Scalped: Hell of a great comic

I'm a big crime fiction reader almost my whole life. Stories revolving around gangsters, crooked cops, serial killers, hard-boiled gumshoes, and everyother cliche you can think of have always appealed to me on a basic level. So when a new crime book, movie, or comic comes out I;m usually the first in line to get it.

Well my friends DC Vertigo's new crime comic Scalped is everything I could have wanted from the genre.

This Vertigo series recently has made it into graphic novel form(I don't get any single issue stories any more), this is an incredible comic book. Set on a modern day Indian reservation on the eve of the opening of new casino, Scalped is a hard boiled crime story with a pretty kick ass new setting. Bad Horse left the rez when he was 13, and now he’s back as a grown up tough guy cracking the heads of Chief Red Crow(a true motherfucking badass) the gangster scumbag who runs things and is behind the casino plan. Red Crow likes the kid's style and recruits him to be the sadistic new cop on the rez; meanwhile Bad Horse discovers the girl he loved when he was 13 has grown up to be a drunken slut(the best kind) and that his mama is the main protester against the hall of vice. And if all of that isn’t complicated enough for him he’s actually back on the rez working undercover – as himself – for the FBI. Scalped is tough and gritty and filled with fascinating, complex, and tough as nails characters. Writer Jason Aaron has created a cast and a style that's. Artist Guera’s work, while a little minalmist at some points, has a clean storytelling style that seems to have fallen out of favor with artists on comics in general. Scalped is one of the best American comics I've seen in a long time and is a book everybody should get a chance to read.

Yay!!! The Goon has kidney stones

Well on the 30th after a night of glorious posting on my favorite site the Agony Booth(hint:pay) and insulting a delightful troll(huzzah!!) I logged off and went to a delightful peaceful sleep only to be woken up with horrible pains in my side which just so happens to be kidney stones.(the worst kind of stones) Now my dad get's kidney stones all the fuckin' time and because he's an old salt of the earth type of dude he'll just stock up on the strongest type of whisky possible and just self medicate.


However I'm basically a woman who will scream if I get a splinter in my hand. So of course I wake up in horrible pain and then proceed to vomit and pass out. My partner Mary packs me and our daughter up in the Volvo and drives me as fast as she can to the hospital where I get more morphine than I deserve(sweet morphine) and where I spend the night drugged and passed out in a wonderful dream land.

Well thank God our health care is some of the best in the world(and free too you twats) so I'm laying in a nice hospital bed waiting to pass the fucking stone and using a laptop to type this blog entry.

So in closing I'm pretty much a puss, but I'm a drugged out puss right now so I'm kinda happy.