Scalped 49

You Gotta Sin to Get Saved
Conclusion
By Jason Aaron and RM Guéra

- Catcher tries to kill Bad Horse but fate in the form of Officer Falls Down, intervenes and saves his life
- After getting shot in the face by Catcher BH shoots back, this is all while they are riding together in a pickup truck; Catcher promised to lead BH to the man who killed his mother
- just as Catcher is about to shoot BH OFD emerges from the mist and instead of getting shot in the back of the head BH gets shot through both cheeks when he slams on the brakes to avoid hitting FD
- Catcher gets shot in the gut by BH
- BH helps FD using Catcher's horse
- Catcher winds up in the hospital next to Lawrence Belcourt (?)
- Red Crow shows his true colors as he lets Hassel Rock Meficine almost die from a heart attack and seems to have found a new blood lust by the end of the chapter
- magnificent art by Guera, especially some of the panels of Catcher trying to escape

Scalped 48

You Gotta Sin to Get Saved
Part 4: Are You Honest Enough to Live Outside the Law?
By Jason Aaron and RM Guéra

- Pulls together bits from the previous chapters as Bad Horse meets with Red Crow, Nitz, and Catcher, individually
- Red Crow opens up, promises to tell him anything
- Bad Horse seems ready to abuse this trust later, when talking to Nitz
- Catcher tells him about the fate of Officer Falls Down and the role he can play in savings him or that he can kill the man who killed his mother, Bad Horse chooses the latter path
- it all seems to revolve around BH and RC at the sweat lodge
- RC admits his love for BH's mother
- BH has a hallucinogenic nightmare about Diesel whom he killed a few arcs back, possibly for good cause
- Nitz has a new found level of confidence since inadvertently taking down a terrorist cell
- definite inbetweener chapter, lots laid out on the ground but no real resolution

Scalped 47

You Gotta Sin to Get Saved
Part 3: Hearted
By Jason Aaron and RM Guéra

- so far each chapter in this arc has seemed to have a different central character, this time around it is Dino Poor Bear
- He is in love with Carol, misreads the signs, and thinks she loves him back, even goes so far as to buy her jewelry
- before he can give her the earrings he bought her she inadvertently says how much she likes having him as a brother, not realizing what he was about to do
- there's also a subplot about a little girl killed in a hit and run accident, it is implied that Dino is the one who figured out who did it and tipped off Red Crow who in turn told the tribal police
- the ending wasn't hard to envision but it still difficult to read
- the common thread in this arc, so far, seems to be transformation; in part 1 it is Lincoln Red Crow, in part 2 it is Lawrence (in jail) and Officer Franklin Falls Down (Catcher's captive, who may be dead), and now in part 3 it is Dino Poor Bear
- with 2 chapters to go I'm curious to see where this is all leading, from the looks of it Catcher will likely play an important role in the end of the arc but that's just an educated guess
- I still love the way Guéra draws facial expressions and can't get enough of it, although sometimes I do wish that some of the panels were a little more brightly lit than they are

Scalped 46

Ya Gotta Sin to Get Saved
Part 2: At Her Majesty's Pleasure

- In prison, Lawrence is visited by Red Crow, tells him he doesn't want any more protection, tells him about Gina's phone call just before she died
- something about the conversation tells Red Crow that Catcher is the one responsible for Gina's death, or so it seems when he calls Shunka as he is leaving the prison
- Catcher puts Officer Falls Down through an ordeal which may have killed him, at the end of it Falls Down does just that, face first, in the snow outside the cave where they were; this is after he walks through all sorts of traps blindfolded while talking as if he can hear Gina's spirit speaking to him
- Falls Down was stabbed in the side by Catcher, FD was fed up with being dragged around blindfolded, that's when Catcher stabbed him, whether he planned to do so with or without provocation by FD is unclear
- at the end Catcher leaves FD face down in the snow and goes to visit Bad Horse whom he tells he is going to tell him who killed his mother and help him to kill that person, not sure who that is, himself?
- confusing but artfully done, love the work by R.M. Guera especially the scenes in the cave
- much of the prison scenes after Red Crow leaves are wordless and beautifully done, the tension with Lawrence expecting to get shanked at any moment and ready for it

Scalped 45

Scalped 45
You Gotta Sin to Get Saved
Part 1: Running to Stand Still

- Red Crow is confronted by the man who raised him after his father died, Rock Medicine
- Red Crow tries to give Bad Horse a bigger part in his organization, even tells him that he wants him to take over when he is gone, Dash doesn't seem interested, seems doubtful
- Catcher shows up at the end, dragging Officer Franklin Falls Down behind him, makes a little speech
- Shunka isn't pleased with the direction things seemed to be headed, doesn't trust Bad Horse, wants to stir up some trouble for Rock Medicine and his family but Red Crow says no
- when will Shunka grow tired of Red Crow's attitude and jump ship and what will he do when he does so?
- brief moment of Carol and Dino Poor Bear, him lying down with her when she is asleep, what is that all about? He is interested in her?
- red crow centric story, so far
- what is Catcher's agenda?

Scalped 44

The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
by Jason Aaron and Davide Furno
Feb 2011

- Nitz
- walking through the snow; suicidal; flashback to earlier that day
- desperate because the investigation of Red Crow seems to be falling apart
- confronts Red Crow at the casino; gets beat up by Red Crow's body guards; wants to kill himself but can't pull the trigger
- desperate to die he does the next best thing and takes on a room full of armed gangsters
- kills them; terrorists; Al Qaeda
- he's a hero; his reputation is saved

- can't remember what preceded this for Nitz
- seemed a bit of an odd turn; hopefully will pay off somewhere down the road

Scalped 43

A Come to Jesus
by Jason Aaron, Jason LaTour

- Sherriff Wooster T Karnow of White Haven, NE; previous appearnaces: #16 Dead Mothers (Part 4) (Vol 3); #30 The Gnawing (Part 1) (Vol 6)
- US  Marshall Virgil Drum
- fugitive Eugene Evers
- impotence
- did Karnow really change? according to Comic Book DB he will be back in Vol 9