3 Devils, Issue #3 sees Tara and Marcus, after six years of living in Bent River, Utah, training and plotting Tara's revenge, finally come across a bartender who says he used to ride with the White Man. She confronts him, of course. The second half of the issue is the story of Beckham Toler, a bounty collector after the Coleman brothers, one of which raped and murdered the young daughter of a banker.
I've heard complaints that Alejandro Jodorowsky uses rape as a theme in too many of his stories, and rape is used twice in this 32-page issue. First, Tara allows herself to be put in a vulnerable position, only to stab to death the man about to attack her. And then there's the rape and murder of the banker's daughter, which is mentioned but not shown. Both rapists get killed, a la I Spit on Your Grave, which is common among revenge stories. Still, three or more rape situations in three issues is a bit excessive.
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