In this review of “White Sky #3”, we learn a bit more about both Walter and Pleasanton.
White Sky #3
Writer: William Harms
Art and Main Cover: Jean Paul Mavinga
Variant Covers: Eliza Ivanova, Jean Paul Mavinga
Page Count: 32 pages
Release Date: April 29, 2026
This review contains spoilers
White Sky #3 picks up with Violet trying to get Walter to hide, as the swarm of ghosts attack their pursuers. And it’s during this scene that we see what ghosts can do to someone. But most of their attackers are killed, and Violet and Walter get a chance to rest for a bit.
In the Pleasanton setting, Violet’s father (who we find out is named David) is speaking with the guy in the cage next to his, who explains that the people Lewis’s group bring in are sent to Utah to mine salt. And that he used to be part of Lewis’s group, but had failed him badly enough. It’s also mentioned that the ghosts aren’t the only supernatural threat, but that there’re some things that can outright change the weather.
Violet, meanwhile, is feeding Walter. He reveals that he knows when he’s going to die, and had known someone that could predict these things, but she’d died of cancer.
Two of their attackers, Warren and Errol, have managed to get away, but Warren’s arm has become necrotic from the ghost attack. He reveals that he used to be a teacher, and has one last smoke before Errol honors his request to put him down.
Violet asks Walter about how it is, seeing ghosts, and it was something he could do for his whole life. But with the current ghostpocalypse, he’s been used as a sort of early warning system for the ghosts. But he and Violet intend to go to San Francisco to get supplies before going to look for David. Errol elects to continue his pursuit of Walter alone, not wanting to drag anyone else into it.
There’s a brief epilogue, with a ruined cityscape and a skeletal figure walking through.
On the one hand, not a ton of action in this issue. But on the other, that initial ghost swarm helped solidify why everyone is so afraid of them. It’s one thing for someone to see a ghost hovering outside of their window, urging them to join them in death. It’s quite another to pulled off of the ground and basically eviscerated by one of these things.
And these are apparently just the normal ghosts. In David’s exposition-y conversation, it’s stated that there are even worse ones that hunt and can alter the weather, which makes me think that one of those is the reason the sky went entirely white years before the story is set.
There’s the reveal that anyone picked up by Lewis’s group is shipped off to the salt flats of Utah to mine salt. That sort of makes me wonder if that might actually be one of the safer places to be, considering all of the ghosts and other homicidal spirits lurking about. If salt is a way to repel them, it feels like it might be worth a shot to build a settlement in the area to take in survivors. Create a community rather than rely on forced labor.
Getting some of Walter’s history was fairy interesting, here. He’s always been able to see the ghosts. And he once knew someone that, it seems, could predict when someone would die. So he’d known at least one other variety of psychic. I imagine they’re not the most commonplace in this world, but there at least were, at some point, enough where two of them could have met. Also, appreciate that he can apparently communicate with the ghosts.
The figure in the epilogue raises a few questions, as well. It’s mentioned at one point that Walter knows he doesn’t die right where he is, but probably knows when it’d happen. The style of the hair on that epilogue figure reminds me a bit of his, albeit more blond than the light to mid brown we see in the present. The figure also looks a bit shorter, so if it does represent him in any way, maybe he learned when he’d die when he was young and that might be representative of that?
Either way, looking forward to seeing where the story goes in issue 4. The artwork is nicely done, and I especially like how everything’s composed in that initial attack. And the depiction of the Rot that gets Warren looks like it’d be nasty to deal with. And if that’s a normal ghost ability, I shudder to see one of the worse ones in action (well, okay, so I kind of look forward to that, too).
Final Thoughts
Being abole to communicate with spirits during a ghostpocalypse is both a blessing and a curse, as shown in this installment of “White Sky”. Definitely recommended reading.
