Vertigo

A personal code of ethics is a very useful thing. Your code is like your own battle plan for dealing with life's difficult challenges. There's an old saying, however, that few battle plans survive contact with the enemy, which means many of us will often find ourselves making wrong choices or betraying our code for something we think we need or want. In short, these actions have consequences. In "The Gnawing," the latest arc of writer Jason Aaron and artist R.M. Guera's Vertigo series, "Scalped," many of the characters are facing the consequences from a number of bad decisions. CBR News spoke with Aaron about the arc, as well as his future plans for the crime series.

Dashiell Bad Horse, one of the central character in "Scalped," is a Native American undercover FBI agent assigned to return to his childhood home, the Prairie Rose Indian Reservation in South Dakota, in order to infiltrate the organized crime ring of Chief Lincoln Red Crow. Over the course of the series, Dash has accomplished just that, becoming an important part of Red Crow's organization, but he's also taken a lot of dangerous risks and made a number of bad choices along the way. In "Scalped" #31, Bad Horse's decisions placed Dash in a very thorny Catch 22 when a locked up meth dealer witnessed a murder that Chief Red Crow committed. It just so happens that this meth Dealer has supplied Dash with drugs, as well, and was threatening to blab about it. So, if Dash turns the dealer over to his FBI superiors, it's possible that he'll be locked up. And, if Red Crow hears what the dealer has to say, an even worse fate may await Dash.

Read the full article and be sure to check out SCALPED #32 and SCALPED VOL. 5: HIGH LONESOME!