I must try to analyze what this dream is trying to tell me. I'm going to attempt a couple of interpretations. Tonight, I want to try to interpret and analyze the violent symbols first.

Torture
The torture of dreams often comes not from hot irons or leg irons, but from within the mind, via partial or complete paralysis. Pay attention to where on body the torment is located. If an external force is restraining and causing you pain, your guilty conscience is going out of its way to vent steam.

I wasn't the one getting tortured. Fictional characters were being tortured. Women being burned alive by a sadistic king. One woman more horribly than the others. Why did the king hate women so much? What caused him to get this hatred? What could my guilty conscious be telling me? Possibly that I have too many women crushes and I have to dispose of them, all except for one. Although I wonder...in the story, the king marries them and not long after he burns them alive. One right after the other. Is my mind telling me something about marriage? One was very protesting about it that the king wanted to cause her much more pain while she was dying. Am I causing someone a lot of needless pain?

Cruelty
Whether the victim was you or someone else, mental cruelty in a dream signifies frustration; perhaps you would be wise to be more flexible in your attitude and/or aims.

Exactly how frustrated am I with women, I wonder? Oh lord, a creepy unwanted thought...suppose the king was me? Am I this sadistic son of a bitch? Okay...okay...maybe I need to become more flexible then I have been. I haven't been fair in my attitude. It downright sucks.

Killing
If you dreamed of killing someone, whether intentionally or by accident, it signifies a period of severe emotional stress during which you must make a heroic effort to control your temper. To dream of being a witness to a killing portends a change which will not be entirely to your liking. A dream of seeing others kill insects or animals prophesies help from friendly sources, but to dream of killing them yourself predicts that you will overcome your obstacles through your own efforts.

I'm going to have to go with the second meaning. A change that will not be entirely to my liking. That seems to make the most sense.

If I were to combine what I have written above...it sounds like that I have caused someone or some people some needless pain. If I can't change right now and become more understanding and flexible, then things can only get worse.

I've combined that with my own personal feeling from reading the comic book from the back to the front. I was looking into the future. I did not like what I saw. There was no happy ending. It was a cycle that kept on getting worse.