Marvel had a hugely popular cosmic character named the Silver Surfer and in the 80s had a run lasting more than 100 issues. After that, they have stop-start on the series either deliberately or because sales are bad or that writers could not find a good angle ... for us, it made no sense to put crap artists and kill a title then blame it on sales ...
SO in this short lived relaunch, the good thing is that the artist is awesome but the writers took a very different approach to this title. So for those who enjoyed the 80s run, this first issue will definitely leave you curious to try issue two but you may or may not continue after that depending on the direction the storylines will take because it is that different
Example: the Surfer here never spoke a word but rather maintain the mysteriousness of an otherworldly alien!
We see the opening scenes somewhere in a tribal warzone where after a battle, a child is offered to the spacefaring surf rider but is he our surfer? We are not sure except that there is a flash of light and the child disappears but where the adults were gathered? There is the image of an alien ala typical pointy headed burnt into the grasslands
Cue America where a lady tries to make a living for she and her beautiful but akin to autistic little girl. And after yet another trying day, she reaches their home only to see the flash of light except this time, she rushed in and saw the surfer carrying her child ...
And that's it ... alien abduction but nothing more ... good read but if this is the intention of the storyline perhaps a graphic novel would be better because there is just too little meat given out for us to remember to come back in the next thirty days for the next instalment, right? Sigh!
Ratings: 6/10
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