Tag: Silver Surfer

Silver Surfer Gets Cancelled

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The solicit for Silver Surfer #14 reads: “Please join us for one final trip around the universe.” April’s issue of Silver Surfer #10 is estimated to have sold around 15K, which means the title has been long overdue to get cancelled. A few years ago when Joe Quesada was in charge, titles around the 20-21K mark would get the axe on a regular basis. Regarding Slott and Allred’s Silver Surfer, I wasn’t a fan at all. I prefer my Marvel COSMIC to have serious writing and photorealistic art (similar to…

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Slott’s Silver Surfer Rides a Cosmic Adventure

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When you explore the galaxy with one of the most powerful figures in the Marvel Universe, every day is an adventure — but what happens on those days where a major cosmic crisis arises, or, worse, the events of your previous exploits come back to haunt you? Dawn Greenwood, the girlfriend and traveling companion of the Silver Surfer is about to find out. Writer Dan Slott and artist Mike Allred’s fan favorite “Silver Surfer” series is ramping up the action with some big stories that pay off long plot threads…

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Silver Surfer #6 Review

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I’ve not been reading many Marvel Comics of late. Secret Wars wasn’t my cup of tea, providing a great opportunity to stop purchasing digitally day and date and finally use my Marvel Unlimited subscription. Civil War 2 pulling the line together again – well, more like strangling it – has seen me buying only books I really, really like. Vision, Scarlet Witch, Hellcat… and Silver Surfer. There’s a wonderful breeziness to this series as the Surfer and companion Dawn Greenwood explore the literal Marvel Universe. Big fights, big Terra-Forms, occasionally,…

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Dan Slott Has a “Giant, Evil Master Plan” for “Amazing Spider-Man”

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Since 2007, Dan Slott has been a major part of Spider-Man’s life as one part of the rotating team of writers on “Amazing Spider-Man” during the “Brand New Day” era. As of 2010’s “Big Time” that began in “Amazing Spider-Man” #648, Slott has been the sole writer of Peter Parker’s adventures, going so far as to kill the character and replace him with Doctor Octopus, revive Peter and embroil him in the “Spider-Verse” conflict that featured “every Spider-Man ever.” With the All-New, All-Different Marvel era now underway in the wake…

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Silver Surfer #10 Review

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I have read Silver Surfer stories for years and enjoyed them from the time since Norrin Radd first came to earth in Fantastic Four #48 in March 1966. There is something about the sad story of how Norrin became the Silver Surfer and Herald of Galactus, who was a cosmic force of destruction. Galactus hunger drove him to devour and absorber the power and substance of a planet. Norrin’s sacrifice saved his planet homeworld Zenn-La but condemned him to search the heavens using his Cosmic powers to find more planets…

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Silver Surfer 3 Review

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The new Silver Surfer comic is about exploration and embracing the infinite possibilities the universe has to offer as seen by through the eyes of Norrin Radd and the earth woman Dawn Greenwood who was kidnapped by aliens and placed on the Impererion to insure the Silver Surfers services. Issue #3 wraps up Slott’s opening arc as Surfer and his new partner Dawn battle to save the Never Queen and evacuate the Impericon. Dawn Greenwood becomes very resourceful and frees herself and helps the Silver Surfer save the Never Queen’s…

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Dan Slott and Galactus In His Silver Surfer

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Recently, Galactus was wrecking havoc in the Ultimate Marvel universe under the guiding pen of Josh Fialkov in The Hunger, but it sounds as if the Devourer of Worlds will return to the 616 in time for Dan Slott’s new Silver Surfer ongoing. Comic Vine caught up with Dan Slott at last weekend’s NYCC and asked the writer about the new series. Some new tidbits not previously mentioned include news about Galactus. “You can’t do a Surfer book without Galactus. When we get to the Galactus story you’ll see why,”…

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Silver Surfer 1 and the Impericon

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On March 26 Dan Slott had a book signing at the Forbidden Planet Comic Shop in New York City and I am sure he was questioned about the direction he was going in the new series Silver Surfer. It reminded me of the movie I saw as a child called Forbidden Planet. It stared Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen and of course Robbie the Robot. It was years ahead of it’s time in 1956 and was a landmark classic in science fiction. It had interstellar travel ray guns and…

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NYCC: Dan Slott Talks Silver Surfer

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“Superior Spider-Man” writer Dan Slott visited CBR TV on Preview Day at New York Comic Con, sitting down with CBR’s Steve Sunu to discuss his just-announced All-New Marvel NOW! title with Mike Allred, “Silver Surfer.” The pair talk about Slott’s excitement for the character, how much he loves science fiction, how the book will appeal to fans of his “She-Hulk” work, why the Surfer no longer has to be lonely and why Mike Allred is the ideal artist for this Kirby-esque project. They wrap up the conversation with Slott speaking…

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Silver Surfer Series by Dan Slott and Mike Allred

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Marvel announced a brand new Silver Surfer series coming in March from the dream creative team of Dan Slott and Mike Allred! After one of Marvel’s pre New York Comic Con teasers which promised something “Rad” coming to NYCC, today it was revealed that the book in question is Silver Surfer by Superior Spider-Man writer Dan Slott, and current FF artist Michael Allred. Slott told the NYCC crows that Silver Surfer was the first Marvel hero he ever read. At first he couldn’t pitch for it because his Spider-Man schedule…

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The Defenders are Back Marvel Comics Preview

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The Defenders is the name of a number of Marvel Comics superhero groups which are usually presented as a “non-team” of individualistic “outsiders,” each known for following their own agendas. The team usually battled mystic and supernatural threats. Its original incarnation was led by Doctor Strange and also included the Hulk, Namor, and as a kind of belated addition, the Silver Surfer. They first appeared as The Defenders in Marvel Feature #1 (December 1971). Well this Wednesday December the 7th you can read the comic again. Matt Fraction is writing…

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Silver Surfer #1 2011 Preview

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The Silver Surfer is a Marvel Comics superhero created by Jack Kirby. The character first appears in Fantastic Four #48 (March 1966), the first of a three-issue arc that fans call “The Galactus Trilogy”. Originally, Norrin Radd, a young astronomer of the planet Zenn-La, made a bargain with the cosmic entity Galactus, pledging to serve as his herald in order to save his home world from destruction. Imbued in return with a portion of Galactus’ Power Cosmic, Galactus also created for Radd a surfboard-like craft – modeled after a childhood fantasy…

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