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Scalped. Dash Badhorse. By Gavin Smith. Jason Aaron. R.M. Guera

Artist: Gavin Smith (All)

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Title:	Scalped. Dash Badhorse. By Gavin Smith. Jason Aaron. R.M. Guera
Artist:	Gavin Smith (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Commission
For Sale Status:	250
Views:	2,047
Likes on CAF:	1 2
Favorited on CAF:	1
Comments:	2
Added to Site:	6/4/2020
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Scalped: Dash Badhorse By Gavin Smith

Scalped
By: Jason Aaron and R.M. Guera

Scalped is one of my all-time favorite comic series. Jason Aaron and R.M. Guera’s sixty-issue crime masterpiece is a series that captures the pain of its characters in a way that is brutal, beautiful, and stays with you long after it ends. A gripping crime drama in the vein of Breaking Bad and the Sopranos, it is described as, “a tale of violence, betrayal, mysticism, despair, hope and the terrible things history leads men to do to one another.” Scalped tells the story of Dashiell “Dash” Badhorse. Fifteen years ago, Dash ran away from a life of poverty and hopelessness on the Prairie Rose Indian Reservation. Now, he returns “armed with nothing but a set of nunchucks, a hell-bent-for-leather attitude and one dark secret” But to escape his past he must first embrace his past. Sometimes to get out, you must go through.

Scalped is unlike any book I've read. It sticks with you; it gets in your blood, or to borrow a phrase from its creator, it’s like “gravel in your guts.” Good people do bad things, bad people do good things, and while you may not always agree with them or even like them, you do know them. As issue 60—the series finale—ends, everyone has paid. While some’s debts have been paid in blood, others have paid in more personal and painful ways. Regardless of what has happened to them along the way, everyone has changed. This series is Jason Aaron’s writing at its finest. Dash’s final monologue is written and drawn beautifully. And it is beautiful. I realize that is not the word you would expect to describe one of the grittiest and greatest crime series that ever existed. Complicated and engaging you just keep coming back, you can’t escape the Rez.

Earlier in 2020 Gavin Smith created an amazing Strange Adventures commission for me. Looking at his style and how well he did with our previous collaboration, I thought he would do an outstanding Scalped commission. This idea was amplified when I saw him mention how much of a fan of Scalped he was. Gavin completed an amazing piece consisting of Dash Bad Horse and the Crazy Horse Casino. It is a stunning piece of art and I could not be happier with it.

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Drew Clark
Member Since 2010

Posted on 6/4/2020

Really nice!

John C
Member Since 2014

Posted on 7/3/2020

Sweet!

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