{"id":824,"date":"2010-04-12T22:02:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T05:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/04\/12\/comic-book-report-scalped-vol-5-high-lonesome\/"},"modified":"2010-04-12T22:02:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T05:02:00","slug":"comic-book-report-scalped-vol-5-high-lonesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2010\/04\/12\/comic-book-report-scalped-vol-5-high-lonesome\/","title":{"rendered":"Comic Book Report: Scalped Vol. 5: High Lonesome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_5B85svs4ENE\/S8NggZpPU3I\/AAAAAAABAPI\/Uv5zbClq0TY\/s1600\/51tXcpsJGoL._SS500_.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_5B85svs4ENE\/S8NggZpPU3I\/AAAAAAABAPI\/Uv5zbClq0TY\/s320\/51tXcpsJGoL._SS500_.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5459313283059110770\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t usually think of myself as a specialist, especially when it comes to entertainment.  I like to sample media from lots of different genres.  Consequently, I know a little about a lot of things, but don&#8217;t have true expertise in many fields (except, perhaps, TNG-era <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Trek<\/span> trivia).<\/p>\n<p>So when the introduction to this <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Scalped<\/span> collection sings the praises of crime dramas like <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">The Sopranos<\/span> and Elmore Leonard&#8217;s work, I shrug my shoulders and move on.  I watched the first season of <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">The Sopranos<\/span>, until it became just another mafia soap, and like everyone else, I enjoyed <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Out of Sight<\/span>, but it didn&#8217;t turn me into a Leonard groupie.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty rare for me to love one particular author&#8217;s entire body of work, especially when they write exclusively in one specific genre or idiom.  I know many people enjoy the comfort of a familiar setting or well-worn characters, but I tend to like variety.  I get bored easily.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not a problem with <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Scalped<\/span>, a sprawling saga of a variety of imperfect people in a myriad of intertwining bad situations.  You could call it Shakespearean or Roman in that way.  One thing it ain&#8217;t is boring.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Buy the book:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/partner\/34809\/biblio\/1401224873?p_isbn\">Powell&#8217;s<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ISBN=1401224873\/curtiscchensfree\">Amazon<\/a> (affiliate links)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" alt=\"CKL\" title=\"CKL\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t usually think of myself as a specialist, especially when it comes to entertainment. I like to sample media from lots of different genres. Consequently, I know a little about a lot of things, but don&#8217;t have true expertise&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[51,62,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-comics","category-startrek"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}