Allegheny Teen Center Reading Program #6 - Scalpedcast pt 6

Summary: First up, Hank 300 and Nick 20 chat about the digital panel-to-panel experience of reading Scalped on ComiXology. Then we take a bite out of Scalped Vol. 6: The Gnawing (issues #30-34) by asking ourselves a question: Is this story arc any better than the low point of Scalped Vol. 5? The cliffhanger image from the end of Scalped #32. We also continue our discussion about Scalped's treatment of female characters, finding that this story arc does nothing to make up for past transgressions. If anything, it makes things worse by ensuring that pretty much every woman in the story safely fits into a "lover, mother, or corpse" role. As soon as she leaves the Lover Zone, Carol gets put into the Mom Zone! The story settles into a brisk action-packed pace but it also increases the language and violence to a cartoonish extreme. If the earlier arcs of Scalped seemed to promise a "Native American noir" style of storytelling, then this arc suggests that we're really reading "Bad Boys on the rez" instead. Chief Red Crow bought a news copter... because, ummmm, why not? NEXT: Hank 300 will read Scalped Vol. 7: Rez Blues while Nick won't.