Writer Dan Slott is entering a critical phase of his Silver Surfer run, one that promises to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his original debut by completely changing how readers look at this character. Whether these next few issues will live up to that promise remains to be seen, but Silver Surfer #3 is nothing if not an entertaining Silver Surfer comic.
Fittingly, this issue calls back to the original Silver Surfer storyline from Fantastic Four #48-50 in various fun ways. Once again Surfer is making a stand for his new adopted home against an all-powerful foe bent on wiping it out of existence. Only this time, instead of Galactus Surfer is facing his old lover, Shalla-Bal. Instead of physical destruction, Earth faces cultural annihilation and assimilation. And it what is perhaps the most amusing twist of all, The Thing finds himself cast as the herald to this new "Devourer of Worlds." Any chance Slott can get to write Ben Grimm is one worth taking.
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Fittingly, this issue calls back to the original Silver Surfer storyline from Fantastic Four #48-50 in various fun ways. Once again Surfer is making a stand for his new adopted home against an all-powerful foe bent on wiping it out of existence. Only this time, instead of Galactus Surfer is facing his old lover, Shalla-Bal. Instead of physical destruction, Earth faces cultural annihilation and assimilation. And it what is perhaps the most amusing twist of all, The Thing finds himself cast as the herald to this new "Devourer of Worlds." Any chance Slott can get to write Ben Grimm is one worth taking.
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