Knuckle Up has got to be the climax of Scalped. I mean, can anything in the last volume go better than this one? 
 This is where all things go down. Cathger, Nitz, the late additions Karnow and Wade and of course Shunka, Dash and Red Crow all have their glorious moments in the story. 
 Let me get things straight. This is Shunka's volume. Aaron has written him so perfectly sad and dedicated and Guera has been able to draw this hulking figure a big, sad heart. The rest is are all the violent greatness you see in the story, elevated even more from the bloody history of indians vs cowboys happening in the frontier. If only scalping would be that great in real life. 
 This penultimate volume is a cut above the rest. Everything you've been expecting in a finale is all there, perfectly executed and thoroughly satisfying.