The Ballad of Sleeping Beauty #3

In The Ballad of Sleeping Beauty #3, a 2004 Beckett Entertainment Comics release, the uneasy trio of Cole, Red, and Will press on through a landscape shadowed by past violence. As they ride, Will recounts how Cole’s grief over his wife’s death led him to follow Drake’s lie—that Natives were responsible—culminating in a massacre Cole now struggles to reconcile. Meanwhile, Drake’s relentless pursuit continues, his presence felt through the ominous ravens that track their every move. Written by Gabriel Benson and illustrated by Mike Hawthorne, with colors by Mike Atiyeh and letters by Omar Mediano, the cover by Jeff Amano captures the story’s brooding, foreboding tone.