In Scalped, Vol. 8 (of 10): You Gotta Sin to Get Saved, things slow down a bit and the storylines of several characters’s storylines set us up for the final 20 issues/chapters of this 1,200 page epic. In this one, a Sheriff Karnow takes on FBI agent Nitz, and as usual we have reasons to find both of them despicable. Dash, still trying to play Nitz off against Red Crow, is invited by the latter to in a sense become his heir, to take over the rez at some point. Can a sinner save the rez, after all...

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...

8 Volumes and Aaron still rocks. This books hold the spirit of Scalped, but slowed a bit down, but stays brutal and ruthless. There is bit of mysticism and lot of internal struggles of many main characters. And that all feels alright. Like silent before storm, or fake way to nice and calm conclusion. I feel that all characters would deserve a rest (alive or six feet under, it depends on them), but I believe this is not the case. Two books to go, will Aaron bring final conclusion in 9th and "epil...

Dash's return 'The Rez' has been nothing like he'd imagined, but then again could be exactly what he expected in this intense, down and dirty, unrelenting look at the dark side of the Native American communities set aside and disenfranchised by the 'Americans'. The masterclass in visual storytelling by both writer and artist is heading towards an end. In this volume there's a challenge to Red Crow's power base; Dash continues his quest for some sort of justice for his mother’s murder and Officer...

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).

"You Gotta Sin to Get Saved." Ain't that the truth baby? Another really good installment in this fantastic series. Plot lines twist and turn in on themselves and move along. You want people to be better than they are, and sometimes they want that too, but if wishes were horses .... There are characters I root for, and most can probably not be saved, but young Dino might just have a chance. It goes without saying that there is blood, and violence, and drugs, and lots of people killed or shot up,

Outstanding! This is always an extremely fun series to read & this volume was no different. Dont want to give much away, but Dash is finally getting in position to take down Red Crow. The only complaint I've ever had about this series is that at times the artwork doesn't seem as sharp as it could be. However the artwork in this Vol is excellent, & of course the writing is perfect as always. I've got used copies of the final two volumes on order from Amazon, supposed to be here the day after tomr...

Just as the title, as well as Rasputin would, suggest you do indeed have to sin to get saved. Logical eh? And indeed there is more than enough sin in this series to go around. So gather around the campfire ye sinner and hear yet another tale of villainy and vice on the "rez."With a less than 20 issues to go from this point, the depiction of a spider and it's web it quite apt for this ensuing final act. The author as spool spinning arachnid weaves together a tale of final judgement for all involv...

It's going to be hard for me to keep pace and not finish this series next month. Now that the writing is on the wall and the fate of everyone's about to be known, SCALPED has become quite intoxicating.What is there left to say, really? The freakin' rez is burning and the lakota tribe is left among themselves to sort their ill will. That series deserves to live beyond comic book pages. It's too good.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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.

Volume 8 does not escalate the story in terms of action (but surely there is some fun gunbattles here, thanks to Agent Nitz) but int terms of a sense of heightened character motivations. As the name of this volume suggests, this is a story of redemption and being again. Some, like Dino and Catcher may have some pretty bad experiences but all in all, this pretty much sets up the stage for thw climax.

Two stand-alone issues preceded the 5-part title story. I would have to say that this volume is the 'slowest' one yet, and that not much really happens. Still enjoyable, however, but not as gripping as the volumes preceding it.

Can’t wait to the conclusion!

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...

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.

Still very good, but it feels like the story is a bit too stretched out at this point. I feel like it should have come to an end somewhere around this volume, but there are still two trades left. On the other hand, two trades seem probably just about right to tie up all the many plot lines that were accumulating since issue 1. Looking forward to the grand finale.