Joe Benitez, Aspen Seasons Winter 2009 (Soulfire) page 1 (pencil)

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This piece is one of my most deeply cherished. I found it very difficult to read Soulfire after Michael Turner passed away, and this was the first Aspen comic that I allowed myself to open for what seemed to be an eternity. In this very first page, I reunited with Soulfire as it moved me to tears. 

After seeing the love and care that the Aspen team put into these beautiful pages I will forever be a patron of their work.