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The “Casino Boogie” story arc is much more episodic in nature, and aims to provide background and context to the ending of volume 1. Alternating between the 1970s and the present, volume 2 sheds light on Red Crow, Gina, Catcher, Diesel and Agent Nitz’s past. It also provides a window into Dino Poor Bear’s life on the reservation, which was one of the highlights from the book. Casino Boogie leaves us at the same place Indian Country did, but we now have a better understanding of the motivations b...

I always wondered why Marvel hired Jason Aaron, now I know why - it was very likely because of this superlative Native American military veteran homecoming drama centred round the return of Dashiell 'Dash' Big House to the 'The Rez' whi was revealed as an undercover FBI agent looking at the criminal empire of his own uncle in the first volume!Superbly crafted and very much a human interest tale with its no holds barred look at the downside of the modern Native American set-aside communities. In

Vol 2. picks up roughly were Vol. 1 left off. Even though the first 2-3 issues continue the focus on our protagonist, the rest of the material features a wider panorama of set and setting. More threads of character are coalesced into a rope of narrative that would well rival that of the Gordion knot. Instead of Alexander's sword, we'll have to use all of our mental acumen to slice through this close-knit tale on the "rez."Overlaps with the style of Pulp Fiction both in depiction and underlying s...

First off, I would like to express my confusion over why anyone thinks this was an improvement over the first one? Maybe marginally, but unless your mind is blown by unnecessary time jumps that don't develop anything then I don't really see where any of these not particularly specific praises are coming from.Once again, I was rather turned off by the over hyping introduction. Was this a seriously low point in comics? Do these super hero writers not read anything outside their genre?! I mean, I'm...

This volume was a bit harder to read than the first one, due to constant jumps in time periods, but great nonetheless. This series really starts to grab me for good.

“Casino Boogie” takes place on opening night of the casino where we see the corruption and ugliness required to create such an expensive venture in a land locked remote location such as South Dakota. The bribing of officials, the hand-outs from the mob – Red Crow has had to get into bed with a lot of dangerous people who threaten to bring the whole scheme crashing down around him. And amidst all of this chaos is Gina Bad Horse, Dash’s mother, whose protest group against the casino has attracted

Better than the first volume, but still has problems. At first, I hoped Aaron had given up on the constantly shifting plot: '2 hours ago', 'the next day', 'six days ago', but he soon starts up with it again. I'm not opposed to playing around with time in a story, but you've got to be good enough not to let it break the flow, and there has to be a good reason for it. So far, it just seems like an affectation. It's something a lot of unusual, conceptual comics have played with, but adopting the mo...

On second read, long after I finished this series, I find myself appropriately blown away by the mad, intricate storytelling in this volume - not to mention how evocative and deadly sharp the edge of reality is on display.Seeing one night from so many fragmented angles - like looking at the world through a cracked funhouse mirror - is a total trip, something that takes a helluva tightrope walk to pull off (especially trying to cart around the massive balls it took to attempt this book - let alon...

While volume 1 just get all the sh*t started, volume 2 piles up all other sh*t and gives them to you in the worst crap plate of all time, but still like a hungry, hungry bad ocelot, you'll eat them all down to the last smudge. Why? Because it is just that good.Casino Boogie continues to impress as developments (and shocking surprises) continue to happen in Prairie Rose. The characters are as complicated, gray and human and badass all at the same time.

I liked the first one so much, I mitigated my expectations for this one because I didn't want to be disappointed but Wow. F-R-E-A-K-I-N' WOW. That was so cool. Vol. 2 expanded the scope of the story in every possible way, introduced new characters and made both Red Crow and Gina more relevant than ever to the storyline.If Vol.1 introduces a new paradigm, Vol.2 made it a can't miss.

This continues to be dark and violent and so dang good.My review of the complete series can be found here:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

''We dared to oppose the corporate banks and the uranium miners and the Christian churches. And for that, the feds and some in our own tribal government wanted to see every single one of us either dead or in jail.''The casino is now opened, and yet everyone in town is frightened about the changes this implies. Despite Red Crow's sad story about how he became such an important leader on the Rez, we cannot forget all the murders and corrupted actions he took to get there. This volume doesn’t conta...

If the first trade of Scalped was just calisthenics — lots of set-up, exposition, character study — then this is a full out marathon. I'm not sure what happened between those issues and these, because Scalped leaped from being a somewhat interesting book to completely compulsive. Jason Aaron is so completely confident in his storytelling abilities this time through and it really shows with fractured and labyrinthian storylines that answer all your questions in its own sweet time and in its own c...

And the series picks upIf you can make it through the first one's intensity, you are in for a treat. This one is even better, and begins to humanize the characters, to an extent at least.

As good as the first volume was, this one takes it up more than a few notches. On the opening night of Red Crow's casino, we're taken into the murky lives of most of our main characters, pulled far back into their pasts, and some dark secrets are revealed. I love how everyone is tied together in subtle ways that even they are unaware of sometimes. Really, this is some clever writing here-- Jason Aaron shows us key events that occurred when we weren't looking in volume one, as well as monumentall...

Edited review to come.

GreatAnother great volume. This time around the narrative is more focused on other characters than Dash Bad Horse. And we get a little revelation of what happened when Gina and Red Crow were younger. A great book that keeps getting better.

"Hoka Hey"--used by Catcher as a toast to the Dog Soldiers.Prairie Rose Indian reservation in South Dakota is described as the place where "the Great Sioux nation came to die." This volume, issues 6-11, occurs at the opening of Chief Red Crow’s multimillion casino in the poorest county in America. So the casino will save the soul of the rez, right? Jason Aaron’s epic tale continues with operatic aspirations, and it really hits its mark. While it is mainly a fleshing out of the first volume, deep...

Despite the high quality of the writing and art, as well as the conscious efforts by the creative team behind Scalped to ensure that this book does justice to the American Indian community, Scalped has still faced criticism about the motives and legitimacy of its' portrayal of Native Americans. A Native blogger who goes by the name 'Ronin Redshade' reviewed Scalped rather harshly: http://wos-reviews.blogspot.com/2007/... After reading Vol. 1 he was disgusted by "yet another non-Native writer tel...