Comic Book Review: Ballad of Sleeping Beauty, The #6
by R.J. Carter
Published: January 22, 2005
Creative Team |
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Price |
Target Audience: |
Grade |
Gabriel Benson
Mike Hawthorne |
Beckett |
$1.99 US |
Teen Up |
A |
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The Ballad of Sleeping Beauty #6
Cover by Jeff Amano
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When our series opened, Cole and Red found themselves at the end of the hangman's noose. Not that this stopped young Red from starting his tale about the town of Briar Rose and the curse that descended upon it, brought upon them by the townsfolk's inhospitibility to an old Indian woman. The first daughter born to the settlement community, named after the town, would be the first to feel the curse.
Yes, she fell into a deep sleep.
By now you've probably deduced that Cole and Red don't die on the rope. With the aid of Cole's friend, Will, they escape into the countryside. Red wants to get to Briar Rose and wake her, and through the series he tells bits and pieces of the story, even showing Cole a picture of the lady. It's this picture that hooks Cole into Red's tale, a picture that reminds Cole of his murdered wife. It's through seeking revenge on her murder that landed Cole in hot water in the first place, not that he cared.
As we enter the sixth issue, Cole has found the murderer and avenged his wife's death; but the same act cost him the life of his friend.
Cole in one of his less bitter moments.
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Now, with nothing left to live or die for, Cole accompanies Red to the lost town of Briar Rose--although he's at a loss to say why.
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Part The Gunslinger, part Grimm's Fairy Tales, Benson and Hawthorne's story is both true to the original fable and something wholly original in its own right: trail dust and fairy dust blended into gunpowder. Sporting a Jeff Amano cover suitable for framing, The Ballad of Sleeping Beauty is a weird western tale for a new kind of comics reader.
Recommendation: A true sleeper hit.
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Advance comics are provided courtesy of The Comic Book Store of Little Rock. Michael Tierney, proprietor, even has his own book out, Wild Stars. Check it out.
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