- Unmistakeable Fire
- Oct 1, 2006
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Scalped is one of the most interesting series being put out right now and you all should read it. It gets compared to Preacher a lot but doesn't share all that much with it other than the same sort of gritty Neo-Western feel. It feels a lot like an HBO or FX show and reading it it feels like it could be the storyboards for a show like that. I would probably compare it to Sons of Anarchy over the Sopranos though. There are no capes and no magic beyond the occasional hallucination or vague enigmatic Native American mumbo jumbo. The feel of it is a bit like the Departed since the character very beleivably gets his mind nearly destroyed by the stuff that he needs to go through. One of the great things about it is the setting, which pulls no punches and hasn't really been depicted in the utterly gritty and barren way that is seen here. In stuff like Thunderheart you get a bit of a sentimentalized portrayal of a crummy reservation with bad bad guys and good good guys, but here the place is just hosed. Extremely bleak but if you read about actualy Native Americans it is realistically so. The protaganist is very interesting in that they don't go the usual way of having him be half white or something in order to make you identify with him. His characterization is also pretty cool in that they don't hesitate to make him unlikeable or unsympathetic. It is also very strongly rooted in political history as the author makes a lot of references to the 70s Native movements, as well as being inspired by the Leonard Peltier. Not just the covers are interesting, but the art style throughout all the series is very unique. It gets changed up a lot but always stays pretty consistently cool. All in all I have nothing bad to say about this series other than that it can't come out fast enough.
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