Review: Scalped: High Lonesome
Well the cover blub on the latest volume of Scalped (from the Philadelphia Daily News) states that this is “one of the best comics ever created”. I’m not sure if that’s totally true, but it’s certainly in contention, and actually might be the best crime comic to date.
Jason Aaron is just an incredibly brave writer, crafting a painfully bleak work that lacks even a single sympathetic character. In High Lonesome he tells a series of 5 interconnected stories revealing both the motivations behind the main cast and the answers to most of the major mysteries that have driven the plot up until now.
It’s a ballsy movie by Aaron to unmask everything all at once, but it works incredibly well, and it really feels like the right approach for him to have taken. And even with all that out there, there still seems to be plenty of story to come. No padding, just plenty more misery to heap upon the residents of the Prarie Rose Reservation. I can’t wait.
Tags: comics, High Lonesome, Jason Aaron, Prarie Rose Reservation, Reviews, Scalped, Vertigo
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