Come Back!

Usually people come here seeking things that I can't - or, let's be honest, in many cases won't - provide them with.
So it's rare that someone comes here looking for something that I can provide, and when I can, I like to oblige.
Such is the case of the person who came here earlier on the search string "dark phoenix saga sienkiewicz painting."
I believe you were looking for this, and I hope you come back and see that it's here:



Sorry that the image is a little rough (I did scan it in at a high resolution, if that's any consolation), but the source images is pretty old, and I wasn't too inclined to work on cleaning it up after scanning because I wanted to post it quickly.
I got the trade paperback that this image is the cover for in the autumn of 1985. It had the worst binding that I've ever encountered. The pages began falling out while I was reading it for the very first time.
Since that time, it has totally fallen apart, but I've held on to it because...well, for a lot of reasons.
As much as I rag on Chris Claremont for his idiosnycratic and often hacky writing, when he's on, he's on, and in the Dark Phoenxi Saga he was on.
His best work, by far.
Add to that the beautiful pencils of John Byrne at the top of his game (working with the perfect John Byrne inker Terry Austin), and you have something worth holding onto even after it all falls apart.
(Oh, and the Bill Sienkiwicz cover is nothing to sneeze at either)
Anyway, mysterious seeker of dark phoenix saga sienkiewicz painting, I hope you'll come back if you haven't found what you were looking for elsewhere.