search contest with an eight-page Wolverine back-up story script. The story, which was published in Wolverine #175 (June 2002), gave him the opportunity to pitch subsequent ideas to editors.
In 2006, Aaron made a blind submission to DC/Vertigo, who published his first major work, the Vietnam War story The Other Side which was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Miniseries, and which Aaron regards as the "second time" he broke into the industry.
Following this, Vertigo asked him to pitch other ideas, which led to the series Scalped, a creator-owned series set on the fictional Prairie Rose Indian Reservation and published by DC/Vertigo.
In 2007, Aaron wrote Ripclaw: Pilot Season for Top Cow Productions. Later that year, Marvel editor Axel Alonso, who was impressed by The Other Side and Scalped, hired Aaron to write issues of Wolverine, Black Panther and eventually, an extended run on Ghost Rider that began in April 2008. His continued work on Black Panther also included a tie-in to the company-wide crossover storyline along with a "Secret Invasion" with David Lapham in 2009.
In January 2008, he signed an exclusive contract with Marvel, though it would not affect his work on Scalped. Later that July, he wrote the Penguin issue of The Joker's Asylum.
After a 4-issue stint on Wolverine in 2007, Aaron returned to the character with the ongoing series Wolverine: Weapon X, launched to coincide with the feature film X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Aaron commented, "With Wolverine: Weapon X we'll be trying to mix things up like that from arc to arc, so the first arc is a typical sort of black ops story but the second arc will jump right into the middle of a completely different genre," In 2010, the series was relaunched once again as simply Wolverine. He followed this with his current run on Thor: God of Thunder.
Aaron's career in comics began in 2001 when he won a Marvel Comics talent search contest with an eight-page Wolverine back-up story script. The story, which was published in Wolverine #175 (June 2002), gave him the opportunity to pitch subsequent ideas to editors.
In 2006, Aaron made a blind submission to DC/Vertigo, who published his first major work, the Vietnam War story The Other Side which was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Miniseries, and which Aaron regards as the "second time" he broke into the industry.
Following this, Vertigo asked him to pitch other ideas, which led to the series Scalped, a creator-owned series set on the fictional Prairie Rose Indian Reservation and published by DC/Vertigo.
In 2007, Aaron wrote Ripclaw: Pilot Season for Top Cow Productions. Later that year, Marvel editor Axel Alonso, who was impressed by The Other Side and Scalped, hired Aaron to write issues of Wolverine, Black Panther and eventually, an extended run on Ghost Rider that began in April 2008. His continued work on Black Panther also included a tie-in to the company-wide crossover storyline along with a "Secret Invasion" with David Lapham in 2009.
In January 2008, he signed an exclusive contract with Marvel, though it would not affect his work on Scalped. Later that July, he wrote the Penguin issue of The Joker's Asylum.
After a 4-issue stint on Wolverine in 2007, Aaron returned to the character with the ongoing series Wolverine: Weapon X, launched to coincide with the feature film X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Aaron commented, "With Wolverine: Weapon X we'll be trying to mix things up like that from arc to arc, so the first arc is a typical sort of black ops story but the second arc will jump right into the middle of a completely different genre," In 2010, the series was relaunched once again as simply Wolverine. He followed this with his current run on Thor: God of Thunder.
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January 23, 2015
Se me ha cruzado el cable esta semana y me he metido entre pecho y espalda los 10 tomos de Scalped. Era un deuda que tenia pendiente desde hace tiempo con Jason Aaron y la he saldado y pagado con mis propias emociones a flor de piel al terminar sus 1300 paginas. Paginas que han caído una detrás de otra sin casi poder parar para tomar respiro, pero siendo justos, tampoco hay respiro para los protagonistas de esta historia de piel rojiza pero tremendamente negra.
Género negro, criminal, noir o como queráis llamar al género, pero negro es lo que mas justicia le hace pues negras son las tramas, las almas de los protagonistas, de los gobiernos, de los muertos y de los vivos. Jason Aaron nos lleva a una reserva de indios Lakota en Dakota del sur y a un Kingpin criminal que la gobierna llamado, Cuervo Rojo que está a punto de inaugurar un casino. A esta reserva vuelve tras marcharse hace muchos años, Dash Caballo Terco y por circunstancias de su extrema violencia, es contratado como policía por el propio Cuervo Rojo, quien por supuesto es dueño también de la policía tribal.
Solo hay un pequeño problema para Caballo Terco y es que es un agente especial del FBI en misión encubierta para acabar con Cuervo Rojo. Aunque sigue siendo un malnacido duro, violento, descreído y peligroso. Todo se empieza a complicar enseguida y las implicaciones con el pasado, con el asesinato de dos federales hace años por radicales tradicionalistas indios, como la madre de Caballo Terco y Cuervo Rojo, harán que durante 1300 paginas se desarrolle una historia cruda y violenta, llena de sangre, sexo, balas, drogas, putas, cuchilladas y cabelleras arrancadas donde las lineas entre lo que es cada uno se desdibujan a medida que los personajes crecen por encima de definiciones sencillas.
Una historia negra como ella sola, con un desarrollo de personajes magnifico y sin maniqueísmos de ninguna clase y es que todo el mundo es grandísimo hijodeputa, da igual a que lado de la ley este. Una historia en la que te importan los personajes y su sufrimiento y en definitiva un tebeo que se te mete en las venas tanto como la heroína en algunos personajes. Jason Aaron toca techo y lo hace perfectamente, desde el principio hasta el mismo final. El dibujo puede gustar mas o menos, pero es tan sucio como la historia y le va que ni pintado.
Me entero ahora de que están preparando una serie para TV de Scalped con el guionista de Banshee y precisamente el tono violento y sexual de Banshee es el que necesita una serie sobre Scalped, solo que aquí la profundidad de los personajes será bastante mayor, aun así, hay similitudes. El Sheriif Hood de Banshee es un criminal haciéndose pasar por policía y Dashiel Caballo Terco es un policía haciéndose pasar por criminal, o un policía criminal, o un hijodeputa de la peor calaña o un puto héroe... o todo a la vez, porque al final todos somo un montón de mierda a la vez, en su mayor parte contradictoria, así que porque deberían ser diferentes los personajes a cuyas historias nos asomamos? Leed Scalped ya, joder!!.... y que el gran espíritu os asista.
Género negro, criminal, noir o como queráis llamar al género, pero negro es lo que mas justicia le hace pues negras son las tramas, las almas de los protagonistas, de los gobiernos, de los muertos y de los vivos. Jason Aaron nos lleva a una reserva de indios Lakota en Dakota del sur y a un Kingpin criminal que la gobierna llamado, Cuervo Rojo que está a punto de inaugurar un casino. A esta reserva vuelve tras marcharse hace muchos años, Dash Caballo Terco y por circunstancias de su extrema violencia, es contratado como policía por el propio Cuervo Rojo, quien por supuesto es dueño también de la policía tribal.
Solo hay un pequeño problema para Caballo Terco y es que es un agente especial del FBI en misión encubierta para acabar con Cuervo Rojo. Aunque sigue siendo un malnacido duro, violento, descreído y peligroso. Todo se empieza a complicar enseguida y las implicaciones con el pasado, con el asesinato de dos federales hace años por radicales tradicionalistas indios, como la madre de Caballo Terco y Cuervo Rojo, harán que durante 1300 paginas se desarrolle una historia cruda y violenta, llena de sangre, sexo, balas, drogas, putas, cuchilladas y cabelleras arrancadas donde las lineas entre lo que es cada uno se desdibujan a medida que los personajes crecen por encima de definiciones sencillas.
Una historia negra como ella sola, con un desarrollo de personajes magnifico y sin maniqueísmos de ninguna clase y es que todo el mundo es grandísimo hijodeputa, da igual a que lado de la ley este. Una historia en la que te importan los personajes y su sufrimiento y en definitiva un tebeo que se te mete en las venas tanto como la heroína en algunos personajes. Jason Aaron toca techo y lo hace perfectamente, desde el principio hasta el mismo final. El dibujo puede gustar mas o menos, pero es tan sucio como la historia y le va que ni pintado.
Me entero ahora de que están preparando una serie para TV de Scalped con el guionista de Banshee y precisamente el tono violento y sexual de Banshee es el que necesita una serie sobre Scalped, solo que aquí la profundidad de los personajes será bastante mayor, aun así, hay similitudes. El Sheriif Hood de Banshee es un criminal haciéndose pasar por policía y Dashiel Caballo Terco es un policía haciéndose pasar por criminal, o un policía criminal, o un hijodeputa de la peor calaña o un puto héroe... o todo a la vez, porque al final todos somo un montón de mierda a la vez, en su mayor parte contradictoria, así que porque deberían ser diferentes los personajes a cuyas historias nos asomamos? Leed Scalped ya, joder!!.... y que el gran espíritu os asista.
July 20, 2016
Scalped was one of the greatest series I've ever read. Dark, deep, inevitable, and incredible. This is a must read.
December 13, 2021
This was an enjoyable series to read. It starts a little slow, but it really picks ups, and the art is just fantastic. Somehow they've managed to communicate a vibrancy of characters and landscapes with a very muted pallet of colours. It's really stunning. Honestly I'm not a huge fan of the cover art and the titles of the volumes, stuff like "You Gotta Sin to Get Saved" really projects a more tacky vibe than I think the story and panel art deliver. But if you can get past it it really does deliver a touching and interesting story with a lot of character growth and exploration of self.
I was, and still am, a bit skeptical about an indigenous story being written by someone who isn't from the community in the same way it's weird to hear a story this intimate about any community written by an outsider. The whole thing is obviously an elaborate caricature of indigenous culture, which bugged me a lot. It feels weird to read, in ways I'm not sure I can describe. The fact that all the meaningful moments about history and culture and identity were just imagined by the auther rather than experienced feels weird. Not because authors shouldn't be writing fiction, but because of how intimate and personal this work feels. It's not just a random crime story, it's VERY much about reservation life and indigenous history. It was very well written but it just feels a little off in terms of subject matter. Hence 4 stars instead of 5.
I was, and still am, a bit skeptical about an indigenous story being written by someone who isn't from the community in the same way it's weird to hear a story this intimate about any community written by an outsider. The whole thing is obviously an elaborate caricature of indigenous culture, which bugged me a lot. It feels weird to read, in ways I'm not sure I can describe. The fact that all the meaningful moments about history and culture and identity were just imagined by the auther rather than experienced feels weird. Not because authors shouldn't be writing fiction, but because of how intimate and personal this work feels. It's not just a random crime story, it's VERY much about reservation life and indigenous history. It was very well written but it just feels a little off in terms of subject matter. Hence 4 stars instead of 5.
August 1, 2018
A must fucking read! Oh my gawd Jason Aaron’s Scalped is awesome and grim...grim-awesome? No feel good moments from this fella!
Scalped is Crime and it’s Noir, it’s an anti-love story and it’s a story about how we as people affect each other’s lives and life choices. But mostly it’s a lesson in how we should get our fucking acts together and not exploit and kill and maim each other and not be total assholes!
It is full of excellently drawn out characters and crim-turned-fbi agent Bad Horse’s, whom we follow on his return to the Rez, is an absolute masterpiece.
It’s been called exploitative... I don’t know, I’m not the person to judge. But imho it’s just a story about people at their worst - it could have been set anywhere... though the characters most definitely do exploit each other to the 9th!
It’s certainly good reading! There are no good people here, just people, who turned out the way they did due to enough bad shit happening to them. Some characters swing the way of decent over the course of the series but mostly not so much. It’s full of very bad bad people. Really really fucking bad people.
So welcome to the Rez and enjoy the readin
Scalped is Crime and it’s Noir, it’s an anti-love story and it’s a story about how we as people affect each other’s lives and life choices. But mostly it’s a lesson in how we should get our fucking acts together and not exploit and kill and maim each other and not be total assholes!
It is full of excellently drawn out characters and crim-turned-fbi agent Bad Horse’s, whom we follow on his return to the Rez, is an absolute masterpiece.
It’s been called exploitative... I don’t know, I’m not the person to judge. But imho it’s just a story about people at their worst - it could have been set anywhere... though the characters most definitely do exploit each other to the 9th!
It’s certainly good reading! There are no good people here, just people, who turned out the way they did due to enough bad shit happening to them. Some characters swing the way of decent over the course of the series but mostly not so much. It’s full of very bad bad people. Really really fucking bad people.
So welcome to the Rez and enjoy the readin
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