From Aspen Comics, J. T. Krul, Jason Fabok, John Starr, and Josh Reed.

Soulfire has been around for a little while now, and yet this is the first issue I’ve ever read.  Aspen Comics drops me right into a huge battle and a dramatic character change in hopes that I hold on for this ride.  Its exciting, action packed, sexy and unrelenting.  In short, why aren’t more of you reading this book?

Onyx and Grace are locked in battle, representing their respective warring tribes.  Due to this being my first issue of Soulfire, I don’t know what will happen and thus its exciting.  When reading Spider-Man you know Spider-Man isn’t going to die.  This is different.  I have no preconceptions.  Anyone dying, or maybe a character having a dramatic change and revelation, is new and exciting with every page turn.

“This is no battle.  Its not even a war.  Its an extermination.”

Miya and Malikai have their own battle but its not the same thing as the fight between Onyx and Grace.  So many fights in comics are written the same way.  They all have the same beats, especially when there is more than one fight within the same book.  These two conflicts are as different as, well, the darkness and the light.  Evil fights one way and its different than good, and that should be apart from the ideas of defense, and protection.  In “reality” everyone should be fighting with their own agenda, their own needs and beliefs and so every warrior in the battle should be different.  Most writers and artists do nothing more than button mashing.  Kudos to the Soulfire team for making every single character unique.

If none of this convinces you to buy this issue I have one more selling point.  Sexy.  The sexiest drawn dragon you will ever see in a comic.  Its a construct, but you wouldn’t know it.  More detail, more force and more solid than any Green Lantern creation I’ve ever seen.  It really is gorgeous art and every person involved in the art of it should frame it and congratulate themselves for life.